Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.

The ScrumMaster is a leader and a change agent on a mission. His or her duty is to make a Scrum development team successful. Throughout this course you can experience how to professionally take up the role of a Change Agent using Scrum as your Swiss army knife.

The vision for this course is that you learn that working together can create outstanding results. This is why it includes lots of hands-on exercises.

During the CSM course we will teach you how to make a development team, a project or an organisation agile and successful.

Course Content

1. Introduction to Agile

Roots of Scrum
Agile Manifesto
Principles of Agile and Scrum
Relationship to Lean and XP

2. Scrum Basics

Scrum flow
Scrum artefacts
Scrum roles & responsibilities

3. Agile Planning

Estimating using size
Sizing using Planning Poker
Velocity
Release planning

4. Scrum Meetings

Estimation meeting
Sprint Planning (parts 1 & 2)
Daily Scrum meeting
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective

5. Done

Quality
Defining “Done”
“Done” and “Undone”
Legacy code

6. Heartbeat Retrospectives

A six-step process to extract team learning from your retrospectives

7. The ScrumMaster

Leading Scrum teams
ScrumMaster as Change Agent
ScrumMaster as Agile Coach
Common Pitfalls

8. Running the Sprint

Setting up the Sprint
Using a Task Board
Working with Burndown charts

9. Advanced Topics

Larger Scrum – Scaling to the Organisation
Fixed price, fixed date contracts

The CSM course is an ideal stepping stone into the Scrum world and can be attended by team members, project managers, team leaders, senior management etc. This also creates the foundation for a deep understanding of Scrum for experienced ScrumMasters. Even people who attended this class three times offer the feedback they can still learn a lot.

A public training class offers significant benefits. You will work with people from different companies, you will share a lot of experiences, you will get to know new people and learn from their stories.