Certified ScrumMaster

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.

This highly interactive certification course provides understanding of Scrum's team-based approach to iterative development. The course trains participants in a wide range of Scrum topics, from basic theory to organizational implementation, including practical applications, roles, and scaling. Upon completion of the course, and a post-course online assessment, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters by the Scrum Alliance.  A two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance is also included in the course. This training provides 16 PDUs toward PMP recertification and PMI-ACP certification.

Topics included in this course are:

• Agile foundational concepts

– Defined vs. Empirical process control

– The Agile Manifesto

– The 12 Agile Principles

• Scrum concepts

– Theory and principles

– How the Scrum approach supports agile principles

– Planning and tracking with Scrum

– Shippable functionality and getting to Done

• Scrum roles and responsibilities

– Product Owner

– ScrumMaster

– Self-organized Team

• Scrum artifacts

– Product backlog

– Release burndown

– Sprint backlog

– Sprint burndown

• Scrum meetings

– Release planning

– Sprint planning

– Daily scrum

– Sprint review

– Sprint retrospective

• Requirements analysis 

– Estimating and prioritizing product backlog items 

– Technical debt

– Scaling across multiple teams and multiple geographies

– Tips on, techniques for, and benefits of helping clients and management understand the Scrum system 

– How to transition into use of Scrums, with a review of management and team challenges associated with the transition, along with strategies to respond to those challenges

Attendees who will find benefit from the course include:

• Executive, Client, and I.T. Management

• Project and Product Managers

• Software Designers and Developers

• Quality Assurance Testing Staff

• Any professional who needs to understand Scrum methods, or any team that will be (or is currently) assigned to a Scrum project