Certified ScrumMaster

Certified Scrum Master

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.

Course Overview

Prepare your scrum team for the realities of working in a highly collaborative and effective software development environment and earn the Scrum Master Certificate from Scrum Alliance. 

Topics Include:

• Learn the scrum process and the important role of scrum master
• How to be an effective scrum master
• How to build and lead a scrum team
• How to conduct effective planning, demo and retrospective meeting
• How to create and use information radiators
• How to build a self-organizing team

ScrumMaster training provides an applied understanding of the Scrum process and helps participants begin to develop the tools, insights, and skills required to apply Scrum on their projects and across their organizations.

Agenda
 

Day 1

• Course Overview
• Motivation
• History and Overview
• Elements of Scrum
• Agile Roles
• Team Building Exercise
• Agile Planning Overview
• Introduction to Class Project
• Vision
• Vision Workshop

Day 2

• User Stories
• User Story Workshop
• Acceptance Criteria
• Acceptance Criteria Workshop
• Estimation
• Estimation Workshop
• Prioritizing the Backlog
• Prioritization Workshop
• Roadmap and Release Planning
• Release Planning Workshop
• Estimating Velocity
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Planning Workshop

Day 3

• Daily Planning
• Daily Scrum Workshop
• Tracking and Reporting
• Scrum Accelerator Workshop
• Sprint Review and Retrospective
• Airplane Factory Workshop
• Scrum Alliance Assessment
• Scrum Meetings
• Teams
• Leadership
• Agile Smells
• ScrumMaster as Coach
• Planning for Uncertainty
• Agile Collaboration
• Navigation as a Metaphor for Agile

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

This hands-on certification course is appropriate for all software team members, including Project Managers, Team Leads, Development Managers, Product Managers, Software Architects, Business Analysts, Systems Architects, Testers, CIOs, and CTOs.

There are no prerequisites for this course. 

Class Size Limit: 16 (minimum 8)