Certified ScrumMaster

Cairo Egypt: Certified Scrum Master + One-Day Project Start up Workshop

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.

Through a combination of immersive team-based learning, exercises, and real-world case studies, you will learn:

• To plan, initiate and lead a Scrum project
• To establish a shared vision for the entire team
• To generate an Agile release plan utilizing user stories and story point estimation
• To lead your Scrum team through planning, review, and retrospective sessions
• To create an environment in which self-managing teams can flourish
• To identify and remove impediments
• To identify, engage and involve business stakeholders in your project
• How to take most existing teams to the next level
• Practical suggestions from the school of hard knocks

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

Additional Information:

Discounts are offered for corporations sending teams, please contact me directly.

The course will typically run from 8:30am-5:10pm each day. A continental breakfast, breaks and lunch will be provided. 

Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.

PMPs: You can receive 15 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

After the Scrum Training Workshop:

You'll receive all the information you need to get registered with the Scrum Alliance (the non-profit organization that issues the certification) and then take an online assessment.  Don't worry about scoring 100% -- currently it is not a pass or fail thing.  Based on the aggregate numbers from my prior attendees, this should not be something hard to finish. 

Once you take the assessment with the Scrum Alliance online, you'll have a two year membership with the Scrum Alliance and you'll be a Certified ScrumMaster.  The initial membership fee is ($50.00) is included in the cost of your workshop attendance, and we'll take care of processing all that with the Scrum Alliance for you.

If you need PDU's for the PMI or other continuing education credits, we'll work with you to make sure you get them applied appropriately (usually good for 15 PDUs).

Over time, we will keep in touch.  I'll give you advice along the way and you'll have access to me after the training is completed. We want you to succeed.

Please contact me directly for corporate discounts.

If you have any questions about this, please contact me.

30,000 ft view

Overview of Scrum

Agile Manifesto & Principles

XP- why solid engineering practices are essential

Why Scrum works

What Scrum is

Origins

Sprints

Potentially shippable

Architecture on a Scrum project

Sequential vs. overlapping work

Sprint length

Release sprints

Abnormal terminations

The ScrumMaster

Responsibilities

ScrumMaster mindset

Situational ScrumMastering

ScrumMaster as team member

The 59-minute Scrum project: Starting up a Scrum team

The product owner

Description

Responsibilities

Sharing the vision

Product backlog

Size of the items

User stories on the product backlog

Behavior-Driven Development User Story format

Backlog-writing workshops

INVEST in your backlog

Meetings

The daily scrum

Sprint review

Sprint retrospective

Sprint planning

Sprint prioritization

Sprint goal

Sprint planning meeting

Sprint backlog items

Release planning

Empirical Process Control

Velocity

Estimating the product backlog

Release planning meeting

Tracking progress

Sprint burndown charts

Release burndown charts

Task boards

Information Radiators

The Team

Composition

Teams are cross-functional

Organizing

Lean Operational Model

And what about removing impediments?

What's Lean have to do with this?

Mura, Muda, Muri

Multi-tasking costs

Cycle-time and Slack

Common pitfalls

 What impediments to implementing Scrum might you see?

Scaling Scrum

The scrum of scrums

Focus of initial sprints

Shared vs. specific product backlogs

Scaling the product owner

Getting started

Release Planning: Day 3 - the team does the following with a real set of work:

Develop the Product Backlog

Estimate Business Value

Estimate Effort

Discuss Risks, Dependencies, Learning and other factors

Order the Work

Finalize the initial Release Plan

This course is designed for managers, project managers, programmers, testers, busines analysts, product managers, and others who are interested in working on or with a Scrum team. It helps to have everyone understand and use the Scrum framework for any project, hardware or software development, whether in sales, marketing, development, or support. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will be prepared to plan your first sprint immediately after this class. This class includes 3rd day project start-up workshop is particularly helpful for new teams, walking them through Release Planning using their own project data to craft a working Prodouct Backlog.