Certified ScrumMaster

CSM cPrime San Diego

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.

Background:

Many organizations are adopting Agile approaches to improve their software development capability, following the lead of the path-finding Internet era companies who have shown the way to rapid innovation and dominance in their market spaces. This 2-day course provides a great foundation for anyone adopting Scrum, the most popular Agile framework.

Prerequisites: 

• View the video introduction to scrum by our friend and fellow CST Michael James here.  
• Familiarize yourself with the Scrum Overview in the Agile Atlas here. 

Continuing Education Credits: 

Students who are PMP® certified will earn 15 PDUs for completing the Certified Scrum Master course.

Objectives:

• Understand the Agile principles and ethos at the heart of Scrum
• Learn the mechanics of Scrum: roles, artifacts and process
• Self-organizing teams and how they work
• Backlogs and how to use them
• Supporting practices
• Potentially shippable code and delivering in vertical increments
• Real control through empirical feedback
• Industry recognized accreditation and foundation on which to build

We will run the class using scrum with four sprints spread over the two days.

Monday Morning (Sprint 1): What is agile, what is scrum, why and when would we use them?

• Class Introduction: what makes a great project?
• Scrum Questions: what do we want to learn about scrum?
• Introduction to Agility: what is agile, how is it related to scrum?
• The Essence of Scrum: what are we trying to solve by using scrum?

Monnesday Afternoon (Sprint 2): Basics of scrum, details of the roles

• Scrum Overview: the basic rules, meetings, and roles of scrum
• Product Owner Role
• Scrum Master Role
• Development Team Role
• The Product Backlog

Tuesday Morning (Sprint 3): The details and reasons for the scrum rules

• Agile Estimation Techniques
• Forecasting a Release
• Updating Release Plans
• Definition of Done
• Sprint Planning

Tuesday Afternoon (Sprint 4): Exercises to cement scrum learning

• Sprint Execution
• Sprint Close
• Practice Test
• Class Close

Anyone intrested in using scrum as a team member, project manager, product manager, or in another related role would benefit from this course in the basics of scrum.

A recent attendee had this to say about the course:

“A wise man once said that we learn best in moments of enjoyment. Both Jim Park and Peter Green provided a truly enjoyable two day Certified Scrum Master training course from PM Training Pros. We learned by participating in creative group exercises that only reinforces the Scrum concepts being taught. Congratulations on a job well done.”