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.

Today many companies are adopting Agile and Scrum as a way of delighting customers with highly innovative software that meets the expectations of its users.  If you will be involved with a Scrum project, then you need to learn how to work on a Scrum team.

To be successful, a Scrum team member must not only know the core concepts of Agile and Scrum, but also the multiple levels of planning and estimating on an Agile project and how to write requirements (User Stories) that are lightweight and highly adaptive to change.

This three–day course workshop is a superset of a traditional two–day Certified ScrumMaster course. It weaves together these three topics with the goal of getting attendees ready to become productive, successful members of a Scrum team.

This course is really an efficient combination of three traditionally separate courses: a Certified ScrumMaster Course, an Agile Estimating and Planning Course, and a Writing Effective User Stories Course. By successfully completing this class, an attendee will become a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster.

• All of the core Agile and Scrum principles
• The different roles on a Scrum Team
• Concepts behind Agile planning
• The multiple levels of planning on a Scrum project
• How to perform Release Planning
• Comprehensive overview of Agile Requirements with an emphasis on User Stories.  Time will be spent writing User Stories in a workshop format.
• Different estimating techniques (e.g., Story Points, Ideal Time) that can be used to estimate the size of User Stories. Time will be spent performing Planning Poker on User Stories written during the class.
• Proven techniques for prioritizing the product backlog
• How to perform Sprint Planning with an emphasis on issues and potential solutions to problems that may occur during Sprint Planning and execution
• How to track and report progress