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.

Agile project management differs fundamentally from conventional project management. Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the ScrumMaster facilitates, coaches and leads. This two-day hands-on course enables the participants to apply Scrum productively and teaches the delegates to be effective ScrumMasters.

Objective

This hands-on, interactive class enables the course delegates to apply Scrum effectively:

• Assume the responsibilites of a ScrumMaster
• Remove the barriers between development and the customer so that the customer/Product Owner directly drives development
• Maximize value creation and customer satisfaction through Scrum
• Improve employee satisfaction
• Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable

Additionally, upon successful completion of 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 is available.

Audience

Project managers, team leads, and IT/development managers interested in successfully introducing Scrum into their organizations, as well as, product managers, business analysts, architects and developers interested in applying Scrum. 

Prerequisites

Before the course, students are required to read Agile Project Management with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber or Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Mike Beedle and Ken Schwaber. Participants will also benefit from having watched Ken Schwaber talking about Scrum and from reading the messages posted at the Scrum Yahoo! discussion group prior to the course:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011
• http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/scrumdevelopment

Contents

Introduction

• Agile Values
• Scrum Origins
• Scrum and Change
• Empirical Process Control
• Companies Using Scrum
• Compliance with CMM

Scrum Process and Roles

• Scrum Flow
• Scrum Roles
• ScrumMaster Challenges including team dynamics, ScrumMaster selection, performance appraisals
• The Role of Project Managers and Functional Managers in Scrum

Requirements Management

• Software Overproduction
• Product Backlog

Release Management

• Sustainable Pace
• Planning Overview
• Estimating and Planning
• Tracking

Working with Sprints

• Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
• Sprint Estimating and Planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective
• Sprint Reporting

Getting Started in Scrum

• Just Do It
• The Nature and Anatomy of Change
• Scrum Adoption Stages
• Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches
• Piece-meal Growth

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects

• Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner Team
• Organic Growth
• Team Set-up
• Multi-team Planning and Coordination
• Shared Norms and Assets
• Distributed Scrum Project Tips

The Visual Workplace

Development Practices

• Agile Modelling
• Vertical Slices
• XP/Lean Development Practices