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.

The schedule of the course is set up to follow a logical sequence. We start with the background: Which problems is Scrum designed to solve? How is the relationship between Scrum and other frameworks and  philosophies? After that we dig deep into the different elements of the framework and discuss how to plan, follow up and finish the product increments in iterations. We will also cover what you might call "best practices". Which techniques and tools is proven to work great together with Scrum.

Since the trainer also is an experiences Agile coach, the theory will be made clear with a lot of anectodes and real experienceses.

The training is done with a lot of exercises. Be prepared to do hard work. The training will give you the feeling of Scrum itself.

Agile software development - overview of the differences 
Lean Software Development - How Lean and Scrum fits 
eXtreme Programming - How XP fit Scrum 
Scrum background - A brief historic overview 
Scrum workflow 
Roles and responsibilities - Product Owner, Scrum Team, Scrum Master 
Teamwork - Self organizing, cross functional teams 
Definition of Done
Requirements – The Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog 
The meetings - Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective 
The role of Management
Agile Requirements 
Vision and User Stories 
Planning and Estimation - Planning Poker 
Agile QA - Test Early 
Agile Contracts 
Scaling Scrum - planning and synchronizing parallel Scrums 
Multi Sprint Planning

This course is not only for the Scrum Masters. The training will be useful for everybody who wants to be a Master of Scrum. Two day training is necessary for all involved persons both the Product Owners, the Developers, the Testers and the Management. If you want to succeed with Scrum without wasting time and effort.