Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.

This course will be led by Joe Little.  (We will have French speakers in the course, who can help with translation or questions.)  Joe is an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer.  He co-teaches regularly with Jeff Sutherland and other great Scrum trainers.  He has a CSM, CSP, CST and an MBA.

Participants Will Learn:

• Practical, project-proven practices
• The essentials of getting a project off on the right foot
• How to write user stories for the product backlog
• Why there's more to leading a self-organizing team than buying pizza and getting out of the way
• How to help both new and experienced teams be more successful
• How to successfully scale Scrum to large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds
• Tips and tricks from the instructors' years of using Scrum in a wide variety of situations

In this course, we typically mix in XP and Lean ideas.  Having worked recently with Jeff Sutherland, we mix in many of his ideas and stories.  Having a business background and MBA, this course is perhaps somewhat more oriented toward Product Owners and business issues.

Additional Information:

The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. You will need to arrive by 8:30am on the first 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.

Course Material:

Participants will receive course materials (not books) at the course. The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required reading for the course. You may also wish to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber and Beedle, on which the course is based.

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.

• Overview of Scrum
  
• Product Backlog
  
• Release Planning and Estimation
  
• Role of the Product Owner
  
• Role of the ScrumMaster
  
• Leading Self-Organizing Teams
  
• Sprint Practices
  
• Metrics and Reporting

This course has been taken by everyone connected to a Scrum Team.  The CEO, COO and CFO of a company have attended and it has benefited the company.  The future ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team members, managers, and other stakeholders have attended.  Everyone.  With profit.

It is common for whole Teams (and related stakeholders) to take the course all at one time. This is very valuable.

As you can tell by the title of the course, it was originally designed to teach people to become ScrumMasters.  Sometimes one person can take the course, learn about Scrum, already have the basic skills of a ScrumMaster, and go back and implement Scrum quickly with success. (Greater investment generally leads to even better results.)

You will get useful knowledge about how and why Scrum works.

The course includes many interactive exercises and small-group discussions. These will prepare you to plan your first Sprint immediately after this class.  This is a practical course.

PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.