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.

Learn Scrum and Agile from one of the founders!

In this CSM course, besides learning the Scrum basics, learn what is and isn't good agile development; how teamwork and communication affect the outcomes of projects, the underlying theory that drives successful project outcomes; how viewing software development as a cooperative game improves the moves you make, how lean manufacturing adds insights to agile development, how to trim the tail on your product. Learn how to break the myths of false agile development, how to set up and plan the project, and finally, how to reflect to improve the project within the project .

• Scrum basics: the 3 roles, 3 ceremonies, 3 artifacts

• The role of ScrumMaster, what it does and doesn't entail

• Why agile development works

• How "cooperative games" and "lean manufacturing" help

• The 7 properties of highly successful projects

• Delphi speed-estimating and Blitz project planning

• How to reflect and improve mid-project

Anyone interested in attaining the Certified ScrumMaster certificate, or anyone wishing to learn the theory and practice of agile development from one of the founders of the field. Project managers, team leads, programmers, UI designers, testers and line managers all fit. Students in this course often write, "I wish my manager had been here!"