Certified ScrumMaster®

ScrumMaster’s role is often pivotal in the successful use of Scrum. And I’m not meaning organizing meetings and ensuring that there’s enough coffee in the team’s kitchen. Anyone can do those. I’m talking about the real responsibilities that require a master of Scrum – observing and providing feedback to the Development Team and PO, helping the Development Team jell, visualizing information in the system, being an organisational change agent, supporting the Development Team’s self-organisation, and so on.

In this course, we will set the foundations for a path towards that mastery. In these first steps, we will look at things like:

• Experience the power of iterative and incremental learning
• Deep-dive into the foundations behind Scrum and Agile
• Explore Scrum’s flow, roles and artefacts
• Find out how to help a team jell and how the ScrumMaster role changes as the team matures
• Study what makes user stories so powerful and useful
• Try out Release Planning and learn how to help Product Owners successfully plan for future

Profil of your trainers:

Dr. Wolfgang Richter, Agile CEO JIPP.IT, Coach and Trainer, works for about 20 years in the IT sector. He started his career in the 3rd level support. Later he was in middle and upper management positions. He has worked in numerous projects as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Requirements Engineer and Software Engineer. His career lead him from Europe to the USA, Australia and then back to Europe. Today he is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH in Austria. Besides his management position he is still an Agile Coach and Trainer. He is the host of the Scrum User Group Graz and in numerous other bodies. He knows the traditional and agile world of project management, holds several certificates in PM, Scrum, training, and coaching, has written a dissertation on this subject and is engaged in the development of agile methods. His academic background comprises the topics of project management, computer science, economics and psychology.works for about 20 years in the IT sector. He started his career in the 3rd level support. Later he was in middle and upper management positions. He has worked in numerous projects as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Requirements Engineer and Software Engineer. His career lead him from Europe to the USA, Australia and then back to Europe. Today he is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH in Austria. Besides his management position he is still an Agile Coach and Trainer. He is the host of the Scrum User Group Graz and in numerous other bodies. He knows the traditional and agile world of project management, holds several certificates in PM, Scrum, training, and coaching, has written a dissertation on this subject and is engaged in the development of agile methods. His academic background comprises the topics of project management, computer science, economics and psychology.

Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová

is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. She started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing agile methods in the USA. From that time, she has been credited with agile transformation and implementation for many companies and teams around the world. By creating and sustaining agile leadership, Zuzi believes the worlds of work and life can be made happier and more successful.