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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Bill Li
Learn how to apply scrum and gain practical agile skills to drive results in any role, whether you want to work as a scrum master or grow your capabilities. CSM® courses are delivered by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers who possess deep scrum knowledge. When you complete the course, you will receive a two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership.
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12 - 13 June, 2021 |
  7:00 AM IST |
 8 hrs/day
$295

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Online

The course is delivered virtually by Bill Li, one most recognized Scrum and Agile coaching experts.

This Certified ScrumMaster course is a 2-day intensive introduction to the Scrum framework detailing how Scrum and related agile practices are applied by Scrum teams to rapidly deliver potentially shippable products in frequent, time-boxed iterations.  The course uses a combination of lecture and experiential learning to instill a practical understanding of Scrum focusing on the activities the ScrumMaster, Team/Developers and Product Owner perform while delivering to their commitments, value creation and aspiring to achieve hyper-productivity.

The course covers the core concepts of Scrum teams and teamwork and the Scrum framework including: roles/accountabilities, activities/events, and artifacts that are applied to realize product requirements, create value and delivery; the ScrumMaster role including responsibilities, focuses, core coaching & facilitation and leadership techniques and mindsets & behavioral characteristics; the Product Owner role, including key responsibilities; and the role of a self-organizing, cross-functional team with passionate developers as the primary organizational value creation unit through which the product is developed and delivered. The Scrum framework will be applied in a mini-project simulation where the concepts of user stories, agile estimation, and adaptive planning are practiced in detail assuring participants have a practical understanding of the techniques.

Bill Li, the primary trainer and Managing Principal of UPerform Consulting Group, has over 25 years of domestic and oversea IT experience and is the Chinese translator and co-translator of 3 Scrum books written by Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn.  Bill brings significant practical experiences and field stories in agile, org transformational and traditional delivery including XP, Kanban, DevOps, LeSS,  and PMBOK based methodology etc. This course is delivered in English. 

About a week before coming to class you'll receive via email pre-requisite Scrum Guide overview reading material and virtual collaboration tools to be used in class. Additionally, as part of the two-day class each participant will receive the following:

  • Registration with the Scrum Alliance for the required on-line Certified Scrum Master official test
  • 2-year membership with the Scrum Alliance
  • Many other post-class reference materials in electronic format

Cancellation Policy:
https://www.simpliaxis.com/cancellation-refund-policy/

Participants can also claim 16 PDUs with the PMI.

This course is organized in collaborations by UPerform Agile Academy & SimpliAxis - Leading provider of Scrum and Agile Training, Coaching & Enterprise Transformation services.

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 course is delivered by 1 most experienced Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer active in North America and Asia: Bill Li.

Bill Li, CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), and Consultant & Enterprise Agile Coach active in Asia and Canada/USA, Managing Principal of UPerform Consulting Group.  With over 25 years of cross-functional experiences in IT sector, Bill is among the pioneers who promoted Scrum and Agile since 2007, and is active contributor and speaker at agile community in China and Asia regions, including major Scrum and Agile conferences.

Bill enjoys developing people and organizations through high quality Scrum and Agile training and consulting services.  His passion lies in helping clients’ enterprise, product development organizations and teams to become more effective, having less waste and fewer impediments in their processes, less pressure, higher enjoyment at work, and producing better business outcome with great products and services, in an open, transparent, creative, and self-organized environment. 

Bill translated Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber into simplified Chinese and published it in 2007. He also co-translated Ken's next book on Scrum & Enterprise and Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied, together with other 2 titles in Project Management area. Bill is MBA from Schulich School of Business, York University, and Bachelor of Engineering from South China University of Technology. He lives in Shanghai, China and Vancouver, BC, Canada.

This course is organized by UPerform in collaborations with SimpliAxis - Leading Provider of Scrum and Agile Training, Coaching and Enterprise Transformational services. UPerform has served the market for over 13 years. With outstanding references from highly satisfied Fortune 500 corporate clients and individual CSM and CSPO students, UPerform is your clear choice for all of your Scrum and Agile training needs.

High-level 2 day course agenda:

Introductions of Course

Check-in with Critical Questioning Skill

Ice-Breaker Game: Traditional vs. Agile approaches to problem solving and business value creation

Group Activity: Why Projects Fail

Complex Adaptive Situation (CAS)

Approaches to Project Delivery - Defined Approach vs. Empirical Approach

Agile Defined with Agile Mindsets, Values, Principles and Competence

Scrum Background & Origins

Potential Shippable Product Increment with Iteration

Scrum Framework Deep Dive

  •  Scrum Roles/Accountabilities
  •  Artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog & Increment) with Commitments
  •  Ceremonies (Events)
  •  Scrum Values

Definition of Done

Definition of Ready

Scrum Framework Visualization

Scrum Simulation Project

Project Constraints

Self-organized Team Dynamics

Agile Requirements: User Stories and Prioritization, and Progressive Ellaboration

Build Quality In and Test-driven Work

Work Effort Agile Estimation with the Planning Poker Game

Velocity & Release Planning & Adaptive Planning

Sprint Planning Revisit

Tracking Progress of value creation wtih stakeholders

Scaling Scrum - high level intro

Agile Coaching Explored with core Servant Leadership/Faciliation/Coaching skills - 9 Stances of a Great Scrum Master

Final Review 

Other Advanced Agile/Scrum Topics if necessary

Please contact us if you have questions or require additional details

 

This 2-day class is targeted to individuals practicing or looking to perform as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach or member of a Scrum Team but is also highly valuable for anyone interested in Scrum including Senior and Mid Management, Dev Managers, Line and Functional Managers, Software Quality Assurance Team Members, Digital Program Leaders, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Development Team Members, Product Managers, Software Testing Team Members, Any other supporting professionals at work etc.

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