About the Course
The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course is an immersive learning experience involving a highly interactive mix of seminars, group discussions, team activities, games and role-plays.
You will learn how to:
- Explain Scrum and Scrum concepts to the rest of the organisation,
- Facilitate Scrum meetings effectively,
- Raise the visibility of project status and impediments,
- Use popular agile requirements and estimation techniques,
- Deliver high value releases sooner.
Initial Course Backlog
The following initial course backlog provides an outline of major topics from which the facilitator and the class collaboratively plans the course. The Scrum framework is employed to manage track and manage progress through course material.
- Introductions
- Introducing Scrum
- Scrum Flow
- Scrum Tracking
- Scrum Roles
- Definition of Done
- Agile and Scrum Values
- Self-organisation
- Time-boxing and Iteration
- Empirical Process Control
- Complexity
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- User Stories
- Team Estimation
- Release Management
- Agile Planning Tools
- Extended Scrum Simulation
- ScrumMastering Technique
- Scaling Scrum
- Distributed Scrum
- Agile Contracts
- ScrumBut anti-patterns
- Transitioning to Scrum
- Next Steps
For Project Management Professionals, this course qualifies as 24 PDUs as approved by the Project Management Institute.
Audience
The course is suitable for all participants in Scrum projects including analysts, programmers, testers, architects, project managers, programme managers, subject matter experts, operational managers and business stakeholders.
About the Facilitator
This course is taught by Simon Bennett a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer with over 20 years real-world experience in software and hardware development, the last 12 of which have been focussed on using Agile frameworks and methods including Scrum, XP, Crystal & Kanban.
From 2008 through 2010 Simon was also the Product Owner for the Scrum for Team System TFS process template.
Simon has considerable experience in organisational agile adoption, large scale Scrum and using Scrum in an offshore environment, as well as successfully blending Scrum with other methods including UCD.
His wealth of experience brings a unique depth and flavour to the course, as students will learn from real world case studies rather than only theory and simulations.
With regard to delivery, Simon is also a seasoned trainer with over two decades of experience, and a regular speaker at major international conferences. Recent engagements include:
Scrum Gathering South Africa
"The Incentive Trap" (5 hour deep dive)
Opening Address
Agile 2010, Orlando August 2010
“The Incentive Trap” (3 hour invited tutorial)
Scrum Gathering Orlando March 2010
“The Incentive Trap”
PDC 2009, Los Angeles
“Scrum in the Enterprise with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010”
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT09
Scrum Gathering Munich 2009
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
“Best Practice in Agile Product Ownership” – Panel Chair
Conference Selection Committee Member
Agile 2009, Chicago
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
“Why do (so many) testers (still) hate Agile?”
PDC 2008, Los Angeles
“Agile development on the Microsoft Platform”
Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2008
“Lean vs. Agile: Stop fighting, start delivering”
Scrum WithStyle delivers consulting and training helping a diverse range of product development and solutions delivery organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand to succeed with Agile.
Pre-reading
As the Scrum Alliance website says, “Students are expected to attend the CSM course with a working knowledge of Scrum. This knowledge can be obtained by reading books, articles, and web info about Scrum. At minimum, all participants must be familiar with the introductory material listed under "Required Reading".
Required Reading
Recommended Reading
One of the following is a valuable resource for any ScrumMaster or change leader.
The Enterprise and Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Microsoft Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0735623378
Comment: This is a good choice if you are interested in how to apply Scrum within a large organisation.
Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Microsoft Press, 2004 ISBN: 978-0735619937
Comment: This is a good choice if you prefer reading stories and learning by example.
Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
Prentice Hall, 2001 ISBN: 978-0130676344
Comment: This is a good choice if you are interested in the theory and concepts behind Scrum.
Price and Venue
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Registration
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