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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Jason Tanner

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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16 hours |

Start March 21, 2016 CUT

Early bird pricing

Course details

Location

In-Person

1805 Library Street, 2nd Floor, Reston, VA 20190, US

Schedule Details

Monday, March 21 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

Tuesday, March 22 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

Course

In this CSM certification training course, you acquire the specific skills, behaviors and the mindset necessary to become a successful Certified ScrumMaster and servant leader. Through training, practice sessions and role-playing activities, you learn the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum to create customer satisfaction with the continuous delivery of high-value software.

You Will Learn How To:

Become a Certified ScrumMaster and servant leader to your Development Team, your Product Owner and your organization
Follow Agile principles and Scrum Framework
Apply effective facilitation for Scrum ceremonies
Refine your product backlog
Act as an effective change agent and remove impediments

Active Learning Workshop:

Creating the product vision
Developing and refining product backlogs
Estimating and prioritizing user stories
Contrasting iterative vs. incremental delivery
Realizing the power of team collaboration

Details

Returning Learning Tree Customer Price: $1,755.00

GSA/Government New Attendee Price: $1,532.00

Returning GSA/Government Customer Price: $1,379.00

Agenda

Introducing Agile Principles

Defining Agile values and principles
Contrasting Waterfall and Agile product-development philosophies
Confronting the challenges of adopting Agile
Creating a cross-functional team

Defining the Scrum Framework
Adopting Scrum

Defining the core Scrum Framework
Core Scrum team, artifacts and ceremonies
Adapting traditional business process to Scrum
Applying core Scrum Values

Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts
Introducing the Core Scrum Roles

Outlining the three roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Development team
ScrumMaster: performing as a servant leader to the team
Product Owner: developing the product vision and backlog
Development team: delivering the product increment

Defining the Core Scrum Ceremonies

Refining the Product Backlog
Holding the Sprint Planning meeting
Hosting the Daily Scrum
Leading Sprint Reviews
Facilitating successful Sprint Retrospectives

Detailing the Core Scrum Artifacts

Creating the Product Backlog
Implementing the Sprint Backlog
Defining the Definition of Done
Developing potentially shippable product increment

Refining the Product Backlog
Iterating the Product Backlog

Developing the Product Vision
Building the Product Backlog
Continuously refining the Product Backlog

Refining Product Delivery

Comparing iterative and incremental delivery
Decomposing Epics into features and stories
Releasing products with Minimal Marketable Features

Estimating and Prioritizing Product Backlog Items
Creating user stories

Writing user stories with the Connextra format
Evolving product requirements
Applying frameworks to focus user stories
Developing products with progressive elaboration
Defining appropriate acceptance criteria
Removing user stories when appropriate

User story estimating

Sizing user stories
Estimating effort and business value level through relative measurement
Comparing and contrasting affinity and planning poker estimation techniques
Breaking user stories into tasks

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Ranking product backlog item priority at the release, product and project level
Utilizing prioritization techniques and frameworks
Identifying high-priority items for sprint planning

ScrumMaster Responsibilities to the Team
Growing the Scrum team

Enforcing the Scrum process
Establishing team working agreements
Removing Impediments
Becoming an Agile coach for your team

Ensuring long-term success

Continuously improving the team
Reporting appropriate metrics
Managing and reducing external dependencies
Adopting best practices for software engineering
Acting as an Agile champion in your organization

Who should attend

Practicing ScrumMasters, Product Owners, members of Scrum Development teams and anyone who needs to appreciate the role and competencies required of a ScrumMaster. A basic knowledge of Agile is assumed.

Reviews

5.00 out of 5.0 stars

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Great course

Great flow and real world experience was huge on learning the material!

The instructor is very knowledgeable and answered every questions. He made the course very interactive and time bound.

Helped to cover the material in a condensed period of time.

very informative and RELATIVE.

The CSM course was very informative and well organized. Jason Tanner was an exceptional instructor who encouraged interaction and participation. He clearly knew the material very well and was able to address our specific questions and concerns.

Pass my test on first try.

Excellent course and instructor.

Very knowledgeable had the room and materials ready. He was friendly and easy to work with. Overall one of the best trainers and his passion for what he does showed throughout all four days. Jason made the training exciting. I even took some of his drawings home with me that were done in class.

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