About the course
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Our Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) course has been refined through inspection and adaptation for over 10 years. It is an intensive deep dive into the world's most popular Agile method: Scrum. It is an immersive learning experience emphasising hands-on participation through a mix of interactive seminars, group discussions, team activities, games and role-plays.
We use highly immersive adult learning techniques such as visual modelling, simulations, role-plays and 'Training from the Back of the Room' activities to enable self-directed learning and enhanced retention.
Unlike Scrum courses with other trainers, this course offers a Practice Scrum Test on day 1 with answers discussed day 2. This provides you with clear feedback on your Scrum knowledge in preparation for the post-course Certification Test.
This course is organised and run using Scrum as a management framework. This allows for feedback and flexibility as well as experiencing Scrum in action throughout the course.
You will learn:
- The philosophy, values and principles that guide you in becoming more Agile.
- The nature of principles such as Empirical Process Control, Iteration, Timeboxing and Self-organisation that provide an effective model for working in a complex environment.
- The Scrum roles in-depth and how they fit together to address Project Management.
- How to establish an environment to foster high-performance agile delivery including creating a Definition of Done and keeping a Product Backlog in a well-refined state.
- Techniques for facilitating and participating in highly effective agile meetings each iteration and each day.
- How to leverage review and retrospective activities to produce better fit solutions and continuously improve our Scrum delivery capability.
About certification
Certified ScrumMaster is the most widely recognised Agile-related accreditation in the world. Certification body Scrum Alliance was founded in 2001 and is a not-for-profit association. With over 750,000 practitioners having been accredited with Scrum Alliance, it is the largest professional membership organisation in the Agile community.
There are three steps to becoming a Certified ScrumMaster:
- Familiarise yourself with Scrum through the pre-work material provided by Scrum WithStyle
- Complete our 2 day CSM course across a 16 hour duration
- Pass the online CSM Test after the course and accept the License Agreement
For further information on the certification process, see the Certified ScrumMaster page on the Scrum Alliance website.
This course may qualify Project Management Professionals (PMPs) for 14 PDUs as approved by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Meet your trainer - Rowan Bunning
Rowan is a pioneer of Scrum in Australia having became a ScrumMaster in 2003, Australia's first Certified Scrum Professional in 2006 and Certified Scrum Trainer in 2008. Since then he has delivered well over 320 Scrum Certification courses in Australia and New Zealand making him one of the most experienced Scrum trainers in the Australasian region.
With a background in software development including with eXtreme Programming and in 2007 he was hired as an Agile Coach by one of Europe's foremost Agile consultancies which partnered with Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn (two of the most widely recognised names in the global Agile community). Since then, Rowan has guided organisations from banks to video games companies through accelerated Agile adoptions including Scrum, Kanban and Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) as well as consulting to management on Agile assessment and change leadership.
Unlike many Agile Coaches and Trainers, Rowan not only has years of experience in business/IT Projects, but also in non-project pure product development environments. This allows Rowan to guide clients in combining the best of both worlds to achieve superior results.
Rowan has spoken about Scrum at conferences in Australia, Europe and North America since 2006 and has been involved with organising the Sydney Scrum User Group since 2008. Rowan hold accreditations as a Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP), Certified Agile Leadership credential II (CAL II), Organization and Relationship Systems at Work (ORS@Work) coach and is Australasia's first approved Scrum Alliance “Path to CSP” Educator.
A high proportion of Rowan's work is initiated via word-of-mouth recommendation from highly satisfied course participants.
Five reasons to do your Scrum training with Rowan Bunning
- Practical guidance from first-hand experience. Experience with implementing Scrum over the last 15 years in many dozens of organisations means that Rowan's guidance is grounded in real world challenges and is highly practical. He speaks from first-hand experience, having worked for years in each of the Scrum roles including ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Development Team Member as well as in a wide variety of other technical, leadership and coaching roles.
- Insightful and inspiring. As past course participants testify, you can expect to take away many deep insights into the nature of Scrum and its potential to transform your organisation and your work life for the better. Stories of what others have achieved with Scrum are likely to inspire you to be a game changer yourself.
- Authoritative, non-proprietary material. Unlike many other training providers who teach proprietary, non peer-reviewed method formulations marketed using the generic umbrella term 'Agile', Rowan's teaching is fully aligned with the authoritative definitions of the most widely used and peer-reviewed Agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum as per the definition endorsed by the Scrum Alliance®) and techniques (e.g. User Stories and Story Point Estimation as per Mike Cohn).
- Take away a comprehensive workbook. As a course participant you will receive a comprehensive course workbook including worksheets on key topics, detailed information on the Scrum Roles not found elsewhere, recommended reading and further resources to assist you post-course, including in your CSM Test preparation.
- Post-course follow-up. Rowan can provide post-training coaching and has done so with a wide range of organisations in industries including banking, federal and state governments, health insurance, superannuation, salary packing, retail, manufacturing, building security, information security and media.
Testimonials from course participants
"years of real life experience"
"Rowan Bunning is an excellent and experienced trainer, with years of real life experience in the development and Scrum processes. This was very apparent in the level of training that our CSM course group received at Scrum WithStyle.
Learning within different non work groups was a real eye opener as it gave me an insight into how other companies develop and work within the Scrum Agile framework. It was very different to how the company I work for has implemented the Agile framework.
Rowan was an expert at getting everyone in our training course engaged and collaborating in the learning process. It was a real facilitation success, and I could see everyone gained a better understanding of the course material."
- Paul Clarke, Senior Software Developer, Indue - June 2018
"BY FAR, the BEST experience for me"
"I have attended trainings for, and cleared SSYB, ITIL, PMP, PRINCE2 but I have to say that this particular training by Rowan Bunning is BY FAR, the BEST experience for me, mainly because of how Rowan keeps you engaged throughout. Rowan really explained concepts again and again and in detail. I’m amazed at the effort you have put in (in terms of handouts, charts etc. too) for this training and how energetic you are."
- Amna Salis Khan, Technology Product Specialist - Telstra
"certainly lived up to your reputation"
"First of all, let me thank you for the wonderful engagement and education for the last two days. You certainly lived up to your reputation in the market as a Scrum/Agile Coach. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to using it in our workplace and drive Agile from a strategic perspective. Thanks a lot for your course materials and the class slides."
- Murty Vysyaraju, Senior Management Consultant - NSW Department of Finance, Services and Information
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