Session Time: 09:00 AM to 5:30 PM each day
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Testimonials from Virtual sessions
Initially, I was a bit nervous about a virtual course. However, I loved how informative and interactive the session was. I am completely new to the tech industry, but I felt SUPER comfortable during the session. David, Alex, and other participants really made the session run smoothly! I also loved that we were able to take breaks every hour.
Thanks for the experience and the room to express how happy I was with the session.
That was my first virtual course and I loved it!
You guys set the bar high! THANK YOU!!
Tiffany Jenkins-Schaub
Having attended the first virtual CSM certification training session last weekend, I feel David and Alex did an excellent job and not only presented the material in an easy and fun way to learn but exemplified the Scrum values by continually adapting to any technical challenges. All of the material covered during the training, plus David's advice to read the Scrum Guide several times and take the practice exam, totally prepared me for the exam, which I passed with flying colors this week! One of the things I also got a lot of value from was how David engaged all students to share real world experiences. This helped to solidify the concepts and get us beginners to think more along the lines of the Scrum framework, i.e. Scrum teams, their roles, events, rules and artifacts.
The training was excellent and worth every penny!
Thanks again David and Alex....you did a great job and I'm referring colleagues, friends and coworkers to Scrum Alliance for their Scrum training needs.
Ralph Ingerto
It was highly interactive and David stretched to answer individual case specific questions. David was very dynamic, open for any questions and made sure each and every individual was participating. He had good documentation and flash cards Q/A which facilitated in better understanding.
Durga Pratibha Sungh
David Bulkin has a wealth of knowledge. The session, being that it was the first online session, was fantastic. Personally, I though it was a seamless transition to a format that had never existed previously. The education I recieved from the session empowered me and even though it was online, the session was invaluable.
Michael Sorg, Jr
Well organized, interactive, reality based (Down-to-earth), useful content provided towards exam prep. David actually embodies the Agile/Scrum framework and truly believes in its fundamental values/principles - and this comes across in his delivery of the material.
Femi B
Hey David! I passed my exam last night, just wanted to say thank you for the course this weekend!
Under crazy circumstances, you and Alex did a fantastic job!
The breakout rooms and encouragement from David for everyone in the class to participate made it seem like we were actually in a physical room, I would highly recommend this class to anyone looking to get their CSM Certification!
CJ LeConey
I really appreciated David's teaching method/format for the virtual classroom and it worked for me. I'm a full time teleworker so while I was looking forward to the in-person training, the virtual classroom was not much of a stretch. I still got to meet different people and our breakout sessions into smaller groups let me get to know them a little bit better too. I must admit that it felt like there was definitely a lot more that we could have covered but then preparing for a virtual classroom on the eleventh hour was not something that David expected. He made it work though. In my opinion, he covered what was really important and that is, what the Scrum framework is all about, how to apply it to your own work and give you the foundations to be prepared for the exam. I didn't expect to know everything after leaving his class and that's okay. It gave me enough to be able to apply some things at work with what I learned in class. Oh, one more thing, the fact that the CEO of Grow-Lean checked-in to see how class was going shows the care and commitment of this company.
AnnMay Wentzel
It's virtual, but David made it really collaborative, and after sometime I forgot that it’s virtual and really involved with the training.
Durga Kiran Jagarlapudi
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Have Fun, Learn a Lot, Immediate Access to Certification Exam
The Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) Certification is the most well-established and respected cert in the Agile Community. It is often the starting point on a journey towards agility or a reflection point for experienced agilists. Grow-Lean®’s CSM is delivered as a fun, interactive, hands-on, workshop.
You can take the certifying exam immediately after the class and you will be a Certified ScrumMaster® after passing the exam. More importantly, you will be better able to implement or grow agile in your organization and advance your career.
You will learn how the Scrum framework can dramatically improve time to market, quality, employee satisfaction, customer value and company ROI. You will also learn that every organization, team and individual needs to take a different path on the road to agility.
You will gain a practical understanding of the roles, artifacts and ceremonies of Scrum, via hands on exercises, discussion, fun games, and immersion.
- Roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Development Team Member
- Ceremonies: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
- Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chart
You will learn how Scrum exists in a larger organizational context, and how it is similar to and different from, traditional waterfall projects. In addition to Scrum, we will review other influential Agile Frameworks.
- Extreme Programming: Scrum superset for engineering excellence, including Test Driven Development, refactoring (keeping a code base clean) and pair working.
- ES, LeSS, SAFe®: Scaling frameworks that provides additional roles, ceremonies and artifacts.
- Kanban: Visualize, limit WIP, create flow, make policies explicit, change slowly
- Lean: The mother of agile, focus on value, create flow, optimize
- Lean Startup®: An approach to mitigating business risks by getting to market quickly with a release that is also an experiment, learning from it, and adapting based on learnings.
Exercises, discussions, simulations, games (yes, we really mean games), case studies, examples and fun (yes, even jokes) are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught in an immersive, engaging manner so that you learn, while enjoying yourself.
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Your Facilitator
Chris Doss
Chris is an Agile coach, trainer, consultant, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). Chris has over fourteen years as a project manager and is a Project Management Professional (PMP). Chris has coached or supported over fifty different Agile teams and led the implementation of Agile for large organizations with extensive organizational change management experience. Having served in management for an Agile organization, Chris understands the support system and infrastructure that needs to exist in order for Agile to thrive within a company.
Chris is a Six Sigma Green Belt and applies Lean principles to software development, business process and product development. In addition to his experience as a manager, coach and trainer, Chris has strong leadership skills honed over 15+ years as an officer in the Army National Guard; he has applied these skills to build high-performing teams. Chris received his master’s degree in Business Administration from Lynchburg College and his bachelor’s degree from the Virginia Military Institute.
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Discounts
A limited number of discounts are reserved for each class. If you are eligible for multiple discounts, choose the one that works best for you, as they cannot be combined.
Early Bird: Save $300, pay $995 by registering at least five weeks in advance. Cannot be combined with other discounts.
Group: Group discounts are available for a minimum of three attendees at a session.
Self Pay: $200 off regular registration, if you missed early bird discount and you will not be reimbursed by your company.
Unemployment Discount: From 20% to 40% off regular registration, if you are actively collecting state unemployment benefit and can provide a copy of a recent unemployment claim.
All discounts other than early bird discount must be approved prior to registering.
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Certification Exam, We Guarantee to Help You Pass
There is a certifying exam that you must pass to obtain your Certified ScrumMaster® designation. All of the exam fees are included; there is no additional cost to become certified.
You can take the exam immediately after class on day two, or anytime within 60 days post class. You take it from any Internet connected smartphone / computer without going to a testing center.
You will use our free practice exam to reinforce the knowledge acquired in class. The actual exam is 50 multiple choice questions. You will need to answer 37 correctly.
David will collaborate with you until you pass the exam.
What's Included
- Access to take the certifying exam immediately after the class (no additional fee)
- Certification as a Certified ScrumMaster®, with the Scrum Alliance, after passing exam
- Two year membership in the Scrum Alliance
- Professionally printed, high quality, color course materials including: spiral bound course book, Scrum Reference card, Practice Exam and Fill in the Blank Workbook
- 16 PDUs towards PMI® continuing certification requirements
- 16 SEUs towards Scrum Alliance certification requirements
- Continental breakfast, lunch, snacks and beverages
- Free follow up discussion with the instructor if you need assistance
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Have a group of sixteen or more? Talk to us about a private session at your site. Benefits of onsite training, at your location, include saving travel time / money and the ability to customize the event to your specific needs.
Testimonials
Grow-Lean® takes pride in delivering the highest quality training experience. We have included a small set of feedback comments from private and public clients.
“The class was very interactive which helped me apply the materials covered in each segment. It helped me understand how it is used practically.” - CSM Student.
“The instructor [Chris] was excellent. I’ve taken several Scrum workshops and this was by far the best. Chris made Agile/Scrum concrete and practical.” - CSM Student
What did you like the best about the training? - “Very engaging & knowledgeable. Allowed open dialogue that facilitated collaboration and learning.” - Matt Hylton, CSM.
“Great instructor. Very informative and enthusiastic.” - Tanisha Perry, CSM
Class was engaging and learned alot from the team activities - Darla Sullivan.
The content and presentation was extremely engaging. The instructor, Chris, was very good at keeping the course interesting and valuable. He did a good job using our "actual" business for examples-seems much easier to take and adopt. Exceptional, nice mix of powerpoint presentation, group work, role playing...etc. - Megan Williams
Very engaging, excellent course instruction! The entire class was fully engage throughout the course! - Ellen Thompson
Learned a lot, felt the session was extremely interactive and interesting. I'm excited to try it. Very knowledgeable and experienced trainer. Able to present the material to new people so we could understand - Cheri May, CSM
Pre-Reads
To find out more about the certification requirements and to otherwise prepare for the session you will benefit by doing preparatory reading. We have a small list of pre-work, and don't expect you to read everything, but please review what you can, depending on the time you have available.
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