Certified ScrumMaster®

What will I get?

• A rich scrum workbook that you will co-create with your learning in the class
• Various reading materials and supporting materials for further learning and research
• Opportunity to follow up with the instructor with future questions
• 2 years of membership with Scrum Alliance
• Eligibility to take the CSM exam
• CSM exam fees included with registration 
• Up to 16 PDUs (Professional Development Units) toward your PMP, PMI-ACP, or other PMI certification
• Don't have your PMI-ACP yet? Receive up to 16 contact hours toward eligibility to sit for the PMI-ACP® examination

Who is my instructor?

Manoj Vadakkan is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) and an Agile software development consultant. Manoj has experience in helping companies adopting an agile way of working. He conducts Scrum trainings around the world. Manoj has 25 years of experience in Software Development and Project Management. His Industry experience includes Telecommunications, Insurance, Bank, Media, and Federal Govt. Agencies. His coaching experience includes software and non-software organizations.

He shares his experiences by presenting at national and international conferences. For the last 5 years, he is proud to have been served his local community in the Washington DC Metro area by leading Agile Leadership Network DC chapter. He founded Agile DC, the premier DC-area Agile conference. Manoj now has relocated back to Colorado and looking to engage in Colorado Agile community.

Manoj Vadakkan is a practitioner who enjoys helping individuals, teams, and organizations practice Agile well. He will help you learn Scrum practices from his wide array of experience within small & large, private & government, software & non-software, and co-located & distributed organizations. Join this workshop to learn from a practitioner! Manoj will be available to answer questions long after the workshop to help you with questions you run into while practicing what you learned. Based on availability, attendees may schedule a limited number of short calls to get answers for their follow up questions after the training. We want you to be successful in adopting Scrum in your organization!

Want to bring this training or customized training to your organization?

Contact us for onsite classes.

What will I learn?

The following topics will be covered during this interactive workshop:

• Agile Principles and Values
• Scrum Framework and Scrum Values
• What is it like working within the Scrum framework?
  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • The Team
  • Other Team Members
  • What would a Project Manager do? (and other roles in the organization)
• Product Backlog
• Meetings: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Continuous improvement with Retrospectives
• User Stories and Other Requirement Techniques
• Agile Estimation Techniques
• Planning and Monitoring
• Burn-down / Burn-up charts
• Additional topics may be covered based on the need of the class

Who is it for?

Any person who is interested in learning more about Scrum or wants to make Scrum work better for their team or organization is encouraged to attend. While the focus of the class is for people who want to learn how to leverage the Scrum framework to bring about change, any member of a team or the organization who is interested in how to use Scrum would find this class useful. Typical attendees in the past have included:

• Functional Managers

• Team Leads

• Analysts

• Architects

• Engineers

• Software Developers

• Directors

• Testers

• Scrum Masters

• Product Owners

• and other roles that support product development

Are discounts available?

Special pricing is available for groups and veterans. Contact us to determine your eligibility.