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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Brian Milner

Mountain Goat Software

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 Jul 13, 2026 CUT

$500

Course details

Location

Online

Schedule Details

Monday, July 13 | 3:30 PM - 11:30 PM CUT

Tuesday, July 14 | 3:30 PM - 11:30 PM CUT

Max number of students: 40

Course

Details

Class Schedule

To qualify for your certification, in addition to passing the exam, you will need to be available for the live discussion classes, as well as have enough time to work your way through the self-study videos

Live class attendance via Zoom

During these sessions, there will be live discussions and group exercises facilitated by your instructor via Zoom. Zoom is an easy to use online meeting and video conferencing software and you’ll receive full instructions about how to join your online class after you register.

PLUS: 12 Free Months of MGS Essentials

Get 12 free months of MGS Essentials — your personal agile toolkit packed with practical resources to help you move faster, plan smarter, and deliver more value. This includes online Planning Poker®, archived webinars, downloadable templates, weekly tips, PDUs/SEUs, and AI-powered agile coaching tools — all designed to reinforce what you learn in the Certified ScrumMaster course and help you apply it effectively with your team.

What you get:

11 Bonus Modules of training
Lifetime access to the course materials
Access to take the Scrum Alliance ScrumMaster, multiple-choice online certification exam
2-year membership with the Scrum Alliance with additional member-only Scrum Master materials available to you
14 PDUs and 16 SEUs

Risk-Free Guarantee

As with everything we do at Mountain Goat Software, you get a risk-free guarantee. On completion of the course, with full participation in the required live sessions and submitted assignments, if you don’t feel it’s been valuable we’ll happily issue a refund.

Agenda

Training Outline	1. Scrum Overview 2. The Product Backlog 3. The Product Owner 4. The Scrum Master 5. Developers 6. Managers 7. Estimating 8. Planning 9. Sprinting 10. Sprint Planning 11. Daily Scrum 12. Review, Retrospective and Refinement 13. Scaling
Overview of Agile	Agile Scrum
Working in Iterations	Time Boxes No Changes Allowed Reciprocal Commitments Defining Done Sprint Types Introducing Change into a Sprint
The Product Owner	What is a Product Owner? Rights & Responsibilities Managing Stakeholders
The Scrum Master	The Scrum Master Rights & Responsibilities Four Facilitation Techniques Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching & Facilitating The Scrum Master in Dual Roles Servant Leadership
Developers	Rights & Responsibilities Self-Organizing Cross-Functional Collaborating Component and Feature Teams
Managers	Project Managers Functional (Department) Managers
The Product Backlog	Responsibilities & Attributes Organizing the Backlog
Stories	User Stories
Story Splitting	The Importance of Splitting Stories
Product Backlog Refinement	Progressive Elaboration
Sprint Review	Who, When, Why? What if nothing is done? What if the product owner cannot attend? Agenda
Sprint Retrospective	Who, When, Why? Methods for Conducting Retrospectives
Daily Scrum	Purpose Participants Troubleshooting Common Problems
Sprint Planning	Meeting Responsibilities The Sprint Goal The Purpose Capacity-Driven Sprint Planning Velocity-Driven Sprint Planning Decomposing Stories into Tasks Working Out of Order What To Do When the Product Owner Is Missing
Estimating	Relative Estimating Story Points Ideal Time Affinity Estimation Planning Poker Three Ways to Estimate Velocity
Planning	Velocity as a Range Fixed-Date Plans Technical Debt
Scaling	Scaling Guidelines Scaling the Planning Meeting Scrum of Scrums Communities of Practice

Who should attend

Whether you’re a manager, programmer, tester, analyst, product manager, or someone interested in working on or with a Scrum team, this Agile Project Management course is suited for you. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion, you will be prepared to plan your first sprint immediately after this class.

Reviews

4.89 out of 5.0 stars

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Brian was clear, kind and knowledgeable

Brian did a great job and was very engaging ! The breakout teams were always enjoyable and it gave us change to communicate with a lot of people.

Brian did an excellent job facilitating this course. The pacing was perfect, and the hands-on exercises effectively reinforced the material. He was clear, engaging, and highly encouraging of questions and participation. I would highly recommend him.

Brian has a very good command of the subject area and was able to draw on real world examples. His presentation style combined with the structure of the course meant that the class was engaged and participated in all the exercises. Would highly recommend this course.

Brian is a top tier instructor and delivers the course materials in a high impact way. Leaving this course, I had zero concerns about taking what I learned and applying it to work and every day life. Can't thank Brian enough for answering close to 50 questions from me over the 2 day course and making the learning environment engaging. Worth the time and the cost.

As an already established Scrum Master, This class still gave me some great insight into how the framework is structured and the true roles of developers and product owners. Brian is a very good teacher as well and is openly willing to engage mid lesson.

Fun course. 13 hours of zoom calls in 2 days is a lot, but it never felt dragged out or plodding. Very enjoyable.

Brian brought a lot of energy and is very knowledgeable, Great class.

Brian was a great instructor - engaging and willing to take time for Q&A during breaks. The content was spot on and sets you up for total success on the CSM Exam. Mountain Goat Software provides great learning tools during and after the course. Will definitely be signing up for additional courses in the future!

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