Certified ScrumMaster®

About the Course 

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This two day course provides not only a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Scrum, it puts the theory into action through a number of hands-on activities.

This course is about much more than just following a process. It is about how to collaborate effectively in a multi-disciplinary team, how to maximise business value and how use an empirical approach to continuously refine both the product and the process itself. It is also about insights into the nature of successful software development, understanding why Scrum works and how to use it to succeed in challenging environments with high levels of change, uncertainty and complexity.

Participants will gain hands-on practice with the Product Backlog, the Sprint Backlog, agile estimation techniques and the whole Scrum cycle through a "59-minute Scrum" exercise.

The course concludes with participants being enrolled as Certified ScrumMasters which includes a one-year membership with the Scrum Alliance where additional Certified ScrumMaster-only material is available.

About the Trainer

Rowan Bunning is a pioneer of Scrum in Australia having learned about it in 2003, become one of the first Certified ScrumMasters in February 2005 and the country's first Certified Scrum Practitioner in October 2006. He became a Certified Scrum Trainer in April 2008 under the mentorship of Europe's first Scrum Trainer with whom he has studied, consulted and co-trained. Rowan led an organisation-wide transition to Scrum and eXtreme Programming at an innovative Australian software company exporting enterprise products internationally. Following this he worked in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland as an Agile Coach and ScrumMaster with European Scrum leader: EMC Conchango. Rowan is now an independent consultant helping organisations throughout Australia to succeed with Agile and Lean through training and hands-on coaching.

Rowan holds a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from the University of Canberra and has spoken at a number of conferences in North America and Europe. He is highly involved with the Australian Agile community having founded a successful Agile SIG supported by the Australian Computer Society as well as helping to start Scrum User Groups in Sydney and Brisbane. Rowan has a strong technical background in web development, XML and Smalltalk (the development environment used for the first Scrum and XP projects). Rowan is motivated by the waste and inefficiency he sees around software projects in many organisations and believes that there is enormous potential to improve business value and team productivity through agile methods.