Certified ScrumMaster Workshop (CSM)

Unlock the potential of Scrum with our Certified ScrumMaster Workshop, designed for professionals looking to excel in Agile project management and enhance software development efficiency.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Explain and facilitate the Scrum roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team Member.

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Apply empirical thinking and foundational Scrum concepts to projects.

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Understand and improve team productivity within Scrum environments.

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Communicate the importance of organizational agreement on software readiness.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Current Scrum Team Members such as Business customers, users, or partners.
  • Product Owners and Team Members seeking certification.
  • Professionals like Project Managers and IT Managers interested in Scrum.
  • Developers and Programmers looking to transition to Agile methodologies.

Description

Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training course gives you a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster. This two–day Certified ScrumMaster training course is suitable for those practicing or looking to practice the art of the ScrumMaster but is highly valuable for anyone involved in Scrum.

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Course Outline

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Part 1: Scrum Theory

  1. Empiricism and the three empirical pillars

  2. Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach

  3. The Scrum Framework

  4. Scrum Values

  5. Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 2: The Scrum Team

  1. The responsibilities of the Scrum Team

  2. The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master

  3. Single Product Owners

  4. Product Owners own the Product Backlog

  5. Delivering an Increment

  6. Benefits of a cross-functional and self-managing Scrum Team

Part 3: Scrum Events and Activities

  1. Benefits of Timeboxing

  2. Purpose of a Sprint

  3. Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective

  4. Product Backlog Refinement

  5. Inspecting and Adapting events

  6. When to cancel a sprint

  7. Daily Scrum is not a status meeting

Part 4: Scrum Artifacts and Commitments

  1. Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment

  2. The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, Definition of Done

  3. Product Backlog emergence

  4. Attributes of a Product Backlog

  5. Sprint and Increment relationship

  6. Evolution of a Definition of Done

  7. Multiple Teams working on one Product Backlog

Part 5: Scrum Master Core Competencies

  1. Facilitation

  2. Facilitating decision making

  3. Teaching

  4. Coaching

  5. Mentoring

Part 6: Service to Scrum Team, Product Owner and Organization

  1. How does a Scrum Master serve the Scrum Team

  2. Explaining Technical Debt

  3. Understanding development practices to improve quality and reduce technical debt

  4. Supporting the Product Owner

  5. Organizational impediments that affect Scrum Teams

  6. Techniques for resolving impediments

  7. Why are there no Project managers in Scrum?

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