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Certified ScrumMaster Course |
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In this course, participants will learn how to stop thrashing and start executing along with everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. There are very few rules to Scrum so it is important to learn its fundamental principles by experiencing them directly from those who have implemented the best Scrums in the software industry.Successful participants will become Certified ScrumMasters, a first step in the journey towards this more adaptive form of project leadership. Successful participants will be listed as Certified ScrumMasters on the Scrum Alliance website and will receive a one year membership to the Scrum Alliance. Participants gain hands-on practice through exercises including: - How to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings
- Daily Scrum Meetings
- Sprint Reviews
- Sprint Retrospectives
- And more.
The course format consists of multiple lecture topics, group exercises and group discussion. Ample time will be devoted to analysis of the “real-world” industry experiences based on case study examples and experiences managing Agile projects and coaching Scrum teams. Overview of Agile & Scrum - What is Agile
- What is Scrum
- Origins
Roles: The ScrumMaster - Description and responsibilities
- What makes a good ScrumMaster
- ScrumMaster as team member
Roles: The Product Owner - Description and responsibilities
- Vision & the Product backlog
- User stories on the product backlog
- INVEST in your backlog
Roles: The team - Description and responsibilities
- Composition and cross-functionality
- Organizing
Meetings & Artifacts - Planning
- The daily scrum
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective
Sprints - What is potentially shippable?
- How does architecture fit?
- Sprint length and release sprints
- Abnormal terminations
Sprint planning - Prioritization and the sprint goal
- Sprint planning meeting
Release planning and Progress tracking - Estimating the product backlog
- Release planning meeting
- Burndown charts & task boards
Scaling - The scrum of scrums
- Shared vs. specific product backlogs
- Getting started & common pitfalls
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