Overview The ScrumMaster performs a vital role within the Scrum framework: coaching the Scrum team; ensuring effective team dynamics and cross-functional collaborative working; and enabling the team to focus without distraction from impediments and outside interruptions.
The Certified ScrumMaster training course employs practical exercises, case studies and discussions to provide everything that a ScrumMaster needs to know to be able to drive a successful Scrum Project.
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The Certified Scrummaster training course will benefit anyone who may perform the role of ScrumMaster or is to be involved in a Scrum Team, in any of the Scrum roles. The course is also suitable for those acting as coaches or consultants in transitioning an organisation to Scrum and anyone else looking to gain ScrumMaster Certification
- Thorough understanding of the Scrum Development and Planning processes
- The ability to be able to drive a scrum team through a project
- Achieve the designation of Certified ScrumMaster
Agile Rationale and Benefits
Scrum Development Process
- Background; Origins; History
- Scrum compared to other Agile approaches – XP, Lean, DSDM, Unified Process
- Scrum Components: Roles; Artefacts and Activities
Planning
- Product backlog; Stories; INVEST; Definition of Done; Fixed Price Development
- Collaborative Planning; Multi-level Planning; Release Planning; Sprint Planning
Teams
- Effective Team Working; Self Organising Teams
- Scrum Roles: The Scrum Team; ScrumMaster; Product Owner; Pigs and Chickens
- Roles not included in Scrum: Project Manager; Architect etc.
Estimation
- Principles; Estimating Size; Velocity; Ideal Days; Story Points; Planning Poker
Monitoring and Control
- Daily Scrum Meeting; Burn Down Charts; Information Radiators; Kanban Boards; Sprint Review; Sprint Retrospectives; Release Retrospectives
Agile Engineering Techniques
- Emergent Design; Refactoring; Continuous Integration; Test-Driven Development
Implementing Scrum and Agile
- Scaling Scrum; Scrum of Scrums; Enterprise Agile; Distributed Agile
- Combining Scrum with other Agile and traditional approaches
- Implementing, rolling-out and transitioning to Scrum
Participants who complete the ScrumMaster training course successfully will be designated Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
This is the first step to becoming a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP). This ScrumMaster Certification includes two years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance, where additional materials and information is available to CSM’s.