Certified Scrum Master
The Certified Scrum Master course is an interactive two-day training course, accredited by Scrum Alliance. It allows delegates to explore the Scrum framework in detail. It covers the Scrum principles and practices, team roles, ceremonies and artifacts involved in a Scrum project, allowing delegates to be successful Scrum Masters or take part actively in a Scrum team.
Description
Course Objectives
This course will enable delegates to:
- Understand the concepts and benefits of Agile development
- Understand the Scrum approach to project delivery including:
- Team Roles
- Product and Sprint Backlogs
- Increments
- Burndown Charts
- Setup and manage appropriate project teams
- Run Scrum meetings (Daily Scrums, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives)
- Use their skills on a Scrum project
- Communicate the ideals of Scrum to key stakeholders
- Gain access to online social networks and additional Scrum Alliance membership resources
Who Should Attend?
Those who are likely to become involved in Scrum / Agile projects, including:
- Scrum Masters
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Development Team Members
- Business Analysts
- Solution Developers
- Solution Testers
- Solution Designers
- etc.
- Product Owners and Managers
- Process Owners and Managers
- User representatives and subject matter experts
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Managers
- Agile Coaches
Course Content
- General Knowledge
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- Agile Manifesto
- Empirical and defined processes
- Scrum process and sprints
- The significance of "Done"
- The five Scrum values
- Applicability of Scrum
- Scrum Roles
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- Overview of Scrum roles
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Product Owner
- Scrum team
- Impact on traditional roles
- Scrum Meetings
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- Sprint planning meeting
- Daily Scrum meeting
- Sprint review meeting
- Sprint retrospective
- Scrum Artifacts
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- Product backlog
- Product increment and the definition of "Done"
- Sprint backlog
- Burndown charts
- Scaling Scrum (not examined)
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- Working with multiple Scrum teams
- Working with distributed Scrum teams