Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Certified ScrumMaster Training - Conscires Agile Practices

Why Should You Take This Certified ScrumMaster Training Course?

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.

Our CSM training is focused on Scrum basics and the ScrumMaster role. Besides the basic concepts the training includes discussions and group dynamics about the necessary soft skills for a ScrumMaster, aspects of technical excellence for the Scrum Team, and company-oriented Scrum implementation aspects.

We offer Scrum Alliance designated trainings, upon completion of which the attendees will be eligible to a take an evaluation for obtaining the certification.

• Certified ScrumMaster Training: Two day, experiential course aimed at conveying:
  • Scrum in Practice
  • Essence of Scrum
  • Mechanics of Scrum
  • Scrum Tools
  • ScrumMaster Skill Set

• Certified Scrum Product Owner Training: Two day course specifically focused on the duties of a Product Owner:
• Identifying sources of business value and using for feature prioritization
• Understanding customers and users
• Building and maintaining a product backlog
• Release planning

The course is designed with these goals:

• Provide a deep knowledge of Scrum
• Detail the role of the Scrum Master
• Discuss problems in leadership of Scrum teams

Throughout the course, participants will examine Scrum from both the process and Scrum Master perspectives. The emphasis is on establishing a detailed understanding of Scrum as described in the major references, and also on the practical application of Scrum principles in a real world environment by a trained Scrum Master. Situations provided by participants will be used as training exercises.

Participants should read at least one source on Scrum before the course. Sources would include:

• http://www.scrum.org/Scrum-Guides
• http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches
• http://agileatlas.org/atlas/scrum (by the Scrum Alliance and not by the instructor)

The course starts by establishing the foundations of Scrum within the thought framework called “Agile” and follows by examining the major foundations of the Scrum Process Framework itself.

The class then experiences a simulation of many of the major features of Scrum via a classroom exercise. The exercise serves to make the nature and purpose of many of the details of scrum more alive and understandable to the class.

From this point on, we will conduct a detailed examination of Scrum from top to bottom, starting with the Product Backlog. The class will create a Product Backlog and in the process discover the nature and use of User Stories and also the techniques of Product Backlog Refinement. Agile Release Planning is also used as an example of Agile problem-solving and planning techniques that revolve around the Product Backlog.

• Story Splitting
• Estimation and Planning Techniques
• Sprint Planning
• Definition of Done
• Facilitating the Daily Scrum
• Facilitating Retrospectives

At the end of the course, students will have a thoroughly integrated view of Scrum and the role of the Scrum Master, and they will be prepared to lead a Scrum team in most commercial software development environments.

Who Should Attend This Certified ScrumMaster Training Course?

Any person who is interested in learning more about Scrum or wants to make Scrum work better for their Team or organization, is encouraged to attend. While the focus of the class is for people who want to learn how to leverage the Scrum framework to bring about change, any member of Team or the organization who is interested in how to use Scrum would find this class useful. Typical attendees in the past have been functional managers, Team leads, analysts, architects, engineers, software developers, directors, testers and other roles that support product development.

Will I be a Certified ScrumMaster at the end of the course?

Not yet. After completing the course, we will send you a link within 2 days for taking the online test given by ScrumAlliance. You will need to pass the test to get your ScrumMaster certification.

Is the certification or test fee included in the course price?

Yes, they are included. You do not need to pay anything else to become certified.

Is ScrumAlliance membership included in the course fee?

Yes, a 2 year membership is included with the course fee.

Do I receive PDU credits for a CSM course and how do I claim it?

You claim 14 PDUs from the Certified ScrumMaster class. You will be reporting Scrum trainings conducted by Conscires as Category B. There is no limit to the number of hours you can report in this category.

According to the PMP handbook: ‘Contact hours of project and/or program management education may be earned by attending relevant educational courses offered by organizations not registered with PMI. To calculate the number of PDUs earned, use the following formula: one contact hour of learning relevant to project and/or program management within a structured activity or course equals one PDU. Documentation required upon PMI audit/request: registration form, certificate or letter of attendance, and a brochure or course materials outlining the subject matter covered and the qualifications of the instructor/lecturer.’ Most CSTs can tell you how many PDUs their course offers.

How soon after my course do I have to complete the CSM Evaluation?

After receiving your membership email, you have 90 days to take and complete the online evaluation.

Syllabus

• Module: Intro, Orientation and Agreements
• Module: Agile Overview
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Principles
• Agile Development Model
• Benefits of Scrum
• Exercise: Airplane Manufacturing
• Module: Scrum Overview
• Empirical Process Control
• Foundations of Scrum – Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation
• Scrum Framework
• Teams
• Exercise: Self-Organization
• Module: Release Planning
• Module: The Product Backlog
• Product Owner Role
• User Stories
• Exercise: Build a backlog
• Module: Backlog Refinement
• Relative Estimation and Sizing
• Exercise: Team Estimation Game
• Planning Poker
• Story Splitting
• Prioritization
• Module: Sprint Planning
• Levels of Planning
• Definition of Ready
• Definition of Done
• Exercise: Importance of the Definition of Done
• Capacity Planning
• Task Planning
• Burndown Charts
• Exercise: Create a Spring Backlog
• UX Design and Offline Planning
• Module: The Sprint
• Incremental Delivery
• Engineering Practices for Software Development
• Daily Scrum
• Exercise: Daily Scrum
• Task Boards
• Module: Review and Retrospective
• Sprint Review
• Retrospective Structure
• Conducting a Retrospective
• Module: Real Life Scrum
• Exercise: Scrum Value Proposition
• When is scrum applicable?
• Scrum Master in Real Life
• Exercise: Management Styles
• Role Conflicts
• Scrum Values