Certified Scrum Master Workshop

Learn, understand and execute the three overarching areas of change under Scrum: iterative development, self-management and visibility.In just two days, get everything you need for greater project success as a ScrumMaster: Methods, roles, and best practices for your own projects.

You'll begin with the history of Agile development and quickly move on to the specific disciplines promoted by Scrum. Plus, gain a comprehensive understanding of Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster. Scrum helps you find work-arounds for issues that derail traditional projects. Even projects with solid, well-defined plans encounter some degree of change and waste. Shifting market conditions, budget cuts, staff restructuring and other factors disrupt plans and contribute to customer dissatisfaction and staff discouragement.

Furthermore, if your project involves changing or unclear requirements it becomes difficult to establish project expectations. Scrum is an Agile development process that accounts for such hurdles from the start and allows a team to deliver usable software periodically throughout the project lifecycle. This iterative approach is able to absorb change and adapt to new requirements much more effectively than many of the development methods currently practiced.

Also Available as:

• Onsite

How You Will Benefit

• Learn Scrum roles: Team member, product owner, ScrumMaster
• Gain an understanding of the foundational/critical concepts of Scrum with our Certified Scrum Trainer® instructional program
• Understand why the ScrumMaster role can be the most satisfying as well as the most difficult job on a project
• Discover how conflict resolution plays a critical role in Scrum
• Work on a real-world Scrum project live in the classroom
• Learn, practice and utilize the Scrum Framework
• Gain a detailed understanding of how to know when software is "done" under Scrum
• Review the critical characteristics a ScrumMaster must have to succeed
• Get to the heart of Scrum, coaching and team productivity
• Compare traditional and Agile project estimating and planning
• Conduct decomposition to estimate a Scrum project
• Practice Scrum meetings including; Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Burndowns, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
• Achieve the first step in Scrum Alliance-recognized certifications enabling you to advance to higher levels of recognition
• Learn a framework to operate large projects using Scrum
• Maximize your returns using Scrum

What You Will Cover

• Learn Scrum roles: Team Member, Product Owner, ScrumMaster
• Gain an understanding of the foundational/critical concepts of Scrum with our Certified Scrum Trainer® instructional program
• Understand why the ScrumMaster role can be the most satisfying as well as the most difficult job on a project
• Discover how conflict resolution plays a critical role in Scrum
• Work on a real-world Scrum project live in the classroom
• Learn, practice and utilize the Scrum Framework
• Gain a detailed understanding of how to know when software is "done" under Scrum
• Review the critical characteristics a ScrumMaster must have to succeed
• Get to the heart of Scrum, coaching and team productivity
• Compare traditional and Agile project estimating and planning
• Conduct decomposition to estimate a Scrum project
• Practice Scrum meetings including; Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Burndowns, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
• Achieve the first step in Scrum Alliance recognized certifications, enabling you to advance to higher levels of recognition
• Learn a Framework to operate large projects using Scrum
• Maximize your returns using Scrum

Extended Seminar Outline

Print this page Extended Seminar Outline Seminar #76101 Agile Thinking

• How manufacturing has influenced software development
• Theoretical vs. empirical processes overview
• The “iron triangle” of project management

Scrum Framework

• The different Scrum roles
• Full disclosure and visibility
• The Scrum framework overview

Implementation Considerations

• Traditional vs. Agile methods overview
• A Scrum launch checklist

Scrum Roles

• The Team Member, Product Owner, ScrumMaster
• The Scrum Team responsibilities

The Scrum Team Explored

• Team ground rules
• The impact of project switching
• The MetaScrum

Agile Estimating and Planning

• Product backlog features
• Relative weighted prioritization
• Prioritizing our time
• Projecting a schedule
• Planning in an Agile Environment
• Reviewing common shortcuts and learn the importance of delivering high quality
• How small changes can have a large impact on productivity

The Product Owner: Extracting Value

• Productivity drag factors
• Fixed price/date contracts
• Release management
• Earned value management

The ScrumMaster Explored

• The Difficulties of Being a ScrumMaster
• A Day in the Life of a ScrumMaster
• The Importance of Listening

Meetings and Artifacts Reference Material

• A chart of Scrum meetings
• The product and sprint backlog
• Scrum tools

Advanced Considerations

• Conflict management
• Developing architecture
• Stage gate/milestone driven development
• Inter/intra-project dependencies
• Scrum and CMM, “traditional” XP
• Set customer expectations and manage customer satisfaction
• Run a full Scrum project that lasts 59 minutes
• Plan out a project through its delivery
• Learn methods to resolve problems in a self-managed environment

Who Should Attend

This certification program was developed for any professional who is currently involved in, or will become involved in running Scrum projects including those practicing or wishing to practice the role of the ScrumMaster.

Current Scrum Team Members not certified and anyone involved in a Scrum development effort, including business customers, users or partners, product owners, team members and acting ScrumMasters who need certification.
Plus, organizational positions interested in moving to Scrum, including: project managers, project leads, project sponsors, IT manager/directors business analysts and developers/programmers.