Preparing For Professional Scrum Master

Introduction

This two-day course provides a clear and solid insight into what Scrum is, the fundamental principles and values and gives delegates hands-on experience using Scrum.

This will better enable them to prepare for and achieve the recognised Professional Scrum Master I Certification with Scrum.org.

Prerequisites

• Delegates must have read and studied the Scrum Guide : /scrumguide

Who Should Attend

• Recommended for managers, programmers, development team leads, testers, analysts, product managers.
• Participants will have a clear and solid understanding of Scrum and how to apply it.
• Many group discussions and practical, hands-on exercises and case studies will verify the understanding of Scrum and enable participants to learn with and from each other.

Course Content

The first element provides:

• Coverage of Scrum principles and values
• Scrum roles, Artefacts and meetings
• Why disciplined and intelligent use of Scrum is so important

Second element considers the method and its values in more detail:

• The need for and the power of feedback loops
• The healing nature of continuous improvement
• The power of self-organising teams
• The importance of Quality and the economic and personal impact of technical debt
• How Scrum can be employed to achieve business objectives and maximises ROI

Third element deals with:

• Pitfalls of Scrum
• Scrum - with traditional methods and governance
• How to deal with distributed teams
• How to start
• How to scale
• Practical experience with Agile practices
• Q&A