Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, this ScrumMaster Certification training course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster. This 2–day Scrum certification training course is suitable for those practicing or looking to practice the art of the ScrumMaster, but is highly valuable for anyone involved in Scrum (Managers, Team Members, Product Managers, etc.).
Even projects that have solid, well–defined project plans encounter some degree of change and waste. Shifting market conditions, budget cuts, staff restructuring, or any number of influences will disrupt the best plan while contributing to customer dissatisfaction and staff discouragement. Moreover, projects that begin with changing or unclear requirements make it difficult to even establish project expectations. Scrum is the agile development process that allows teams to deliver usable software periodically throughout the life of the project, absorbing change and new requirements as the project proceeds.
This course is backed by ASPE's Exam Pass Guarantee. Upon completion of our ScrumMaster Certification Course, if after two attempts within the 60–day evaluation period you have not passed the exam and obtained certification, ASPE will allow you to attend another session of our Scrum Master Certification Course free of charge and pay for you to retake your certification exam.
The Scrum Alliance®
The Scrum Alliance® is a nonprofit organization committed to delivering articles, resources, courses, and events that will help Scrum users be successful. The Scrum Alliance's mission is to promote increased awareness and understanding of Scrum, provide resources to individuals and organizations using Scrum, and support the iterative improvement of the software development profession.
The Scrum Alliance® has recently transformed the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification into a more rigorous certificate program with updated content, increased difficulty and a pass/fail outcome. Previously all candidates were initially granted Scrum certification regardless of score, but this is no longer the case. To help ensure candidates' success, the Certified ScrumMaster Workshop provides participants with all the information required to take the new evaluation and become Scrum certified. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster through class interaction, case studies, group exercises and workshops. The evaluation is completed online at the end of training, and consists of 35 questions. Participants will also be registered with the Scrum Alliance, with online access to class training materials and any updates for two years.
Learn more about the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Evaluation
In–Class Group Exercises
This Scrum certification training course is a stimulating combination of class interaction, case studies, group exercises and workshops. Each is designed to allow you to easily grasp new concepts and techniques.
Specifically, you will cover:
- The "Art of the Possible": learn how small change can have a large impact on productivity
- Product integrity: review various options employees use when faced with difficulty, learn the importance of delivering high quality products in Scrum
- Customer Expectations: Using a changing schedule and agile estimating and planning, assess the work to properly set customer expectations and manage customer satisfaction
- Running the Scrum Project: Run a full Scrum project that lasts 59 minutes. You will walk through all steps under the Scrum Framework
- Agile Estimating and Planning: Break into teams, and through decomposition and estimating plan out a project through delivery
- Team Dynamics: Since Scrum deals with change, conflict will happen. Learn methods to resolve problems in a self-managed environment
Key Benefits of Attending You Can Immediately Use:
- Learn the details on 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 how to apply empirical thinking to your project work
- Learn how a team's productivity can be adjusted to account for its composition
- Appreciate the importance of organizational agreement on software readiness
- Hear 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 and understand the critical characteristics a ScrumMaster must have to succeed
- Get to the heart of the matter with 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 AllianceSM recognized certifications, enabling you to advance to higher levels of recognition
- Learn a framework to operate large projects using Scrum
- Implementing Scrum is about getting results, learn how to maximize your returns using Scrum
Learn more about the instructors of our Scrum courses:
Peter Borsella is the founder of Winnow Management Corporation, based in Parkland, Florida. Peter is an IT professional with 24 years of experience in application development and IT leadership. He is also a Project Management Professional (certified by the PMI) and certified by the Scrum Alliance (sm) to provide Certified Scrum Trainer instructional services.His ability to contribute across a wide range of environments has taken him to companies such as First Data Corporation and eFunds Corporation, and outside the United States to India and Hungary. Peter is adept in administering all aspects of project management, as well as providing authentic leadership to create effective teams. An active and contributing member to both the PMI and the Scrum Alliance (sm), Peter's speaking engagements focus on bridging the gap between traditional Project Management and Agile Project Management. His goal is to help others understand how to get the best return from any project by achieving higher levels of software quality, increased customer satisfaction, and cohesive teams that enjoy increased productivity.
Brian Rabon is an IT professional with over 13 years of industry experience. He is President of The Braintrust Consulting Group and is an Adjunct Instructor at University of Alabama at Birmingham where he leads clients of the Information Engineering and Management Master's Degree Program through the world of Business Process Modeling and Technical Project Management. Brian is an avid author, writing for organizations such as the Birmingham Business Journal and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also serves on the Board of Directors for TechBirmingham as VP of Programs for PMI Birmingham and as the founder of Agile Birmingham.
James Smith's 30 year IT career began at IBM in mainframe sales and at AT&T in product development. James's central focus is now on Scrum. First seeing the power of Scrum during a most dramatic of corporate turnarounds prompted his move to the role of ScrumMaster. Every one of the 26 Teams with whom he worked, taught him that Scrum was the most efficient and profitable way of developing software. As a member of Winnow Management, James is pleased with the opportunity to share all of his learnings assisting in the launch of new Agile Teams. He feels that Scrum, when properly implemented, makes life better for all involved. And at the end of the day, that is a very good thing of which to be a part. James is certified by the Scrum Alliance (sm) to bring Certified ScrumMaster training, and holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
Bob Schatz specializes in training, consulting and coaching in the practice of successfully using agile project management techniques to transform their organizations and improve the performance of their software development projects. He began his practice as a result of leading the first large agile transition at Primavera and helping many other companies do the same. Bob has experience at every level of the organization. He was the VP and Chief Development Officer for Solstice Software, leading the software development of the Solstice enterprise integration testing products. Bob Schatz also served as VP of Development for Primavera Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for leading the team that develops Primavera's software solutions for Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management and created a real agile success story. Bob is a leader in successfully implementing agile development techniques, such as Scrum and XP, and driving culture changes in organizations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Temple University and a Masters degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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