In this CSM – Certified Scrum Master® course, you will acquire the skills needed to become a certified ScrumMaster and apply the foundations of Agile to Scrum to help your team work together more efficiently.

• Become a Certified ScrumMaster and servant-leader to your development team, Product Owner, and organisation
• Apply effective facilitation for Scrum meetings
• Review effective change agent techniques to foster organisation buy-in to Scrum
• Identify opportunities to remove impediments for team members

Introducing Agile Principles

• Defining Agile values and principles
• Contrasting Waterfall and Agile product-development philosophies
• Confronting the challenges of adopting Agile
• Creating a cross-functional team

Defining the Scrum Framework

Adopting Scrum

• Defining the core Scrum Framework
• Core Scrum team, artefacts and ceremonies
• Adapting traditional business process to Scrum
• Applying core Scrum Values

Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artefacts

Introducing the Core Scrum Roles

• Outlining the three roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Development team
• ScrumMaster: performing as a servant leader to the team
• Product Owner: developing the product vision and backlog
• Development team: delivering the product increment
• Defining the Core Scrum Ceremonies
• Refining the Product Backlog
• Holding the Sprint Planning meeting
• Hosting the Daily Scrum
• Leading Sprint Reviews
• Facilitating successful Sprint Retrospectives

Detailing the Core Scrum Artefacts

• Creating the Product Backlog
• Implementing the Sprint Backlog
• Defining the Definition of Done
• Developing potentially shippable product increment

Refining the Product Backlog

Iterating the Product Backlog

• Developing the Product Vision
• Building the Product Backlog
• Continuously refining the Product Backlog

Refining Product Delivery

• Comparing iterative and incremental delivery
• Decomposing Epics into features and stories
• Releasing products with Minimal Marketable Features

Estimating and Prioritising Product Backlog Items

Creating user stories

• Writing user stories with the Connextra format
• Evolving product requirements
• Applying frameworks to focus user stories
• Developing products with progressive elaboration
• Defining appropriate acceptance criteria
• Removing user stories when appropriate

User story estimating

• Sizing user stories
• Estimating effort and business value level through relative measurement
• Comparing and contrasting affinity and planning poker estimation techniques
• Breaking user stories into tasks

Prioritising the Product Backlog

• Ranking product backlog item priority at the release, product and project level
• Utilising prioritisation techniques and frameworks
• Identifying high-priority items for sprint planning

ScrumMaster Responsibilities to the Team

Growing the Scrum team

• Enforcing the Scrum process
• Establishing team working agreements
• Removing Impediments
• Becoming an Agile coach for your team

Ensuring long-term success

• Continuously improving the team
• Reporting appropriate metrics
• Managing and reducing external dependencies
• Adopting best practices for software engineering
• Acting as an Agile champion in your organisation