Certified ScrumMaster

Scrum is the leading agile method in the world today. Whilst simple, Scrum is not easy to do well and there are many subtleties that can only be fully appreciated through hands-on application. The two day Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course is an immersive learning experience involving a highly interactive mix of seminars, group discussions, team activities, games and role-plays.

Through this course, you will gain hands-on practice with agile requirement management, stand-up meetings and the complete iterative cycle of Scrum. You will hear numerous real-world stories from an experienced practitioner, have your questions answered and come away with many ideas on how to make Scrum work in your team.

About the Certification

All participants on Certified ScrumMaster course can take an online test following the course in order to gain certification. They will be notified about this test by the Scrum Alliance. The official material for preparing for the test is available from The Scrum Alliance resources page. Test results will be communicated to each participant by the Scrum Alliance.

This Certified ScrumMaster course is the first step in becoming a CSM. Completing and passing the test will be the second and final step. This test is free of charge and must be completed online, up to 90 days after participants have attended the CSM course.

Upon successful completion of the test, participants will be enrolled as Certified ScrumMasters. This includes a 24 month membership with the Scrum Alliance where additional CSM only material is available. For Project Management Professionals, this course qualifies as 16 PDUs as approved by the Project Management Institute.

Duration

2 Days

Course Objectives

You will learn how to:

Explain Scrum to the rest of the organisation
Use popular agile requirements and estimation techniques
Facilitate Scrum meetings effectively
Raise the visibility of project status and impediments
Deliver high value releases sooner.

Audience

The course is suitable for all participants in Scrum projects including analysts, programmers, testers, architects, project managers and business representatives.

About the Instructor

Rowan Bunning is an Australian-based Certified Scrum Trainer and is an approved trainer for the ‘Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements’, ‘Agile Estimating and Planning’, and 'Succeeding with Agile' courses licensed from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software – author of the most popular books on these topics.

Course Syllabus

Scrum Overview

Introducing Scrum
Scrum Flow

Artifacts and Roles

Artifacts
Roles

Scrum Concepts

Self-organisation
Time-boxing
Empirical Process Control
Complexity

Discipline and Co-ordination

Defining “Done”
Scrum Anti-patterns
Agile Development Practices
Distributed Scrum
Scaling Scrum

Requirement Management

User Stories
Splitting Stories
Grooming the Product Backlog

Scrum Planning

Estimation Technique
Release Planning
Sprint Planning

Scrum Ceremonies

Daily Scrum
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective

Related Courses

Refer to Equinox's full suite of Agile and Scrum training courses.

Prerequisites

As the Scrum Alliance website says, “Students are expected to attend the CSM course with a working knowledge of Scrum". As such, prior to attending the course you should read and become familiar with the Scrum student resources from the Scrum Alliance.