“Exceptional experience and depth of knowledge. Really brought relevant examples to our situation and context”
Hass Jishi
A highly interactive two day course covering in-depth the full Scrum Framework, Scrum practices, roles, artefacts and the values and principles that underpin it including a fully immersive Scrum simulation using Lego®. The course also covers many agile practices that support Scrum including User Stories and relative estimation.
“This course has been a real eye opener and I’m now keen to see how many of my work processes can be managed better using the techniques I’ve learned”
Tanya Phillips
“This course is jam packed full of excellent discussions, exercises and practical examples. An excellent course”
Jason Nickels
“Tom is very engaging and clear, thoroughly enjoyed the training from start to finish”
Claire Barks
“Thank you Tom, the training was very insightful and engaging. Plus your skill and experience is impressive, you brought real authenticity”
Mark White
“Tom is a very knowledgeable instructor and really helps disambiguate and clarify topics. Our Kanban process is about to get a lot more sophisticated and informative”
Bren Vaughan
“A very energetic and enthusiastic Kanban practitioner and trainer. Uses experience to help fortify how Kanban can be used in the real world”
Andy Wheeldon
“Tom is a great coach who teaches agile in an engaging and interactive way. I would recommend this course to anyone, whether they have agile knowledge or not”
Ellie McCarey
“Great course, loved the balance between theory and practical”
Jeff Bannister
“Fun course, lots of games, very informative”
Dom Barnett
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Course Details
This course will equip you with the knowledge required to understand Scrum in depth so that you can be an effective ScrumMaster or Scrum team member.
The two-day Certified ScrumMaster course will give you a sound understanding of Scrum principles and practices in order that you can:
- Participate actively as a Scrum Team member
- Function effectively as the ScrumMaster for the Scrum Team
- Deliver a successful Scrum project
- Explain why Scrum works and how it is a risk reduction strategy
- Explain and sell Agile and the Scrum framework to other key stakeholders
- Define and use the full range of Agile and Scrum Artefacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Task Boards, and Burndown Charts etc. )
- Set-up and facilitate Scrum Meetings (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective)*
- Implement all of the Scrum roles
- Implement Scrum in real world circumstances
- Implement other Lean and Agile approaches to support your Scrum implementation
- 2 days of high quality instruction from Tom Reynolds who has 25 years experience in software development
- For courses on our public schedule, free slowing refreshments before and during the course, 3 course lunch, biscuits, cakes and breakfast
- Course materials
- Certified Scrum Master certification on successful completion of an examination
- Membership of the Scrum Alliance on successful completion of an examination
- Scrum The Essence
- What is Scrum
- Applicability of Scrum
- Agile Manifesto
- What Agile is not
- Scrum Foundations
- Scrum Values
- Empirical and defined processes
- Characteristics of high performing teams
- Scrum The Mechanics
- Scrum Roles
- Scrum Flow
- Scrum Meetings
- Scrum Artefacts
- Cancelling a sprint
- Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
- Product Owner
- ScrumMaster
- Development Team
- Scrum Meetings
- Backlog Refinement
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Artefacts
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Goal
- Definition of Done
- User Stories
- What is one
- How to write one
- Acceptance criteria
- How they relate to the Product Backlog
- How they relate to the Vision
- Estimating
- Planning Poker
- Relative Sizing
- Forward planning
- Supporting practices and techniques
- Task boards
- Vision Statements
- Burndown Charts
- Velocity
- Agile Facilitation
- Agile Coaching
- Value of engineering practices
- Apply your learning
- Scrum simulation with Lego®
- Anyone who wants to be successful using Scrum
- Anyone who is involved in a Scrum Project across the full range of Scrum roles
- Those newly setting out on their Agile journey
- Those who are already using Agile or Scrum but now want to consolidate their knowledge or address questions that have arisen based on their experience
- Those with the following roles within their organisation:
- Agile Coaches
- ScrumMasters
- Team Leaders
- Development Team Members (Analysts, Architects, Designers, Coders, Testers, )
- Project Managers
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Process Owners and Managers
- Functional / Departmental Managers
Attending the course as a full team offers a real opportunity for the entire team to experience and learn Scrum in-depth together and creates an excellent foundation for them to move forward.
There are no prerequisites for the course, however students are expected to complete the pre-course reading required
Read the Scrum Guide
A short multiple choice examination requires to be completed