Certified ScrumMaster

By the co-author of the Scrum Primer. Certified ScrumMaster class + certification.

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.



Overview 

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

·         How to be an effective ScrumMaster

·         Improve teamwork

·         Launch products sooner

·         Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available. You can also receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course. 

The course will Run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please arrive at 8:30 each day for a continental breakfast. Participants are welcome to consult our list of recommended reading: 

 http://www.agileleantraining.com/faq/recommended-reading.html

About the Instructor:

Gabrielle Benefield was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which encompassed more than 200 team projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com), the most widely read introductory guide to Scrum available and became the 12th Certified Scrum Trainer in the world, being personally certified by Ken Schwaber. Gabrielle provides training and coaching in many Agile and Lean methodologies.

Dates:

22-23 Nov 2010
Location:

London, United Kingdom

Venue:

Chandos House
2 Queen Anne Street
London, United Kingdom W1G 9LQ
http://www.chandoshouse.co.uk/map.htm

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Price:

£995.00

Notes:

Price is £995 plus VAT for credit card payments and wire transfers. No cheques please.

PMPs:

You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

 

Course Material:

Participants will receive course materials for review at the start of the course.

 

The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. The book, Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber is required reading for the course and the course is based on the primary Scrum book, Agile Development with Scrum.

 

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books.

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Course Description

 

 

 

 

Introduction
  • Overview of Methodologies
  • Exercise; empirical learning
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Values
  • History of Scrum
    Exercise: The offsite customer

Scrum 101

  • Scrum Overview
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Scrum team
  • Product Owner
  • ScrumMaster

Requirements Management

  • One-pager
  • Product Backlog creation
  • User Stories (requirements)

Scrum In-depth

  • The Sprint
  • Sprint Planning
  • Exercise: Sprint Planning
  • Tracking Progress
  • Daily Scrum
  • Exercise: Running a Daily meeting
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective

The ScrumMaster role:

  • Exercise: Great ScrumMaster scenarios

Optional modules:

  • Scaling Scrum
  • Distributed Scrum

Applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.