Overview
Our live online or in-person Scrum Developer (CSD) course is ideal for Scrum developers, including programmers and testers. In the course, you will learn the following:
- How to turn business needs into increments of value: The course provides an introduction to Scrum through the eyes of a developer.
- Collaboration and Team Dynamics: The characteristics of highly effective teams and how to interact with users, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Agile Architecture and Design: Using agile development practices to avoid technical debt and to keep development sustainable.
The course includes hands-on exercises where participants practice the key agile development practices.
You can book a place at one of our scheduled events, or we can teach a private in-house course for your organisation.

What Does The Course Cover?
- Lean, Agile & Scrum
- Using Sprints and Backlogs
- Turning Product Backlog Items into Increments of Value
- Creating a Definition of Done
- Collaboration & Team Dynamics
- Teams vs Groups
- Highly Effective Teams
- Direct Interaction Between Developers, Users, Customers and Other Stakeholders
- Architecture and Design
- Technical Excellence and Avoiding Flaccid Scrum
- Technical Debt
- Agile vs Traditional Testing
- Agile Development Practices
- Test Driven Development
- Agile Architecture Principles
- Refactoring
- Benefits of Refactoring
- Refactorings
- Tool Support for Refactoring and the Importance of Unit Tests
- Integrating Continuously
- Scrum and Continuous Integration
- Practical Example
- Continuous Integration and the Definition of Done
Why Choose ScrumCenter?
Our CSD course is interactive, engaging and fun. It is entirely instructor-led, and it’s designed using training from the back-of-the-room techniques. As a result, it leverages the science behind how the human brain learns. The course is:
- Immersive
- Instructor-led
- Taught at a sustainable pace.
The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has experience supporting large, medium, and small companies in adopting agile into their organisation through consulting, coaching, and training.
Simon is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Path to CSP Educator, an Agile Coaching Skills Educator, an ORSC® Trained Coach, a Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and a Changewise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He has trained thousands of students over many years.
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What Will You Get?
If you complete the Certified Scrum Developer training course, you will benefit from the following:
- An immersive online learning experience facilitated by our Certified Scrum Trainer and CSD Educator, Simon Roberts.
- Registration for the Certified Scrum Developer Certification.
- Comprehensive follow-up materials.
- A free follow-up coaching/mentoring call with the trainer.
- Access to the ScrumCenter Network, where you get free online access to ScrumCenter coaches.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) members can claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) after attending the course.

After the course, you can book
a free agile coaching/mentoring call with the trainer!

About Your Trainer:
Simon Roberts
Agile and Lean Coach (ORSC™ Trained), Certified Scrum Trainer®, Path to CSP Educator, Certified Scrum Developer Educator, Agile Coaching Skills Educator.
Simon has used lightweight/agile methods since the late 1990s and works with organisations large and small to help them achieve better results by leveraging the power of self-organising teams. He has consulted for and led several large-scale agile transitions at DAX companies in Germany, is the author of several articles and regularly speaks at conferences on agile leadership. Simon’s company, ScrumCenter Limited, is based in the West Coast of Scotland.
Simon holds an MBA specialising in Creativity, Innovation and Change from the Open University Business School.
Are You Looking for Private Company Training?
If your company is looking for private training ScrumCenter can provide this online or in-person at discounted group rates. Contact us directly at [email protected] or call us on +44 20 36089951.