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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Kiran Thakkar

Learn how to apply scrum and gain practical agile skills to drive results in any role, whether you want to work as a scrum master or grow your capabilities. CSM® courses are delivered by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers who possess deep scrum knowledge. When you complete the course, you will receive a two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership.

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15 - 17 January, 2025 |

08:00 EST |

5 hrs/day

$699

Early bird pricing

Course details

About the trainer

Kiran Thakkar

DailyAgile

[email protected]

1.610.564.7659 or 1.800.758.2445 (AGILE)

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Location

Online

Discounts

Price increases to $799 after 01/05/2025

Course

Virtual/Live Class - Guaranteed to run - Pennsylvania Resident can get 50% grant

This hands-on activity based CSM® certification course is taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with over 28 years global IT industry experience. Learn more about your trainer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirant1. Please contact us at: [email protected], for additional discounts such as: 'unemployed', Active military / Served in Military, group discount, underserved members.

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In this course we will explain how particular agile or Scrum roles typically manifest themselves in enterprise environments. The course is an interactive workshop filled with lots of exercises whose goal is to demonstrate the difference between traditional and agile approaches to product management and software development. We will also discuss real-world organizational changes such as managing large or multiple teams, release planning and tracking progress through the right metrics.

Participants can also claim up to 14-16 PDU's or Contact Hours with the PMI. These PDUs can also apply towards your 21 contact hour requirement for your Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) status.

"Kiran delivered an excellent training class, it was very engaging, really practical with well thought out breakout group sessions. His knowledge of real world Scrum projects was very helpful, and his experience produced great answers to the hard questions brought up in class. It was a pleasure having him as a CST and after having experienced his vast knowledge on Scrum methodologies, I would recommend him and his services any time." - IT CIO

Kiran Thakkar's experience is hard to match: he played an instrumental role in one of the largest agile/scrum implementations in the world at Siemens Medical Solutions with over 40 teams 500 members. His combination of business and agile experience brings superior insight and understanding to every class.

Details

Your course fees includes 2-year membership in ScrumAlliance® and all exam fees.

All students earn:

- Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

- Project Management Institute (PMI®) members earn PDUs

Free enrollment in ScrumAlliance® authorized AgilePA Users Group

Virtual workshop.

Refund Policy> see DailyAgile website for details: http://dailyagile.com/refund-policy

Agenda

Topics and hands on activities:

Day 1:

Agile and Scrum Introduction
Overview on various Agile Methods - Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Xp, DevOps
Why Agile? Team activity
Origins of Scrum and Understanding Scrum
Basic Scrum Engine, Agile Manifesto
Sprints Team activity
Four Meetings
Three Roles
Scrum Artifacts, non-scrum artifacts
Scrum and Compliance
Non-Scrum Roles Team activity
Various scrum team structure - Discussion on DevOps, globaly distributed scrum team
How do architecture, DBA, and other supporting roles fits in Scrum?
Enterprise Agile scenarios - 10, 20, 30, 40, .... 120+ scrum teams
Scrum Values
Scrum Phases
Scrum Simulation - Non-IT Case Study - Multiple Team activities and role play
Sprint planning meeting
Daily standup meeting
Burndown charts and project reporting
Sprint review and retrospective

Day 2:

Q&A, Refresher from Day 1
Agile Transformation Team activity
Agile Coaching - difference between facilitation, teaching, mentoring, and coaching
Agile Portfolio and Release Planning
Day 2 - IT Case Study multiple activities and role plays
Vision Statement
Product backlog creation Team activity
Various Estimation Techniques, Prioritization Team activity
What is User Story? Template and Simulations Team Activity
Agile Facilitation
- Scrum Master Facilitation techniques
- Communication obstacles and their impacts
- Define clear communication ground rules and impact on collaboration
Scrum Master - Service to the
- Development team
- Product Owner
- Organization
- Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Readiness and Definition of Done
- Determine Team Velocity
- Value of good engineering practices
Release Management and Progress Reporting
Agile Metrics that Matters
Agile Contracts
Closing Activities and Graduation

Who should attend

Pennsylvania Resident can get 50% grant

The certification class is appropriate for all software team members, including project managers, team leads, development managers, product managers, architects, developers, testers, as well as executives like CIOs and CTOs. It is appropriate for anyone considering the following area:

New Scrum Master
Project Managers To Scrum Master
Delivery Managers
Agile Team Member
Functional Analysts
Project Managers
Business Analyst
Developers / Testers
Non-IT members as we cover one Non-IT case study as part of the 2-day workshop.

Commitment

Learn from Best Trainers from North America, Virtual/Live workshop with lots of real life examples, simulations, and activities. Check out our customer reviews on LinkedIn and Google reviews, Pennsylvania Resident can get upto 50% grant.

Reviews

4.90 out of 5.0 stars

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Engaging course with real life examples

Engaging course with real life examples.

Excellent course

It was an a great learning experience, that is applicable in many situations. I am also a writer and I have already started to use Scrum even for a novel I have been working on.

Kiran was a great instructor, who managed to handle masterfully the role interactions we played to learn the CSM skill in a very short period of time. Although the course was paid by Citi and I don't really remember what was the budget approved for taking the course, I will certainly add value to my everyday job.

This is my 2nd class with Kiran and it's always a great experience. The class is interactive which makes the time fly by and the learning experience very enjoyable!

Great class, even better instructor!

Scrum Master course was excellent. Kiran is a brilliant and experienced instructor. I've learnt a lot from him and this course and loved how practical and engaging the course was. Thanks a ton for the experience.

A very well organized training course that keeps us engaged start to end. We all enjoyed highly to learn from Kiran Thakkar.

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