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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Lance Dacy
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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28 - 29 April, 2025 |
  8:30 AM PDT |
 8 hrs/day
$900
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This is a Mountain Goat Software course. By choosing this class you get the unique bonus of more than 3 hours of bonus videos. Written and delivered by Mike Cohn, Co-Founder of the Scrum Alliance, they're delivered in 5-10 minute lessons making them easy to work through.

These are the only courses designed by Mike Cohn, co-founder of the Scrum Alliance, and author of Succeeding with Agile, User Stories Applied, and Agile Estimating and Planning. 

 

Click here to see Mountain Goat Software's full training schedule. 
Certified ScrumMaster®

Certified ScrumMaster®:

Certified ScrumMaster is offered 'Live Online' and In-Person. Click here to see our class schedule.

As one of the most sought-after Certified Scrum Trainers,  co-founder of the Scrum Alliance and owner of Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn takes you beyond passing the CSM exam. 

Our 98% pass rate for this course is just the beginning. In 2 days, you’ll have the confidence and know-how to implement Scrum immediately after the class because all courses are designed for real-life application.

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Class Schedule

To qualify for your certification, in addition to passing the exam, you will need to be available for the live discussion classes, as well as have enough time to work your way through the self-study videos

Live class attendance via Zoom

During these sessions, there will be live discussions and group exercises facilitated by your instructor via Zoom. Zoom is an easy to use online meeting and video conferencing software and you’ll receive full instructions about how to join your online class after you register.

PLUS: 12 Free Months of Agile Mentors Community 

This is the ONLY Certified ScrumMaster course that comes with 12 FREE months of an online forum where you can ask questions, meet other Scrum Masters and get support plus have access to GoatBot, the ONLY AI tool trained on all of Mike Cohn’s materials and our Planning Poker® tool allows you to play multiple games with any number of users.

What you get:

  • 11 Bonus Modules of training
  • Lifetime access to the course materials
  • Access to take the Scrum Alliance ScrumMaster, multiple-choice online certification exam
  • 2-year membership with the Scrum Alliance with additional member-only Scrum Master materials available to you
  • 16 PDUs and 16 SEUs

Risk-Free Guarantee

As with everything we do at Mountain Goat Software, you get a risk-free guarantee. On completion of the course, with full participation in the required live sessions and submitted assignments, if you don’t feel it’s been valuable we’ll happily issue a refund. 

 

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Training Outline

1. Scrum Overview

2. The Product Backlog

3. The Product Owner

4. The Scrum Master

5. Developers

6. Managers

7. Estimating

8. Planning

9. Sprinting

10. Sprint Planning

11. Daily Scrum

12. Review, Retrospective and Refinement

13. Scaling

Overview of Agile

Agile

Scrum

Working in Iterations

Time Boxes

No Changes Allowed

Reciprocal Commitments

Defining Done

Sprint Types

Introducing Change into a Sprint

The Product Owner

What is a Product Owner?

Rights & Responsibilities

Managing Stakeholders

The Scrum Master

The Scrum Master

Rights & Responsibilities

Four Facilitation Techniques

Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching & Facilitating

The Scrum Master in Dual Roles

Servant Leadership

Developers

Rights & Responsibilities

Self-Organizing

Cross-Functional

Collaborating

Component and Feature Teams

Managers

Project Managers

Functional (Department) Managers

The Product Backlog

Responsibilities & Attributes

Organizing the Backlog

Stories

User Stories

Story Splitting

The Importance of Splitting Stories

Product Backlog Refinement

Progressive Elaboration

Sprint Review

Who, When, Why?

What if nothing is done?

What if the product owner cannot attend?

Agenda

Sprint Retrospective

Who, When, Why?

Methods for Conducting Retrospectives

Daily Scrum

Purpose

Participants

Troubleshooting Common Problems

Sprint Planning

Meeting Responsibilities

The Sprint Goal

The Purpose

Capacity-Driven Sprint Planning

Velocity-Driven Sprint Planning

Decomposing Stories into Tasks

Working Out of Order

What To Do When the Product Owner Is Missing

Estimating

Relative Estimating

Story Points

Ideal Time

Affinity Estimation

Planning Poker

Three Ways to Estimate Velocity

Planning

Velocity as a Range

Fixed-Date Plans

Technical Debt

Scaling

Scaling Guidelines

Scaling the Planning Meeting

Scrum of Scrums

Communities of Practice

 

Whether you’re a manager, programmer, tester, analyst, product manager, or someone interested in working on or with a Scrum team, this Agile Project Management course is suited for you. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion, you will be prepared to plan your first sprint immediately after this class.

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