COURSE 4400 | 2-DAY SESSION
ScrumMaster Certification Workshop

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Course Details:

Even projects that have solid, well-defined project plans encounter some degree of change and waste. Shifting market conditions, budget cuts, staff restructuring, or any number of influences will disrupt the best plan while contributing to customer dissatisfaction and staff discouragement. Moreover, projects that begin with changing or unclear requirements make it difficult to even establish project expectations. Scrum is the agile development process that allows teams to deliver usable software periodically throughout the life of the project, absorbing change and new requirements as the project proceeds.

Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster. This 2-day class is suitable for those practicing or looking to practice the art of the ScrumMaster, but is highly valuable for anyone involved in Scrum (Managers, Team Members, Product Managers, etc.).

After successfully completing this class, participants will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as Certified Scrum Masters, and will have on-line access to the class training materials and any updates for one year.

In-Class Group Exercises

This course is a stimulating combination of class interac-tion, case studies, group exercises and workshops. Each is designed to allow you to easily grasp new concepts and techniques. Specifically, you will cover:

• The "Art of the Possible": learn how small change can have a large impact on productivity
• Product integrity: review various options employees use when faced with difficulty, learn the importance of delivering high quality products in Scrum
• Customer Expectations: Using a changing schedule and agile estimating and planning, assess the work to properly set customer expectations and manage customer satisfaction
• Running the Scrum Project: Run a full Scrum project that lasts 59 minutes. You will walk through all steps under the Scrum Framework
• Agile Estimating and Planning: Break into teams, and through decomposition and estimating plan out a project through delivery
• Team Dynamics: Since Scrum deals with change, conflict will happen. Learn methods to resolve problems in a self-managed environment

Key Benefits of Attending You Can Immediately Use:

1. Learn the details on Scrum roles: Team Member, Product Owner, ScrumMaster
2. Gain an understanding of the foundational/critical concepts of Scrum provided by a Scrum Alliance certified trainer
3. Understand how to apply empirical thinking to your project work
4. Learn how a team's productivity can be adjusted to account for its composition
5. Appreciate the importance of organizational agreement on software readiness
6. Hear why the ScrumMaster role can be the most satisfying as well as the most difficult job on a project
7. Take home a Scrum reference card, a set of Planning Poker cards, and a hard copy of the presentation materials. You ll also get on-line access to class materials for one year.
8. Discover how conflict resolution plays a critical role in Scrum
9. Work on a real-world Scrum project live in the classroom
10. Learn, practice and utilize the Scrum Framework
11. Gain a detailed understanding of how to know when software is "Done" under Scrum
12. Review and understand the critical characteristics a ScrumMaster must have to succeed
13. Get to the heart of the matter with Scrum, coaching and team productivity
14. Compare traditional and Agile project estimating and planning
15. Conduct decomposition to estimate a Scrum project
16. Practice Scrum meetings including; Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Burndowns, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
17. Achieve the first step in Scrum Alliance recognized certifications, enabling you to advance to higher levels of recognition
18. Learn a framework to operate large projects using Scrum
19. Implementing Scrum is about getting results, learn how to maximize your returns using Scrum

Who Should Attend This Course

All technical professionals associated with the specification, design, development and testing of products will benefit from this two-day program. Some of the professionals this will benefit include:

• Business Customer, user or partner
• Product Owners
• Team Members
• ScrumMaster
• Project Manager
• Project Lead
• Project Sponsors
• IT Manager/Directors
• Business Analyst
• Developers/Programmers