Certified ScrumMaster

Leading a Scrum team is radically different to traditional project management. Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (called a ScrumMaster) facilitates, coaches, and leads. In this 2-day ScrumMaster Certification course, we will cover the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying you as a Certified ScrumMaster. We will add practice to theory through a variety of exercises and take-aways to use with co-workers.

Upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a two-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available. More importantly, upon completion of this workshop, you'll leave with an understanding, gained through hands-on team practice and exercises, to share your experience with your colleagues, help your teams to execute Scrum efficiently and productively and to put Scrum in practice and succeed with it.

Gain hands-on experience with the basic principles of Scrum, including:

Product Backlog

Sprint Backlog

Daily Scrum Meetings

Retrospectives

Sprint planning meetings

Working with the Product Owner (and user stories)

Burn charts and reports

Practice dealing with the obstructions to high productivity on your Scrum team, such as:

Incomplete stories at Sprint end

Estimation in StoryPoints and Hours

Technical debt and legacy problems

Learn practical approaches to increasing productivity while increasing Product Owner and management satisfaction.

Explore techniques for applying Scrum to large and distributed teams

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Project managers, team leaders, IT/development managers, product managers, business analysts, architects or developers interested in applying Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction.

"The strongest point is that the trainers don't speak as of the theoretical point of the methodology. You feel that they have practical experience."

Isabelle Robrechts, Test Consultant, IP-Consult

"I already had some experience with agile development and scrum and this course was a good refreshment course. Also it gave me some practical tips that I can use on the job. I certainly would recommend this course to anyone without (much) experience wanting to learn about scrum."

Tom Segers, Test consultant, PS_Testware