Certified ScrumMaster (Agile Pain Relief)

Introduction: 
In this two day course you will use Scrum to build a new application, learning how it feels to be part of Scrum team and how Scrum works. The two day course that is a mix of exercises, lecture and open discussion. Along with the exercises the course itself is run using a "Scrum" like process with a product backlog, estimates and even acceptance criteria giving students a chance to see how we handle changing requirements in Scrum.
Learning Objective(s): 

After completing this course you will:

  • have an excellent understanding of the Scrum Basics (principles, roles and meetings)
  • know how to go from Release Planning to Project Completion using Scrum
  • know the value of User Stories and Relative Estimation
  • understand how to build a high performance team
  • know how to reduce time to market and increase quality
  • know how to create a culture of learning and continuous improvement
  • fulfill the requirements of the Certified ScrumMaster Program including preparation for the CSM Exam
Agenda: 

Day 1:

  1. Self-Organizing Teams Exercise
  2. Walk through Agenda on Task wall
  3. Opening
  4. Scrum Framework Overview
  5. Introduce Website exercise and form teams
  6. User Stories Exercise
  7. Estimation and Release Planning
  8. End of Day Review
  9. Retrospective

Day 2:

  1. What did you learn yesterday
  2. Sprint Planning
  3. In-Depth Simulation Exercise
  4. Sprint Completion
  5. The Team Member Role and Teamwork
  6. The ScrumMaster Role
  7. Foundations of Agile
  8. Overcoming Obstacles
  9. Case Study: Team Dysfunction
  10. Engineering practices
  11. Resources
  12. Feedback forms
  13. In class test
  14. CSM Graduation

The in class test is our way of ensuring that you really understand Scrum and are well prepared for the Scrum Alliance Certification Test.

Best Two days of training I ever had - Sridhar Sept/11
Fantastic. Very personable and great delivery - Jennifer Nov/11
Great Actionable Content - Jason Sept/11
Wonderful Course Delivering both "How to do it" and "Why it works" in a fun and enlightened way. - Hugo Aug/11

Audience: 
This course is for people interested in creating high performance development teams or participating in them.
Facilitator(s): 
mlevison

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World Mindware lists public training seminars and workshops that help individuals, teams and organization to adopt agile methods such as Scrum, OpenAgile, Kanban, Lean, and Extreme Programming. World Mindware offers agile education around the world with a focus on Canada and China. All World Mindware education counts towards Project Management Institute PDUs.