Certified Scrum Master

As a participant, you will learn what it takes to roll as a Scrum Master and how to build a functioning team.

About the course

The Role Scrum Master is responsible for the team functioning and being productive. A Scrum Master is focused on coaching the self-organizing team and facilitating its work. As a participant, you will learn what is required of the role as Scrum Master and how to build a functioning team. In several, sometimes quite intensive, exercises and case studies, you will learn, train and experience the feeling of what it takes to lead a Scrum project to success.

During the course, theoretical reviews and practical exercises are mixed where you as a participant get to experience the feeling of participating in a Scrum project.

What is included in the course?

  • Course compendium with exercise material (in English)
  • Registration to take the Certified ScrumMaster® test online with the Scrum Alliance (requires active participation both days)
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The course content

  • The purpose of Scrum and agile working methods.
  • What the Scrum framework is, the underlying philosophy from Lean and Agile development, why Scrum works and what the challenges are with implementing Scrum.
  • The roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner and Team) work together and what responsibilities and powers each role has. How do you as a Scrum Master can help the team to constantly grow and improve and become a cross-functional, self-organizing team.
  • Why group dynamics is a decisive factor in how well the team will work.
  • What a good Product Backlog looks like and how the Product Owner continuously maintains it, so you can also help Product Owner to grow.
  • To estimate with Story Points, the method that the Team uses to help the Product Owner estimate the content of the Product Backlog.
  • Sprint planning, daily meeting (Daily Scrum), demonstration (Sprint Review) and retrospective.
  • You will also learn to handle a range of situations that can occur in a Scrum Masters everyday life.
  • How to measure the Team’s speed (Velocity) and how to easily use it to do long-term project planning towards a goal (eg a release ) several Sprints away.
  • The importance of visibility and transparency, and how you can create it using Burndown Charts and Task Boards.

Target groups

Target group

The course is aimed at future Scrum Masters and others who need good knowledge of how the different parts of Scrum work, e.g. project managers, clients, managers, team leaders and developers.

Prerequisites

Over the years, we have noticed that those who get the most out of the course are those who have acquired the basic knowledge of Scrum even before the course. We therefore recommend that you have read a book about Scrum before the course, or (if you have less time left over) at least read The Scrum Guide.

Course duration

Usually 2 days

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