Instructor-led virtual classroom event.

Join us for this instructor-led training to learn how to succeed in a digital world. You will not only learn about Agile and Scrum, but you also get to experience best practices for remote collaboration. Our virtual classroom is designed for group interactions and supports different adult learning styles.

Most importantly, you will not be lectured to by a talking head on a video conference call.

This course is hands-on, interactive, and fun!

Learning by doing

Scrum is easy to understand, but difficult to master. Learning new skills requires an experiential environment where you can practice your newly acquired skills. Therefore, we don’t use dry lectures. More importantly, learning happens when you are having fun!

Our participants experience Scrum concepts and principles through case studies, games, simulations, group discussions, and role-playing exercises.

Know-Why, Know-What, Know-How

In this course we encourage constructive dialogue so you can gain deeper understanding about the why of agile, and Scrum values and principles. We go beyond canned responses and into deep practical aspects of implementing scrum in the real world.

You need a practical grasp of agile practices to be effective in your world of work. We engage in fun, interactive role-playing simulations. This helps you to be better prepared to handle even the most challenging situations in your real world of work.

Certified ScrumMaster® course curriculum

Agile Fundamentals

Review fundamentals of Agile, Lean, and Scrum values & principles. Develop essential understanding necessary to avoid common anti-patterns

• Why Agile?
• Iterative and incremental development
• Agile vs. Waterfall
• Empirical Process control in practice
• Sooner not faster

Scrum in Detail

Values, principles, theory, anti-patterns, and the spirit of Scrum examined in detail

• Scrum in a nutshell
• Scrum Roles and expectations: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers
• Scrum Events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review
• Scrum Artifacts & commitments
• Working effectively with stakeholders, and developers
• Definition of done vs. Acceptance criteria
• Effective backlog refinement: Sizing, splitting, and grooming backlog items

Leading by serving

Improve adoption of scrum through influence

• Improve collaboration within your team
• Build personal strategy to address your organization dysfunctions
• Develop situational leadership skills
• Empower your team to be accountable for results
• Mentor Product Owners to perform collaboratively
• Develop practical responses to real-world scenarios
• Avoid common mistakes that Scrum Masters make

Learn by doing

Practice developing a product using scrum

• Role play and develop intuitive understanding of Scrum
• Develop practical understanding of do’s and don’ts with Scrum
• Learn facilitation techniques for effective scrum meetings
• Experience the power of continuous improvement through retrospectives
• Explore “what-if” scenarios to tackle real-world challenges

Our curriculum will guide you to

• Develop a strong fundamental understanding of Agile, Lean, and Scrum.
• Develop personal plan towards becoming an empowered Scrum Master
• Learn how to manage stakeholders so they empower you to perform your role effectively
• Learn best practices to lead team towards high-performance
• Coach your team to collaborate effectively
• Engage senior executive management to support your team
• Enable product development efforts to deliver on business outcomes
• Learn release tracking techniques, metrics, and measures to effectively manage expectations

The Online experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
• Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
• Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

Who Should Attend

This course is open to anyone who wants to learn how great Scrum Master lead their team sto excel beyond expectations.

Participants come from diverse backgrounds in industry, and life-experiences. Typically,

• Project Managers
• User Experience engineers, Business Analysts, Developers
• Team leader, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master
• Functional Managers
• Start-up leaders, Executives

Registration policies

Transfers

You can transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.

Refunds

• Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund.
• Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course, date receive a 70% refund.

No show policy

Your fees will forfeit in case of a no-show.