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You Will Learn How To
- Prepare to pass the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) evaluation
- Build and manage a productive self-organising development team
- Scale Scrum to large, multicontinent projects consisting of large teams
- Manage the production of potentially shippable product increments
- Develop task boards and burndown charts to track project progress
- Deliver fully functioning applications on time with effective sprint and release planning
Course Benefits Agile approaches to software development such as the Scrum framework are commonly used to increase flexibility and speed when delivering applications. This Scrum Alliance ® certified course taught by Certified Scrum Trainers provides the fundamental essentials needed to prepare you for the Certified ScrumMaster evaluation. In this course, you learn the basics of the Scrum framework, including team roles and activities to ensure that you can be an effective member of a Scrum team.
Who Should Attend Product managers, programmers, testers, analysts and anyone interested in working on or with a Scrum team. Particpants should be aware of CSM requirements established by the Scrum Alliance ®.
Workshop Course Practical workshops provide the skills necessary to pass Certified ScrumMaster evaluation given by the Scrum Alliance ®. Activities include:
- Writing user stories
- Creating sprint and product backlogs
- Running sprint reviews
- Navigating reciprocal commitments
- Considering the consequences of change
- Drawing force field diagrams
- Avoiding miniature waterfalls
- Organising project teams
Course Content Introduction to the Scrum approach
- Striving for maximum speed and agility
- Leveraging the advantages of concurrent engineering
- Working as one collective team towards a common goal
- Conducting interdisciplinary design reviews
- Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of utilising a Scrum approach
Specifying Team Roles and Responsibilities
Differentiating between the product owner and ScrumMaster
- Defining and prioritising features
- Making scope and scheduling decisions
- Accepting and rejecting work results
- Ensuring the team is fully functional and productive
- Shielding the team from external interferences and removing barriers to cooperation
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective
Building the development team
- Allowing teams to self-organise
- Including everyone required in development from idea generation to final implementation
- Setting rules of etiquette
Scaling and distributed teams
- Scrumming the Scrums
- Selecting the appropriate team member to send to Scrum meetings based on the skills needed
- Investigating issues and activities that might affect other teams
- Synchronising sprints amongst distributed teams
- Scaling the product owner and sharing the product backlog
Managing the Project with Scrum
Benefiting from Scrum meetings
- Conducting a sprint planning meeting
- Evaluating and setting meeting parameters
- Demonstrating new features or the underlying architecture
- Maintaining an informal and fluid atmosphere
- Considering what is and is not working for the team
Defining a sprint
- Assessing the varied sprint types
- Analysis
- Testing
- Stabilisation
- Release
- Determining the sprint goal
- Respecting the sprint deadline
- Producing a potentially shippable product increment
Planning sprints and the sprint review
- Identifying and estimating tasks
- Timeboxing to ensure focus is on deliverables relevant to the current sprint
- Refining the sprint goal, determining capacity and extending the scope of done
- Raising visibility of priority changes
- Dropping scope from the sprint to avoid abnormal termination
Establishing the product backlog
- Developing a sprint backlog
- Generating user stories
- Refining the backlog progressively
- Analysing the conditions of satisfaction
- Addressing bugs in the backlog
Completing the project
Tracking progress
- Utilising task boards
- Leveraging burndown charts
- Facilitating early discussions
- Promoting transparency
Planning the release
- Updating the plan at the start of each sprint
- Mitigating the tradeoffs between features and delivery date
- Realising the advantages of planning at the sprint and release levels
- Prioritising the product backlog and measuring velocity
- Calculating a confidence interval
Preparing to Earn the CSM Certificate
Assessing your progress with the CSM evaluation
- Reviewing the evaluation format
- Leveraging the resources available to you as a CSM through the Scrum Alliance
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