Agile Scrum Master

This course offers professionals a unique certification that combines agile service management techniques with scrum development frameworks. It requires candidates to develop and demonstrate a solid knowledge and understanding of Scrum terms, principles, tools, and practices, as well as their ability to use tools efficiently and effectively.

Included

• Complete Study Guide

• Downloadable Diagrams for Main Concepts

• Interactive Practice Exams Simulation

• Official Certification Exam Provided by APMG

Course Objectives

• Help Scrum Teams deliver value to their organization

• Understand the theory and principles behind Scrum and empiricism

• Understand how each part of the Scrum framework ties back to the principles and theory

• Understand uncertainty and complexity in product delivery

• Understand the meaning and importance of the Scrum values

• Learn what Done means and why it is crucial to transparency

• Know how to use the Product Backlog to plan with agility

• Understand the importance of self-managing teams, interpersonal skills needed, and the Scrum Master role

• Clarify the leadership role a Scrum Master plays on the team

• Learn the skills, traits and behavior shifts required to be a Scrum Master

Content

Summary of the Course

This course offers professionals a unique certification that combines agile service management techniques with scrum development frameworks. It requires candidates to develop and demonstrate a solid knowledge and understanding of Scrum terms, principles, tools, and practices, as well as their ability to use tools efficiently and effectively.

Scrum is an agile framework that helps teams work together to develop, deliver, and manage complex software products. It increases team productivity by encouraging team players to learn through experiences, to self-organize, and to continuously improve output.

IT teams use Scrum to develop, deliver, and maintain complex software products. However, Scrum principles can be applied to all kinds of areas, including research, sales, marketing, and customer support, amongst others. A more advanced level of skills and knowledge is covered in the next 2 levels of the PeopleCert Scrum qualification scheme (PeopleCert Scrum Master II).

You will learn about:

• The definition and purpose of Scrum

• The three pillars of Scrum: inspection, adaptation and transparency 

• The five Scrum values: commitment, focus, openness, respect and courage 

• The characteristics of effective Scrum Masters, product owners, and development teams 

• The purposes of different events, artefacts and rules in Scrum 

• How multilevel planning can help your team develop long-term goals and create more realistic strategies to achieve them

• How to identify the attributes of the product backlog and understand how it can evolve as your product and environment changes 

• The techniques for managing technical debt 

• The purpose and steps involved in Scrum events such as product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, daily Scrum, review, and retrospective

Course Plan

• Agile and Scrum Introduction

• Overview on various Agile Methods

• Why Agile?

• Origins of Scrum and  Understanding Scrum

• Basic Scrum Engine, Agile Manifesto

• Sprints Team activity

  • Four Meetings

  • Three Roles

  • Scrum Artifacts, non-scrum artifacts

• Scrum and Compliance

• Scrum Values

• Scrum Phases

• Scrum Simulation

• Sprint planning meeting

• Daily stand-up meeting

• Burndown charts and project reporting

• Sprint review and retrospective

• Agile Transformation Team activity

• Agile Coaching: The difference between facilitation, teaching, mentoring, and coaching

• Agile Portfolio and Release Planning

• IT Case Study

• Vision Statement

• Product backlog creation Team activity

• Various Estimation Techniques, Prioritization Team activity

• What is a user story? Templates and Simulations Team Activity

• Agile Facilitation

  • Scrum Master Facilitation techniques

  • Communication obstacles and their impacts

  • Define clear communication ground rules and impact on collaboration

• Scrum Master: Service to the

  • Development team

  • Product Owner

  • Organization

  • Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Readiness and Definition of Done

  • Determine Team Velocity

  • The value of good engineering practices

• Release Management and Progress Reporting

• Agile Metrics that Matter

• Agile Contracts