Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Whether you are new to Agile principles and have an idea of what Scrum is or have already spent time involved with teams talking about or implementing Scrum ensuring success with Scrum can be a daunting prospect.

You have understood that the benefits of ‘going agile’ include improving quality productivity and time to market but how does this happen in practice? And how can you ensure that you can deliver these process improvements?

If you have not undertaken Scrum Training with a formally Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Trainer then you may be missing key knowledge and skills that will enable you to make the most of the opportunities afforded by effective implementation of Scrum principles and practices.

The 2 day highly interactive CSM course investigates the Scrum framework in detail from theory and foundations to practical application and pitfalls covering all the team roles activities and artifacts so that you can be an effective Scrum Master or member of a Scrum team.

Objectives:

• Participate actively as a Scrum Team member
• Function effectively as the Certified Scrum Master for the Scrum Team
• Deliver a successful Scrum project
• Explain and sell Agile and the Scrum framework to other key stakeholders
• Define and use the full range of Agile and Scrum Artifacts (Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Increment Burndown Charts etc.)
• Set-up and facilitate Scrum Meetings (Release Planning Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective)
• Understand how to employ Scrum in real world circumstances such as remote Scrum teams with people in different locations fixed price contracts and third party supplier relationships
• Help your team or organisation to transition to a more Lean and Agile way of working using Scrum
• Understand how to combine the use of Scrum with other Lean and Agile approaches such as Kanban eXtreme Programming (XP) and Agile Project Management (AgilePM)