Professional Scrum Foundations™ (PSF) Training Course

About the course:

Gain the fundamental Scrum skills for successful agile software development. The Professional Scrum Foundations™ (PSF) Training Course is an ideal introduction for anyone who needs to gain the initial experience required to work in a Scrum development team.

This course also provides the foundation of knowledge needed for role-focused training for Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Developers.

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Foundations course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment.

If you attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

By the end of this course, you will have learnt about:

• The ins and outs of Scrum and Agile

• Scrum Planning

• Keeping Scrum Healthy

• Getting Started with Scrum

Who should attend

The Professional Scrum Foundations course is ideal for anyone in a role that supports a software development team’s efficiency, effectiveness, and continual improvement, from Project Management through software architecture and development, to QA / testing.

Pre-requisites

The Professional Scrum Foundations course is aimed at anyone working with or in a Scrum Team. The course is very well suited to organisations investigating Scrum or software development teams looking to implement Scrum.

We would very much recommend that delegates read and digest the Scrum Guide prior to course attendance. Please note that teams looking to explore more advanced Scrum topics such as Scaling Scrum or Release Planning should consider the Professional Scrum Master training course.

The PSF course is particularly effective when taken as an on-site / closed training event for a dedicated team (including PMs, developers, IT managers and other stakeholders). Please get in touch to discuss on-site training options.

Course Syllabus

The Scrum Framework

Students dive into the Scrum software development framework including, roles and responsibilities, principles, artifacts, events and time boxes, and rules and customs.

Introducing Scrum and Agile

This module discusses the current state of the software industry and Scrum’s role within it. Topics include the origins of Scrum, misconceptions of the framework, the value that Scrum provides, and an exploration of self-organization as a power tool for increasing productivity.

Scrum Planning

Learn practical techniques of planning releases, managing Product Backlogs, keeping Sprints on track, and maintaining healthy team behaviors.

Although many effective techniques exist for expressing requirements, this module equips teams to discover, express, and decompose requirements as Backlog Items using proven techniques.

Keeping Scrum Healthy

This module focuses on common missteps teams make when adopting Scrum and strategies to avoid them. In addition to discussing typical patterns/anti-patterns in this module, class attendees practice some of the more courageous conversations that commonly occur.

Getting Started

Following an excellent training event, Teams often struggle implementing what seemed so reasonable just a few days ago.

This discussion helps attendees plan and prepare to actually be effective with Scrum immediately, marking the PSF as the true catalyst for change and increasing agility within your organization.