Certified ScrumMaster - Toronto - January 28 & 29 2019

Price above includes tax. Course fee $1,077 + HST $161.85 = $1,217.01

FAQ's

1. Ticket price includes exam.

3. Online exam will be emailed to participants day after course.

2. Successful passing of the exam and attending a course taught be a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) is all that is required to achieve this Certification.

Introduction: The most popular Agile certification! This two day course gives you the foundations to be an effective ScrumMaster and contributes towards the requirements of the Scrum Alliance's Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) program.

Audience:

This course is ideal for those who desire to create high-performance product development teams. Team leads, project managers and functional or line managers all can benefit from understanding Scrum's amazing transformational power and the critical role of the ScrumMaster. If you are a member of the Project Management Institute, this course counts for 16 PDU's and as part of the requirements towards the PMI-ACP designation.

Learning Objective(s): By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

Remove obstacles that prevent teams from becoming high-performance.Enable a team to follow the Scrum process to deliver great products and continuously improve their quality.Describe Scrum to others including roles, meetings, artifacts and principles.Fulfill the requirements of the Certified ScrumMaster program.

Agenda: 


Introductions


Facilitation: Welcome and Introductions

Lecture: Scrum Certification, Classroom Expectations

Handout: Notes (Questions, Information, Insights, Action Items)

Exercise: Generating Questions


In-Depth Simulation


Lecture: Introducing the Project

Exercise: Diving into the First Sprint

Handout: User Stories

Lecture: User Stories

Exercise: Generating User Stories

Exercise: Splitting User Stories

Lecture: The “Bucket System”

Handout: Planning Game Cards

Exercise: Estimating Value

Exercise: Estimating Effort

Lecture: Calculating ROI

Exercise: Prioritization

Exercise: Velocity and Release Planning

Exercise: Sprint Two

Exercise: Sprint Two Review

Lecture: Retrospectives and Action Items

Exercise: Retrospective

Facilitation: Four ScrumMasters

Lecture: Burndown Charts

Exercise: Sprint Three

Exercise: Sprint Three Review

Facilitation: Project Debrief


Waterfall/Lean/Agile Simulation


Simulation: show how Agile methods can result in 400% productivity improvement


Scrum Process Overview


Handout: The Scrum Process

Practice: Explaining Scrum

Discussion: The Scrum Process Q&A

Exercise: Improving Quality

Lecture: Scrum Is/Is Not

Handout: Scrum Rules of Thumb

Discussion: Scrum Rules of Thumb

Lecture: Scrum Team vs. Not Scrum Team

Handout: Scrum Team Room

Discussion: Scrum Team Room

Discussion: Junior vs. Senior Team

Lecture: Definition of “Done”

Exercise: “Done” for You

Lecture: “Done” and Agile Maturity


The ScrumMaster Role


Exercise: Qualities of a ScrumMaster

Handout: The ScrumMaster - Self-Evaluation

Exercise: The ScrumMaster – Self-Evaluation

Discussion: Clarifications

Lecture: Removing Obstacles

Handout: The Scrum Administrator

Exercise: Mapping the ScrumMaster Role to Traditional Roles


Graduation


What Did You Learn?

Certification

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