Certified ScrumMaster Training
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
This hands-on certification course is appropriate for all software team members, including Project Managers, Team Leads, Development Managers, Product Managers, Software Architects, Systems Architects, Testers, CIOs, and CTOs.
Class Size Limit: 20 (Minimum 0)
Course Overview
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.
This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!
On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
Also, on 12/11 we will be offering an optional FREE half day (9am - Noon) Rally tool overview to all attendees of this course. Please read the description below.
The CSM (and CSPO) training employs low-tech methods to encourage collaboration and focus the work on understanding the core Scrum practices. Thus, participants use flipcharts, stickies and markers to create and track stories and sprint plans. And in the real world where multiple teams need to coordinate, often across multiple offices and time zones, organizations need high-tech tools that are built to support Agile development. In this 3-hour add-on to CSM training, your Rally Coach will demonstrate how the Rally Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool can support the Scrum principles and practices you learned in the first two days.
If you choose to participate in the Day 3 training session, you can expect to learn the following:
- How to manage and evolve the Product Backlog
- How to use Rally ALM to support Release Planning
- How teams track iterations in Rally ALM, generating burndown charts
- How teams can create test plans in Rally ALM, track quality iteration to iteration.
- How to integrate with other tools, such as Quality Center and other testing tools or existing build or other development tools, to provide robust reporting about the health of your product or project.
To sign up for the 3rd Day option, please click the Register button and follow the instructions.
Please note: Breakfast and a light snack will be provided during this session
Agenda
- Introduction to Agile Principles
- Introduction to Scrum Principles
- Scrum Core Elements & Practices
- Product Visioning
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Product Backlog & Release Planning
- Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning
- Sprint
- Daily Standup Meeting
- Burndown Charts & Project Reporting
- Sprint Review & Retrospective
- The 59 Minute Scrum
The course fee includes a CD of the Scrum methodology (with one year of updates), Scrum training materials that can be used to train your customers, access to Agile resources (including Project Management software), and student's first year registration in the Scrum Alliance, a $50 value.
Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute)
Cost:
$1,200 per attendee.