AWESOME SCRUM MASTER

 
 

This intense 2-day course is a worthy investment for anyone looking to fast-track their understanding and explore Scrum in a fun and practical way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

In addition to learning the Scrum language and principles, you will practice working as a Scrum team and use Scrum to achieve rapid delivery of high quality outputs, all within the tight timeframes in a constantly changing world of business priorities.

 

  • Appreciate the benefits of agile.

  • Build a common agile language.

  • Understand how your role changes.

  • Learn how to safely get started.

CONTENT

 
 

WHY AGILE?

A history lesson on how the common frameworks have evolved.

Agile Manifesto and Principles – the agile rationale.

CHANGING ROLES

Understand the key roles, events and artifacts of Scrum, and how they might impact you.

Learn how cross functional, self-organising development teams increase productivity.

WORK TOGETHER

Encourage a team based culture that is focused on maximising business value.

Work incrementally and iteratively to create a predictable flow.

Demonstrate progress to customers on a regular basis to obtain real feedback.

Appreciate what it is to be self organising.

MANAGE SCOPE

Establish a shared team understanding of the business context using Story Mapping.

Communicate business value and priorities using brutal MoSCoW and the Product Backlog.

Leverage relative size story point estimating to rapidly baseline the initial release schedule.

MANAGE RISK

Use a Planning Framework to identify and manage risk.

 

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

 

The course is designed for those with little or mixed Scrum experience and is suitable for anyone working in a Scrum team.

It is also valuable for anyone engaging with or supporting a Scrum team, e.g. Managers, Project Assurance, Change Authority, Project Support and PMO teams.

CERTIFICATION

 

The content is based on the rules, events, and roles as described in the official Scrum Guide 2020.

For anyone aspiring to become a Scrum Master, the course provides the option to formally test your knowledge by sitting the externally assessed Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification assessment from scrum.org.