Summary This intensive two-day ScrumMaster Certification course, taught by a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, provides participants with a practical, fundamental guide to getting started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile frameworks, Scrum is a simple, yet extremely powerful, technique to boost team productivity, elevate quality, and accelerate... [read more]

Summary This intensive two-day ScrumMaster Certification course, taught by a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer, provides participants with a practical, fundamental guide to getting started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile frameworks, Scrum is a simple, yet extremely powerful, technique to boost team productivity, elevate quality, and accelerate project delivery. This course comprises pragmatic, time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, long and short-range planning, project execution and progress reporting. The class provides an examination of the Scrum project lifecycle as well as an in-depth exploration of the Scrum roles, ceremonies and artifacts. Exercises, case studies and examples are interwoven to illustrate the principles and practices being taught. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be designated "Certified ScrumMaster" (CSM) including a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance where valuable ScrumMaster materials and resources are available exclusively to CSMs. Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Project Management Institute) Learning Objectives What is Scrum and how does it fit within the larger body of "Agile" process, values & frameworks? How does Scrum address the common challenges of change, budget constraints, and quality that are paramount to any IT project? What is the role of ScrumMaster and how does it vary from a traditional project manager? How do I got about organizing, planning, and executing a project using the Scrum framework? How can I practically apply the values and practices of Scrum to my job today? Class Agenda Scrum Game (Team-based exercise to introduce key Agile concepts) Scrum Overview Scrum Process Product Backlog Scrum Product Development Scrum and Waterfall side-by-side Agile Documentation Agile Planning About the Instructor Mike Dwyer is a Principal Agile Coach at BigVisible Solutions working with IT organizations as they adopt Agile and Lean methods. He has extensive experience as a manager, a coach, and consultant transforming high growth organizations into hyperproductive Agile organizations. Mike brings over 30 years experience managing teams in manufacturing, support, Information Technology, and new Product Development.. He is a well known and respected contributor to the Scrum, Agile, and Lean software community. He is also founded 3SidedCoin, an Agile innovation company where he developed his ground breaking work bringing Agility to Operations and Support. Mike has an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and an undergraduate degree from Clark University. View Mike Dwyer's Blog View Mike Dwyer's LinkedIn Profile