Training Summary: Certified Scrummaster
Training Summary: Certified Scrummaster
Certified ScrumMaster
Course Summary:
The Certified ScrumMaster course thoroughly covers the Scrum Framework for managing
product development. It covers every element of the framework, its purpose and its impact
on the team and the organization. The course gives the theoretical theory and practical
examples needed to start mastering Scrum.
Course Objective:
By the end of the course you will be able to:
Target Audience:
Anyone who is involved in Scrum, either as team member, Product Owner, ScrumMaster
or manager of an organization adopting or using Scrum. The course does have a special
focus on the ScrumMaster role.
Course duration:
This course last 3 days, from 9:00 to 17:00~18:00.
Prework:
The course requires pre-work that will be mailed to the participants before the course. This
prework includes:
Reading the Scrum Primer
Reading the Agile Manifesto
Doing the pre-course test
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Training summary:
Certified ScrumMaster
Course Content:
Day 1
Introduction
This section introduces people to each other, explores their experiences. Then provides
a history of the Scrum Framework and introduces empirical process control, one of the
basic concepts behind Scrum.
Overview, Roles, Self-managing
This section gives an overview of the Scrum Framework. It also introduces the three
Scrum roles and explains self-management and shared responsibility of the Team role.
ScrumMaster
The ScrumMaster role is not like existing organizational roles and is therefore harder to
understand. This section explains why a ScrumMaster is not a project manager and how
it is possible that there is no project manager within the Scrum Framework. Then it gives
an overview of the responsibilities of a ScrumMaster.
Customer Relations
Introducing Scrum is disruptive in an organization. This sections looks at a couple of
common organizational dynamics and the kind of problems they traditionally lead to and
how these dynamics change when adopting Scrum.
Day 2
Done
At the end of a Scrum sprint, the team must have something done. But what does that
mean? How to deal with a gradual improvement to the teams capability when they are
unable to release every sprint.
Product Owner and Product Backlog
The Product Owner is responsible for the return of investment of the product. This
section introduces the responsibilities of the Product Owner and his main artifact for
doing his work: the product backlog. It also covers how to plan for releases and how to
make contracts with vendors.
ScrumMaster
Day 1 introduces the overall responsibilities of a ScrumMaster. This section dives into
more details of the role and how a ScrumMaster works. It introduces a couple of practical
techniques for doing his job.
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Training summary:
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Obstacles
Many obstacles in organizations slow down a Scrum adoption. This section covers 6
categories of obstacles that are common for Scrum adoption.
Day 3
Engineering Practices
Scrum itself doesnt describe how to develop software. Yet a couple of engineering
practices are common for teams adopting Scrum. This section introduces these
practices: refactoring, test-driven development, test automation, specification by
example, continuous integration, and others.
Sprint Planning and Sprint Backlog
A Sprint starts when the team goes through Sprint Planning and creates the Sprint
Backlog which is for the team to manage themselves. This section covers these two in
detail.
Daily Scrum
Just like the Daily Scrum itself, this section is short with a couple of practical tips on how
to improve the teams Daily Scrum meetings.
Retrospective and Review
At the end of the Sprint, the team inspects and adapts and improves their practices and
the product. These are done in a retrospective and review meeting. This section contains
a large exercise in which we practice a retrospective.
Scaling Scrum
Most descriptions of Scrum are for 1-team products. But what if you have ten teams or
even a hundred teams? How does Scrum work in these organizations?
The Team
Self-managing teams that take a shared responsibility of all the work is an essential
element of Scrum. How do such teams work?
Organizational changes
Adopting Scrum tends to have an impact on the organization. This section clarifies some
of the changes that commonly happen and why these happen.
Odd-e Singapore Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore private limited company (Co. Reg. No 201105976N)
Training summary:
Certified ScrumMaster
Odd-e Singapore Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore private limited company (Co. Reg. No 201105976N)