Certified Scrum Master Training

Feb 16th & 17th in Downtown Toronto

This training session will run by two expert Agile trainers and coaches – Michael Sahota (CSM, CSP) and Michel Goldenberg (CSM, CST). It is located in downtown Toronto, ON, Canada at the Residence Inn Mariott at 255 Wellington St West.

Consider attending if …

You are new to Agile and want learn how it works.
You have been using Agile at your company and want to understand how to improve things.
You are a ScrumMaster and would like be more effective.
You are a project manager and want to be more Agile (course counts for 16 PDUs).
You want to be a Certified ScrumMaster.

Theory of Scrum

Scrum, is based on the theory of empirical process control, uses an iterative and incremental approach to maximize the predictability and to control risk.

The 3 pillars that support empirical process control are:

Transparency
Inspection
Adaptation

The content of Scrum

The Scrum framework consists of Scrum teams and roles associated through, periods of time (time-boxes), artefacts and rules.

The Scrum team is composed of 3 parts:

The Scrum Master
The Product Owner
The Team (developers, QA, BA)

Scrum meetings and activities are:

The Release planning meeting
The Sprint planning meeting
Sprint, which varies from 2 to 4 weeks
The Daily Scrum Meeting
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective

Scrum uses the following artifacts:

Product Backlog
Release Burndown
Sprint Backlog
Release Burndown

This course will show you all the rules applied in the Scrum Framework to consolidate the roles, time periods and artifacts

Participants

8 – 20. We are keeping the class small so you get to directly interact and learn. In the session, be prepared for active learning since we use hands-on exercises as well as cover the content.

Participants will receive Certified ScrumMaster designation from the Scrum Alliance upon completion of an on-line exam.