Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

14 PDUs Awarded
Scrum Alliance CSD-Elligable Course

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No Prerequisites Required

Who should attend?

• Project Managers
• IT Professionals (Architects, BAs, DBAs, Developers, etc.)
• IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs)
• Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Scrum

Course Overview:

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) is an in-depth two day immersion into the world of Scrum. The course is full of practical, real world techniques that can be implemented immediately at your workplace. This course will allow your organization to enjoy the many advantages Scrum has to offer. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Scrum firsthand. 

Course Learning Objectives:

• The advantages that Scrum brings to your organization
• A solid understanding of the Scrum framework
• Your role and responsibilities as the ScrumMaster
• The fundamentals of Agile Leadership (Servant Leadership)
• Facilitation skills that will help you succeed in your new role
• The importance of quickly uncovering roadblocks and clearing them for your team
• Tracking team performance with Agile Earned Value Management and burn down/up charts
• Considerations for implementing Scrum throughout your enterprise

 Benefits:

• Increase customer satisfaction and time-to-market delivery
• Properly align your development efforts around building the highest business value features first
• Gain organizational trust and improve your team’s reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery, by setting them up for frequent success
• Experience higher team morale and productivity with a fundamental shift in management style
• Focus your personal efforts on the highest value tasks that will have an immediate impact on your team’s level of success
• Improve communications through transparency and “pull” versus “push” systems
• Achieve greater flexibility and bring value to your organization by adding another tool to your toolbox

Takeaways:

• Thorough understanding of Scrum
• A new outlook on the way you manage projects and lead your team
• The knowledge necessary for incorporating Scrum practices into your working environment
• A one year membership to the Scrum Alliance
• Eligibility to sit for the Certified ScrumMaster assessment

About The Instructors:

Tom Mellor, CST
Tom is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Chairman of the Board of the Scrum Alliance. Tom has 30 years of business and IT experience. Tom trains through oobeya group.  oobeya group helps organizations understand and put to practice advanced management and development techniques ranging from TQM to Agile to Lean.

What previous students have to say about Tom:

• "Tom combined his real Scrum experiences with the content of the course to deliver a great class on Scrum.  The exercises, discussions and use of Socratic learning principles really brought home the concepts.  The class was really worth it."
• "I came to the class very skeptical – thinking it was going to be another one of those ‘sleeper courses’ where I would have to fight boredom and tedium.  Wow, was I wrong!  I’ve never seen such energy and passion in a class.  It was definitely a ‘deep dive’ into the heart and soul of Scrum and agile.  I enjoyed Tom’s practical approach to “helping us through the journey."
• "With my traditional project management background, I wasn’t certain what to expect from this class.  I had heard that die-hard Scrum people could be…well…unfriendly towards the “traditionally minded.”  I was pleasantly surprised and pleased – and there wasn’t even any kool-aid to drink!.  At the end, I knew I had the fundamentals and knowledge of Scrum I needed to add it to my PM tool kit.  Thanks Tom!"

Brian M. Rabon, CSM, CSP, MSEE, PMP is a Certified ScrumMaster and Scrum Practitioner with over 13 years of software development experience. He is a regular instructor a the University of Alabama at Birmingham, New Horizons Birmingham, The Solutions Cube Group, and a course designer for Samford University.

Cancellation Policy:

In order to receive a refund of your tuition for this course you must notify us no later than 5 days prior to the course start date. Cancellation requests received after the 5 day window will be issued a credit that can be applied towards a future class.