ABC Scrum Master Training Course

ABC Scrum Master: Training and Certification for every Scrum Master, not just for those from IT or involved with IT product development

Scrum is the basis of most Agile product delivery in the world today. It is a simple, elegant and very effective way for development teams and their customer – their Product Owner – to collaborate and deliver value to their sponsoring business in short, focused bursts of activity.

The Course:

Carefully positioned in the market as an alternative to the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM), the unique selling point for the ABC Scrum Master offering, from the Agile Business Consortium, is that it takes Scrum out of the exclusive realms of IT and makes it equally applicable to the world of business, helping any team in any part of the organisation deliver optimally valuable products in short timescales. Whether you are an IT professional or a professional in a different discipline such as marketing, HR or operations, the ABC Scrum Master training is for you. You will return to your workplace motivated and equipped to help your teams to achieved increased success in delivering their products – whatever they may be.

This two-day course will give you a practical understanding of Scrum and enable you to become immediately productive as a Scrum Master serving your teams, your Product Owners and your wider organisation by helping them all get the most out of the Scrum approach to product development and delivery. The course uses the much-loved and highly effective training from the back of the room style meaning that it is highly interactive with short bursts of hands-on learning interspersed with even shorter bursts of theory and slideware. The course ends with a 40 minute 50 question multiple choice exam.

By the end of the course newly certified Scrum Masters will be able to:

Help Scrum Product Owners shape and refine product backlogs needed to guide the early and incremental delivery of a valuable product.

Assist the Scrum Development Team self-organize to create high value products, facilitating Scrum Events and removing impediments as required.

Help organizations understand and adopt Scrum, working with stakeholders and other Scrum Masters to improve its effectiveness.

Take advantage of a complimentary one-year membership of the Agile Business Consortium.

Scrum: “That absolute alignment of purpose and trust is something that creates greatness”: Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum)

Topics Covered:

Agile:

• What it means
• The Agile Manifesto
• Principles of Agile working

Agile Teams

• Self-organisation
• Establishing high performance

Scrum

• Easy to understand, difficult to master
• How Scrum differs from traditional product development
• Scrum Values

Scrum Product Development

• Iterative
• Incremental
• Empirical
• Scrum Process – Events and Artefacts

The Development Team

• Skills, Size and Satisfaction

The Scrum Master

• Role and Responsibilities
• Servant Leadership

The Product Owner

• Role and Responsibilities
• Essential characteristics
• Way of Working
• Involving other stakeholders

The product backlog

• Creating, refining and prioritising
• User Stories – writing and evolving
• The concept of ‘ready’

Sprint Planning

• The Sprint Goal
• The definition of ‘Done’
• Planning the work
• Capacity Planning
• The Sprint Backlog

Sprints in action

• Keeping on track
• Learning as we go

Course fee includes:

• Two days of interactive training
• Student workbook
• ABC Scrum Master exam
• Refreshments and lunch

Refund Policy:

Please contact us to request a refund. Our default policy offers:

• Full refund of course fee if cancelled more than 14 days before date of course start date
• 50% refund of course fee if cancelled within 7-14 days of course start date
• No refunds within 7 days of course start date
• The Eventbrite booking fee is non-refundable in all circumstances

If we have to cancel the course alternative dates or a full refund will be offered.