The Agile Scrum Master certification course is best suited for:

• Team Leaders
• Project Managers
• Members of Scrum teams such as developers, Scrum Masters, and product owners
• Managers of Scrum teams
• Teams transitioning to Scrum
• Professionals intending to pursue the Scrum Master certification

This course will enable you to be:

• Proficient in Scrum terminologies and their applications
• Ready to facilitate daily scrums, user stories, sprint planning, and sprint reviews
• Capable of producing the different Scrum artifacts including the product backlog, sprint backlog, finished deliverables, and definition of done
• Equipped to implement distributed Scrum over teams spread across geographies
• Prepared for a Scrum Master role with any Scrum implementing organization
• Prepared to pass the EXIN Agile Scrum Master exam on your first attempt

• Introduction to Agile/Scrum: Agile Manifesto, Three Pillars of Scrum
• Why Agile: Advantages; Reduced time to value
• What makes Scrum adoptions successful: ADAPT mode
  
  • Awareness
  • Desire
  • Ability
  • Promotion
  • Transfer
• Balanced scorecard for Scrum teams

• Different development methodologies
  
  • Waterfall
  • XP (Extreme Programming)
  • Crystal
  • DSDM
  • Lean/Kanban
• Accelerating value delivery through faster deployment: Linking Agile to DevOps

• Scrum Values – CFORC
• Commitment
• Focus
• Openness
• Respect
• Courage
• Life-cycle of Scrum
• Scrum events
  
  • Sprint planning
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint retrospective
  • Daily standup meetings
• Scrum artifacts
  
  • Product backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Sprint Deliverables
  • Definition of Done

• Scrum master and product owner roles
  
  • What they should and should not do
  • Attributes of good scrum masters or Product Owners
  • Failure modes
• Team manager or developer role

• User stories and Epics
• Writing “good” stories
• Basics of prioritization
  
  • Value based prioritization
  • Kano model
  • Karl Wiegers Relative weight method
• Velocity: How to find it and how to use it?
• Release or roadmap planning
• Units of Estimation: Story points and ideal time
• Techniques of estimation: Planning poker and Affinity estimation
• Methods of tracking Agile projects: Burndown charts, Kanban boards and other indicators

• Scaling agile at enterprise level
  
  • Scaling the product owner and scrum master
  • Scaling the backlog
  • Coordinating multiple scrum teams
• Scaled agile foundation (SAFe®) introduction
• Agile in distributed teams
• Where to apply agile (and when not to)
• Tools for agile project management
• Agile testing: Testing pyramid

• Patterns for planning an Agile transition
• Overcoming resistance to Agile
• Towards self-organization
• Organizational, Physical and cultural changes needed