PSM - Professional Scrum Master + exam (scrum.org)

The ScrumMaster performs a vital role within the Scrum framework: coaching the Scrumteam; ensuring effective team dynamics and cross-functional collaborative working; and enabling the team to focus without distraction from impediments and outside interruptions.

The ScrumMaster training course employs practical exercises, case studies and discussions to provide everything that a ScrumMaster needs to know to be able to drive a successful Scrum Project.

Agile Rationale and Benefits
Scrum Development Process

• Background; Origins; History
• Scrum compared to other Agile approaches – XP, Lean, DSDM, Unified Process
• Scrum Components: Roles; Artefacts and Activities

Planning

• Product backlog; Stories; INVEST; Definition of Done; Fixed Price Development
• Collaborative Planning; Multi-level Planning; Release Planning; Sprint Planning

Teams

• Effective Team Working; Self Organising Teams
• Scrum Roles: The Scrum Team; ScrumMaster; Product Owner; Pigs and Chickens
• Roles not included in Scrum: Project Manager; Architect etc.

Estimation

• Principles; Estimating Size; Velocity; Ideal Days; Story Points; Planning Poker

Monitoring and Control

• Daily Scrum Meeting; Burn Down Charts; Information Radiators; Kanban Boards; Sprint Review; Sprint Retrospectives; Release Retrospectives

Agile Engineering Techniques

• Emergent Design; Refactoring; Continuous Integration; Test-Driven Development

Implementing Scrum and Agile

• Scaling Scrum; Scrum of Scrums; Enterprise Agile; Distributed Agile
• Combining Scrum with other Agile and traditional approaches
• Implementing, rolling-out and transitioning to Scrum

Participants can make the PSM (Professional Scrum Master) certification online within 2 weeks after the course. The exam is included in the course price.