Duration
2 days
Overview
The Professional Scrum Master (PSM) training course provides the know-how and tools to ensure that Scrum is understood and enacted well by your team. This course covers the fundamentals of Scrum, comprising the framework, mechanics, and roles of Scrum. The PSM course will teach you how to employ Scrum to increase value, improve productivity, and optimise the total cost of ownership of software products.
Course Objectives
- The Fundamental roles, events and artefacts of Scrum and Agile
- Scrum Planning
- Keeping Scrum Healthy
- Getting Started with Scrum
Prerequisites
- Take time to read and digest the Scrum Guide (required).
- Pass the Scrum Open Assessment.
- Attend a Professional Scrum Foundations training course, or have equivalent experience through working with a Scrum team.
- Have been involved with the development of a software product or system.
Course Outline
- Scrum Basics
- What is Scrum and how has it evolved?
- Scrum Theory
- Why does Scrum work and what are its core principles?
- How are the Scrum principles different from those of more traditional software development approaches, and what is the impact?
- Scrum Framework and Meetings
- How Scrum theory is implemented using time-boxes, roles, rules, and artifacts.
- How can these be used most effectively and how can they fall apart?
- Scrum and Change
- Scrum is different: what does this mean to my project and my organization?
- How do I best adopt Scrum given the change that is expected?
- Scrum and Total Cost of Ownership
- A system isn’t just developed, it is also sustained, maintained and enhanced.
- How is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of our systems or products measured and optimized?
- Scrum Teams
- Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional; this is different from traditional development groups.
- How do we start with Scrum teams and how do we ensure their success?
- Scrum Planning
- Plan a project and estimate its cost and completion date.
- Predictability, Risk Management, and Reporting
- Scrum is empirical. How can predictions be made, risk be controlled, and progress be tracked using Scrum.
- Discussion starts with "Done and Undone" and continues with Quality Assurance in Scrum.
- Scaling Scrum
- Scrum works great with one team. It also works better than anything else for projects or product releases that involve hundreds or thousands of globally dispersed team members.
- How is scaling best accomplished using Scrum?
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.