Are you looking to grow your influence in your current company?

Earning a CSM credential from Scrum Alliance will make you a more valuable employee
  • Tired of Agile frustrations?
  • Stuck in Project Management Chaos?
This training is the right choice for anyone for anyone interested in learning how Scrum can improve your world of work

Certified Scrum Master

Earning your CSM credential unlocks a world of opportunity.
As a Certified ScrumMaster, you display a confidence and knowledge that tells your team that you mean business. You’ll have the training you need to help your Scrum Team perform at their highest level. Through the certification process, you’ll learn the Scrum framework and gain an understanding of team roles, events, and artifacts. As the expert of Scrum values, principles, and practices, the ScrumMaster protects the team from both internal and external distractions.

Stand out to employers, land your dream job, and make a real difference in the workplace

Earning a CSM credential from Scrum Alliance will make you a more valuable employee to current or future employers while empowering you to make a difference or impact positive change in their workplace. Become certified as a Scrum Master and join a league of professionals earning up to $118,000 per year. The CSM Certification opens new career opportunities for you in multiple industries. Scrum Alliance education and certifications give you endless ways to distinguish yourself as a Scrum and Agile practitioner.

This two day Certified Scrum Master training workshop provides everything you need to get started with Scrum.

Scrum is the largest and fastest-growing Agile approach, and a simple framework of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and enables more effective teams almost immediately.

Course Outline

General Knowledge

  • Agile Manifesto
  • Scrum Foundations
  • Scrum compared to Waterfall
  • Scrum Values
  • Applicability of Scrum

 

Scrum Roles

  • Overview of Scrum Roles
  • Scrum Master as Servant Leader
  • Rounding out the Scrum Team: Product Owner and the Development Team
  • Impact on traditional roles
 

Scrum Meetings

  • Sprint Planning Meeting
  • Daily Scrum Meeting
  • Sprint Review Meeting
  • Sprint Retrospective Meeting

 

Scrum Artifacts

  • Product Backlog
  • Product Increment and the Definition of Done
  • Sprint Backlog

 

Integration

  • ScrumMaster Responsibilities and Skills
  • Scrum Simulation
  • Class Retrospective

Topics Include

  • Empirical Process - inspect, adapt with tranparency
  • Roots of Agile - the values and how they tie to Scrum
  • Scrum Overview - the basics: what are the roles
  • Product Backlog - what do we want to do?
  • Prioritization - how do we get started, in what order?
  • Definition of Done - yes, it is shippable
  • Sprint Planning - determining the slice of product to be delivered
  • Sprint Backlog - delivering the team goal
  • Daily Scrum - re-aligning and addressing impediments
  • Sprint Review - show off what the team did / talk about the future
  • Retrospective - identify improvements to continuously improve
  • Serving your Dev Team and Product Owner - help them become more effective
  • Serving your Organization - be the expert of Scrum and help the org grow
Online CSM® classes taught by trainers certified by the Scrum Alliance® provide the best Scrum certifications.

Our online courses are designed for busy adult learners who want online scrum training for certification. All our virtual Scrum courses offer the latest in web conferencing technology, audio/video and interactive features including animations, polling, quizzes, breakout groups and Scrum simulations.

Virtual class size is limited to enhance the learning experience and ensure that Scrum and Agile concepts are fully understood by every student. All are welcome: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, team members and managers.

Live, Interactive 2-Day Class

Our CSM class is fun and engaging, using a variety of online training techniques to keep you active and involved as you learn Scrum.

We Pay All Your Fees

We cover all your fees associated with the CSM Exam and Certification as well as your first TWO years of Scrum Alliance Membership.

Personal Mentoring

Our 100% Commitment to you includes working with you after your class to give you the confidence and knowledge to succeed.

Free Membership

Your Scrum Alliance membership gives you access to the largest, most established professional Agile global community.

16 SEUs + 16 PDUs

Whatever your ongoing learning needs, you have 16 PDU credits for PMI and 16 SEU credits after completing this course.

Scrum Master Guide Videos

Our unique video series is designed to share tips and tricks designed to give you the knowledge and confidence to thrive as a Scrum Master.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Scrum Masters
  • Product Owners
  • IT Professionals
  • Managers
  • Testers
  • HR Managers
  • Developers
  • Business Analysts
  • Marketing Teams
  • Project Managers
  • Project Sponsors
  • Career Changers and Job Seekers
  • ANYONE INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW SCRUM CAN IMPROVE YOUR WORLD OF WORK
  • ANYONE CAN ATTEND – NO PREREQUISITES

 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. The largest and most well-known Agile project management approach, Scrum is a simple framework that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and enables more effective teams.

This course shares industry-tested practices for evolving Product Backlogs, planning your Release and Sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and developing continuous improvement cycles. Participants will learn how to effectively plan and run Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and more.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE:

  • CERTIFICATION – Complete the course, pass the CSM exam and become a Certified ScrumMaster
  • EDUCATIONAL UNITS – 15 PMI PDUs (category 3) and 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs
  • MEMBERSHIP – 2 Year membership to the Scrum Alliance and Lifetime membership in the Global Scrum Community

YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

  • 2-Day Live Training Class
  • Training Materials
  • Certified ScrumMaster class by Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
  • Ask The Instructor: post-class tutoring for exam
  • Access to RocketNine’s Scrum Master Guide Videos: the beastly resource of videos, tips, ideas and research
  • 2 year membership to Scrum Alliance
  • 15 PMI PDUs and 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs
  • Lifetime membership in the Global Scrum Community
  • Plus, certification exam and membership fees are included!
 

YOU WILL LEAVE THIS EXPERIENCE KNOWING:

SCRUM FRAMEWORK: the events, roles, processes and artifacts as well as ways to apply them

BEING A SCRUM MASTER: including tips to being a better leader, coach and facilitator

TEAM BUILDING: leverage Scrum to create highly collaborative, sustainable and high-performance teams

 

Rocket Nine’s CSM classes are fun and engaging, leveraging creative learning opportunities including games and stories to help you learn about the Scrum Framework, and break-out group exercises. You’ll learn how to apply Scrum to your team, and how to leverage Scrum throughout the organization while avoiding common pitfalls and mistakes. Get exposed to different techniques for your toolkit to help you truly make a difference.

 

Rocket Nine’s Results: 99% of our students pass the exam on their first try, and class feedback has been more than 9.5.

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Facilitator

This program is facilitated by Scott Dunn.

Trainer Scott Dunn is certified in SAFe and LeSS and has lead multiple companies through their Agile transformation, including Deloitte, Dell, Pacific Life, Saffran, Rovi, and NASA. He is one of a very few Certified Enterprise Coaches by the Scrum Alliance, a credential that is peer-reviewed and takes years to attain.  Scott is a Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Educator.