Scrum Master Certified (SMC®)

Scrum Master Certified (SMC®) professionals are facilitators who ensure that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive to completing the project successfully. The Scrum Master guides, facilitiates, and teaches Scrum practices to everyone involved in the project; clears impediments for the team; and, ensures that Scrum processes are being followed.

Learning Objectives

• Help your product owner get the product backlog in shape
• Identify and remove obstacles
• Facilitate release planning events
• Facilitate Sprint meetings: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Use Scrum artifacts and visibility tools for tracking and facilitating decision-making

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Project Managers
• Analysts
• Developers
• Testers
• Members of Scrum Team

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Scrum
   1. What Is Scrum?
   2. Key Principles
2. Scrum Overview
   1. Overview
   2. History
   3. Benefits
   4. Scalability
   5. Aspects
   6. Processes
3. Scrum Concepts & Principles
   1. Concepts
   2. Principles
   3. Aspects
4. Scrum Phases & Processes
   1. Initiate
   2. Plan & Estimate
   3. Implement
   4. Review & Retrospect
   5. Release
5. Roles and Organization in Scrum
   1. Scrum Master Roles
   2. Product Owner Role
   3. Scrum Team
   4. Non-Core Roles
6. Business Justification
   1. Value-Driven Delivery
   2. Responsibilities
   3. Factors
   4. Techniques
   5. Continuous Value Justification
   6. Confirming Benefits Realization
7. Quality
   1. Definition
   2. Acceptance Criteria
   3. Quality Management in Scrum
8. Change
   1. Supporting Change
   2. Change Requests
   3. Flexibility vs. Stability
   4. Integrating Change
   5. Scaling in Programs and Portfolios
9. Risk
   1. Risk vs. Issues
   2. Risk Attitude
   3. Identification
   4. Assessment
   5. Prioritization
   6. Mitigation
   7. Communication
   8. Risk Burndown Chart
10. Project Vision Meeting
    1. Team Selection
    2. Outputs
11. User Group Meetings
    1. Epics
    2. Personas
    3. User Stories
    4. Prioritization
12. Sprint Planning Meeting
    1. Epics
    2. Personae
    3. Outputs
13. Conducting The Daily Standup (Or Daily Scrum)
    1. The Daily Standup Meeting
    2. Three Questions
    3. War Room
    4. Managing Distribution Teams
14. Grooming The Prioritized Product Backlog Meeting
    1. Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meeting
    2. Change Requests
    3. Risks
    4. Outputs
15. Sprint Review Meeting
    1. Sprint Review Meeting
    2. Tracking Overall Progress
    3. Outputs
16. Retrospect Sprint Meeting
    1. Retrospect Sprint Meeting
    2. Explorer-Shopper-Vacationer-Prisoner
    3. Speed Boat
    4. Metrics and Measuring
    5. Outputs
17. Release Planning Meeting
    1. Release Planning
    2. Length of Sprint
    3. Release Preferences
    4. Outputs
18. Scrum Artifacts
    1. Product Backlog
    2. Deliverables
    3. Sprint Backlog
    4. Burndown Charts
19. Creating Deliverables
    1. Create the Deliverables
    2. Update the Scrum Board
    3. Impediment Log
    4. Refactor
20. Convening A Scrum of Scrums
    1. Projects, Programs, and Portfolios
    2. Scaling Scrum
    3. Convening a Scrum of Scrums
    4. Four Questions