Certified Scrum Master

Scrum master is the scrum team member tasked with fostering an effective and productive working environment and guiding others to understand scrum values, principles and practices. Scrum masters tend to be people-oriented, have a high level of emotional intelligence, and find joy in helping team members to grow.

Whether you want to serve as a scrum master, are adopting scrum, or just need the tools to be more agile, our Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) course is the right place to start. You’ll gain a solid understanding of scrum and learn practical ways to apply it on your team and throughout your organization.

If you’re ready to grow more agile with Scrum, our Certified ScrumMaster^® (CSM^®) course is designed for you. You’ll learn the Scrum framework and gain an understanding of team accountabilities, events and artifacts as well as how to guide your team to apply Scrum.

Considered the gold standard of certification, the Scrum Alliance CSM course is an interactive and engaging learning experience. Taught by the most experienced and passionate agile trainers around the world, each CSM class can be personalised to meet students where they are in their learning journey.

CSM training gives you hands-on skills that you can immediately apply in the real world and expand your career opportunities. Once you complete the course, you will have everything you need to take and pass the CSM exam.

During this two-day course you will learn to:

Day 1

• Scrum Values
• Empirical Process Control
• Agile Mindset
• Elements of Scrum Framework
• Scrum Framework
• Scrum Roles – The Scrum Team, Product Owner, Development Team, Scrum Master
• Scrum Artifacts - Product Backlog

Day 2

• Scrum Artifacts Contd. – Sprint Backlog and Product Increment
• Evolutionary Planning, Time-Box, Sprint
• Scrum Events – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective
• Product Backlog Refinement
• Definition of Done
• Facilitation Techniques (Recap)
• Scrum Master as a Coach
• ScrumMaster's Service to PO, DT, and Org
• CSM Certification and Next steps

Anyone new to the agile way of work will find value from the concepts covered in the CSM course. Scrum is applicable across industries and potentially cross-functional teams, so marketers, data scientists, HR representatives, and other professionals looking for a better way to solve complex problems are encouraged to attend.

Course attendees typically include:

• Scrum Masters
• Software engineers
• Business Analytics
• Project Managers
• New Scrum Team Members

Sekhar Burra

Sekhar is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), and Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach with 17+ years of experience. His primary focus and speciality includes building great teams that make great organisations by inculcating agile ways of working, lean thinking, promoting innovation and help leadership transitioning through change that enables business agility.