Course Taxonomy: Scrum

Advanced Scrum Master Certification Path (ASM)

Throughout this blended learning pathway, learners will complete various activities to practice and apply knowledge, and the Learning Lab will cumulatively assess all skills gained. Those who complete all required elements will be eligible for the Advanced Scrum Master certification:

• Advanced Facilitator: Conflict and Collaboration

   • Self Paced Learning(2 hours)

   • Facilitated Workshop(4hours)

 • SAFe Skills(Self Paced)

   • Measuring Team and ART Flow( 1hour)

   • Accelerating Team Flow (1 hour) 

   • Cultivating High performing Teams(1 hour) 

 • 4 hour learning Lab

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I)

Part 1:

  • Introduction

Part 2:

  • Using Scrum and Kanban Together

Part 3:

  • Optimize your Workflows by Adding Kanban

Part 4:

  • Visualizing the Sprint Backlog workflow on a Kanban board
  • Limiting Work in Progress (WIP)
  • Actively managing work items in progress
  • Continually inspecting and adapting the way the team uses flow optimization

Part 5:

  • Recap on how these methods improve transparency, collaboration, and self-management

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®)

Part 1 – Lean, Agile, and Scrum

  • Show how Scrum is aligned with the Agile Manifesto
  • Know the history of Scrum and Agile
  • Understand the value of other agile approaches
  • Analyze the personality traits of a ScrumMaster
  • Know when transparency inspection and adaptation are not working

Part 2 – Facilitation

  • Know how to recognize divergent and convergent thinking
  • Understand the challenges of integrating multiple perspectives
  • Use facilitative listening
  • Use alternatives to open discussion
  • Know when not to be a facilitator
  • Design a facilitated event
  • Create a working agreement

Part 3 – Coaching and Training

  • Understand the elements of a coaching stance
  • Use coaching techniques
  • Identify improvements to coaching interventions
  • Be able to explain Scrum and its benefits to a stakeholder

Part 4 – Service to the Scrum Team

  • Describe the qualities of a self-managing team
  • Use techniques to enable a team to improve its own effectiveness
  • Know different models for group development
  • Facilitate the creation of a Definition of Done
  • Explain development practices and how they are beneficial

Part 5 – Service to the Product Owner

  • Describe Product vision and Product Goals.
  • Know how to create a Product Goal with the Scrum Team and stakeholders.
  • Create and refine a Product Backlog that supports achieving a Product Goal.

Part 6 – Service to the Organization

  • Understand the organizational impediments that can affect your Scrum team
  • Practice how to resolve organizational impediments

Part 7 – Scaling Scrum

  • Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
  • Techniques for visualizing, and reducing dependencies.
  • Benefits of feature teams versus component teams.

Part 8 – Organizational Change

  • Understanding complex systems.
  • Initiating organizational change.

Part 9 – Scrum Mastery

  • How you as a ScrumMaster fulfill the Scrum values
  • Recognize types of conflict
  • Patterns for responding to conflict
  • Effective leadership

Professional Scrum with User Experience

Course Content

  • Understand how Scrum with UX enhances continuous learning
  • Framing work as problems to solve
  • Outcomes over outputs
  • Managing UX work in Scrum
  • Focus on users
  • Experimentation

Certified Agile Scaling Practitioner 1 (CASP 1)

Course Outline:

  • Introduction to Scaling Agile:
    • Why Scale?
    • The philosophy of scaling
    • Why is scaling so hard?
  • Agile Principles for Scaling:
    • Deep dive into core Agile values and principles
    • Applying principles to guide your scaling journey
  • Patterns for Agile Scaling:
    • Exploring principle-informed scaling patterns
    • Patterns and Anti patterns
    • Frameworks and patterns
    • Selecting and adapting patterns for your organization
  • Organizational Transformation with Agile:
    • The role of leadership and change management
    • Building a culture that supports Agile at scale
    • Effective value delivery
  • Scaling Frameworks in Context:
    • Understanding the role of frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, etc.
    • Identifying which aspects of frameworks contribute to agility

Scrum in a Day

Introduction

  • Welcome and logistics
  • Participant introductions and expectations
  • Activity: Share your Agile experience and goals for the class

The Scrum Master / Team Coach Role

  • Responsibilities and core functions
  • Servant leadership and facilitation
  • Exercise: Observation of team behaviors and mentoring discussion

Agile Teams and Iterations

  • Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master/Team Coach, Agile Team
  • Team events: planning, sync, refinement, review, retrospective
  • Activity: Sticky note iterative delivery simulation

Supporting the ART and Agile Transformation

  • Overview of Agile Release Train (ART) events and PI Planning
  • Scrum Master's contributions at the ART level
  • Strategies for being a change agent
  • Exercise: Identifying impediments to transformation

Collaboration and Communication

  • Listening levels and techniques
  • Powerful questioning and conflict resolution
  • Managing group think
  • Activity: Team sync observation and discussion

Continuous Learning and Growth

  • Emotional intelligence and self-awareness
  • Fixed vs. growth mindset
  • Systems thinking
  • Activity: Self-assessment using awareness tools

Putting It All Together

  • Summary of key takeaways
  • Open Q&A and reflection
  • Class Retrospective and Final Survey

Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner (CSP®-PO)

Learning Objectives

  • Product Owner Core Competencies
    • Product Owner as Product Champion
    • Stakeholder Discussions
    • Launching Scrum Teams
    • Product Ownership with Multiple Teams
    • Training
  • Implementing Purpose and Strategy
    • Market-Driven Product Strategy Practices
    • Complex Product Planning and Forecasting
    • Product Economics
  • Advanced Interactions with Customers and Users
    • Advanced Customer Research and Product Discovery
  • Complex Product Assumption Validation
  • Advanced Product Backlog Management
    • Differentiating Outcome and Output
    • Defining Value
    • Ordering Items
    • Refining Items to Deliver Customer Value Quickly
  • Scrum Guide Updates

Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®)

The coursework and dedication needed to achieve a CSD® sharpens your skills to help you become a better

practitioner of Scrum and agile development.

By earning a Certified Scrum Developer® certification, you:

• Learn the foundations of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Developer’s role from the best minds in development agility

• Demonstrate to employers and peers your understanding of core Scrum knowledge

• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting agile practices

• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement