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

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

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

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Training Agenda:

  • Introductions
  • Theory & First Principles
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Product Delivery with Scrum
  • People & Teams
  • The Scrum Master
  • Closing

Certified Scrum Professional® – ScrumMaster (CSP®-SM)

Part 1: Lean, Agile, and Scrum

  1. Lean Thinking

Part 2: Scrum Master Core Competencies

  1. Facilitation
  2. Coaching
  3. Training

Part 3: Service to the Development Team

  1. Team Dynamics
  2. Starting New Scrum Teams
  3. Software Craftsmanship
  4. Coaching the Development Team

Part 4: Service to the Product Owner

  1. Coaching the Product Owner

Part 5: Service to the Organization

  1. Organizational Development
  2. Scaling Scrum

Part 6: Scrum Mastery

SAFe® AI-Empowered Scrum Master (SAFe SSM)

  • Lesson 1: Introducing Scrum in SAFe
    • Basic Agile development concepts
    • Scrum basics
    • The Agile Team in SAFe
  • Lesson 2: Characterizing the Role of the Scrum Master
    • Defining the role of the Scrum Master
    • Coaching execution with effective events
    • Cultivating high-performing teams
  • Lesson 3: Experiencing PI Planning
    • Preparing for PI Planning
    • PI Planning – Day One
    • PI Planning – Day Two
    • Final plan review and PI objectives
  • Lesson 4: Facilitating Iteration Execution
    • Plan the iteration
    • Track the iteration progress
    • Refine the backlog
    • Facilitate the Iteration Review
    • Facilitate relentless improvement
    • Support DevOps and Release on Demand
  • Lesson 5: Finishing the PI
    • Coach the IP iteration
    • Prepare the team for the Inspect & Adapt event
  • Lesson 6: AI for Scrum Masters
    • AI foundations and prompting
    • Responsible AI
    • Building an AI-augmented Scrum Master workflow

Certified ScrumMaster®(CSM®)

Part 1: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

 

Part 2: The Scrum Team

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Single Product Owners
  • Product Owners own the Product Backlog
  • Delivering an Increment
  • Benefits of a cross-functional and self-managing Scrum Team

 

Part 3: Scrum Events and Activities

  • Benefits of Timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement
  • Inspecting and Adapting events
  • When to cancel a sprint
  • Daily Scrum is not a status meeting

 

Part 4: Scrum Artifacts and Commitments

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals,Sprint Goals, Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done
  • Multiple Teams working on one Product Backlog

 

Part 5: Scrum Master Core Competencies

  • Facilitation
  • Facilitating decision making
  • Teaching
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring

 

Part 6: Service to Scrum Team, Product Owner and Organization

  • How does a Scrum Master serve the Scrum Team
  • Explaining Technical Debt
  • Understanding development practices to improve quality and reduce technical debt
  • Supporting the Product Owner
  • Organizational impediments that affect Scrum Teams
  • Techniques for resolving impediments
  • Why are there no Project managers in Scrum?

 

Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • Product Owner in different organizations
  • Demonstrate progress on goals to Stakeholders
  • Gathering insights
  • Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
  • Product Ownership of multiple teams
  • Owning the Product backlog 
  • Collaborating with the Scrum team

Part 2: Goal Setting and Planning

  • Defining Value
  • Product Visions and Product Goals
  • Creating a Sprint Goal
  • Product Planning and Release Planning
  • Identifying small valuable increments

Part 3: Understanding Customers and Users

  • Product Discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Conflicting customer needs
  • Defining Product Outcomes
  • Connecting developers to users

Part 4: Validating Product Assumptions

  • Validating Product assumptions in Scrum
  • Approaches to validate assumptions

Part 5: Working the Product Backlog

  • Outcome vs Output
  • Maximizing outcomes
  • Product economics
  • Describing and measuring value
  • Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
  • Refining a Product Backlog

Part 6: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an iterative and incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 7: Scrum Teams 

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Working with stakeholders
  • Working with multiple teams

Part 8: Scrum events and activities

  • Benefits of timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement

Part 9: Artifacts and commitments 

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done