ScrumMaster Training Topics

Day 1: 9:00am - 5:30pm

1. Introductions
2. Working agreements exercise
3. Expectations
• Silent Sort exercise
4. The Ball Points Game
• Process improvement game
5. Lean, Agile, and Scrum
• "What do you know about speed?" exercise
6. Scrum Process
• Drawing Scrum exercise
• Sprint types exercise
7. Scrum Master Role
• Working with the team
• The "Five Whys" exercise
• Transparency exercise
• Change agent in an organization
• Leadership and organizational aspects of implementing Scrum
8. Product Owner Role
• Responsibilities and expectations
• Working with stakeholders
• Ideal Product Owner exercise

Day 2: 9:00am - 5:30pm

• Retrospectives
• Timeline retrospective exercise
• The Team
• The Knot: a self organization simulation
• Team attributes
• The Tuckman Model of team formation
• Common scenarios for Scrummasters
• Product Backlog, User Stories and Agile requirements
  • User story writing exercise
  • Changing system requirements into User Stories
• Agile Estimating and Planning
  • Storypoints exercise
  • Planning Poker exercise
  • Release planning
  • Dealing with changes to the plan
• What is "Done?"
  • Helping a team define done exercise

Corporate Workshops

In-house corporate workshops are available for companies engaged in team or company Scrum adoption. Corporate trainings teach the above content, provide ScrumMaster certification to participants, and offer the following additional benefits:

• Flexible pricing
• Customized topics
• Onsite delivery
• Whole team training