Professional Scrum Master Certification Training

IMPORTANT: “Professional Scrum Master” and “PSM” are registered trademarks of Advanced Development Methods (Scrum .org) 

If you’ve been desperately looking for Agile Scrum Master Certification Training And Practice Exam Questions and you are tired of taking courses with no examples, confusing curriculum, vague explanations, then enrolling and completing this program might be one of the best career decisions you’ve made this year.

Who Is This Course For?

people who want to…

• Add a Scrum Master Certification to their CV.
• Master the Scrum Framework(TM).
• Align their Scrum Knowledge with the latest changes.

The course is complete and It leaves no room for failure. By the end of it, you will feel confident in your Scrum knowledge.

You will have a perfect understanding of the Scrum Framework and its rules, accountabilities (formerly known as roles), events, artifacts, and commitments.

Section 1 – Agile & Scrum Foundation

• The difference between Adaptive & Predictive approaches to development
• What is Scrum and a high-level overview
• The 5 Scrum Values and what they mean in the real world
• The Agile manifesto and the 12 Agile principles
• The concepts of Iterative & Incremental Development

Section 2 – Scrum Accountabilities (Formerly Known as Roles)

• The concepts of Cross-Functionality & Self-Management
• Characteristics of the three sets of accountabilities
  • The Scrum Master
  • The Developers
  • The Product Owner

Section 3 – Scrum Events

• The Agile Concept “Timeboxing” Explained
• The Sprint and its main purpose
• Sprint Planning and answering the three questions – why what & how
• Daily Scrum (a key inspect & adapt event for the Developers)
• Sprint Review and why feedback is critically important
• Sprint Retrospective (the driver of continuous improvement)
• The concept of “feedback Loops”

Section 4 – Scrum Artifacts & Their Commitments

• The Product Backlog (the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team)
• The Sprint Backlog (when does it emerge, who is accountable for it, what happens with the PBIs that are not complete)
• The Increment (the relationship between the Increment and the Product Backlog, who decides to release it, in what condition should it be)
• The Product Goal (the long-term objective for the Scrum Team)
• The Sprint Goal (the objective for the Sprint)
• The Definition Of Done (who crafts it and why, is it mandatory, can it change)

Section 5 – Scrum Example (The Agile Company Intelligent Web Solutions helps a Chiropractic Clinic Build a Conversion-Focused Website)

• Introduction to the #1 software development tool used by Agile teams – JIRA
• How to create a Product Backlog
• How to create a Sprint Backlog
• How to write User Stories
• How to assign tasks
• How to write the Sprint Goal
• How to set the duration of a Sprint
• An example of high-priority process improvement and how the Scrum Master resolves impediments
• An example of the Definition Of Done (plus updates)
• An example of Acceptance Criteria
• The difference between the Definition Of Done and the Acceptance Criteria

Section 6 – The Examination – (Scaling and Additional Resources)

• Top reasons why people fail the Scrum Master examination and solutions
• Scrum Rules that never change no matter the circumstances
• Scaling Scrum (several must-know rules for the exam)
• The Definition Of Ready
• Recommended Resources – Free Practice Exams plus 2 of my favorite books (you don’t need to read them to pass the exam)

Section 8 – Practice Exams

Requirements

• No previous Scrum knowledge or experience needed.