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Key Features

  • 2 Days Classroom Training
  • 16 PMI PDUs offered
  • 2 Simulation Exams
  • CSM Exam Fee Included
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer®

CSM® Certification Training SCHEDULE

In-Person
Classroom

USD : $1999.00$ 1599.00

  • 2-days of guaranteed to run in-person training
  • Access to Global Certify’s study guide designed by industry experts
  • CSM exam voucher at no additional charge
  • 16 PDU certificate on completion of training
  • 100% CSM exam pass assurance in 1st attempt

Live Online
Classroom

USD : $1299.00 $ 799.00

  • 2-days of assured instructor-led online live training
  • Access to Global Certify’s study guide designed by industry experts
  • CSM exam voucher at no additional charge
  • 16 PDU certificate on completion of training
  • 100% CSM exam pass assurance in 1st attempt

Online
Self Study

USD : $999.00$ 499.00

  • 180 days of complete access to the complete course
  • Exam passing tips and tricks to assist in the examination
  • CSM exam voucher at no additional charge
  • 16 PDU certificate on completion of training
  • 100% CSM exam pass assurance in 1st attempt

CSM® Certification Training DESCRIPTION

Prepare for the CSM certification with our expert trainer and quality course content. Our practice tests in the classroom training sessions will enable you to be confident in taking the Certified ScrumMaster® exam and clearing it on your first attempt. Our exam-oriented approach to ScrumMaster® training will ensure your success and enable you to progress in your career as a Certified ScrumMaster®.

Course Agenda

  • Why Agile?
  • Traditional Development
  • Problems with traditional software development
  • Usage of features in a system
  • Makings of a new approach
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
  • Authors of the Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Project Management
  • Agile Project Management Life-cycle
  • Agile Project Management Framework
  • APM Framework
  • What is Scrum?
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Professional Scrum Master
  • PMI-ACP

  • Agile Methodologies
  • Crystal
  • 7 Project Properties in Crystal
  • Samples of Crystal
  • Feature-Driven-Development
  • Roles in FDD
  • Processes in FDD
  • Project tracking in FDD
  • Project tracking methodology
  • FDD usage guidelines
  • Dynamic Systems Development Methodology (DSDM)
  • Planning in DSDM-Atern
  • DSDM Principles and techniques
  • eXtreme Programming
  • XP Values
  • XP Practices
  • XP Benefits
  • Agile Unified Process
  • Agile Unified Process (AUP)
  • Agile Unified Process – System Development
  • Scrum
  • Scrum Life-cycle

  • Stakeholders
  • Chicken and Pig roles
  • Management of stakeholders
  • Scrum life-cycle
  • Product Owner
  • Product Owner’s role
  • Prioritization
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Prioritization based on Value and Risk
  • Prioritizing requirements - MoSCoW
  • Prioritizing requirements – Kano Model
  • Prioritizing requirements – Relative weighting method
  • Scrum life-cycle
  • Scrum Master
  • What does a Scrum Master Do
  • What the Scrum Master Should NOT do
  • Scrum life-cycle
  • The team – aka Developers
  • Building a Scrum team
  • Building empowered teams
  • Role of a Manager
  • Manager 2.0: A new role for a Manager
  • Some specialist roles you may want

  • Time-boxing
  • Advantages of time-boxing
  • Time-boxing
  • Release
  • High-level view of a release
  • Sprints
  • Factors in selecting a Sprint duration
  • Intensity of work
  • No changes in a Sprint
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Review
  • Also check during a review
  • Sprint Retrospective
  • What is a Sprint Retrospective
  • Making retrospectives effective

  • Product backlog
  • Product, release and sprint backlog
  • User story
  • Story card information
  • Multiple stories may be required to complete a feature
  • Epics
  • Writing good stories
  • Splitting user stories
  • Splitting user stories (big picture)
  • Splitting user stories (user experience)
  • Splitting user stories (Others)

  • Refactoring
  • Pair programming
  • Continuous integration
  • Practices of continuous integration
  • Configuration management
  • Quality in Agile
  • Scrum Quality – Home truths
  • Planning for a Sprint
  • Test-driven development
  • Test-driven development
  • Advantages of TDD
  • Definition of “Done”

  • Principles behind Agile planning
  • Iterations allow for mid-course corrections
  • Multiple levels of planning
  • Release planning
  • Steps to planning a release
  • Release Planning
  • Velocity
  • Sprint planning
  • Velocity driven sprint planning
  • Commitment driven sprint planning
  • Planning for each story
  • Keep in mind before finalizing the plan

  • Principles behind Scrum estimation
  • Estimation techniques
  • Types of estimates
  • Uncertainty in estimates
  • Over-estimation and under-estimation
  • What contributes to size
  • Measures of size
  • Ideal days
  • Story points
  • Estimation techniques – Planning poker
  • Affinity estimation
  • Affinity estimation - process

  • Monitoring Scrum Projects
  • Definition - Metrics
  • Types of metrics
  • Metrics do’s and don’ts
  • Charts in Scrum
  • Burn-down chart: Iteration level
  • Burndown chart: Project level
  • Burndown chart: Bar style
  • Burn-up and Burn-down chart
  • Cumulative Flow Diagram
  • Parking lot diagram
  • Escaped defects found
  • Velocity chart
  • Progress Chart
  • Niko Niko calendar
  • Information radiators
  • Information radiators: Big visible charts
  • Information radiators

  • Scrum on large projects
  • Scrum-of-Scrum
  • Product coordination teams
  • Scrum on maintenance projects
  • Distributed scrum teams
  • Best practices in distributed scrum
  • Structure-1: Team in India; PO in US
  • Structure-2: Team split in two locations
  • People practices in distributed Scrum
  • Practices in distributed scrum
  • Practices in distributed scrum
  • Scrum-Contracting
  • Fixed Price/fixed scope
  • Scrum in fixed price projects
  • Transitioning a team/project to Scrum
  • Transitioning a team/project to Scrum

Course Overview

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) course helps you get going with Scrum and Agile. Scrum slices tasks or ‘work’ into smaller chunks usually addressed as ‘user Stories’ and makes it possible to finish the work done effectively and productively by cutting down the iterations. CSM certification course, with its well-structured syllabus about the finer details of Scrum framework and Agile practices, prepares you to take up larger responsibilities of Scrum Master in helping the team in achieving goals collectively, quickening turnaround time, and tremendous team play.

They also learn the skills that make them immune to internal and external distractions, help them be self-motivated and escalate the team performance, and get more job opportunities in the IT and non-IT sectors with good pay. The individual learns more about the fundamentals, terminologies and concepts, Scrum roles, core competencies, Scrum ceremonies, and skills to act as a servant leader in the CSM training.

The benefits of our Course are as such: An individual with good Knowledge of Scrum gets opportunities to lead and guide Scrum Teams effectively and make organizational success as a Scrum Master. Getting the Scrum Master certification helps individuals to stay up to date with the latest industry trends and job opportunities, helps you to expand your Scrum skills, and overcome any obstacles easily. The skills acquired helps to improve team management and team collaboration which leads to successful product development. Earning a CSM badge showcases to your employers that you have a strong command of managing complex products.

Our CSM training course is created in such a way that it helps people who are new to Agile and Scrum and also to the experienced people. We have designed the content with plenty of activities, group discussions, and case studies which help the participants to understand well. Moreover, our CSM course itself will be conducted using the Scrum framework so you will experience the Scrum implementation within the class itself. During the course you will practically implement the Scrum framework and create respective artifacts on your own, this helps you to get hands-on learning in the Training itself. We also ensure all the questions and doubts of yours get answered during the class and we do not leave any question unanswered. This helps you to clear all your doubts and create more confidence in you to start your Scrum implementation.

CSM® Certification Training Exam & Certification

To earn your CSM certificate, you must take a CSM course from a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) or Endorsed Scrum Trainer (EST) and demonstrate your progress through our online CSM test. The first step toward your CSM is familiarizing yourself with Scrum. We've compiled a list of resources that can help you see how Scrum transforms the world of work. Then attend an in-person, two-day (16 hour) CSM course taught by a Scrum Alliance Authorized Trainer. After successfully completing the course, you will need to pass the CSM exam. To get a passing score, you must correctly answer 24 of the 35 questions. You will be eligible for 16 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) upon completion of this course. After you pass the CSM exam, you will be asked to accept the License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.