Certified ScrumMaster/Jumpstart

Jumpstart your Scrum Team!

Do you want to get started with Scrum? Does your team need hands on experience before starting a "real" project? Do need to convince a skeptic that Scrum is the way to go?

As Line Manager, Project Manager, Developer, Tester, Product Manager, Business Analyst or Consultant, you have heard about the advantages of Scrum. Maybe you are skeptical about the claims and hype around Scrum and Agile software development and want to find out more. Maybe you have decided to take the plunge and start your first agile project. Maybe you have started doing Scrum, but it's not working as expected. You want to get better at executing projects. You want to find out more.

How does Scrum Work? How is agile development different than the classical approach? How do you get started? How do you estimate work? How do you plan a Sprint? What changes can you expect when you do Scrum? This course provides you with the answers to your questions and gives you an intense, hands-on look at Scrum, so you know how to move forwards.

A Customer Recommendation:

Anton Schultschick, Head of IT-Support,
Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich 
After taking this course, you should:

1. Understand in your head how Scrum works
2. Feel in your gut why Scrum works
3. Know in your hands how to do Scrum.

In short, you should be able to start your first Scrum Project, improve your performance in an existing Scrum project and answer important questions about whether Scrum is appropriate for your organization. And you qualify to become a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (online test required).

Topics:

• Agile Values & Principles
• Roles in Scrum: ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team
• Rituals (Meetings): Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Retrospective
• Documents and Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Task board, Burn Down Charts
  
• Planning: User Stories, Estimation, Acceptance Tests, Release Planning

Throughout the course, exercises, games and simulations help you understand and experience Scrum first hand.

Your Trainer

This course is taught by Peter Stevens and a Certified Scrum Trainer , usually either Peter Beck or Andreas Schliep of DasScrumTeam. See the course schedule for details.

Audience

The CSM/Jumpstart is ideal for

• Teams and organizations getting started with Scrum.
• Managers, consultants or project leaders who are considering whether to deploy Scrum in their organizations.
• Teams or organizations who have had difficulties doing Scrum properly.

Their are no prerequisites, but familiarity with Scrum, XP or software development will be helpful.

Certification

Participants who successfully complete the course become Certified Scrum Masters and receive a 1 year membership in the Scrum Alliance.

Effective 1 October 2009, all CSMs will be required to complete a Certified ScrumMaster course and pass a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) online certification exam to maintain certification. Please read more about Scrum certification from the Scrum Alliance.

This course may be offered without Scrum Alliance certification. Check the course announcements for details.

Registration

• Duration: 2 days
  
• Language: German or English (according to the announcement)
  
• Location: Zurich, Bern, or Geneva, Switzerland — c/o Digicomp Academy
• Time: Coffee and Registration 8:30, Course Times from 9:00 to 17.00 (with 17:30 for overflow)
• For prices and dates: continue to Registration

The course materials are in English.

Register for this course online.

You can also jump start your entire team with In-House training in English, German, or French. Please contact us for more information.