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Roman Pichler – Pichler Consulting Limited

Certified ScrumMaster Training

This hands-on Certified ScrumMaster training course enables you to understand what Scrum is, how it works and how you can best leverage Scrum. You will learn what it takes to work effectively as a ScrumMaster and benefit from Roman’s long track record in teaching and coaching ScrumMasters.

This training course is also available for onsite delivery.


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Agenda

Introduction to Scrum

  • The Scrum framework with its principles and rules
  • Where Scrum excels

The Scrum roles

  • Responsibility, authority and collaboration of ScrumMaster, team, and product owner
  • Self-organisation, teambuilding, and leadership in Scrum; the ScrumMaster as a coach and change agent
  • Software craftsmanship

The product backlog

  • The product backlog in Scrum
  • Product backlog grooming including capturing requirements as user stories, prioritisation
  • Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning

Sprint deep-dive

An in-depth discussion of the sprint meetings (sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective) including valuable techniques and tips and tricks for ScrumMasters

Release planning

  • Release planning strategies, effort estimation using story points, and determining velocity
  • Using the release burndown to track and to forecast the project progress

Large and distributed Scrum projects

Techniques to manage large and distributed Scrum projects including product owner hierarchy, lookahead planning, extending the grooming horizon, and joint sprint meetings

Audience

Anybody interested to understand how Scrum works; anyone who wants to play the ScrumMaster role or improve his/her ScrumMaster work including development managers, project managers, team leads, architects, developers, and testers.

Prerequisites

The participants should have been involved in a software development effort. The attendees are required to prepare for the training by reading the “Scrum Guide,” and are encouraged to read one of the following books prior to the class:

 


About Your Trainer — Roman Pichler

Roman is a leading Scrum expert, a Certified Scrum Trainer, and the author of three books on Agile and Scrum. Roman has ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum rollouts in several companies. Roman has worked with product owners and agile product managers for a decade, and he has seven years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum Product Owners and ScrumMasters. Roman is the founder of the London Scrum User Group, an active contributor to the Scrum Alliance, and a regular speaker at international conferences. He speaks English and German.

For attendee feedback, please view the testimonials. Please contact us at via email at training@romanpichler.com or call us at +44 (0) 7949 203772 to discuss how you can benefit from the training.