Unleash the innovative power of your people with Scrum

Taught by Dr. Charles (Chuck) Suscheck

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Being a professional Scrum Master is much more than being a meeting facilitator or an Agile manager – it’s about engaging team members, enabling team self-organization, and delivering a better product by with Scrum.  

Through a combination of instruction and exercises, we teach the reasons for Agile and the intentioned application of the Scrum framework.  The class will help you to enable your team to create the most innovative product they can. 

In general, Scrum Masters face 2 major challenges:

• The misinterpretation of the role of Scrum Master as an ‘Agile project manager’ or as a personal coach.

• The misinterpretation that Scrum is a delivery method mainly for IT people, teams, and departments.

Common myths debunked during class:

• ‘Doing math’ is a way to predict the future.
• A product cannot be released until the end of a Sprint.
• Velocity is a measure of team productivity.
• Scrum Master is an administrative assistant, team lead, Agile project manager, individual coach.
• Sprint Review is a demo or where the business approves or rejects the work. 
• The main purpose of Agile is to deliver the same things as a traditional approach but faster and cheaper.
• When Scrum Masters become more effective, they should be given more teams.

The overall goal of this course is to equip the student to master Scrum. It is a deep and holistic survey of the Scrum framework: how the roles and rules interact and why.  The course provides the essential knowledge for anyone responsible for effective Scrum application.

Who should attend?

The course assumes basic familiarity with Scrum.  If you are new to Scrum, you should read the Scrum Guide (www.scrumguides.org).  This course is perfectly appropriate for non-IT professionals who are looking to apply Scrum in their context. 

Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum Master course, students receive credentials to take the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSM I Certification. Students take the assessment on their own after class.     

Earning your PSM I Certification will make you part of an elite community of 300,000+ PSM I certificate holders.