Instructor: Christian Antoine

Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®)

Posted on June 29, 2021 by -

The coursework and dedication needed to achieve a CSD® sharpens your skills to help you become a better

practitioner of Scrum and agile development.

By earning a Certified Scrum Developer® certification, you:

• Learn the foundations of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Developer’s role from the best minds in development agility

• Demonstrate to employers and peers your understanding of core Scrum knowledge

• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting agile practices

• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

Part 1: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 2: The Scrum Team

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Single Product Owners
  • Product Owners own the Product Backlog
  • Delivering an Increment
  • Benefits of a cross-functional and self-managing Scrum Team

Part 3: Scrum Events and Activities

  • Benefits of Timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement
  • Inspecting and Adapting events
  • When to cancel a sprint
  • Daily Scrum is not a status meeting

Part 4: Scrum Artifacts and Commitments

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals,Sprint Goals, Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done
  • Multiple Teams working on one Product Backlog

Part 5: Scrum Master Core Competencies

  • Facilitation
  • Facilitating decision making
  • Teaching
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring

Part 6: Service to Scrum Team, Product Owner and Organization

  • How does a Scrum Master serve the Scrum Team
  • Explaining Technical Debt
  • Understanding development practices to improve quality and reduce technical debt
  • Supporting the Product Owner
  • Organizational impediments that affect Scrum Teams
  • Techniques for resolving impediments
  • Why are there no Project managers in Scrum?

Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • Product Owner in different organizations
  • Demonstrate progress on goals to Stakeholders
  • Gathering insights
  • Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
  • Product Ownership of multiple teams
  • Owning the Product backlog 
  • Collaborating with the Scrum team

Part 2: Goal Setting and Planning

  • Defining Value
  • Product Visions and Product Goals
  • Creating a Sprint Goal
  • Product Planning and Release Planning
  • Identifying small valuable increments

Part 3: Understanding Customers and Users

  • Product Discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Conflicting customer needs
  • Defining Product Outcomes
  • Connecting developers to users

Part 4: Validating Product Assumptions

  • Validating Product assumptions in Scrum
  • Approaches to validate assumptions

Part 5: Working the Product Backlog

  • Outcome vs Output
  • Maximizing outcomes
  • Product economics
  • Describing and measuring value
  • Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
  • Refining a Product Backlog

Part 6: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an iterative and incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 7: Scrum Teams 

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Working with stakeholders
  • Working with multiple teams

Part 8: Scrum events and activities

  • Benefits of timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement

Part 9: Artifacts and commitments 

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by -

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • The importance of the product ownership
  • The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
  • Interacting with Stakeholders
  • Product Owners as facilitators
  • Facilitation techniques
  • Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
  • Understanding the risk of technical debt
  • Understanding the importance of development practices
  • Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
  • Visualizing and reducing dependencies
  • Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

  • Operationalizing Product Strategy
  • Approaches to define product strategy
  • Product Planning
  • Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

  • Connecting Developers with Customers
  • Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

  • Recognize cognitive biases
  • Improving your Sprint Review
  • Defining Hypotheses
  • Planning how to test hypotheses
  • Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

  • Techniques for measuring value
  • Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
  • Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
  • Improving Product Backlog Refinement