Course Description
Course Description
The 2-day Professional Scrum Foundations course provides the
foundational knowledge needed to work with Scrum in a highly practical
way. The course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises
where students experience how the Scrum framework improves product development
efforts. Over the 2 days, students are
introduced to the mechanics of Scrum, gaining insights into overcoming complexity,
dealing with team-based collaboration and self-organization as essential
elements in mastering Scrum.
Students work together as a team in a series of Sprints to
build a software application, thereby facing real-life problems. The mechanics,
roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises. From its
emphasis on the practical application of Scrum, the course exposes common
missteps and misunderstandings so students grow a higher awareness of the
associated symptoms, and provides prescriptive guidance to avoid going off
track and keep Scrum healthy.
Course Topics
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Fundaments to Scrum
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The Scrum Framework (part 1 and part 2)
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Mastering Scrum
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Planning with Scrum
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Getting started
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Keeping Scrum healthy
Course Objectives
Students are challenged to act in terms of Scrum. They take
home an increased understanding of how to collaborate better and work as a team
in a context of Scrum.
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Students will have a clear understanding of the elements
that make out Scrum and their coherence.
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Students learn how to use visual information
radiators.
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Students leave the class with a handful of tips
to identify common pitfalls and dysfunctions.
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Students can take part of a Scrum Team and be
more effective.
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Students can increase Scrum’s effectiveness if
already underway.
Who Should Attend
The Professional Scrum Foundations course is the perfect
introduction, reboot or refresher to Scrum. This course is for teams or anyone
wanting to experience the Scrum way of working. PSF provides the base knowledge
needed for anyone interested in taking role-focused trainings.
Why Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs)
Each trainer candidate is put through a rigorous process to
ensure that they have the right set of capabilities to be a Professional Scrum
Trainer. The process includes a combination of interviews, assessments,
training, train-the-trainer events and more. It takes more than a solid
understanding of Scrum and a deep knowledge of the Scrum Guide to become a PST.
Successful candidates are skilled in software development and product
management. They are experts in Scrum and have extensive experience applying,
leading, teaching and coaching it. They have been servant-leaders at an
organizational level. They live Scrum daily.
Scrum.org continuously evaluates a trainer’s abilities while
the trainers also evaluate and improve themselves through the use of student
feedback and student assessments. Many spend a significant amount of their time
embedded in software Scrum Teams as coaches, Scrum Masters and other roles to
stay in tune with reality. Essentially, PSTs do more than just train; they walk
the walk.
Additional Course Offerings
Scrum.org offers five different training classes in public
and private settings.
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Professional Scrum Master
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Professional Scrum Developer
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Professional Scrum Product Owner
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Scaled Professional Scrum
Courses are provided around the world. Our PSTs can work
with you to plan a private course to meet your organization’s specific needs.
For globally distributed organizations, our PSTs work together to provide
training for your staff wherever they reside, ensuring that they are all
learning the same thing. Consistent training is critical for large scale
efforts where many teams are working together on the same products.