Professional Scrum Training Courses
Enables all members of the Scrum Team to learn Scrum while doing it, experiencing what it is like to deliver products using the Scrum framework
An interactive, activity-based course where students gain a strong understanding of Professional Scrum and the role of the Scrum Master. Through a combination of discussion and exercises, students develop a deep understanding of the underlying principles of Scrum and the Agile mindset while learning the practices applied by successful Scrum Teams.
In this advanced class, experienced Scrum Masters learn to overcome challenges they face through immersive facilitated exercises.
Students gain an understanding of the critical role that the Product Owner plays on the Scrum Team. Throughout the class, students learn a number of Product Ownership practices that they can use once they leave the classroom while also receiving an introduction to Agile Product Management.
Mastering the Product Owner Stances course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value.
Enables all members of a software-focused Scrum Team to learn Scrum while doing it, experiencing what it is like to build products with modern Agile and DevOps practices.
Hands-on workshop teaching managers and other leaders how to best support, guide, and coach their teams.
Course where participants learn about the EBM framework through a series of hands-on, activity-based exercises to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results.
Teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work without changing Scrum, bringing greater transparency and flow.
Learn modern UX techniques and practices that effectively enable Scrum Teams to best work with customers and their feedback to deliver higher value.
Designed for anyone involved in building products across multiple teams to learn how they can scale product delivery with Scrum.
Professional Scrum Competencies
Scrum.org has created these Professional Scrum™ Competencies to help guide an individual’s personal development as they learn Scrum.
New and Now at Scrum.org
Scrum Guide 2020
Resources Describing Scrum Guide Changes
Find a series of resources that discuss and describe the changes between the 2017 and 2020 versions of the Scrum Guide.
Whitepaper
Accountabilities of a Professional Product Owner
In this joint whitepaper from Avanade and Scrum.org, we explore the key complexities of Product Ownership and ways to address them.
Whitepaper
Measuring Enterprise Agility
Is your organization really agile? How do you know? This whitepaper describes the foundation mindset, actions and behaviors of agile in four simple statements supported by 12 principles.
Why Scrum.org
What Makes Scrum.org Different
Learn how Scrum.org is unique in the market as a mission based organization that provides consistent experiential training around the world.
Professional Scrum Certification Assessments
There are three levels of Scrum Master assessments to validate and certify your knowledge and understanding of Scrum and the Scrum Master role.
There are three levels of Product Owner assessments to validate and certify your knowledge and understanding of the Product Owner role.
The Professional Scrum Developer assessment validates and certifies you knowledge and understanding of the Development Team Member role in Scrum.
The Professional Agile Leadership assessment validates and certifies an understanding about how leaders can best support their teams in an agile environment.
The Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management assessment validates and certifies an understanding about how leaders can best support their teams in an agile environment.
The Scaled Professional Scrum assessment validates and certifies an understanding of scaling fundamentals to enable multiple Scrum Teams working together.
The Professional Scrum with Kanban assessment validates and certifies an understanding of how to use Scrum with Kanban to improve value creation and delivery.
The Professional Scrum™ with User Experience assessment validates a fundamental level of understanding of integrating modern UX practices into Scrum.
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Daria Bagina
Scrum Masters are accountable for the effectiveness of the Scrum Team. In a way, the goal is to get your team to high-performing stage where the benefits of teamwork starts to really show.
This is where the team starts to act as a cohesive unit and skyrockets their productivity. They are able to deliver great results and collaborate effectively.
There is no one way to help your team get to that stage, but you should know how your team develops and matures as they learn to work better together.
However, there are a few ways how you as a Scrum Master can help them get to that stage faster. In my latest video, I’m sharing a useful model that can help you better serve your Scrum team and set them up for success.
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Tools and practices for high-performing Scrum Teams
There are a few ways how you can help your team go through the development stages with ease. It is especially important when a new team is being created from scratch.
If you do nothing at all the transition will take months depending on different factors. And during this time the team’s ability to deliver value will be greatly reduced.
You can use various tools and practices during this time to help. Proper training is very important at this stage, when the team is still figuring out new ways of working.
Depending on the level of knowledge of a team, I usually run a couple of different workshops. The most important ones in my opinion are the following:
Team chartering workshop to set up working agreements, define skills and knowledge on the team, and start off of a strong foundation.
Educational workshops on Scrum and Agile to create alignment around roles and processes.
The next step would be implementing a regular inspection and adaptation discussion. If you are working with Scrum, then retrospective is a perfect place. It’s important to set the right tone for this meeting right from the start and get the team into a habit of doing it.
I use some basic foundational techniques for running retrospectives with new teams. Structure is really necessary here and I recommend using something more organized than just ‘what went well, what didn’t go well’ approach.
Not sure where to start with a new team?
I’d like to share a great tool with you that I have created based on my experiences with many Scrum Teams that I have helped bring to higher levels of maturity. I’ve gathered all the knowledge I have on this subject in a concise guide that you can use with your teams.
It is called “New Team Kick-Off“.
It’s a detailed training plan that contains all the information you need to bring your team from the first stages of development to a stable stage of performance.
In this bundle, I share examples of how you can approach any new team. I share five facilitation guides with Miro templates that you can use right away.
You could buy those guides separately, but then you wouldn’t get my training plans and a deep-dive into team development. You also wouldn’t be able to save 15% on all of those facilitation guides.
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Oct 20, 2021
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Julee Everett
The more ambiguous the requirement, the more difficult it is to calculate how long something will take. But teams still need to estimate their work to forecast releases. Relative sizing provides a realistic method for estimating. Ultimately, your team will find their own value scale and their own language that is meaningful to them. Until then, these Practical Fibonacci tips will help kick-start your relative sizing.
Oct 19, 2021
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Michel van der Meulen
The future is unknown and although some people claim to be able to predict the future, most people can't. But to look a little ahead, into the future, to have a sense of when certain items on the Product Backlog are finished, predictability would be very useful. Although we can't be completely predictable, it is helpful if we are a little more predictable than we are now. And therefore we need some measurement results from the near past.
Oct 19, 2021
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