Applying Professional Scrum

Solidify Your Knowledge Through Practice

Applying Professional Scrum (APS) is a hands-on course that 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. During the exercises, students work in Scrum Teams over a series of Sprints to learn Scrum while using Scrum. They experience first-hand how the Scrum framework improves their ability to deliver value compared to traditional methods. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I). 

Scrum.org selects only the most qualified instructors to deliver this course.
Scrum.org maintains the defined curriculum and materials to assure consistency and quality for students worldwide.

Course topics

• Agility as a new way of working
• Exploring the Scrum Framework
• Planning and forecasting with Scrum
• Getting started with Scrum

Objectives

Students will

• Learn about Agility and how Scrum differs from traditional plan-driven work models 
• Learn (or relearn) the fundamentals of Scrum and how to apply them correctly
• Develop an understanding of what it is like to use Scrum and if it is right for your team
• Learn how to be a great Scrum Team member
• Leave the class with ways to identify common pitfalls and how to avoid them
• have a clear understanding of the foundational elements of Scrum and their coherence.

Target Audience

The Applying Professional Scrum 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. APS provides the knowledge needed for anyone interested in taking role-focused training.  We also suggest that you read through the APS Focus Areas

Format

Students work together as a team in a series of Sprints to build a product, thereby facing real-life problems. Students will actively work with a realistic Product Backlog, decompose requirements into actionable Product Backlog items, estimate Product Backlog items and planning a Sprint, review the work done in a Sprint and retrospect to find valuable improvements.
For building the product, be sure to bring a laptop or tablet with an application installed that allows to create webpages (i.e. save your work in html format, for example MS Word, Google Docs, etc.).

This course will be taught in English.

Prerequisites

No particular knowledge is required, although you make the most of the class if you:

• Have studied the Scrum Guide.
• Took the Scrum Open assessment.

Assessment and Certification

• The Applying Professional Scrum course has the Professional Scrum Master level I (PSM I) credential associated with it.
• All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master course receive a password to take the PSM I assessment.
• APS class participants who attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.
• This industry-recognized certificate require a minimum passing score on the associated rigorous assessment. Scrum.org maintains public lists of all PSM I certificate holders.
• Students are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credits: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Applying Professional Scrum (APS) course. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a PSM I assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org.

As this is a Live Virtual Class we will use Zoom as our virtual classroom in which we will have whiteboards and post-its, markers and other facilitation materials through Mural.

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