Applying Professional Scrum

3 half-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 product, 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. The course provides prescriptive guidance to avoid going off track and keep Scrum healthy.

Applying Professional Scrum (APS) is excellent training for teams and anyone wanting to experience the way of working in Scrum. The course also provides the foundation of knowledge needed for role-focused training for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, and Leaders within the organization.

Course Objectives

• To gain extensive competence over the empirical approach with Scrum, which is the most widespread management framework used by agile organizations worldwide
• To thoroughly understand Scrum via first-hand experience
• To gain sufficient knowledge to be able to implement Scrum after the training
• To become prepared for PSM-I certificate exam

Course Topics

• Fundamentals of Scrum
• The Scrum Framework
• Mastering Scrum
• Planning with Scrum
• Getting started
• Keeping Scrum healthy

Who Should Attend

The Applying Professional Scrum (APS) 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 base knowledge needed for anyone interested in taking role focused trainings.  

Certification Assessments

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Foundations course will receive a password to attempt the Applying Professional Scrum (APS) assessment. The industry-recognized PSM I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. 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.