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Applying Professional Scrum

Live Virtual Class, September 13-15, 2022

Class Overview

Experience a better way for your team to deliver products and services 


"Steve Porter Speaking"

Move beyond traditional project-based planning that often results in multiple missed deadlines, stressed-out teams, blown budgets and unhappy customers by learning new agile ways of working.

By completing the Applying Professional Scrum (APS) course, you’ll gain the knowledge you need to apply the most popular agile framework in the real world. This hands-on activity-based course will allow you to experience how Scrum enables team members to improve how they work together to deliver more value to customers and stakeholders. Through a lively virtual format, you’ll work with your real-life team or other participants through all aspects of Scrum to deliver a product.  

Course Learning Objectives

  • Understand agility and how Scrum differs from traditional plan-driven work models
  • Develop an agile mindset by focusing on professionalism, experimentation, and outcomes
  • Become familiar with Scrum and how to apply its practices correctly
  • Develop an understanding of what it is like to use Scrum and if it is right for your team
  • Know how to be a first-rate Scrum Team member or how to support a high-performing Scrum Team
  • Leave the class with ways to identify common pitfalls and how to avoid them
  • Use a set of proven practices throughout the class you can use to enhance the application of Scrum
  • Leave with tools that help Identify the first steps in applying Professional Scrum with your team

Download the course datasheet.

Who should attend

APS is an ideal course for those working on a team doing knowledge work to deliver value to customers and stakeholders. It’s a perfect introduction to the Scrum framework or refresher for those who have previously used it and need a reboot. If you’re not sure agile and Scrum are suitable for your team, this course will inform your investigation.

Encourage your entire time to join by taking advantage of group discounts (enquire for more detail).

Class Details

Language

English

Delivery Method

Live Virtual Class
Time Zone: America/Winnipeg
Start/End Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Date

Start: September 13, 2022
End: September 15, 2022

Class Format

Traditional

Registration & Price

Price: CAD 1495

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More Information

About your instructor

Steve Porter is an agile mentor/coach/trainer with a broad background in multiple management styles and practices. Over the past several years, he has focused his efforts on agile frameworks with a focus on Kanban and Scrum.

Over a decades-long career in IT, Steve has handled most application development roles, including developer, project manager, Scrum Master, and Product Owner. He was an early adopter of agile practices having seen first-hand how they helped avoid the many pitfalls that can lead to projects going sideways.

In his role at Scrum.org, Steve collaborates with Professional Scrum Trainers around the globe to fulfil the mission to help people and teams solve complex problems. He participates in creating Scrum.org training material and assessments and supports the Scrum.org trainer community. Steve recently contributed to Daniel Vacanti and John Coleman's Kanban Guide and co-authored the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams and the Nexus Guide, a framework for scaling Scrum.

 

Professional Scrum Certification

When you complete the Applying Professional Scrum course, you will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment. The industry-recognized PSM I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. If you attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days of receiving your free password and do not score at least 85%, you will get a second free attempt.

You are also entitled to a discount on the PSM II assessment once passing PSM I.