Applying Professional Scrum

Come learn about Scrum with one of the two Scrum.org course stewards for this course!

The Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course is a 2-day immersive experience that provides the foundational knowledge and understanding needed to work with Scrum.  This course reveals how empirical process control and effective communication leads teams and organizations towards better outcomes in their products, systems, and the way they work.  We won’t just cover how to work using Scrum, but why it works and how to use the Scrum framework to adapt to new scenarios for long term effectiveness.
 

Over the 2 days, students are introduced to the mechanics of Scrum, gain insights into overcoming complexity, and experience team based collaboration and self-organization as essential elements in mastering Scrum. The course is a combination of instruction and team based exercises where students experience how the Scrum framework improves product development efforts. 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 PSF 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.

Attending the PSF course comes with one attempt at the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification-level assessment.  If the assessment is attempted within 14 days and a score of 85% or higher is not achieved, a second attempt will be granted at no additional charge.

Course objectives

• Have a clear understanding of the foundational elements of Scrum and their coherence
• Be able to take part in a Scrum Team
• Effectively deliver valuable software
• Leave the class with a handful of tips to identify common pitfalls and dysfunctions

Who should attend

Whether you're new to Scrum, looking for a reboot, or joining your existing team, the Professional Scrum Foundations class is good for anyone looking to understand how to work with Scrum.  Teams and those who interact with them alike will take away insights from this class.  In previous classes I've had development teams, executives, managers, sales people, facilities experts, front desk staff, construction workers, designers, process and audit experts, and more.  The course provides core knowledge needed for anyone involved in a Scrum effort.

Waukesha County Technical College
Corporate Training Center (Building Q)
800 Main Street
Pewaukee, WI 53072