Certified Scrum Master® - InPerson

Certified Scrum Master®

Effective Scrum isn’t just applying theory or process – it’s about creating space for a Team to collaborate and deliver value, effectively.

If you’re ready to learn Scrum in a fun and engaging way via pragmatic techniques you can apply immediately, this course is for you. From deep study of brain science and adult learning, we’ve learned what it takes to be effective in an in-person class.

Ignite High Performing Teams with Scrum

A great ScrumMaster:

• facilitates Team and Stakeholder interactions & decision-making
• introduces Scrum to teams and organizations
• coaches teams and team members to deliver more customer value
• supports teams to productively resolve challenges
• managing expectations and projections from vision all the way through product release

The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified ScrumMaster CSM® certification, along with stories, tips, tricks and practices to take the theory of Scrum and put it into effective action in your organization.

This course is not a Powerpoint snooze-fest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive team-based exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice.

Meet Your Instructors

Anil Jaising

Anil Jaising helps product leaders thrive by unpacking innovation at the intersection of AI and product management. He’s a Certified Scrum Trainer, Adjunct Faculty at NYU’s graduate program, and Co-founder of Concepts & Beyond, where he trains and coaches teams to build products customers love.

Anil’s career started in the early 1990s when he shipped a messaging system that won the Best Open Systems Award in 1994. Over three decades, he’s led product and technology transformations at JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank. His recent work includes leading a cloud transformation program across 250 complex workloads that saved one of the world’s largest banks over $100 million. He’s guided hundreds of teams through Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery adoption at scale. Today, through his YouTube channel, newsletter, and training courses, Anil focuses on practical AI applications for product managers and product leaders who want to cut through the hype and build products that make a lasting impact.

Course Content:

• Agile Overview – The Agile Manifesto & Agile Principles
• Scrum Theory – Overview, Scrum Values, Empirical Process Control
• Scrum Roles – ScrumMaster®, Product Owner, Developers; What about everyone else?
• Scrum Events – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Sprint Artifacts – Product Backlog; Sprint Backlog; Valuable Increments – meeting the Definition of Done
• Measuring and Communicating progress
• Servant Leadership – Facilitation techniques and exercises to introduce Scrum to your Teams
• ScrumMaster Tips

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the foundations of Agile, and their relation to Scrum and Lean
• Illustrate how the Roles in Scrum interact with each other to deliver Value within a Sprint
• Explain how working incrementally helps deliver Value and reduce Risk
• Describe the Purpose, Participants and Activities of the Events in Scrum
• Demonstrate techniques for facilitating group decisions
• Discuss possible organizational design changes caused by adopting Scrum

This Workshop is Designed for:

Anyone interested in learning more about the fundamentals of Agile, including:

• Scrum Masters, as well as Product Owners and Developers
• Agile Project and Program Managers interested in understanding and applying the fundamentals of how Scrum and Agile work at the team level
• Organizational Leaders interested in helping teams deliver more value, effectively
• Those new to the world of Agile/Scrum
• People in organizations that have been practicing some form of Agile for a while and needing a “reset.”

What You Will Receive:

• An immersive virtual learning experience facilitated by a highly respected instructor with lots of engagement with fellow learners where you’ll practice what you learn
• Access to supporting workshop material including materials to prepare for class and reference material curated for Team Leadership topics from class
• Not just a workbook, but a PDF ‘scrapbook’ of your completed online exercises.
• A follow up Q&A session with your instructor and guidance on next steps for your Agile career
• All the information and materials you need to pass the CSM Exam
• Two-years of membership in the Scrum Alliance
• 14 PMI PDUs for PMPs
• 14 of the 21 contact hours needed for a PMI-ACP credential

Course Details:

Length: 16 hours of instruction
Format Options: Live online, Private online, Private onsite