Scrum Master Cert Prep
1h 59mAdvanced2025-08-01
Authors

Kelley O'Connell
Agile Trainer, Project Manager, Process Innovator
Course details
Get certified as a scrum master and become more marketable in your field. Scrum certification demonstrates your knowledge and abilities to employers and clients, and proves that you can be trusted to accomplish important business objectives. In this course, instructor Kelley O’Connell shows you how to master the foundational knowledge required to tackle industry-leading scrum master exams including the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
Learning objectives
Explain the responsibilities of a scrum servant leader.
Determine the appropriate person to approach with questions regarding product vision and the features required to attain that vision.
Recall the guidelines for creating a development team.
Recognize the purpose of a “norming” session.
List the five formal events or activities that make up a sprint.
Review the appropriate way to handle PBIs in the product backlog.
Identify the purpose of a “burn-up chart."
Learning objectives
Explain the responsibilities of a scrum servant leader.
Determine the appropriate person to approach with questions regarding product vision and the features required to attain that vision.
Recall the guidelines for creating a development team.
Recognize the purpose of a “norming” session.
List the five formal events or activities that make up a sprint.
Review the appropriate way to handle PBIs in the product backlog.
Identify the purpose of a “burn-up chart."
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementProject Management SkillsProject ManagementCert Prep
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
Agile Overview
- What is agile
- Benefits of agile frameworks
- Agile frameworks
- Key agile terms
Scrum Overview
- What is scrum
- Scrum values
- Key foundations
Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
- The scrum team
- Scrum stakeholders
- Product owner
- The developers
- Scrum master
Scrum Team Forming and Performance
- Stages of team development
- Building high-performing teams
- Distributed scrum teams
- Self-organization on scrum teams
- Balancing shared resources
- Teamworking agreements
Scrum Events
- Overview of scrum events
- The time-boxed sprint
- Sprint planning
- Daily scrum
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective
- Time-boxing in scrum
- Effective facilitation
Product Backlog
- The backlog
- Backlog refinement
- Ordering the backlog
- Definitions of done
- Product increment
- The product owner's role in value delivery
Tracking and Reporting Progress
- Empirical process control
- Burndown charts
- Burnup charts
- The scrum master's role in measurement
Conclusion
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) exam tips
- Next steps
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- Introduction to Agile Development Practices: Bring Agile to Your Development Pipelines
- Professional Scrum Product Ownership: An Introduction
- Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings
- Fixing Scrum Team Problems
- DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile
- Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
- Value Stream Mapping in Visio