SCRUM PACKAGE: Scrum Master Certified (SMC™) & Scrum Product Owner (SPOC™) - eLearning (Exam Included)

Overview

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. It is an adaptive, iterative, fast, flexible and effective methodology designed to deliver significant value quickly and throughout a project.

Scrum ensures transparency in communication and creates an environment of collective responsibility and continuous progress. The Scrum framework, as defined in the SBOK™ Guide, is structured to support product and service development in all types of industries and in any type of project, regardless of complexity.

A Scrum project involves a collaborative effort to create a new product, service, or other outcome as defined in the Project Vision Statement. Projects are affected by constraints of time, cost, scope, quality, resources, organizational capabilities, and other limitations that make them difficult to plan, execute, manage, and ultimately succeed. However, successful implementation of the results of a completed project provides significant business benefits to an organization. Therefore, it is important for organizations to choose and practice an appropriate project management methodology.

A key strength of Scrum lies in its use of cross-functional, self-organized, and empowered teams that divide their work into short, concentrated work cycles called Sprints. Scrum's focus on value-driven delivery helps Scrum Teams deliver results as early in the project as possible.

Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

This course will give you a basic understanding of Scrum as a method and introduce you to the tools you need to deliver the team creatively, productively and with quality. The course is suitable for those who will be working as Scrum Masters and for those in other roles but need to understand how Scrum is used.

Course Overview

Using Scrum, you can lead your organization to a more agile way of working and discover how to respond faster to changes and requirements and stay focused on the right tasks, collaborate and communicate better, and deliver value faster. So whether you're working on a smartphone application, business logistics or event planning, you should take a look at Scrum.

Learning Objectives

• The purpose of Scrum and agile working methods. What the Scrum framework is, the underlying philosophy of Lean and Agile development, why Scrum works and what the challenges are in implementing Scrum.
• The roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner and Team) interact and what responsibilities and authority each part has.
• How you, as Scrum Master, can help the team grow and improve to become a cross-functional, self-organizing team.
• Why group dynamics determine how well the team will function.
• What a good Product Backlog looks like and how the Product Owner continuously maintains it, so you can help the Product Owner as well.
• Estimating with Story Points, the method the team uses to help the Product Owner estimate the content of the Product Backlog.
• Sprint planning, daily meeting (Daily Scrum), demonstration (Sprint Review) and retrospective. You will also learn to deal with various situations that may arise in the daily life of a Scrum Masters.
• How to measure team velocity (Velocity) and easily use it to plan long-term projects toward a goal (e.g., a release) that is several Sprints away.
• The importance of visibility and transparency and how to create it with Burndown Charts and Task Boards.

Target

The course is aimed at future Scrum Masters and others who need a good knowledge of how the various components of Scrum work, e.g., project managers, clients, managers, team leaders, and developers.

Course content

Scrum

• What is Scrum
• Where did it come from and how did it develop?
• How is it different from traditional development

Theory and underlying principles

• Why Scrum works
• The course goes through the theoretical fundamentals and then uses them throughout the course to help us apply the Scrum framework in the best way.

The Scrum framework and its activities

• Activities: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and flashbacks. What is the purpose of each activity and how do you make it work?
• Roles: Product owner, Development Team and Scrum Master. Who does what and why?
• Common problems and their solutions

Planning

• Long-term and short-term
• Estimation of time and costs
• Dealing with fixed prices and fixed delivery dates with Scrum

In recent years, there have been significant changes in Scrum

• Why the changes were made
• How does the usual way of implementing Scrum affect

Scrum Team

• What distinguishes Scrum Team from traditional project groups
• What is the best way to start a new team?

Predictability, risk management and reporting - Large organizations / projects

• Hhow can different teams working on the same goal continuously align their work?
• How to effectively plan major projects or releases
• How is the organization affected by having one or more Scrum teams

Change

• What happens when you start implementing Scrum in an organization?
• Different change strategies and when they fit

The life cycle cost of systems

• How to measure and optimize this with Scrum

Course duration:approximately 20 hours

Exam and certification

Certification: Scrum Master Certified (SMC™) official certification.

English; Italian; Spanish; German or Portuguese

Format exam:

• Multiple choice; 100 questions
• 120-minute online exam
• Notice! For the online course, you have three attempts. You must book each exam attempt more than 48 hours in advance.

"I just started the course and the content quality and structure are great. I am really impressed!" Sofie Mattsson

"Great course! Excellent interactive presentation, easy to understand. Good support team." Stefan Månsson

Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC)

The Product Owner acts on behalf of the stakeholder community of a team working under the SCRUM methodology. It is an adaptive, iterative, rapid, flexible and effective methodology designed to deliver significant value quickly and throughout the project. Scrum ensures transparent communication and creates an environment of collective accountability and continuous progress.

Course Overview

The Product Owner is responsible for clearly communicating product or service functionality requirements to the Scrum Team, defining Acceptance Criteria and ensuring these criteria are met. The Product Owner must always have a dual vision. He must understand and support the needs and interests of all stakeholders, while also understanding the needs and practices of the Scrum Team.

The final exam confirms that candidates have gained practical knowledge of Scrum that enables them to manage the commercial aspects and stakeholders in a Scrum environment.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the role of the Product Owner
• Concrete tools to understand and meet user/customer needs
• How can a product owner act to maximize the value of a team?
• Concrete tools for value-driven work with products
• Product owner's role and tools to deliver on time

Content

Value-driven development

• Measuring and increasing the value of products

Agile product management

• What is it?
• What differs from traditional product management?
• Advantages

Requirements management using a backlog

• Priority strategies
• Organizational strategies

Planning for release

• How to use it to optimize value

Cost-effective and flexible release management

• Reaching goals
• Maximizing ROI

Managing products

• Life cycle cost
• The full cost

What is included?

• 180 days (six months) access to the course
• 6 chapters divided into 30 videos
• 2 hours of videos in total
• Course duration: approximately 20 hours
• 24/7 access to the eLearning system
• Document access: Glossary; SBOK™ guide; Case studies; test tensor
• Mobile app
• Crossword puzzle (exercises)
• Certification: Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC™)

You get three chances to pass your exam!