The industry-standard 2-day course for anyone wishing to understand how to adopt Scrum for their project. Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team. more details

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner. At the end of the class, you will understand how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction. You will understand the product owner role with its authority and responsibility, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles. more details

Scrum Team Training

This 3-day course is run by two trainers, allowing for both Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner tracks making it a perfect course for the whole Scrum project group, or even department to take together. Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team. more details

Lean Overview Training

A one-day introduction to the principles and practices of lean manufacturing applied to software development. Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team. more details

User Story Writing Workshop

This one-day workshop helps attendees produce real user stories and Product Backlogs, helping them get the best out of an agile approach. Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team. more details

Value Stream Mapping Workshop

Learn how to map and optimise the value stream of your product, project or organisation. Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team. more details

Certified ScrumMaster Training

Email us for details of bespoke, on-site training for your team.

Learn the Scrum framework for an agile project and the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member. Through a fun mix of theoretical explanation, problem exploration and practical exercises, this 2-day course will equip attendees for their first Scrum project or enable them to reflect on their projects and become more agile.

Attendees will learn, through doing and questioning, about Scrum concepts and artefacts such as the Product Backlog, release planning, Sprint planning, the Daily Scrum and burndown charts. They will also learn that, despite being a simple framework, it is deceptively simple as Scrum requires discipline and hard work to be effective.

Each aspect of the Scrum framework is explained in terms of its principles, its relation to the rest of the framework and is supplemented with stories of real-life examples while also giving the attendees the opportunity to explore the concepts in fun, practical case-studies.

Questions and conversations are encouraged throughout and there is also a dedicated Q&A session to explore the concerns and practical queries. As Certified Scrum Trainers we are approved by the Scrum Alliance and have had experience of Scrum implementations small, medium and large, coming up against and resolving many barriers to Scrum along the way.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone interested in starting a Scrum project or wishing to improve their current Scrum implementation. Naturally intended for those taking on the ScrumMaster role, it is equally useful for any Scrum team member.

Agenda

The core agenda of a Certified ScrumMaster course is set by the Scrum Alliance and will cover all of the aspects of the Scrum framework and lifecycle. These elements will be augmented by the individual Trainer's experiences and specific areas of interest can be accommodated so please contact us. A standard agenda would look like:

What is Scrum?
Planning in Scrum
The Product Backlog
Estimating
What is done?
Prioritisation

Aspects of a Scrum Team
The Daily Scrum
Sprint Reviews
Sprint Terminations

Reporting & Managing a Release
Q&A

Upon attending this course attendees will be required to take a CSM exam. Details on how to access the exam will be provided by the Scrum Alliance after successfully attending the course.

Course dates

01/01/2007 - 31/12/2010	On Site for your team - Contact Us!
17/08/2010 - 18/08/2010	Oslo, Norway
20/09/2010 - 21/09/2010	London
19/10/2010 - 20/10/2010	Oslo, Norway

Testimonials

Piotr Uryga

"In my professional career I've attended many professional courses, but not even one compares to Certified ScrumMaster course led by Geoff in Oct'07. He was well prepared, kept all attendees focused, introduced many practical exercises.

Geoff has deep knowledge of Scrum backed up with experience and he won't leave you with your questions unanswered. Training led by Geoff was great fun and great experience. I wish all professional trainings look like his CSM class."

Jane Lisbeth Olsen, StatoilHydro AS

"I participated in one of Geoff’s CSM+ courses. Throughout my career I’ve seen a lot of instructors and I have to say that Geoff is the best I have ever met. The way the knowledge was presented made it interesting and the supporting exercises were very good!

Before my participation a good colleague told me to wait for a Scrum course instructed by Geoff rather than participate in the first available. And I must agree that Geoff is brilliant with a good message."

Mark Alexander, KPMG