Scrum Master – Instructor-Led Workshop

The aim of our training program is to give a comprehensive overview of the workings of the Scrum Master role and the tools you have at your disposal. You can experience and try that through a life-like process in concrete simulations.

Our program is recommended to individuals or groups who have set it as their goal to effectively support agile teams and consider themselves capable of adopting the role of a serving leader rather than a manager and they believe in the power of teams, creativity and co-operation

It is an advantage if participants have already encountered the basic agile terms, its way of thinking and are familiar with the Scrum framework and its elements.

The Scrum Master’s role is a rather complex one. Its key aim is to help teams create value, define and apply a framework, as well as to improve co-operation either within a project or an enterprise. As each situation and team is different, the Scrum Master needs a broad range of tools, an advanced expertise of agile values, the right attitude, way of thinking and skills.

The 2-day course was compiled with a focus on essentials and practice, and it simulates the most commonly occurring situations and things to do from setting up a team to process a new idea through establishing the framework for its operation and continuously supporting and developing it, through simulating ceremonies and the creation of a real, self-organizing team.

The comprehensive program is rather intensive, and it includes appr. 20% theory and 80% practical elements so we set the number of participants per group between 4 and 7. In this way everyone will get a chance to experience certain situations in the role of Scrum Master.

The comprehensive program contains role-playing elements and practical situations focused on gaining personal experiences, the outcome of which depends chiefly on the team. The comprehensive program may also be organized on site, in which case we adapt the situations to the wishes of the client.

Syllabus

1. AGILITY AND SCRUM

1.1. When to apply it and what its limitations are

1.2. Stacey matrix and its practical application

1.3. What agility and Scrum mean

1.4. Complete simulation of Scrum process, ceremonies, roles and operation

2. IN WHAT WAYS A SCRUM MASTER CAN HELP THEIR TEAM

2.1. Facilitating

2.2. Teaching

2.3. Mentoring

2.4. Coaching

2.5. Supporting the enterprise

3. INITIATING AN IDEA

3.1. Team development phases

3.2. Building trust

3.3. Creating security

3.4. Self-knowledge

3.5. Competence testing

3.6. Agile training

3.7. Situation exercise - what to do when a new team is formed, what you can help them with

4. RELEASE PLANNING

4.1. Working method planning with your scrum team

4.2. Story splitting

4.3. Story estimation

4.4. Setting common goals

4.5. Situation exercise - Release planning from the scrum master’s point of view, how not to tell your team what to do but still support them in the process

5. DEVELOPMENT, ITERATIONS

5.1. Giving and requesting feedback

5.2. Daily scrum

5.3. Retrospective

5.4. Coaching

5.5. Facilitating

5.6. Conflict handling

5.7. Maintaining motivation

5.8. Tracking

5.9. Situation exercises: facilitating stand-ups, coaching own experience, conflict handling

6. CLOSING

6.1. Retrospectives: Feature, Release, Project

6.2. Evaluation, backtesting

6.3. Formulating follow-up steps and new ideas

6.4. Situation exercise: Retrospective in practice

The Scrum Master material is available in self-paced online learning format, too, and comes with an optional online exam. You may find detailed information on the link below:

https://masterfield.hu/en/course-catalogue/scrum-master-self-paced online learning

The Scrum Product Owner self-paced online learning is also available with an online exam. The comprehensive program teaches learners how to use the agile software engineering methodology working as Product Owners.

 The comprehensive program is organized in conjunction with ProMan Consulting.