Course description
BCS EXIN Practitioner Certificate in Agile Scrum Master
The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Agile Scrum Master follows on the back of the BCS Foundation Certificate, teaching you everything you need to adopt and facilitate Agile or Scrum in your organisation.
This unique learning pathway has been developed to support a holistic approach to embed agile practices across your organisation. It provides you with the knowledge, tools, and capability to better manage change and deliver products and services.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course would be ideal for individuals who are currently looking to become an Agile Scrum Master or looking to move into this sector as part of a career change.
This course would also suit individuals who are part of a Development Team or currently working as a Product/ Programme Manager.
As this training focusses on Agile and Scrum methodologies, it would also suit an unqualified Agile Scrum Master or Product Owner, looking to gain an industry recognised certification.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Accreditation: BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT
Participants should be able to demonstrate the ability to understand and explain Agile concepts in the following areas:
- The Agile way of thinking
- Scrum Master role
- Agile Estimating, Planning, Monitoring and Control
- Complex projects
- Adopting Agile
Training Course Content
Agile Way of Thinking
- Agile concepts
- Explain the Agile way of thinking
- Explain how Agility brings predictability and flexibility
- Continuously improving the process
- Explain how to use continuous improvement
- Other Agile frameworks
- Differentiate other Agile frameworks and methodologies: Crystal, Extreme Programming (XP), DSDM, LeSS, SAFe and Kanban
Scrum Master role
- Responsibilities and commitment
- Explain which tasks and responsibilities belong to the Scrum Master role
- Explain which solutions are suitable for solving problems
- Explain which tools to use to facilitate the team
- Coaching the team and mediating
- Explain how to manage cultural diversity conflict
- Explain how to coach and challenge the team
- Explain the importance of training
- Other roles (Product Owner, Development Team)
- Explain all roles within the Scrum framework
Agile Estimating, Planning, Monitoring and Control
- Writing and maintaining the Product and Sprint Backlog
- Explain why a good Definition of Done is so important
- Create and recognise good User Stories
- Explain how to maintain the Product Backlog and how to add Product Backlog items
- Agile Planning
- Explain iterative planning in all the planning moments: Roadmap, Release and Sprint Planning
- Explain the role of the Scrum Master in all the planning moments: Roadmap, Release and Sprint Planning
- Agile Estimation
- Explain when and how to estimate using Story Points, Ideal Hours and Ideal Days
- Explain how to guide a planning session, with and without Planning Poker
- Recognise errors in estimation
- Explain how to calculate the ROI (Return on Investment)
- Tracking and communicating progress
- Identify impediments, deviations, roadblocks, and other obstacles that influence the progress positively and negatively
- Explain how to create Information Radiators, how to interpret them and how to act on the results
- Explain commonly used tracking methods (Burn-Down Chart, Velocity…)
- Staying in control
- Explain how to manage issues, bugs and informing people outside of the team
Complex projects – 12.5%
- Scaling Agile projects
- Explain how to use the Product Backlog in a scaled environment
- Explain how to scale to larger teams using Scrum-of-Scrums
- Suitability of Agile for different types of projects
- Explain in which cases it is not possible to use Agile
- Identify the limits of a Scrum Team
- Agile administration in tooling and tool integration
- Explain which tools can help a team to use or adopt Agile and thereby increase the quality of the development process
Adopting Agile – 17.5%
- Introducing Agile
- Explain which project management activities are important to include in the transition plan
- Explain which milestones are important in the transition
- Explain how to deal with resistance to change
- Self-organisation
- Explain what self-organisation means and how project management is shared
- Explain what it means to have a cross-functional team
- Agile requirements and proper environment
- Explain what changes in culture need to be made before adopting Agile
- Explain what physical changes need to be made before adopting Agile
Why choose e-Careers Ltd
We have successfully trained over 610,000 learners, from over 50 countries, and growing.
We are industry leaders, with multiple awards and over 10 years experience.
Our Trainers and Tutors are industry experts in their fields
Expenses
Tuition Fee: £ 645Inc. VAT
Continuing Studies
Upon completion of this training course, participants should be able to demonstrate:
- The Agile way of thinking
- The Scrum Master role
- Agile estimating, planning, monitoring and control
- Managing complex projects
- Adopting Agile
We typically find that our participants on this course work within, or move into, the following job roles:
- Agile Scrum Master
- Agile Product Owner
- Programme Manager