EXIN Agile Scrum Master
Certification by: EXIN
- Gain advanced expertise to lead and manage Agile teams effectively.
- Learn to oversee sprints, reviews, and retrospectives for optimal team performance.
- Build coaching skills to foster team growth and continuous improvement.
Public Class
Live Virtual Class
Private Class
Key points about this course
Duration: 2 Days
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Course Fee: RM 2,600.00
HRD Corp Claimable Course
Course Overview
The EXIN Agile Scrum Master is a unique certification that combines understanding of agile principles and applying scrum practices. It tests the competences required to facilitate, coach and enable a cross-functional team as a Scrum Master.
Learning Objectives
Agile and Scrum are about working together to successfully reach the goal. Agile principles are popular in software development and are increasingly being used in other areas. The Scrum framework includes establishing cross-functional and self-managing teams, producing a working increment at the end of each iteration or sprint.
The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that the Scrum framework is understood by the team. They do this by coaching, training, and facilitating the Scrum team, thereby helping the team to produce value.
A successful Scrum Master can work well with others, both inside and outside the team. They help those outside the Scrum team understand which interactions with the Scrum team are helpful and which are not.
The course focuses on adopting Agile principles and the Scrum framework in the workplace and on assuming the accountability of the Scrum Master.
Target Audience
The EXIN Agile Scrum Master certification is suitable for professionals working in an Agile context and who have the ambition to facilitate a Scrum Team by assuming the role of a Scrum Master.
Course Level
Advanced
Course Outline
1.1 Agile concepts
The candidates can…
1.1.1 explain the Agile way of thinking.
1.1.2 explain how Agile brings predictability and flexibility.
1.1.3 describe how to establish continuous improvement.
1.1.4 differentiate other Agile frameworks and methodologies: Crystal, Extreme Programming (XP), DSDM, LeSS, SAFe and Kanban.
2.1 Responsibilities and commitment
The candidate can…
2.1.1 explain which tasks and responsibilities belong to the Scrum Master.
2.1.2 analyze a scenario for the best solution to a problem typical to Scrum Masters.
2.1.3 explain which tools to use to facilitate the team.
2.2 Facilitating and coaching the team
The candidate can…
2.2.1 explain how to facilitate the team by removing roadblocks.
2.2.2 explain how to coach and train the team.
2.3 Other accountabilities (Product Owner, Developers)
The candidate can…
2.3.1 explain all accountabilities within the Scrum framework.
3.1 Writing and maintaining the product backlog and the sprint backlog
The candidate can…
3.1.1 explain why a good definition of done (DoD) is so important.
3.1.2 explain how to write good user stories for services or products.
3.1.3 explain how to maintain the product backlog and how to add product backlog items.
3.2 Agile planning
The candidate can…
3.2.1 explain planning of portfolio, products, and roadmaps.
3.2.2 explain the accountabilities of the Scrum Master in the sprint planning.
3.3 Agile estimation
The candidate can…
3.3.1 explain how to use story points, ideal hours, ideal days, and velocity during planning.
3.3.2 recognize errors in estimation.
3.4 Tracking and communicating progress
The candidate can…
3.4.1 identify deviations, roadblocks and other impediments that influence the progress positively and negatively.
3.4.2 explain how to create information radiators, how to interpret them and how to act on the results.
3.4.3 explain how to interpret commonly used tracking methods (burn-down chart, velocity, et cetera).
3.5 Staying in control
The candidate can…
3.5.1 explain how to manage issues and bugs and how to inform stakeholders.
4.1 Scaling Agile projects
The candidate can…
4.1.1 explain how to use the product backlog in a scaled environment.
4.1.2 explain how to scale Scrum using Nexus.
4.2 Suitability of Agile for different types of projects
The candidate can…
4.2.1 explain in which cases it is not possible to use Agile.
4.2.2 explain why having a small team is beneficial for any project.
4.3 Agile administration in tooling and tool integration
The candidate can…
4.3.1 explain which tools can help a team to use or adopt Agile and thereby increase the quality of the development process.
5.1 Introducing Agile
The candidate can…
5.1.1 explain how some project management activities are transferred to the Scrum Master after the transition to Scrum.
5.1.2 identify what can go wrong when transitioning to Scrum.
5.1.3 explain how to deal with resistance to change.
5.2 Self-management
The candidate can…
5.2.1 explain what self-management means for a team.
5.2.2 explain what it means to have a cross-functional team.
5.3 Agile requirements and proper environment
The candidate can…
5.3.1 explain what changes in culture must be made before adopting Agile.
Examination Details
| Duration: | 01 hour 30 minutes |
| Number of Questions: | 40 (Multiple Choice) |
| Pass mark: | 65% |
| Open book: | No |
| Electronic equipment allowed: | No |
| Level: | Advanced |
| ECTS Credits: | 4 |
| Languages: | English, Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Japanese |
