Course Highlights
  • Updated for 2024 exams!
  • Prep for a Scrum Master certification [UNOFFICIAL].
  • Prep for an Agile certification [UNOFFICIAL].
  • Test your Scrum understanding with prep questions
  • Ask questions in the Q&A section
  • Get exam tips that can really make a difference
  • How to deal with hard exam questions
  • Understand the Agile mindset
  • Learn about burn-down charts, technical debt, velocity
  • Have a good understanding of the Scrum framework
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

14 Topics
Welcome to the course
Legal Disclaimer
Download study materials
Meet the team
Agile manifesto and the birth of SCRUM
Overview of the SCRUM framework
What is the agile mindset?
An example of agile product development
What is the agile mindset? (continued)
Why take a Scrum certification?
Which Scrum certification to take?
Price increase for the PSM I certification
Overview of the entire certification process
How to prepare for the exam

24 Topics
What are Scrum Artifacts?
Taking notes
Organizational goals
What is a Backlog?
Product Backlog in Scrum
How to use the Scrum Guide
Defining the Product Goal and Product Backlog (in practice)
User Stories
Managing the Product Backlog using Jira
Product Backlog Refinement in Practice
How to add story points to User Stories in Jira
My job is to annoy you!
Product Backlog Quiz
Sprint Backlog
How to create the Sprint Backlog in Jira?
Sprint Scope vs. Sprint Goal
Sprint Backlog Quiz
Increment & Definition of Done
The Definition of Done for Jack & Mary Organic Farm
When is the Definition of Done created?
Definition of Done vs. Acceptance criteria
Product Increment and the Definition of Done Quiz
What is an epic?
Scrum Artifacts summary

24 Topics
What are the Scrum Events
Scrum Events download materials
What is a time-box?
The Sprint
Sprint Planning
Sprint Planning - Why is this Sprint valuable?
Sprint Planning - What can be Done this Sprint?
Sprint Planning - How will the chosen work get done?
Sprint Planning - Who attends the meeting?
Coherence among the Sprint Backlog Items
Sprint Planning - Recap
Sprint Planning Quiz
Daily Scrum
Scrum Board
A short break
Daily Scrum quiz
What happens during the Sprint?
Sprint Review
Sprint Review Quiz
Sprint Retrospective
Sprint Retrospective in practice
Sprint Retrospective Quiz
Special Sprints
Cancelling a Sprint

16 Topics
The Scrum Team
Scrum Team Size
The Product Owner
What is VALUE?
How is the Product Backlog ordered?
Product Owner Quiz
The Developers
Developers Quiz
The Scrum Master
How is the Scrum Master serving the Scrum Team
What is an impediment in Scrum?
How is the Scrum Master serving the Product Owner
How is the Scrum Master serving the Organization
The Scrum Master in real-life
Scrum Master Quiz
Who is the Business Analyst?

10 Topics
What is Scrum?
Waterfall Model
Uses of Scrum
Scrum Theory
How Toyota invented lean manufacturing
How to understand empiricism
Scrum Values
The most important ideas regarding the Scrum framework
Introduction to the Agile and Scrum Quiz
Study break

11 Topics
Introduction to Scaling Scrum
What happens when multiple Scrum Teams work on the same Product?
Impact on velocity when scaling Scrum
Integrated Product Increments
The Definition of Done when multiple teams work on the same Product
Must the Sprints be aligned? (same length same start/end)
How many Product Owners are there?
Feature teams vs Component teams
The importance of creating an integrated Increment
Conclusion - Scaling Scrum recap
Scaling Scrum Quiz

9 Topics
The Velocity of the Scrum Team
Technical debt
Functional and non-functional requirements
The process of emergence in Scrum
Burn-down charts
Burn-up charts
The "cone of uncertainty"
Sustainable pace
Tools that could help a new practitioner

6 Topics
Overview
Kanban
Extreme Programming (XP)
Test-driven development (TDD)
Behavior-driven development (BDD)
DevOps

7 Topics
Is documentation mandatory in Scrum?
What happens with incomplete Sprint Backlog items?
Who creates the Definition of Done?
How to change scope without affecting the Sprint Goal?
What happens if there is no Increment and/or the Sprint Goal is not reached?
The difference between Product Backlog refinement and Sprint Planning
What is the difference between creating an Increment and releasing it?

6 Topics
About the practice tests
Important info about the Preparation Quiz from Mikhail Lapshin
Warm-up questions
The main reason people FAIL their exam
Practice test #1 (Scrum Guide 2020)
Reminder about the importance of the Scrum Guide

5 Topics
How to approach Scrum questions
Practice test #2 (Scrum Guide 2020)
Scrum Open Assessment
Pay attention to questions from other sources
Study break - Agile Rhapsody

4 Topics
Practice test #3 (Scrum Guide 2020)
Help I am getting low scores
ScrumQuiz.org Scrum Master practice test
Product Owner Open Assessment

3 Topics
Exam registration
Tips for the exam
Exam tips for non-native English Speakers

7 Topics
Join the next Scrum webinar
Scrum webinar - 16 Dec 2022
Scrum webinar - 12 Jan 2023
Scrum webinar - 2 Feb 2023
Scrum webinar - 22 Feb 2023
Scrum webinar - 5 May 2023
Previous Scrum webinars

5 Topics
Your exam result
What to do after passing the exam?
How to claim PMI PDU points
Your next certification
Bonus Lecture

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