Agile Scrum Master Training

KK&DAVID CONSULTING provides practical hands-on training to anyone who is willing and ready to be a servant leader to the project team, peer leader to the developers and partner to the product Owner, Project Manager and Business Analyst.

All you need is the Can-Do attitude, to embrace change and act as a change agent and team coach to ensures team(s) sticks to the Agile principles, stay productive, and continuously improves. Becoming a Scrum Master is crucial to enabling a self-organizing and cross-functional team to deliver high quality products iteratively and incrementally.

Who is a Scrum Master:

A Scrum Master is a professional who has a key role in the Scrum framework. He/she is a servant leader and an agile coach responsible for ensuring that a Scrum team follows the principles, practices and rules of the scrum framework.

A change agent willing and ready to helping the team to work better to adapt and adopt change, facilitate the change process through effective and efficient collaboration, communication and implement the change using the agile framework (Scrum and Kanban), with a mixture of SAFe and Scrumban.

Training Course Content

Objectives Tools & Skills Acquired Roadmap

The hands-on training will provide you the mastery and knowhow to effectively and efficiently run professional Scrum framework with a mixture of Kanban, SAFe and Lean methodology:

Facilitator to run Scrum ceremonies and helps team stay focus on scrum practices.
Servant leader to support development team and advocates for the team’s needs
Coach and mentor the team/organization to employ Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe practices and help them to improve their collaboration, accountability and performances.
Shield the team outside interruptions, distraction and ensuring team work. On sustainable pace and safe environment.
Impediment remover to identify and remove blockers that slow down the team.
Process guardian to ensure team sticks to Scrum practices and improves.

As a Scrum Master, you will have the ability to embrace, facilitate and implement change using the Agile approach with the mixture of SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban, and Lean principles/frameworks:

In Agile;
- Support Product Owner to refine backlog.
- Team development with self-organization.
- Ensures inspection and transparency of product backlog, sprint backlog and increments.
In SAFe;
- Coordinate cross functional teams.
- Employ the pillars of Scrum (transparency, inspect and adopt) and participate in workshops across teams.
- Support PI vent planning, Scrum of Scrum, dependency identification and demos of deliverables.
- Facilitates the flow of communication to apply Lean and Agile principles for improvements.
- Coach SAFe values: alignment, built-in, pillars and execution.
In Lean;
- Understand value and remove waste.
- Value lead and cycle time.
- Promote lean principles like to respect people and eliminate waste.
- Kaizen mindset to encourage incremental improvement.

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You will gain the following key skills (competences) upon successful competition of the training;

Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
Conflict resolution techniques.
Agile and Scrum expertise with a mix of SAFe, Kanban, Scrumban and Lean.
Leadership and motivation expertise.
Problem-solving and adaptability.
Technical knowledge (relevant to project/industry)
Risk management and problem solving.
Meetings facilitation, report writing and presentation at all level in the company or organization.

We will grant you access to the right tools and software required and you will be trained on how to use the tools to effectively and efficiently manage, deliver and support your work across different project(s) phases;

Manage product backlog, sprints, user stories and tasks using Jira, Azure DevOps, PM.com, Trello, Asana, or Monday.com.
For team communication, standups, and knowledge sharing using Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, and Confluence.
Track team performance and Scrum metrics using Jira dashboard and Power BI.
For retrospectives, team building and health checks using Jira, Confluence and Basecamp.
Measure Agile maturity growth using the Agile Maturity Matrix.
Sprint planning, kickoff and completion using Jira, Trello or Asana.

The training modules are outlined as follows

Program overview and basic training
Industrial knowhow
Technical training
Work on life project(s) end to end
CV writing, interview preps and on the job tips

Training Course Content

Stage 1: Program Overview and Basic Training

Project initiators.
Project, program, portfolio & operation management intersection.
Enterprise management & business value creation.
Project & Operation management intersection.
Project lifecycle, phases, phase gats & processes.
Project scope definition, management drivers & timeline.
Project documentation, RACI & RAIDs Log.
Project status, change control, challenges and closure.

Stage 2: Industrial Knowhow

Project work approach (WAgile) & methods (Scrumban).
Budget and costing: methods, advantages & challenges.
Reporting & resource management.
Project planning and work progress tracking.
Product/Sprint backlog & User Story management and closure.

Stage 3: Technical Training

Candidate with little or no experience will undergo hands on training with the following tools:
- Google suite
- Microsoft 365
- Snipping tool
- Paint
Undergo self training & certification in parallel

Stage 4: Work on life Project(s) End to End