Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Understand Scrum and how to adopt it.
What will you learn?
How Scrum works: the Team from the inside, iterative and incremental development with Sprints, Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, PBIs, refinement, acceptance criteria, and more.
ScrumMaster's responsibilities and the four disciplines for everyday work to improve your ability to take action.
Agile development's evolutionary planning, relative estimation of PBIs or User Stories, and Ametrics based on results.
You will have received hands-on training and conceptual solidity.
You will have understood the Agile values and principles, the responsibilities of the Team members, and the attributes and practices of self-managing and cross-functional teams.
You will learn personal experiences regarding the fundamental subtleties of the operation of this framework.
You will have understood the motivation behind each artifact and events so that by facilitating meetings and accompanying teams, you will help them identify improvement room for the next Sprint.
You will have a well-above-average level of understanding of the meaning of transparency, inspection, and adaptation, as well as their role in the efficiency of Scrum practice.
You will be able to tell whether or not the Team has a healthy Product Backlog to deliver the maximum value in every Sprint.
Curriculum
1 Fundamentals
Fundamentals
We will go through:
- How it works and differs from traditional project management
- The Team, Product Owner and Developers
- The Scrum Master: responsibilities, servant leadership and impediment removal
- Sprints (key to the framework)
- Sprint Planning, Daily, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
- Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment. Purposes and links
- Commitments: Product Goal, Sprint Goal and Definition of Done (DoD)s
2 Agility and Complexity Management
Agility and Complexity Management
You will be able to recognize the various complexity levels in product building and necessary focus areas for each of them.
You will learn:
- The underlying reasons for using this framework in managing complexity (and the difference between complex and complicated problems)
- When it makes sense (or not) to use it
- Taking advantage of this Agile framework to succeed in complex contexts due to these essential pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
3 Incremental Development
Incremental Development
We will go in detail over the essential elements of incremental product development.
In this section:
- You will experience one of the most significant mindset shifts in transitioning from traditional product development to Agile product development
- You will understand the strategy used to build products incrementally while validating hypotheses
- You will understand through exercises this paradigm shift from the ScrumMaster viewpoint
4 The Team Accountabilities
The Team Accountabilities
We will identify team members' responsibilities, mindset, and anti-patterns.
You will learn:
- What is expected from each member
- The most critical cares you should have when maintaining healthy practices
- Agile teams' self-management and cross-functionality traits
- What you can do (or avoid) from your place to promote Agility and Scrum
5 Agile Estimation and Planning
Agile Estimation and Planning
When switching from a traditional to an Agile approach, there is a significant change in estimating and planning mindsets.
In this section:
- We will practice PBIs estimation
- You will understand how to carry out performance measurement from an Agile perspective
- You will be able to differentiate between results-oriented and output-oriented metrics
6 Integrative Simulation through Scrum Events
Integrative Simulation through Scrum Events
In this last stage, you will participate in a comprehensive exercise.
We will build a digital product where:
- You will establish the Product Goal (Product Goal)
- You will determine the Goal of each Sprint
- You will carry out the planning of the Sprint
- You will participate in the Sprint Review and get Feedback to evolve the product
- You will carry out a series of Retrospectives to improve the development process
- At the same time, you will understand the most critical details of the Planning, the Daily, the Sprint Review and the Retrospective
- You will learn what to take into account when facilitating these events, for example: purposes, participants, typical agendas, relationship with Stakeholders, durations, anti-patterns and frequent problems
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about this course
• Want to become ScrumMasters, discover the framework or formalize their knowledge
• Joined Agile teams and need to familiarize themselves
• Work in changing environments
• Want to increase the product value and be more innovative
• Want to improve productivity at a sustainable rate and reduce rework cycles
• Seek to minimize risks in unstable contexts
• Want to increase customer satisfaction and/or teams well-being
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What's Included
16 Hours of Live training
Featuring a situational and practical approach to accelerate your learning.
Educational Platform
A learning space with pre-learning material that you can access immediately.
Program Recording
Long-term access to recordings.
Digital Book
The book "Scrum y algo Más" by Martin Alaimo.
CSM exam and certification
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive access to the CSM exam and certification by Scrum Alliance, the most recognized entity in the agile world.
Bonus: CSM Exam Prep.
A simulation for you to practice before taking your exam and move forward with confidence.
PDUs
16 PDUs to accredit in PMI.
Attendance
Participation in 100% of online meetings.
Your Instructor
Martin Alaimo
Trainer, consultant, and educator dedicated to the creation of Digital Products and Business Agility. To date, he has worked with more than 200 organizations and supported over 8,000 professionals in their career development journeys. His approach is situational and hands-on, delivering immersive learning through innovative experiences that enable practical, immediately applicable outcomes—especially in areas often overlooked by traditional academia. He has spoken at more than 30 conferences across the United States and 14 countries in Latin America and Europe, and is the author of six books on product and digital innovation. His most recent book, AI Strategy Workshop, provides tools to move beyond the “feature factory” mindset and integrate artificial intelligence with strategic intent and real business impact. As part of his commitment to innovation, he is an organizing member of Product Tank, the world’s largest Product Management community, and the creator of Kouls, a platform that aligns organizational strategy with teams’ day-to-day execution, ensuring a strong focus on outcomes. He is one of the few experts to hold the highest-level certifications in Agile practices: Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Certified Agile Leadership Educator (CAL Educator), and Path to CSP Educator. Explore his complete professional profile and thought leadership activities on LinkedIn.
February 2, 3, 4 & 5
Price
From USD 295 for annual subscribers
Annual Subscription
A clearer way to learn
- 2 live trainings for only USD 795
- Includes on-demand webinar library
- 3rd training onwards: USD 295 each
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