Austin - Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner

 Scrum@Scale

Scrum@Scale is the scaling framework created by the inventor of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland. From Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, Scrum@Scale® transforms organizations into Agile enterprises. Scrum@Scale naturally extends the core Scrum framework to deliver hyper-productive results across industries and disciplines. This includes software, hardware, services, operations, and R&D.

Certified Course

This two-day course qualifies students to take the Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner (CS@SP) exam and become Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioners. The class provides an overview of how to implement Scrum with thousands of teams. You’ll learn the principles to efficiently transform your organization to minimize decision delay and to reduce waste. ​This course also allows you to assess the Scrum maturity level of your organization during the two-day class and leave with a plan on how to make the necessary changes to scale Scrum. You will leave with a heat map, impact map, and material to help you scale and refactor your organization.​ 

Who should attend

This course is geared toward scrum masters, product owners, executives, or anyone with knowledge of Scrum and looking to scale their Scrum implementation across the organization. 

Course Outline

The Scrum@Scale® course teaches the responsibilities of the Scrum roles and events at scale and enterprise leadership in a variety of large-scale implementations.  

The course covers:

• Your Goal
• S@S What & Why  
• The Scrum Master Cycle  
• Team Level Process  
• Scaling & The Scrum Master  
• Executive Action Team  
• The Agile Practice  
• Patterns  
• Impediment Removal  
• Cross Team Coordination  
• The Second Scaled Scrum  
• Super-sized Scrum
• Scaled Daily Scrum
• Product Owner Cycle  
• Scaling the PO  
• Agile Organization Design
• Product Vision  
• Backlog Prioritization  
• Product Backlog Refinement  
• Release Planning  
• Deployment  
• Feedback  
• Metrics & Transparency  
• Distributed Scrum
• Where Do I Start?  

Additional Benefits

Learn Distributed Scrum 

Are you or your organization challenged by globally distributed teams? No need to worry, our instructors are experts in distributed Scrum collaboration. In addition to Scaling Scrum, our students will also learn the principles for effective collaboration in distributed Scrum environments. This is an interactive class with lectures, exercises, demonstrations, facilitated discussions, and games to illustrate the principles being taught and to maximize your understanding. Students will interact using the same tools and skills necessary for effective distributed Scrum collaboration. These include:

• Maximizing the use of online conferencing platforms to      improve collaboration
• Online estimating using various mediums
• Using digital Agile project management platforms
• Collaborating with online communication platforms 
• Group planning using digital whiteboards.  

Access to Your Own Learning and Coaching Community

In addition to the course material, you'll have access to a video recording of the class. This will allow you to review the training sessions as you prepare for the certification exam and put your new knowledge to work. Moreover, you'll be able to connect with your fellow students and instructor, before and after class via classroom team channels. These channels help to build a community of Scrum@Scale practitioners that lives long after the class sessions.   

SEUs and PDUs

You'll be able to claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs) and 16 Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) with the Scrum Alliance after completing this course.  

About the Instructor

Ernesto Custodio  has over 25 years of experience working in the IT field. His experience includes Product Management, Software Development Management, Business Development Management, Project Management, Agile Coaching, and Agile Training working with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500.