Certified Trainings

Applying Professional Scrum™

Solidify Your Knowledge Through Practice

Applying Professional Scrum™ (APS) is a hands-on, activity based course where students experience how Professional Scrum and the Scrum framework improve their ability to deliver value compared to traditional methods. Scrum provides a better way of working that highlights the use of experimentation, incremental delivery of customer value, frequent feedback loops and the fostering of strong team dynamics.

Course Overview

In this two day class* students learn to apply Professional Scrum. They experience new, agile ways of working that enable teams to deliver more value, satisfy stakeholders and work better together. Students work together as a team in a series of Sprints to solve complex problems, facing similar challenges that they face outside of class and learning how to use Scrum to address them.

* When offered in-person, this course is generally delivered over two consecutive days. When offered as a Live Virtual Class, the course may be broken up into more, shorter days.

Course Learning Objectives

  • Learn about Agility and how Scrum differs from traditional plan-driven work models
  • Develop an Agile mindset by focusing on professionalism, experimentation, and outcomes
  • Learn (or relearn) the fundamentals of Scrum and how to apply them correctly
  • Develop an understanding of what it is like to use Scrum and if it is right for your team
  • Learn how to be a great Scrum Team member, or how to support a great Scrum Team
  • Leave the class with ways to identify common pitfalls and how to avoid them
  • Students use a set of proven practices throughout the class that can be used to enhance their application of Scrum
  • Leave with tools that help Identify first steps in applying Professional Scrum with your team

Who Should Attend

This course is the perfect introduction, reboot or refresher to Scrum. It is excellent training for:

  • Professionals who are part of a team that currently uses Scrum, but desire a refresher
  • Professionals who are joining a team that currently uses Scrum
  • Professionals that don't use Scrum directly but want to learn how to work with colleagues that do
  • Professionals that are investigating to see if Scrum makes sense for them and their colleagues
  • Professionals that are part of an organization that intends to use Scrum in the near future
  • Teams who are learning to use Scrum together in their organizations

This course is designed to be domain-agnostic; it conveys the use of Scrum in any domain or industry with complex problems to solve.

Professional Scrum Certification

All participants completing the Applying Professional Scrum course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment. The PSM I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. APS class participants who attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

You are also entitled to a discount on the PSM II assessment once passing PSM I.

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