Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1
Notes taken for posterity during the first of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any way to summarize the course, which covers material far beyond what is outlined here.
- The course started by individual attendees identifying 5 of 22 provided topics that we thought might be important take-aways, followed by the class breaking up into pairs in order that one might convince the other to switch one of the 5 chosen to another topic.
- The 5 topics I had chosen were items I had not yet encountered to any significant degree in the workplace or graduate school, such as specific artifacts and distributed Scrum. The plan was then to apply post-it notes to each of the 5 topics as they were covered in class.
Of the 22 take-away concentrations, the following 5 were the most popular in this class session (all written intentionally in the form of user stories):
7 – I can describe how to use the Scrum framework on large projects using Scrum of Scrums and/or other approaches to scaling.
6 – I can facilitate the team through the Sprint.
6 – I can advocate for Scrum teams to be colocated, but also help a team overcome the reality of distributed teams.
5 – I can explain the importance of complexity and its impact using empirical or defined processes.
5 – I can describe the responsibility of the ScrumMaster.