Certified Scrum Master® training

What’s included:

• World-class instructor: Certified Enterprise Coach and Leadership Coach
• Live online instruction: no recorded lectures
• Practical tips based on 25 years of Agile experience.
• Interactive & engaging format; no boring slides
• All exam and certification fees
• 2-year Scrum Alliance membership
• Course materials and reference book (digital copies)
• Free exam retake & class retake
• Free cancellation & date changes
• 15 PMI PDUs

★★★★★ What our customers are saying ★★★★★

“Absolutely amazing course – so engaging!” – Jessica Zajac, Digital Strategy Consultant

“One of the best instructors I’ve met in my 30+ year career.” – Doug Hall, Sr. Manager

“One of the best classes I have ever taken.” – Kiara H.

“Excellent structure, teacher, and materials.” – Jason Jenkins, Product Manager

“Brad is a great instructor. I enjoyed the virtual format.” – Shannon

“I loved the structure and progression of this course.” – Melanie Berard

Our online class experience

Just like our in-person courses, our online experience is engaging and interactive. You will learn through hands-on activities rather than boring slides and lectures. We use a powerful online collaboration platform for activities to deepen your learning.

If you're not satisfied with the online experience, you can join any of our future in-person courses for free.

The Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) course is an immersion into the ScrumMaster role with hands-on activities teaching how to build high-performing Agile teams with Scrum.

• Agile values & principles – How to ‘Be agile’, not just ‘do Scrum’

• The Scrum framework – how all the pieces fit together

• The Scrum roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and team

• The Responsibilities – and mindset - of the Scrum Master

• Facilitation techniques for Scrum team meetings

• How to manage a product backlog

• Leveraging user stories for better feature definition

• Techniques for high-impact Retrospectives

• How to coach a team to high performance

• Forecasting and estimating – the Lean-Agile way

We offer a discounted price in these situations:

• Military & Veterans

• Self-pay: Individuals paying out of their own pocket

• Groups of 3 or more people

Contact [email protected] to inquire about bringing our training to your office for your team.

Participants earn 15 PDUs for the PMI, which can be applied to Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) designations. 

We offer a 100% refund at any time, or 100% credit toward a future course from Agility 11.

This class will fully prepare you to pass the CSM exam, administered by the Scrum Alliance as an online, one-hour timed exam. The exam fee is included in your course registration. Course attendance and passing the exam are both required to earn the CSM certification.

Anyone in an Agile organization should attend!

The course teaches Scrum & Agile fundamentals, advanced practices, and the role of ScrumMaster. It also provides a great foundation of knowledge and skills for anyone who is part of an Agile organization, or an organization making a transition to Agile process and Scrum.

Applicable roles for this course include:

• Current and aspiring ScrumMasters
• Project Managers
• Department and Functional Managers
• Organizational change agents and Coaches
• Project Team members (technical or non-technical)
• Developers, Testers & other technical team members
• Team Leads and Technical Leads
• Executives and Managers
• Sales people inside or alongside an Agile Organization
• Anyone else working in an Agile organization…

Brad Swanson is a Leadership and Organizational Coach who guides companies to achieve sustainably better results using Lean & Agile principles. He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe. Brad is also a sought-after trainer who has instructed thousands with his highly engaging learning approach.

Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leadership® (CAL) Educator®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® - CEC), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum). He is a member of the Agile Leadership Journey, a global federation of Leadership coaches. Brad has been an Agile practitioner since 1999, is former President of Agile Denver and co-founder of the Mile High Agile conference, and a speaker at international conferences including numerous Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Asia (6 times), Agile 20xx (4 times), Mile High Agile (6 times), Agile Tour Toronto, AgilePalooza, Agile Development Conference East & West, PMI Mile Hi Symposium, and many Meetups in the USA, South America and Asia.

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