
Explore current demand and salary trends for Scrum masters and product owners, contrast Scrum with agile, and review Scrum fundamentals, interview questions, and alternative frameworks.
Compare the PMP, CSM, and PSM certifications to decide which to pursue first for a scrum-driven corporate career.
Explain when to use waterfall versus agile. Waterfall fits well defined, low uncertainty projects like construction and traditional software; agile suits high uncertainty, rapidly changing domains.
Compare how waterfall fixes scope and makes time and cost variable. Agile fixes time and cost while keeping scope flexible and prioritizing features.
The agile manifesto values individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over processes, contracts, documentation, and fixed plans, guiding complex, emergent projects.
Register for the FCS certification exam via the home page or certifications dropdown. Enter your details; the 20-question exam requires 15 to pass (75%), with a $1.49 hosting fee.
Access the Scrum Guide explained document for the FCA certification exam, with 3 roles, 5 events, 3 artifacts, and a free pdf copy upon booking.
Explore agile's empirical process control through observation and data-driven decisions, emphasizing collaboration, transparency, inspection, and adaptation via iterative, incremental development and value-based prioritization.
Agile blends iterative and incremental development to deliver small increments of functionality, gain early customer value, and adapt through feedback to improve the product.
Prioritize features by value based on customer feedback to deliver high business value early. Continuously refine the product backlog to reflect ongoing customer value throughout the project.
Timeboxing imposes time limits on meetings and sprints, forcing prioritization and faster closure, while discouraging unnecessary perfectionism and nonessential features.
Explore how self-organization empowers agile teams to own work, make decisions, and coordinate dependencies with autonomy, while product owners set priorities without forcing the team.
Learn how validated learning drives incremental, iterative development by releasing feedback from customers and market trends, using data, interviews, and focus groups to improve Scrum outcomes, especially during sprint reviews.
Define scrum as the lightweight framework for addressing complex adaptive problems. It delivers value and is easy to understand yet hard to master, widely used with books and courses.
Explore how the product owner represents the voice of the customer, prioritizes features using Moscow or data analysis, translates requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria, and coordinates stakeholders.
The scrum master acts as the team's coach and agile facilitator, promotes scrum, teaches its practices, organizes sprint events, and removes impediments to keep the team moving.
Development teams are the actual knowledge workers who coordinate, bring diverse skills, and collectively own sprint success or failure in a self-organized, cross-functional scrum team of six to nine members.
Explore 2020 scrum guide changes: connect product backlog to product goal, sprint backlog to sprint goal, and increment to definition of done, with updated roles and events.
The 2020 Scrum Guide shifts to collective accountability within a single Scrum team, replaces development teams with developers, and removes prescriptive items like daily scrum questions.
This video covers how scope, time and resources are managed in agile vs traditional projects.
Self-organized teams operate without daily directives, owning communication, coordination, and conflict resolution within ethical boundaries. Autonomy, self-transcendence, and cross-fertilisation drive continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration for innovative solutions.
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In this Foundational Certification in Agile Scrum (FCAS) course, you will learn everything that you need to know to crack the FCAS certification exam on the first attempt. The FCAS exam has been designed as a free lightweight agile and scrum certification based on the content covered in the Agile Scrum training class by CareerSprints dot com and the Scrum Guide 2020 version. The FCAS certification is useful for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, developers, and anyone is interested in the world of agile development. This FCAS certification tests your knowledge of the fundamentals of agile and Scrum roles, events, and artifacts.
** The FCAS certification is included for free in this course. We charge $3.49 USD for exam management costs which is a cost we incur. You get a free copy of the Scrum Guide explained PDF document when you book your FCAS exam.
All videos in this course are from the webinars I've held on Scrum.
According to a recent report, greater than 71% of companies use Agile approaches globally. Agile is not only being applied in software development but beyond it such as marketing, finance, audits, product development, construction, drug development and so many more different types of projects.
As the adoption of agile has grown so has the demand for Scrum and in turn, Scrum Masters. More companies and people are jumping on the Scrum bandwagon.
== What is Agile software development? ==
There are various definitions and explanations that exist on the internet. In a nutshell, Agile is a way of working that was initially applied in the world of software development to release value to customers faster. Agile is the amalgamation of values, practices, and principles such as iterative and incremental development, adaptive planning, high levels of team collaboration, self-organization, cross-functionality, and continual improvement. In combination, these practices have enabled several companies to get their innovative products to market faster and cheaper. The thinking from similar agile practice was embodied in the Agile manifesto that was written in 2001.
== What is Scrum? ==
Scrum is the dominant agile framework used by the majority of agile companies across the world. Scrum is a lightweight method that enables companies to solve complex adaptive problems while delivering the highest possible value to end-users and customers.
Scrum has simple rules, roles, and artifacts that enable any organization or person to apply it in their environment and quickly gain benefits from it.
In the last few years, the popularity of Scrum and Scrum Masters has gone through the roof. Interestingly, it has surpassed the demand for Project Managers too.
== Who is the Scrum Master? ==
The Scrum Master is a role in scrum that helps teams, stakeholders, and the organization at large to understand Scrum values, rules, artifacts, and its successful application. The Scrum Master leads the team using servant leadership techniques and unlike a traditional manager does not impose his/her opinions or ways of working on the team. The Scrum Master serves as a coach who leads the team from standing behind them.
Why must you get this course and the FCAS certification?
· This is the only course on this Udemy platform that will help you get the FCAS certification.
· The FCAS certification is a lightweight agile and scrum certification that can help you test your fundamental knowledge of Agile and Scrum.
· The FCAS certification is growing in popularity and 2000+ of people have taken this certification.
· You get your free copy of the Scrum Guide explained document.
· This is a certification that you can take during your lunch break in 30 mins.
· Taking this course makes the FCAS certification free.
· The FCAS certification sets you up for higher certifications by CareerSprints dot com.
· The FCAS certification tests you not only on Scrum but also on Agile. There are various Scrum certifications in the market but very few that test you on both.
What is the format of the Foundational Certification in Agile Scrum (FCAS) Exam?
The FCAS Exam Format is as follows:
Exam Type: Multiple Choice
No. of Questions: 20
Pass Marks: 15 out of 20 (75%)
Exam Duration: 30 mins
No of Attempts: 2
Is the FCAS Certification Free?
Yes, the Foundational Certification in Agile Scrum (FCAS) is free for now. However, there is a $3.49 USD exam management fees so that we can render the exam to you.
Since the FCAS is free for a limited time, your exam code will expire within 30 days of you receiving it. Hence, please ensure that you take the exam within 30 days.
How do I prepare for the FCAS certification exam?
You can prepare for the FCAS certification by taking this Udemy course.
How and when do I get my exam code for the FCAS certification?
You will have to directly go to the careersprints dot com website to get the FCAS certification exam code.
How long is the FCAS certification valid?
The FCAS certification is valid for a period of 2 years.
It would be incorrect to expect that this course will help you prepare for the Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) certification exam in any way. This course is specifically designed to help you understand agile and scrum for the Foundational Certification in Agile Scrum (FCAS) exam.
Course and certification reviews
I have taken the Agile Foundation Course and DevOps Course with Career Sprints. Both courses were great.
Prof Gupta is great. He knows the subject matter and explains the courses in a way that is easy to understand by anyone. Whether you are a beginner or versed with the subject matter.
Will recommend Prof Gupta and Career Sprint to anyone interested in taking any Agile course offered by this Organization.
-- Patience Che
Attended the Agile and Scrum webinar.. webinar is very good and addressed all queries with patience, kudos to Rohit
-- Praveen Kumar
The Foundational Scrum webinar was great easy to follow and I recommend it for those interested in getting certified in FCAS
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