Agile Scrum Master online training course for beginners

Explore Scrum as an agile framework, with a product owner driving vision and backlog, sprint planning and daily scrums, and delivering a potentially simple product increment through ceremonies and values.

Explore sprint length from one to four weeks and how it balances product owner feedback, team feedback, and priorities, while embracing inspect and adapt and planning from vision to release.

Master sprint planning by guiding the scrum team through a structured agenda, preparing the product backlog, defining the sprint goal, and estimating user stories with planning poker and capacity awareness.

Learn how to run a focused daily stand-up in scrum, answer three questions (accomplishments, plans, blockers), and avoid turning it into a status meeting, keeping sessions to 10-15 minutes.

Deliver a sprint review demo that showcases only done software to stakeholders and the product owner, inviting feedback, and enabling acceptance or rejection of the completed work.

Explore sprint retrospective best practices in agile, turning what went well and what was learned into actionable items for the next sprint, using prompts, a diary, and charts.

Maintain the product backlog through on-demand grooming, incorporating new feedback and priorities and team input to prepare for sprint planning and decompose or remove items as needed.

Define the product vision and boundaries, set constraints, and prioritize the backlog by business value, while acting as the decision maker collaborating with the team to guide sprint outcomes.

Coach the scrum process, remove impediments, and protect the team from external interference, adapting leadership from directive to coaching as the product owner and stakeholders collaborate.

Keep the team size between three and nine, ensure cross-functional, full-time members, foster self-organization, and have the team own the sprint and commitments to deliver the fully done product increment.

the scrum master focuses on continuous improvement and enabling self-organizing teams within an agile frame, while the project manager drives resources and overall project success across scope, schedule, and cost.

Explore the product backlog as a key scrum artifact and the single source of truth for prioritized work. Learn backlog grooming, epics, user stories, estimations, definitions of ready and done.

Define the definition of ready and apply the invest criteria to ensure product backlog items are independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable before the sprint backlog.

Define the definition of done as all activities required for a feature to be complete, including tests, reviews, deployment, and product owner acceptance.

Deliver potentially shippable increments each sprint, defined by the definition of done and product owner release decisions, while crafting user stories with acceptance criteria and splitting them to deliver value.

Explore how to describe user stories by defining user persona, goals, and motivations; learn how acceptance criteria guide product backlog discussions without detailing solutions.

Learn how to split large user stories using the spider approach—spikes, paths, interfaces, data, and rules—to keep the product backlog groomed and plan sprints effectively.

Prioritize the product backlog by weighing business value, cost to develop, new knowledge, risk reduction, and dependencies, aligned with the product vision.

Master backlog prioritization using Moscow and Canada model, plus a relative weighting technique, to classify items as must have, should have, could have, and delights.

Master estimation in agile scrum for beginners by using story points, ideal hours, and velocity to forecast delivery and prioritize product backlog based on cost to develop.

Estimate backlog items using story points for relative sizing, factoring effort, complexity, and uncertainty, then apply planning poker with a Fibonacci scale to align the team on velocity.

Explore the use of ideal days versus story points for estimating product backlog items, and learn how a scrum master persuades stakeholders, explains points, and links velocity to agile planning.

Learn how to measure and forecast progress using team velocity, story points, and completed sprints. Use historical data and backlog estimates to predict sprint needs and prioritize delivery.

Explore agile metrics to report progress to stakeholders, including velocity versus committed work, commitment rate volatility, backlog readiness and definition of ready, with charts you can share from project tools.

Learn to report progress to stakeholders using iteration and release burn down charts, gaining visibility into team performance, and decompose work into smaller stories for agile progress tracking.

motivate teams through peer-to-peer recognition, timely rewards, and growth opportunities—balancing cash bonuses with recognition, time off, learning budgets, and a vision driven by the product owner in scrum.

Apply end-to-end scrum guidance and practical tips to implement agile and deliver value faster, helping teams advance on their agile journey in a beginner-friendly course.