Scrum Fundamentals Certified Prep Course

Define the Scrum organization by examining core roles—the product owner, Scrum master, and Scrum team—and non-core roles like stakeholders, vendors, and the Scrum guidance body to maximize value.

Explore how Scrum uses value driven delivery to justify projects by delivering early, potentially shippable increments, prioritizing by business value, and sustaining benefits realization through the product owner.

Define quality as the product's ability to meet acceptance criteria and deliver business value, and apply Scrum through continuous improvement, testing, and incremental delivery each sprint.

Embrace change by adding approved changes to a single prioritized product backlog. Approve changes through the product owner and ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are not altered.

Understand risk as uncertain events with positive opportunities or threats, and apply a Scrum-based risk management process: identification, assessment, prioritization, mitigation, and communication.

Explore initiate phase of Scrum fundamentals, including create project vision, identify Scrum master and stakeholders, form the Scrum team, develop epics, create a prioritized product backlog, and conduct release planning.

Explore the plan and estimate phase of Scrum, creating and estimating user stories with acceptance criteria, committing to outcomes, identifying and estimating tasks, and compiling a sprint backlog.

During the implement phase, the team executes sprint tasks to create deliverables, tracked on a scrum board with impediments logged. They perform daily standup and groom the prioritized product backlog.

Demonstrate sprint deliverables to the product owner and stakeholders to secure acceptance, then conduct a retrospective to capture lessons learned and define actionable improvements.

Deliver accepted deliverables to the customer and transition them per the release schedule. Conduct a retrospective project to identify, document, and internalize lessons and actionable improvements for future projects.

Explore scaling Scrum for large projects and enterprise-level programs, detailing how multiple Scrum teams coordinate sprints, manage program or portfolio components, and release plans using five additional processes.

Explore how empirical process control guides Scrum decisions through observation and experimentation, anchored by transparency, inspection, and adaptation, with Scrum boards, backlogs, and sprint reviews enabling feedback-driven improvement.

Empower self-organizing Scrum teams through servant leadership to understand the project vision, leverage cross-functional skills, estimate user stories, and deliver tangible results through daily standups.

Explore how the Scrum core team and stakeholders collaborate to create and validate deliverables aligned with the project vision, guided by awareness, articulation, and appropriation, reducing change requests and risks.

Value-based prioritization in Scrum drives business value by ranking high value items in product backlog, guided by the product owner with input from customer and sponsor, considering risk and dependencies.

Timeboxing in scrum fixes sprint and meeting durations, including daily standups of 15 minutes and sprint planning up to eight hours for a four-week sprint, boosting efficiency and velocity.

Explore iterative development in Scrum, delivering maximum business value through short sprints, continuous backlog grooming, and frequent deliverables aligned with user stories and acceptance criteria.

Learn how to access the online Scrum fundamentals course, take the 40-question, one-hour, online unproctored exam, and explore role-based and scaling certifications with online or proctored options.

Explore an end-to-end case study showing how scrum drives a grocery delivery website, covering vision, personas, epics, product backlog, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint burndown charts.