
What you’ll learn
In this course, you will be learning what does a Scrum Master Really does in the Scrum Ceremonies. I am sharing the Real-world Experience I faced and how I tackled some successfully & how I learned some hard ways.
I will also share what "To-DO and "NOT" To-Do as a Scrum Master for each Scrum Ceremonies.
Pre-Preparation, During, After activities/task for each Scrum Ceremonies.
Explore how agile delivers incremental product releases through the scrum framework, a lightweight approach with sprints and ceremonies like daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective.
First Stand up - Pre-Preparation
First Iteration Planning - Pre-Preparation, During Iteration Planning, Post Iteration Planning, TO-DOs/Not TO-DOs
First Retrospective- Pre-Preparation, During Retrospective, Post Retrospective, TO-DOs/Not TO-DOs
Practice attentive stand-ups to identify and resolve impediments quickly, ensuring user stories have clear descriptions and acceptance criteria. Maintain respectful communication, address issues offline, and avoid taking sides.
During backlog refinement, the product owner decides while the scrum master facilitates, ensuring feature documentation, SDLC coverage, and QA embedded in each story, while encouraging junior members to speak.
Review features after backlog refinement, ensure SDLC phase stories are covered, and assign future stories to the next sprint in priority order; follow up with the product owner for clarifications.
Prioritize features and stories with acceptance criteria and a high-level description, guided by the product owner during backlog refinement. Track velocity, document questions, and secure a release plan.
Master the first sprint planning by outlining pre-preparation, guiding the planning itself, and detailing post-planning actions, to-dos, and not-to-dos.
Prepare for sprint planning by confirming backlog questions and current sprint story statuses. Gather team capacity and PTO, and ensure product owner attendance to support carry forward planning.
Learn practical sprint planning guidance with to-dos and not-to-dos: start with high-priority stories, know team capacity, keep discussions under 10–15 minutes, involve juniors, avoid tech-lead ownership, and review end-of-sprint work.
Facilitate a retrospective by starting with light humor, collecting brief feedback, and reading it respectfully. Encourage balanced discussion and experimentation, then wrap with team voting for the next sprint.
Document and enforce retrospective action items, collect data to measure their impact, and email the team and manager to celebrate progress and the award winner.
Master retro etiquette by staying on time, avoiding distractions, calling out team opinions, while selecting one improvement for the next sprint and not inviting management or taking sides.
Explore key pointers for demos, meetings, and templates, highlighting important meetings beyond ceremonies to enhance scrum practices.
Learn to run sprint demos by ensuring stories are ready to demo, with acceptance criteria and attachments, then have each member demo their own stories and obtain product owner approval.
Explore essential scrum meetings for a scrum master: weekly scrum of scrums, release planning, code review sessions, one-on-one check-ins, and quarterly team outings to boost collaboration and delivery.
Apply practical templates for scrum ceremonies, including capacity trackers for story points and hourly work, a ceremony checklist and a retrospective format, plus access to additional templates.
Express gratitude and invite feedback, guiding learners to ask questions and apply best practices for scrum ceremonies as a scrum master across diverse environments.
So now that you have studied hard, read so many online articles took so many prep tests, even took a UDEMY Course to pass the Scrum Master Certification, heck even passed it. Some had challenging exams, while some are easy peasy lemon squeezy :)
So now what? Is the real-world different then what you have been taught? The question you keep asking yourself: "Do I just simply apply what I learned theoretically in the real world? Is it that easy?"
Ask any Scrum Master(Like me) and ask how different it is at a job than what they teach you in the class? My guess is most of Scrum Master's will say.. "Hmm... Not quite the same and definitely not that easy".
With the Training you definitely get the basics, you understand the concept, you know keywords, key terminology, but we all know in the real world, no matter what job you are in it's always different.
We all adapt, we start to learn from our experience, and we learn every day something new and you'd wish "Man... I wish someone would have shared with me some real-world experience".
I am trying to be that someone, who would like to share some real-world experience and how I faced it and you will most likely face it as well. Because I was not able to find that someone or guru or any discussion forum to give you an inside on what does a Scrum Master does in each Scrum Ceremonies and what kind of reality he/she faces as a Scrum Master or maybe I didn't' simply search well in Google.
Importantly, with all due respect, I am not going to try and make this a 3-4 hour long course. It will simply get boring and exhausting.
I will keep it short, precise, and hopefully to the point. Based on the student's genuine feedback, will improvise this course.
What you’ll learn
In this course, you will be learning What does a Scrum Master Really does in the Scrum Ceremonies. I am sharing the Real-world Experience I faced and how I tackled it successfully & some unsuccessfully.
Will try to paint a real picture so it helps the To-Be Scrum Master a sense of confidence and also helping some new and experienced Scrum Master try some of the ways I have tackled being a good servant leader.
What are some of the "To-DOs" and "Not To-DOs" as a Scrum Master in the Scrum Ceremonies?
What to do before each Scrum Ceremonies, During each Scrum Ceremonies, and After Scrum Ceremonies. Ceremonies I will cover are:
Daily Stand-Up
Iteration Planning
Backlog Refinement/Grooming
Retrospectives
Other Important Meetings, apart from Scrum Ceremonies which you will need to participate in and maybe even facilitate. Examples: DEMO Meeting, Scrum of Scrum, Team's Code Review Sessions, etc
What you will Get? Apart from the real experience knowledge, below is what should help you get started the first day or be a better Scrum Master:
Capacity Template(Hourly tracking and Story Point Tracking Template) - Excel Format
Retrospective Agenda - Word Format
Each Scrum Ceremonies Task Checklist- Word Format
Each Scrum Ceremonies Meeting Agenda Points - Word Format
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
There is no formal prerequisite for this course.
A good understanding of the Agile process
Good understanding of Scrum Process
Some SAFe Process Familiarity
Empathy - I personally believe to be a successful Scrum Master, Empathy is a key.
Who this course is for:
Prospective Scrum Master
Current Scrum Master
Any team members (Dev, QA, Product Owner) who wants to be a Scrum Master
Anyone interested in knowing what does a Scrum Master really does in each Scrum Ceremonies and how he/she faces some situation with the team.
And if you think you have not learned anything new and/or are not satisfied with the course, I offer 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee.