Certified Scrum Master

As a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), you’ll help the Scrum Team perform at their highest level. CSMs also protect the team from both internal and external distractions. Through the certification process, you will learn the Scrum framework and gain an understanding of team roles, events, and artifacts.

Being a CSM will help you to:

1. Expand your career opportunities across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices
2. Demonstrate your attainment of core Scrum knowledge
3. Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the role
4. Engage with Agile practitioners committed to continuous improvement

Skills needed to pass the certification exam of scrum master (CSM)

1. SCRUM AND AGILE
   1. Four values of the Agile Manifesto
   2. Twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto
   3. Definition of Scrum
   4. Relationship of Scrum to Agile
2. SCRUM THEORY
   
   1. Empirical process control as it relates to Scrum
   2. The 3 pillars of empirical process control and their importance
   3. How and why "incremental" is an important characteristic of Scrum
   4. How and why "iterative" is an important characteristic of Scrum
   5. Applicability of Scrum (addresses complex adaptative problems across multiple industries)
3. SCRUM VALUES
   
   1. Identify the five Scrum values
   2. How and why commitment is an important Scrum value
   3. How and why courage is an important Scrum value
   4. How and why focus is an important Scrum value
   5. How and why openness is an important Scrum value
   6. How and why respect is an important Scrum value
4. SCRUM TEAM
   
   1. Why self-organizing is an important characteristic of Scrum Teams
   2. Why cross-functional is an important characteristic of Scrum Teams
   3. Identify the roles on the Scrum Team
   4. Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of the Scrum Master
   5. Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of the Scrum Product Owner
   6. Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of the Scrum Development Team
5. SCRUM MASTER
   
   1. Understanding responsibilities and characteristics of the Scrum Master -- servant leader for the Scrum Team
   2. Scrum Master service to the Organization -- coaching, facilitation, removing impediments
   3. Scrum Master service to the Development Team -- coaching, facilitation, removing impediments
   4. Scrum Master service to the Product Owner -- coaching, facilitation, removing impediments
6. SCRUM EVENTS
   
   1. Characteristics, value and/or purpose of the Sprint
   2. Sprint Planning -- characteristics, value, purpose and/or role of participants
   3. Daily Scrum -- characteristics, value, purpose and/or role of participants
   4. Sprint Review -- characteristics, value, purpose and/or role of participants
   5. Retrospective -- characteristics, value, purpose and/or role of participants
7. SCRUM ARTIFACTS
   1. Understand the purpose and value of Scrum artifacts
   2. Identify Scrum artifacts
   3. Product Backlog - characteristics, value and purpose
   4. Sprint Backlog -- characteristics, value and purpose
   5. Increment -- characteristics, value and purpose
   6. Understanding importance of transparency of artifacts to evaluate value and risk
   7. Identify the downsides of lack of transparency
   8. Importance of establishing the Definition of Done
   9. Characteristics of Product Backlog items