Agile Scrum Master Certification Exam Prep (CSM)

1. Course introduction

This video briefly outlines the course and introduces Scrum and the benefits of using Scrum in a project.

2. Introduction to Scrum Master Certified

This video briefly outlines the Scrum master certification process and how to prepare for the same.

1. Agile History

In this video, we will look at the history of agile and briefly look at the Agile manifesto.

2. Project Management

In this lesson, let's understand project management and differentiate it from traditional project management that focuses on processes and documentation.

3. Agile Manifesto Principles

This video elaborates on the Agile manifesto principles one through five that focuses on customer satisfaction, changing requirements, developing teamwork, and creating a motivational environment support.

4. Agile Manifesto Principles Continue

This video elaborates on the Agile manifesto principles one through five that focuses on effective communication methods, sustainable development, team adjustments and reviews to become more effective.

1. Scrum Principles

This video briefly outlines the principles of Scrum and explains the benefits of using Scrum in a project and the roles of the Scrum team in brief.

2. Empirical Process Control

This video explains the first principle of the Scrum, which is the primary principle made on observations rather than planning.

3. Self-Organization

In this video, we will understand the second principle of Scrum, self-organization, the process of how the team coordinates and works together.

4. Collaboration

This is the third principle of Scrum and an important role of how the team works together and consists of the product owner, the Scrum Master, and the Scrum or development team.

5. Value-Based Prioritization

This lesson elaborates on the fourth principle of Scrum, value-based prioritization, and focuses on how we will provide features or values determined in project goals.

6. Timeboxing

Let's look at the fifth principle of Scrum, which is timeboxing. This plays an important role in the management of time while working on a Sprint.

7. Iterative Development

Let's look at the sixth and final principle of Scrum, which defines how the Scrum project is followed.

1. Scrum Versus Project Management

Let's look at the comparison of Scrum and project management in this video. We will look at certain points that show work in the project is done.

2. Scrum Versus Project Management Continue

This video is a continuation from the previous and discusses customer involvements, requirements, project success, and management styles.

3. Benefits of Using Scrum

In this video, we will discuss the benefits of using Scrum including adaptability, transparency, continuous feedback and improvement, delivery of value, and sustainable pace.

4. Benefits of Using Scrum Continue

Here, we continue from the previous lecture and discuss efficient development process, motivation, quick problem resolution, effective deliverables, and innovative environment.

5. Scrum Phases

In this video, we will look at the various phases involved in Scrum, which includes the initiate, plan and estimate, implement, review and retrospect, and release phases.

6. Initiate Phase

In the first phase, the initiate phase, you will learn to create a product vision, identify the Scrum master and stakeholders, create a prioritized backlog, and release planning.

7. Plan and Estimate Phase

Let's understand the second phase, the plan and estimate phase, which creates, estimates, and commits user stories. It also identifies and estimates a task and creates a Sprint backlog.

8. Implement Phase

In the third phase, we will discuss deliverables, conduct daily stand-ups, and groom a prioritized product backlog.

9. Review and Retrospect Phase

In this video, we will look at the next phase, the review and retrospect phase, which demonstrates and validates a Sprint, and then retrospect a Sprint.

10. Release Phase

In this lesson, we will understand the last phase, the release phase, which provides acceptance whether the work is completed or not. It is to account for the deliverables to the relevant stakeholders.

11. Agile Methods

In this lesson, we will look at the various Agile methods including extreme programming, lean software development, dynamic system development method, feature driven development, and Kanban.

12. Scrum History

Here, we will look at the Scrum process, how it was initiated, developed, and how the final scrum approach was proposed.

1. Scrum Aspects Introduction

In this video, we will look at the different ways in which Scrum affects the project lifecycle and the process.

2. Roles in Scrum

In this video, let's look at the various roles in Scrum and how each role plays an important part in the process of Scrum.

3. Identify the Scrum Master

In this video, you will learn about the first role of Scrum and here we look at the various factors to determine the role of the Scrum master.

4. Scrum Master Responsibilities

Here, we will understand the various responsibilities of the Scrum Master, including responsibilities for Scrum performance, enabling team to use scrum practices, challenging the team to improve performance.

5. Scrum Master Responsibilities Continue

This video continues from the previous lesson and explores further responsibilities of the Scrum master, including assisting with the product owner and maintaining the backlog, coordinating the release and length of a sprint, adaptability.

6. Scrum Master Authority

In this video, we will look at the authority that a Scrum master has to influence the authority over the performance of a scrum team.

7. Identify the Product Owner

This video elaborates on a product owner, how to identify a product owner keeping the goals of the project in mind.

8. Product Owner Responsibilities

Here, you will learn about the various responsibilities of a product owner, understanding customer needs and stakeholder vision, creating and maintaining a product backlog, and participating in sprint review meetings.

9. Product Owner Authorities

Let's learn about the product owner's authority, including the product backlog, focusing on business aspect, performance of the project and forecasting completion dates, making PO decisions.

10. Scrum-Development Team

In this video, we will look at the third aspect of the Scrum team, which is the development team, that participates in the process completion as per defined goals and protocols of the scrum team.

11. Business Justification

Let's understand the parameters of business justification, value-driven delivery, responsibilities, business justification techniques, and continuous value justification.

12. Quality

In this video, we will look at the various features of quality that affect or influence the scrum process in achieving defined goals.

13. Change

Here, we will look at what constitutes change and how change affects Agile principles. We will also look at approved and unapproved change requests, flexibility versus stability, and integrate change.

14. How Risk Effects the Scrum Process

In the Scrum project management, risk plays a vital role. We will look at what risks are involved in a project, how much risk is acceptable, identification and assessment of the risks.

15. How Risk Effects the Scrum Process Continue

This video continues from where we left off in the last video. Here, we will talk about risk assessment, prioritization, and mitigation.

1. How Sprint Starts the Scrum Process

In this video, you will learn about the events of a Scrum and how each Scrum project delivers the final product after a number of cycles called Sprints.

2. Important Tasks for Sprint

Here, we will look at the various facets of a sprint and how we need to go ahead with the sprint, with a fixed duration in the event.

3. What Is Sprint Timebox

In this video, we will understand what a Sprint timebox is and determine how to define a timebox duration that effectively delivers a goal in a Scrum team.

4. Sprint Planning Can Begin Early

Here, we will look at the second Scrum event, which is sprint planning. Here, the PO will determine and define the work the team delivers over a single sprint.

5. Follow Proper Sprint Process

In the continuation of the sprint planning process from the previous lecture, you will learn to estimate the amount of work done by a Scrum team and create a Scrum goal.

6. What Is Sprint Backlog

Let's define a sprint backlog and the sprint planning part three defines the things to do by the scrum team and segregates it into "to do", "doing", and "done".

1. Introduction to Scrum Artifacts

This video briefly outlines the artifacts of scrum and identifies them from various perspectives.

2. Designing the Product Backlog

This video takes us through the process of designing a product backlog. The factors to determine the value of each item is set and delivery targets are planned.

3. How Are Product Backlog Items formed?

Let's look at some important factors that are important parts in development and monitoring of the product backlog.

4. Fill Information Accordingly

Let us look at the various factors involved in understanding how product backlogs would be created for user stories.

5. How Daily Scrum Needs

Here, we will look at the third scrum event, which is the daily scrum, which is an important part of the scrum process, a 15-minute timebox event for the team.

6. Daily Scrum Meeting

Let's look at more details on how scrum meetings play an important role in the development of the project.

7. Summary of Daily Scrum

Here, we will look at other points that we need to be aware of in a scrum meeting and summarize the scrum meeting process.

8. Reviewing the Sprint

After learning to create sprints and running daily scrums, we will look at the next event, which is reviewing the sprint.

9. Scrum Master Helps Sprint Review

We will continue further on the important points to keep in mind in a sprint review event, which is at most a 4-hour meeting in one month or a 2-hour meeting if meeting twice.

10. Scrum Standpoint

Let's review the scrum event and how the review parameters need to be followed from a sprint perspective, the attendees and key stakeholders.

11. Sprint Retrospective

After learning to review the sprint, we will now look at the next major event in a scrum, which is the sprint retrospective.

12. Purpose of the Sprint Retrospective

Here, we continue where we left off in the sprint retrospective lesson in the last video and look at the purpose of the retrospective and creating a plan to implement improvements.

13. Summary of Sprint Retrospective

This video succinctly summarizes the sprint retrospective, its purpose and implementation, and making improvements to the scrum based on it.

14. Monitoring Progress Toward Goals

The second artifact of a scrum includes monitoring, let's look at how to summarize the work remaining, empirical processes involved.

15. Sprint Backlog

The next artifact we look at is the sprint backlog, created during a sprint planning event. A detailed plan for delivery of items and goal realization is discussed.

16. Monitoring Sprint Progress

In this video, you will learn about monitoring the entire project and monitoring the progress of each sprint throughout its lifecycle.

17. Increment

Here, we will look at the next artifact, the increment, which is the total of all product backlog items at the end of a sprint.

18. Definition of Done

Let's look at an important artifact of the scrum, which is "done", defined when a product increment or backlog item is described.

1. Introduction to Scrum Values

This video elaborates on the values defined in scrum, including commitment, focus, respect, courage, and openness.

2. Follow Commitment

Here, we will discuss the first value of Scrum, which is commitment, focusing on deliverables in a scrum and practicing continuous improvement.

3. Scrum Process

The next important value that we will discuss in the Scrum process is courage, an important value that adds transparency, share opinions, admit mistakes and shortcomings.

4. Scrum Process Continue

We will continue where we left off on the courage value of the scrum process. We will look at changing sprint items after feedback from customers. You will learn to identify opportunities for improvement based on the sprint retrospective.

5. Scrum Values-Focus

Let's learn about focus, an important value that the scrum team needs to have as it plays an important role in deliverables.

6. Openness

In this video, you will learn about another value of scrum that plays a crucial role in the overall lifecycle of the scrum, which is openness.

7. Respect

You will learn about the last value of Scrum, which is respect, and it plays a vital role in the level of maturity among the scrum team members.

8. Scrum Overall Process

In this video, we will look at the overall scrum process and how it works.

9. Scrum Overall Process Continue

We will continue with the process of recapitulating the scrum process and goals and objectives achieved with the process.

10. Scrum Master Summary

This video summarizes the various roles and responsibilities of the scrum master while working on the scrum.

11. Scrum Master Summary Continued

We will continue with the process of recapitulating the various roles and responsibilities of the scrum master while working on the scrum.