Learn The Foundations Of Professional Scrum (PSF) – For Scrum Teams And Stakeholders

Solidify Your Knowledge Through Practice

Professional Scrum Foundations™ (PSF) is a 2-day course that provides the foundational knowledge needed to work with Scrum in a highly practical way. The course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises where students experience how the Scrum framework improves product development efforts.

What You Will Learn

Over the 2 days, students are introduced to the mechanics of Scrum, gaining insights into overcoming complexity, dealing with team-based collaboration and self-organization as essential elements in mastering Scrum. Students work together as a team in a series of Sprints to build a software application, thereby facing real-life problems. The mechanics, roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises. From its emphasis on the practical application of Scrum, the course exposes common missteps and misunderstandings so students grow a higher awareness of the associated symptoms. The course provides prescriptive guidance to avoid going off track and keep Scrum healthy.

Professional Scrum Foundations is excellent training for teams and anyone wanting to experience the way of working in Scrum. The course also provides the foundation of knowledge needed for role-focused training for Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Developers.

Course Objectives

• Have a clear understanding of the foundational elements of Scrum and their coherence
• Be able to take part in a Scrum Team
• Effectively deliver valuable software
• Leave the class with a handful of tips to identify common pitfalls and dysfunctions

Course Topics

• Fundamentals of Scrum
• The Scrum Framework
• Mastering Scrum
• Planning with Scrum
• Getting started
• Keeping Scrum healthy

Who Should Attend

The Professional Scrum Foundations course is the perfect introduction, reboot or refresher to Scrum. This course is for teams or anyone wanting to experience the Scrum way of working. PSF provides the base knowledge needed for anyone interested in taking role focused training.  We also suggest that you read through the PSF Subject Areas.