Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) Training
Learn Scrum.
Then learn how to do the job.
Scrum is dead easy to understand. Helping real humans use it to solve real problems? That's where things get interesting.
The Fearless CSM is a live, highly interactive learning experience designed to help you understand Scrum from the inside out — and develop the skills to help a Scrum Team become more effective.
CSM®
LEARN SCRUM. APPLY IT TOGETHER.
A team needs more than a ticket queue.
Practice Sprint Planning and daily collaboration with a Scrum Team.
Keep the Sprint Goal visible. Make the Sprint Backlog a shared plan. Use the Daily Scrum to inspect progress and adapt together.
In CSM, you also practice facilitation and retrospectives: turn reflection into actions people own.
THE TEAM'S WORK
- Plan with purposeA Sprint Goal gives collaboration direction.
- Inspect togetherA visible Sprint Backlog supports real conversations.
- Adapt the planUse what you learn to decide what to do next.
THE FEARLESS DIFFERENCE
The certificate gets you in the door. Then what?
Memorizing the Scrum framework isn't the job.
The job is helping a group of humans inspect reality, make better decisions, collaborate effectively, navigate uncertainty, and create value.
So that's what we prepare you to do.
WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY
More than Scrum vocabulary.
Understand the framework — and start developing the judgment and skills required to use it with actual teams.
Understand Scrum
Understand the accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments and empirical logic that make Scrum work.
Help Teams Think
Stop treating the Scrum Master like an administrator. Learn how to help teams discover, inspect and adapt.
Handle Reality
Work with uncertainty, competing perspectives, collaboration problems and the messy human systems behind product development.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You don't have to have “Scrum Master” on your business card.
CSM is useful for anyone who needs to understand how Scrum Teams work and how to help them become more effective.
- Current and aspiring Scrum Masters
- Project and program managers
- Team leads and people leaders
- Developers and technical professionals
- Business analysts
- Product professionals
- Career changers entering Agile environments
NOT DEATH BY SLIDES
This is a workshop. Act accordingly.
Fearless classes are built around active learning, collaboration, discussion, experimentation and practice.
Live instruction
Real-time learning with an actual trainer and actual humans.
Small classes
Fearless workshops are capped so participation isn't theoretical.
Collaborative exercises
Work with other participants instead of passively consuming content.
Tools you can use
Connect concepts to practical ways of working with teams after class.
Questions encouraged
Challenge assumptions. Ask why. Examine what actually happens in real organizations.
No Agile theater
Practices should help us create value — not merely make us look Agile.
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