This 3-day course teaches how to be a successful Scrum Master. The course focuses on the role and responsibilities of the Agile project manager, the "Scrum Master". Learn how to ensure your team is fully functional and productive and act as the facilitative team lead working closely with the Product Owner. You will learn how to make your development team, your project, and your organization Agile. Our course is different from other CSM classes in that it teaches the principles on which Scrum is based as well as all of the necessary Scrum practices.

• Create user stories that describe what the user really needs
• Manage user stories over the life of the project
• Combine or split up stories to fit in one iteration
• Make sure you have all the stories you need
• Ensure that user stories are consistent
• Learn to accurately estimate story development time
• Group stories to optimize iterations

Learn and Practice a Repeatable Process for Discovering and Managing StoriesThis course focuses on uncovering and managing the customers’ true needs for the product you are building.

• Learn what design patterns are and which are most common and useful
• Discover how design patterns work in an agile environment
• Strengthen your design and programming abilities
• Examine the concepts of commonality variability
• Learn to accommodate change using good object-oriented design techniques

Learn the Thought Process of PatternsDesign patterns assist in software development—from analysis to implementation.