Certified Scrum Developer® Training

Strengthen your technical skills in agile product development with this Certified Scrum Developer® training course. Certified Scrum Developers (CSD®) have demonstrated — through training that ensures they have a working understanding of Scrum and agile principles and have learned specialised agile engineering skills. This Certified Scrum Developer® course is designed for product developers who are working in a Scrum environment. The goal is to expose students to the most important tools and techniques needed to build good products in the iterative and incremental fashion that Scrum requires. These ideas are central to the entire field of agile product development.

This course is beneficial for current and aspiring Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and members of software development teams who want to work successfully with or as part of a Scrum team creating value-added products. The course is also beneficial as a team training exercise to ensure all members are aligned towards creating products that add value to the customers.

To earn a CSD®, you are required to attend at least two days of formal training taught by a Scrum Alliance-approved CSD Educator. During your CSD® course, you must demonstrate an understanding of Scrum and agile development practises by passing a CSD® assessment provided by your educator. The assessment may be an exam administered by the educator to test your knowledge, or it may be an active, classroom-based assessment. When a CSD educator uploads a student’s information into our system, they are recommending the student for certification. Once you complete the course, you will receive a notification to accept your CSD® licence, and the CSD® certification will be added to your Scrum Alliance membership profile. Your certification is valid for two years. You can maintain your CSD® certification by earning Scrum Education Units® (SEUs) and renewing your certification every two years.

Certified Scrum Developer® Training Delivery Methods

• Instructor-led training by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Developer Educators
• Integrated case study to initiate (visioning), develop product roadmap, user stories, and the product
• Develop collaboration and team dynamics
• After-course instructor coaching benefit
• A copy of The Scrum Guide included

Certified Scrum Developer® Training Course Benefits

• Work successfully in a Scrum team that focuses on creating products
• Bring essential collaboration skills into your team
• Encourage the understanding and adoption of agile engineering practises within your team

Certified Scrum Developer® Training Outline

Lean, Agile & Scrum

• Practise utilising a sprint backlog
• Describe the responsibility of the Scrum team for turning PBIs in the sprint backlog into increments of value
• Organise and demonstrate the daily Scrum
• List at least three attributes of PBIs
• Give at least three examples of how a Scrum team will inspect and adapt PBIs during product backlog refinement
• Discuss at least five elements of a definition of done that ensure the increment provides information that enhances transparency and focus against which progress can be measured

Collaboration & Team Dynamics

• Explain at least three differences between a working group and a team
• Discuss at least three attributes of effective teams
• Demonstrate "working together as a team"
• Describe at least three benefits of developers interacting directly with customers and users
• Restate at least three ways a Scrum team may collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and/or users during the sprint

Architecture & Design

• Outline at least three benefits of technical excellence
• Explain at least one design practise on an agile team
• List at least three principles of architecture in an agile environment

Refactoring

• Define refactoring
• Describe at least three benefits of refactoring to an agile software development effort

Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Explain test-first as a design and development approach and list three benefits.
• List at least three differences between “traditional” and “agile” testing.
• Explain the importance of refactoring in the TDD cycle.
• Describe at least three qualities of a good agile testing approach.

Integrating Continuously

• Define continuous integration and list at least three benefits.
• Describe using three examples of how Scrum supports CI.
• Describe at least one advantage of an automated build, test, measure pipeline.