You’re on a Scrum Team. Nobody Explained Scrum.
Most people meet Scrum by being put on a team that’s already doing it. This is the day that fills in what everyone assumed you already knew.
Completing this class earns you the Scrum Alliance® Scrum Essentials Microcredential.
The Framework, End to End, in One Day
Scrum is small. Five events, three accountabilities, three artifacts — and an enormous amount of confusion about all of it, most of it caused by nobody ever explaining the reasoning.
This is the whole framework with the reasoning attached, built for people who have to work inside it rather than lead it.
- What Scrum is for, and what problem it was built to solve
- The events: what each one is actually for, not just when it happens
- The artifacts and their commitments
- What makes a Scrum team a team rather than a group
- Where Scrum and traditional project management genuinely differ
A day, and you’ll stop nodding along in meetings you didn’t understand.
In development
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What you'll learn
- The agile values and the Scrum values, and why they’re different lists
- The five events: purpose, participants, and the failure mode of each
- Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment — and the commitment attached to each
- How a Scrum team is composed, and what makes one high-performing
- Backlog management: ordering, refining, and slicing
- Where Scrum differs from traditional project management, and where it doesn’t
Who this is for
- People new to Scrum who’ve been put on a Scrum team
- Project and product managers working alongside Scrum teams
- Engineers, testers, designers, and analysts on an agile team
- People in HR, manufacturing, government, healthcare and education whose organisations are adopting Scrum
What you get
- 4 hours of live, high-engagement training
- A student handbook with the framework laid out end to end
- Your Scrum Alliance® microcredential badge, which doesn’t expire
- A 2-year Scrum Alliance® membership
- Discounted access to all future Artisan training events
The fine print
Agenda
One day, worked through in the order the framework actually makes sense in:
Why Scrum exists
Focus: The problem before the framework
- Complex work and why plans stop predicting it
- The agile values, read rather than recited
- The Scrum values, and what each one costs
The team
Focus: Three accountabilities, one team
- Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developers
- Self-management, and what it isn’t
- What separates a high-performing team from a busy one
The events
Focus: What each one is for
- The Sprint as a container
- Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retrospective
- The failure mode of each, and how to recognise it
The artifacts
Focus: What the team actually works from
- Product Backlog and ordering
- Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Goal
- The Increment and the Definition of Done
One day, live. Times are Central and are confirmed when the cohort is scheduled.
Training formats
Live and instructor-led, in person or remote. A microcredential is short enough to take in a day and specific enough that a day is the right amount of time.
A student handbook you keep, with the exercises and room for notes
The Scrum Alliance® badge on completion, and a 2-year membership with it
Risk-free guarantee
Satisfaction is guaranteed. If, for any reason, you are dissatisfied with the class by the lunch break, let us know and we’ll refund your class fees. No questions will be asked.
Prerequisites
None. Some familiarity with Scrum will help, but the class assumes nothing.
Frequently asked questions
When does this run?
It doesn’t yet. This class is on the schedule to be built, and this page exists so you can say you want it.
Tell me you’re interested and I’ll write to you when the first cohort has dates — before it goes on the public schedule.
I already have a CSM. Should I take this?
No. If you hold a CSM, CSPO or CSD, there’s nothing here you haven’t already covered — Scrum Alliance says so too.
Send the people around you instead. This is the class for the rest of the team.
How is this different from Basic Agile and Scrum Fundamentals?
Content overlaps considerably. The difference is the route: Basic Agile and Scrum Fundamentals is self-paced and issues Artisan’s own certificate of completion; Scrum Essentials is a live day and earns a Scrum Alliance® badge and membership.
Pick on how you want to learn and whether the credential matters to you.