Certified Scrum Developer®

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Strengthen your technical skills in agile product development. Certified Scrum Developers (CSD®) have demonstrated — through training that ensures they have a working understanding of Scrum and agile principles, and have learned specialized agile engineering skills. The 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.

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What are the benefits of a CSD certification?

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In today's competitive job market, the Certified Scrum Developer® training can set you apart from the pack. A successful Certified Scrum Developer® is committed to continuous improvement. The coursework and dedication needed to achieve a CSD sharpens your skills to help you become a better practitioner of Scrum and agile development.

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During your CSD® courses, you must demonstrate an understanding of Scrum and agile development practices 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.

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What topics are Covered?

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Lean, Agile & Scrum

• Practice utilizing a sprint backlog

• Describe the responsibility of the Scrum team for turning PBIs in the sprint backlog into increments of value

• Organize 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

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Architecture & Design

• Outline at least three benefits of technical excellence
  Explain at least one design practice 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.

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Who is this Course suitable for?
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This Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) training course is for all team members and has the greatest impact when

the entire team attends. This Certified Scrum Developer course  will benefit Architects, DBAs, Designers, Developers,

Development Managers, Directors, Product Managers, Programmers, QA Engineers, Software Engineers, Technical Analysts, Technical Leads, Technical Writers, and Testers. Familiarity with basic Object-Oriented (OO) concepts and terminology is recommended.

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What you will get on the Online Course?

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• A virtual immersive learning experience facilitated by a highly respected Certified Scrum Trainer ® (CST)

• Access to supporting course materials

• Two years membership of the Scrum Alliance worth $100 –

• you get access exclusive Scrum Alliance member features and content 16 Scrum Education Units® (SEU’s)

• Project Management Professionals ® (PMP) can claim 14 PMI PDUs

• 12 months free access to our On-Demand Introduction to Agile & Scrum training

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Exam details

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There are no exams for this course and on successful completion of the full programme you will be granted your Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Developer certification.

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Online Course details

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Two full day online live training with our trainer using Zoom as our online programs because zoom is the one with the best quality when participants have limited bandwidth.

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