Apr 1–3, 2025
9:00am - 2:30pm MT (Denver)
Learn how the best ScrumMasters build and sustain high-performing Scrum teams.
Humanizing Work’s Certified ScrumMaster workshop goes beyond learning the Scrum basics—you can get most of the basics just by reading the Scrum Guide and some articles. What’s hard about Scrum is understanding how to apply it on your team so that everyone is excited about how it improves their work life and the products and services they deliver. This course has been refined over 15 years of practice to deliver that result for you.
If you’ve shopped around a bit, you know that this is not the least expensive option. So we assume you’re reading this with the question, “What makes this class so much better than the others out there?”
What You’ll Learn
Some CSM courses are built around covering the Scrum Alliance Learning Objectives. We helped create those learning objectives, so we think they’re important. But instead of building a class just to prepare students to pass a certification exam, we designed our workshop to also provide participants with a deep understanding of key concepts and skill development that you can apply right away to help your team excel.
Our CSM workshop covers the why, what, and how of Scrum, including the following:
- We start with WHY Scrum works when it does:
- Context for Agile – why it emerged, what problems it solves, an overview of Cynefin
- Agile – The values and principles of Agile are much bigger than “doing Scrum”
- Overview of the Scrum Framework: roles, events, artifacts – how we can use Scrum to help us discover a more Agile way of working
- Then we focus on the key skills of a ScrumMaster, including:
- How to facilitate the Scrum Events so that your team actually looks forward to productive decisions and improvements
- How to coach individuals and the team collectively so that they take ownership and feel a sense of growth and mastery
- How to resolve tough conflicts
- How to influence other stakeholders so your team has the support they need to succeed
Why Choose Humanizing Work
Focused instruction. Instead of tediously reciting planned content, we adapt to each group and deliver what each participant actually needs.
Experiential learning. This is not a death-by-powerpoint workshop. You’ll learn by doing throughout the workshop in exercises and simulations designed to help you practice new skills.
Deep understanding. You’ll learn not only what Scrum is, but also how to do it in a variety of contexts, constraints, and cultures — and you’ll understand what Scrum means to you, your team, and your organization.
Practical application. The skills you gain can be put into practice right away with meaningful results the very next week.
About Your Trainer
Richard Lawrence 
Richard Lawrence’s superpower is bringing together seemingly unrelated fields and ideas to create new possibilities. Drawing on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, design, and political science, Richard trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems.
Richard created the wildly-popular “How to Split a User Story” flowchart, which has been downloaded over 1 million times and translated into several languages.
Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. His book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber, was published by Addison-Wesley in 2019 (for more information, visit bddwithcucumber.com).
When he’s not helping clients transform their work, you might find him experimenting in the kitchen, making music, or working alongside his family on their budding regenerative wine farm in Western Colorado.
Hear What Past Participants Say
“Perfect coursework for anyone who wants to learn Agile & Scrum. Learn by doing!”
- – Jim ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“This turned out to be such a good collaborative and interactive course that I often forgot we were not all in a room together.”
- – Cindi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“The training was effective, engaging, and relevant. Although it was a virtual course, it was more effective than any in person course I have taken.”
- – Racquel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Continuing Education Credits & Certification
This CSM course earns 16 PMI PDUs or Scrum Alliance SEUs.
Successfully completing a CSM course and accepting the license agreement allows you to take the Scrum Alliance CSM exam. When you pass the exam, you receive the Certified Scrum Master certification, digital badge, and two years of membership in the Scrum Alliance.
Private Courses & Training
Bring this training into your organization! Public courses are great for individuals or small groups to grow their skills in a cost-effective way. But there’s nothing like a private workshop that only includes people from your organization. Private workshops allow you to dig deep into your unique challenges and opportunities.
Contact us for information about private workshops, group discounts or questions.
Register For This Event
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) – Apr 2025 (Virtual)
Apr 1–3, 2025
9:00am - 2:30pm MT (Denver)