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Free online courseScrum Master course

Duration of the online course: 3 hours and 28 minutes

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Lead agile projects with confidence—learn Scrum roles, sprints, and planning in a free online course and get job-ready skills for modern teams.

In this free course, learn about

  • Core Agile values and the main advantage of Agile vs. traditional methods
  • Scrum roles, events, artifacts, and how they work together end-to-end
  • The 3 Scrum artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment
  • User story quality via INVEST; meaning of the 'I' (Independent)
  • Rolling wave planning: progressively elaborating plans as more is learned
  • What determines Sprint length (team context, risk, feedback needs, constraints)
  • Typical Sprint duration and the idea of fixed-length, timeboxed iterations
  • Kanban’s main focus: visualizing work, limiting WIP, and improving flow
  • Scrumban: blending Scrum cadence with Kanban flow/WIP practices
  • Popular Scrum tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps) and their common uses

Course Description

Step into agile project management and learn how to guide teams toward predictable delivery, stronger collaboration, and real business value. This free online Scrum Master course is designed for anyone who wants to understand how Scrum works in practice and how to apply it to fast-changing environments where priorities evolve and feedback matters.

You’ll build a clear view of the Scrum framework, including what makes agile different from traditional delivery models and why iterative planning helps teams reduce risk and improve outcomes. By exploring core concepts like sprints, user stories, and team alignment, you’ll gain the language and mindset needed to support product development from idea to release while keeping stakeholders informed and expectations realistic.

Along the way, you’ll strengthen your ability to remove obstacles, improve flow, and promote transparency. The course also helps you recognize what makes work items ready to be built, how planning can evolve over time, and what factors influence the rhythm and duration of a sprint. You’ll connect Scrum to adjacent approaches such as Kanban and hybrid practices, making it easier to adapt when your team needs more flexibility.

To turn learning into confident decision-making, the course includes exercises that check understanding of agile benefits, key Scrum artifacts, the INVEST approach for writing better user stories, rolling wave planning, and the practical focus of Kanban. You’ll also get familiar with popular tools used by Scrum teams, supporting your readiness to work in real project environments.

Whether you’re aiming to move into a Scrum Master role, improve how your team delivers, or add agile skills to your business toolkit, this course offers a focused, practical foundation that can immediately elevate how you plan, facilitate, and drive continuous improvement.

Course content

  • Video class: Certified Scrum Master Full Course | Scrum Master Training | Scrum Master Course | Simplilearn 3h28m
  • Exercise: _What is the main advantage of using agile methodologies?
  • Exercise: _What are the three artifacts in the Scrum process that improve transparency and understanding of the work?
  • Exercise: _What does "I" stand for in the INVEST acronym for user stories?
  • Exercise: _What is rolling wave planning in Scrum?
  • Exercise: _What is one of the factors that determines the duration of a sprint in Scrum?
  • Exercise: _What is the duration of a sprint in Scrum?
  • Exercise: _What is the main focus of Kanban?
  • Exercise: _What is ScrumBan?
  • Exercise: _What are some popular tools used in Scrum?

This free course includes:

3 hours and 28 minutes of online video course

Digital certificate of course completion (Free)

Exercises to train your knowledge

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