Professional Scrum Master - Advanced

The Professional Scrum Master – Advanced course (PSM-A) is completely focused on the Scrum Master role, and provides excellent support in the professional development of a Scrum Master. The goal of this ”next step” course, is to deepen the understanding, use and application of Scrum’s values and principles in the daily work of a Scrum Master.

The PSM-A course helps students embrace different stances which are typical for an effective Scrum Master and servant leader. We deep dive into how a Scrum Master serves Development Teams, Product Owners and the surrounding organization and environment. Along the way, we pickup different types and forms of practices and skills that can be used to shape conversations, increase value – and how to apply these practices and skills in everyday work.

We use real cases and challenges, from real companies, and students are expected to have at least 18 months experience of the Scrum Master role before entering the class room. With reflection and clear guidance, we uncover ways that will help you become a more effective and successful Scrum Master.

Target Audience

The PSM-A course is an advanced ”next step” course that assumes students have appropriate experience from the Scrum Master role. This course is not suitable to a person unfamiliar with Professional Scrum, such as not having passed the PSM I assessment.

What You’ll Learn

During two days we’ll explore several areas that are critical to the development of a successful Scrum MAster. This involves how Scrum’s principles and value guides Scrum Masters in the decisions they make, and how Scrum Master kan help change the environment surrounding a Scrum Team, and how this creates opportunity for agility and success. The Scrum Master role is complex and provides ample opportunities of choosing one of several stances to direct a certain situation. We will look at …

• Scrum Master as teacher
• Scrum Master as coach and mentor
• Scrum Mastern as facilitator
• Scrum Mastern as change agent

As a Scrum Master, it’s necessary to be able to identify and apply the stance that will – given the situation at hand – best supports the team.

Course Modules & Content

We use zero slides in this course, but lots of exercises and discussions/conversations. We do this simply because participants better can apply the ideas after the course. Using real cases and situations also helps make the application of principles and values more tangiable and applicable once back ”at work”.

• A range of practices, techniques, tools, skills and stances that together help build an effective Scrum Master
• How Scrum’s principles and values guides a Scrum Master in the challenges they face, and what stance to apply
• How a Scrum Master acts as a servant-leader and how to develop your skill in this role
• What a Scrum Master can do to support and help Development Teams and Product Owners in becoming more effective
• Different ways a Scrum Master can act to cause change in a Scrum Teams’ surrounding environment to enable success, and high agility
• Provide tips and techniques a Scrum Master can apply to enable the whole organization in it’s supporting Scrum Teams

At ProAgile, Fredrik Wendt and Björn Persson, both certified Professional Scrum Trainers, lead this course and make sure the material is suitable for the Swedish market.

Certification

After the course, you’ll receive an e-mail with password, allowing you to take the PSM II cerfification assessment online. The test consists of 30 questions that should be answered in 90 minutes, and a 85% score (or higher) is required to achieve Professional Scrum Master level II certification. If you take the test within 14 days, and score less than 85%, you’ll be given one retake attempt: a chance to inspect and adapt!
The course fee also includes a 40% discount for the most advanced certification assessment, PSM III.

Recommendations

Students that have take the class, was asked ”if you could send a message to yourself, that you received before the course started, what would you’ve written?” Here are some typical answers to that question.

The course is held at ProAgile's office on Mölndalsvägen 26 in Göteborg, Sweden.