Professional Scrum Master

Amsterdam, May 16-17, 2024

Class Overview

Course language: English

What's included

Free attempt at the globally recognized Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master I certification assessment
Free 2nd attempt when you don’t pass your 1st attempt within 14 days
Certification insurance
Free book – recommended read selected by your trainer
Professional Scrum Master Reference Guide
$ 100,- Discount on the PSM II assessment
$ 200,- Discount on the PSM III assessment
extensive lunch buffet, drinks and snacks throughout the day

Learn Scrum from those who created and maintain It

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a 2-day course that covers the principles and (empirical) process theory underpinning the Scrum framework, and the role of the Scrum Master in it. This course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises, and teaches what is at the heart of the Scrum and Agile movement.

What you will learn

PSM training course in action Over the 2 days, students will see why PSM is the cutting-edge course for effective Scrum Masters and for anyone coaching a team toward increased efficiency and effectiveness. The course includes advanced thinking for servant-leadership and behavioral shifts.

Throughout the course, students are challenged to think in terms of the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when returning to the workplace.

The PSM course is much more than just a set of slides and an instructor. In this course, students work on real-life cases with other classmates together as a team. This course is made up of discussions and hands-on exercises based upon real-life cases.

PSM course topics

Scrum theory and principles
The Scrum Framework
The Definition of Done
Running a Scrum project
Working with people and teams
Scrum in your organization
The role of the Scrum Master

Who should attend

The Professional Scrum Master course is for anyone involved in product delivery using the Scrum framework. It is particularly beneficial for those people within an organization accountable for getting the most out of Scrum, including Scrum Masters, Scrum Team members, and managers.

Professional Scrum Master certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment. PSM class participants who attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

Your trainer

Image of Michel van der Meulen — Michel van der Meulen

Organizations hire me to help them to find better ways of working that lead to improvements in business agility and an increase in the delivery of business value.

Before I became a Scrum Master, I have been a software developer for over fifteen years. After that I have been working as a business analyst for over ten years. During those years I realized we can’t predict the future. We can try and expect that things will go as planned, but mostly they don’t. So when you make a plan, take into account that everything can change and that a Sense and Respond way of acting works much better and is actually a natural way of working.

It is my passion to help people and organizations (re)learn this natural way of working. I do that by coaching people on the job, and as a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) at Scrum.org by teaching (aspiring) Scrum Masters how they can help other people discover this natural way of working again.