Professional Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, you have numerous responsibilities and must adopt various stances depending on the situation to ensure success.

The Scrum Master is responsible for embedding Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. This involves helping everyone in understanding Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the broader organization. Furthermore, the Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness, enabling the team to improve their practices within the Scrum framework.

Scrum Masters are true leaders who support the Scrum Team and the organization in multiple capacities. One of the courses we offer to enhance your effectiveness as a Scrum Master and to better support your team and organization is the Professional Scrum Master™ course. This course provides you with a solid understanding of Professional Scrum, an agile mindset, and the responsibilities of the Scrum Master. The course combines instructor-led sessions with interactive, team-based activities, allowing you to collaborate with fellow students.

The Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) brings his own experience and stories as a Scrum Master to the class, leveraging his skills as a professional trainer to deliver the content in a unique and engaging way. The result is an interactive and enjoyable learning experience where you will gain a deep understanding of Scrum theory and principles, the responsibilities of the Scrum Master, and the importance of each element of the Scrum framework. The course spans two days and includes a attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I).

Language English, but...

The course will be delivered in English. However, if all participants speak Dutch and agree to conduct the training in Dutch, that option is also available.

What You Will Learn 

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.

View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.

Who Should Attend this class?

This course is appropriate for students in any industry where teams are working to solve complex problems. The Professional Scrum Master course is for:

• Practitioners that are interested in starting a career as a Scrum Master
• Scrum Masters, Agile/Scrum Coaches and consultant looking to improve their use of Scrum
• Anyone involved in product delivery using Scrum.

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.

Extra feedback on your first assessment

Although this training greatly aids in preparing you for the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment, it still is possible that your score may be below 85%. If this happens, you can reach out to the trainer for additional feedback regarding the results of your first attempt, to help you study and succeed on your second attempt.

The trainer - Michel van der Meulen

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

Before becoming a Scrum Master, I worked as a software engineer for over fifteen years, followed by more than ten years as a business analyst. During these years, I realized that we can't predict the future. We can make plans and hope that things will go as expected, but often they don't. Therefore, when making a plan, it's important to consider that everything can change and that a Sense and Respond approach is more effective and actually a natural way of working.

It is my passion to help people and organizations (re)learn this natural way of working. I achieve this 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 others rediscover this natural way of working.

What other students say about the trainer

Read more about the trainer and the Trustpilot reviews on his Scrum.org Profile page

For this training we will use Zoom.