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Professional Scrum Master

Course overview

This Professional Scrum Master course is designed to provide participants with a deep understanding of the Scrum framework and the role of the Scrum Master. The course covers the principles and practices of Scrum, and provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to lead high-performing Scrum teams. This course is certified by Scrum.org

Fun collaborative exercises on a Professional Scrum Master course in New Zealand

Who is this for?

This course is specifically targeted at Scrum Masters looking to enhance knowledge of the Scrum and how to effectively apply it in real life.

The lessons are also applicable to anyone in a role that supports a software development team’s efficiency, effectiveness and continual improvement. If you are responsible or interested in the successful use and/or roll-out of Scrum in a project, product or enterprise, this is likely to be a good fit.

What’s covered?

  • Scrum basics – what it is, how it works, and why it’s set up in this way
  • Making the most of the roles, events and artefacts of Scrum
  • Getting work to done, and why that matters
  • People and Teams
  • The Scrum Master
  • Facilitation skills for Scrum Masters
  • Continuously improving while you do the above

Learning outcomes

  • Ensure Scrum is understood and well-enacted
  • Improved ability to think on your feet and enable high performing teams
  • Understand the principles and practices of Scrum
  • Deeply understand the role of the Scrum Master
  • Facilitate Scrum events
  • Coach and mentor Scrum teams
  • Effectively supporting the Product Owner and organisation
  • Measure and improve performance
  • Use Scrum to increase your organisation’s capability

Certification

Complete this preparation course and you’ll receive a password to take the Professional Scrum Master I assessment (with a free resit within 14 days!). If you pass, you’ll receive the PSM I certification. For more information, visit Scrum.org

Prerequisites

  • Read the Scrum Guide – it’s free, and contains the key basic info to get you started and is only ~15 pages long (depending on the language you read it in)
  • Practical experience working in a Scrum team is beneficial, but not a requirement and you’ll still learn from the experience either way

Here’s what others had to say

Hugh W – Professional Scrum Master

AlphaCert, Auckland

Clear, Concise, Patient. Jacob is an amazing Scrum Coach.

Lulu L – Professional Scrum Master

Te Pūkenga, Auckland

Thank you Jacob for such a great course, and being such an engaging trainer! I loved that there was lots of opportunities to ask questions and talk about real examples. I found the course enjoyable, and informative and I can’t wait to get back to work and try out some of the golden nuggets I picked up from your course!

Serena C – Professional Scrum Master

Hype and Dexter, Auckland

I attended the Professional Scrum Master course, going in with a healthy dose of skepticism and wariness: lots of these courses are nothing more than glorified repetitions of pre-existing written content with no added value, while others are self-referential monologues on why they are the ones hosting the course and you should just be grateful to basking in their enlightening presence. I am stoked to report that this course fell in a rare third category, the one where courses are practical, add tangible value, and are run passionately by people (Jacob) who have extensive knowledge, and experience.Jacob set the tone for an engaging 2 day course where we actually did the work, beyond just learning the fundamentals (which anyone can read from the Scrum.org website) and taught us something even more valuable: how to use this method to navigate uncertainty and be comfortable with being adaptive to change. Which is what agile is all about, right?

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