Professional Scrum Master

Master the art of effective leadership in agile environments as a Professional Scrum Master, enhancing team productivity and delivering value through the principles of Scrum.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the scrum framework in detail.

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Create an environment of self-management to align products with business needs.

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Apply Agile principles to minimize project uncertainty and risk.

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Enable self-organizing, cross-functional teams as a Scrum Master.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Program managers
  • Engineering managers
  • Product designers
  • Lead developers

Description

The Professional Scrum Master™  (PSM I) course will teach the Scrum Master how to work as a servant leader in a scrum organization. It will teach the scrum master not only the reasons and rules of scrum, but the reason behind the rules. It will go even further by teaching the scrum master how to be a more effective leader in an agile organization.

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Course Outline

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Section 1: Theory and Principles

  1. Predictive versus empirical approaches

  2. How empiricism can help product development

  3. How Scrum is different than the traditional approach and when to use Scrum

  4. How does agile and Scrum help value maximization

  5. Honesty and transparency

Section 2: The Scrum Framework

  1. Detailed Scrum framework review

  2. Scrum roles, artifacts, and activities

  3. Edge cases for using Scrum

  4. Where does the Scrum Master fit in

  5. Estimating and valuing work

  6. Planning Scrum work

  7. Monitoring Scrum work

Section 3: People and Teams

  1. Core values of Scrum

  2. Colocation, context switching, and team dynamics

  3. Addressing team culture for positive growth

  4. Coaching teams for effective performance

Section 4: Scrum Master

  1. Good Scrum Master’s characteristics

  2. Scrum Master’s involvement in self-organization

  3. Moving away from controller to enabler

Section 5: Scrum at Scale

  1. Scrum adoptions in large organizations

  2. Using emergence to adopt organizational change

  3. Considerations when scaling

  4. Tactical approaches for Scrum at large

Section 6: Additional Information and Questions

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