Professional Scrum Master - Advanced (PSM-A)
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced (PSM-A) is an advanced course for experienced Scrum Masters who want to strengthen their ability to serve Scrum Teams and organizations.
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- Private class for your team
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Course Overview
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced (PSM-A) is an advanced course for experienced Scrum Masters who want to strengthen their ability to serve Scrum Teams and organizations. Through discussion and exercises, you will explore the practices, tools, skills, and stances of an effective Scrum Master and examine how Scrum principles and values can guide decisions in complex situations.
Throughout the course, you will examine how Scrum Masters can support Developers and Product Owners, address conflict and impediments, reinforce the importance of a Done Increment, and help create an environment where Scrum Teams can become more effective. You will also explore the Scrum Master's leadership role and interactions with the wider organization, including the challenges surrounding organizational change and middle management. The course prepares students for the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) certification.
Course Benefits
- What practices, tools, skills and stances make an effective Scrum Master
- How the Scrum principles and values help guide Scrum Masters in the decisions they make
- How the Scrum Master acts as a servant-leader and improve their ability in this role
- What the Scrum Master can do to support Developers and Product Owners to become more effective
- Ways that the Scrum Master can help to change the environment making it more conducive for Scrum Teams to be successful with greater agility
- Provide tips and techniques for the Scrum Master to work with the rest of the organization in support of their Scrum Teams
- Improve effects on the organization of a successful Scrum Master
- Dealing with team conflict
- Removing impediments
- Communicating the importance of a "Done" Increment
- How to support the Scrum Team
- Understanding the challenges of middle management
Delivery Methods
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Course Outline
This course develops advanced Scrum Master skills in areas such as empiricism, Scrum Values, the definition of Done, self-managing teams, facilitation, leadership styles, coaching and mentoring, teaching, Product Vision, Product Backlog management, technical risk, continuous quality, organizational design, and Evidence Based Management. To see how these and other competencies map across Professional Scrum courses, visit the Professional Scrum Training Competency Mapping page on Scrum.org.
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Scrum.org class:
Experience working as a Scrum Master in a Scrum environment.
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