Course overview

Professional Scrum Master – Advanced is a two-day course for those who have experience in the role and want to take the next step as a Scrum Master. The course deepens the ability to create more value by applying Scrum’s values and principles in complex, real-life situations.

We work with real-life challenges with discussions, reflection, flipcharts, exercises and concrete application – completely without slides. The focus is on exploring the role through the different stances that characterize an effective Scrum Master: teacher, coach, facilitator, mentor and change agent.

This is a partner course and is therefore not covered by Informator’s start guarantee.

See also our courses in agile methods to develop your knowledge in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and modern agile working methods.

Course Objective

What you get

The Scrum Master role is complex, so you must be able to apply different approaches (stances) to be effective. We will look at:

Teacher —Explains, educates, and makes sense of principles and purpose
Coach and mentor – Asks questions, guides and develops individuals and teams
Facilitator – Leads conversations, creates security, enables conflict management
Change agent – Influences the environment, culture and system

Exploring the different perspectives usually gives many ideas on how you can develop as a Scrum Master.

By then actively thinking about which approach is appropriate in each situation, you can act in the best way to help your team and organization be even more successful.

Target Group

This training is aimed at those who:

Has experience of being a Scrum Master
Working with agile teams and want to develop your understanding of Scrum
Is a manager, coach, team leader or has another role with responsibility for delivery or change management

Prerequisites

The PSM-A course is a continuation course and assumes that participants have experience in the Scrum Master role. You need to be familiar with Professional Scrum and knowledge equivalent to having passed the PSM I test.

Certification

After the course, you will have the opportunity to take a certification test online in order to be certified as Professional Scrum Master Level II.
If you take the test within two weeks, you will also have the opportunity to take a second attempt free of charge if you do not pass on the first attempt.
The course also includes a 40% discount on one attempt at the more advanced PSM-III test.
The certification, PSM-II, is the only one on the market issued by Scrum’s creator, Ken Schwaber.

Trainer

The trainer on this course is one of the senior agile coaches from ProAgile.

They all have many years of experience in successfully working practically with Scrum and agile transformations in teams and in organizations. That is, you will get practically relevant answers to the questions covered during the course.

All are also certified by Scrum.org as Professional Scrum Trainers.

More about the course

We do not use slides during the course and there are a lot of exercises and discussions based on cases and real situations.

We work with real-life scenarios: e.g. conflicts, lack of “Done”, weak support from the environment, …
You will try out over 20 different exercises and techniques that you can immediately take home and use in your organization, such as empathy maps, mood barometers, product owner interviews, and ways to measure whether your efforts contribute to real improvements over time
You build insight into how you can support the PO and the organization – not just the team
You develop your ability to operate on three levels: teams, relationships, systems

Examples of themes we are exploring:

Creating effective Scrum teams
Supporting and challenging Product Owners
Working with other managers in the organization and their perspectives
Addressing barriers and fostering a culture where Scrum can flourish
Measuring and discussing impact rather than output

Course overview

2 days

Advanced

Can’t find a (suitable) date, but are interested in the course? Send in an expression of interest and we will do what we can to get an opportunity that suits.

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Company-adapted course

The course can be adapted from several perspectives:

Content and focus area
Scope of application
Structure

In collaboration with the course leader, we make sure that the course meets your wishes