Professional Scrum Master is a training for Scrum Masters designed in 2010 by one of the creators of Scrum – Ken Schwaber. Since then, the course is continuously updated and enhanced by selected members of Scrum.org – certified Professional Scrum Trainers.

Code Sprinters was the first company in Poland offering Professional Scrum Master in 2010, replacing the outdated Certified Scrum Master classes.

The Professional Scrum Master course focuses on ways in which Scrum can be used to achieve measurable and valuable outcomes (products, services, complex systems). The goal is to provide participants with solid understanding of Scrum (its elements and rules that bind them). They will be able to explain why Scrum has been defined in the way as described in Scrum Guide. The class prepares students to work in Scrum and helps them to become successful Scrum Masters.

The agenda includes topics such as optimization of value, productivity, total cost of ownership, monitoring of progress through metrics. The course provides participants with knowledge and tools that can be used to improve their current way of working and practices they used so far.

Who should participate?

The Professional Scrum Master course is specifically targeted to Scrum Masters and those who prepare to become a Scrum Master. The participant should already have basic knowledge of Scrum before joining the class.

Product Owners, members of development teams, managers and other individuals cooperating with Scrum teams may also benefit from participating in this course.

It is possible that some of other certified Scrum.org courses fit your needs better than the Professional Scrum Master. Therefore, we encourage you to check:

• Applying Professional Scrum – the basic class preparing to work in Scrum, the best choice for complete Scrum teams.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner – for Product Owners and individuals preparing to become a Product Owner, useful also for Product Managers.
• Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development – for development teams building software, as well as for professionals and experts in various domains working in development teams (not only programmers).
• Professional Agile Leadership – for managers, leaders and supervisors.

All of the courses listed above allow proper understanding of Scrum but depending on the target audience, they focus on different aspects of agility and topics related to specific roles in Scrum.

Professional Scrum Master certificate

The Professional Scrum Master course is associated with the certificates Professional Scrum Master issued by Scrum.org. To become a holder of any of these certificates, you have to pass the exam.

There are three levels of Professional Scrum Master certificate – PSM-I, PSM-II and PSM-III – reflecting growing level of experience of the certificate holder. The PSM certificates distinguish individuals that demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Scrum and can apply it in real-life situations.

All participants of this training are entitled to take PSM-I exam with no additional cost.

Why should you register for this training?

The Professional Scrum Master course is:

• designed and developed by professionals,
• constantly improved and is based on 24 years of work experience in Scrum and teaching Scrum,
• gives access to real, challenging exam – only those who pass it are granted the certificate,
• best-class trainers, who constantly prove their competences and use same materials across the world to assure consistency of the knowledge conveyed to participants,
• the class is conducted in Polish or English by Scrum and Agile practitioners – Professional Scrum Trainers.

The class covers the following topics:

• Scrum basics – empiricism, adaptive approach, lean,
• Scrum and Waterfall – differences between traditional and empirical approach,
• Scrum framework – elements of Scrum (roles, artifacts and events) and the rules that bind them,
• Definition of Done,
• Requirements management in Scrum – working with a Product Backlog,
• Estimations – the purpose of estimation as a process and estimation methods,
• Planning and monitoring of progress in Scrum,
• Risk management in Scrum,
• Group dynamics within self-organizing teams – motivation, context switching, cross-functionality,
• Quality, technical debt and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership),
• Organizational change – introduction of Scrum to maximize benefits from its use,
• Scrum Master – the role and its stances,
• Preparation to PSM-I – the details about the certification process.

The trainers answer questions and as far as possible supplement the program with topics selected to meet the group expectations and needs.

The Professional Scrum Master course is associated with PSM-I certificate issued by Scrum.org. All participants are provided with a voucher that allows taking the Professional Scrum Master I exam with no additional cost.

If you take PSM-I exam within 14 days after receiving a voucher from Scrum.org and do not manage to achieve required 85% score, you will be granted one more voucher (second attempt) for free.

To participate in the Professional Scrum Master class, you will need basic knowledge about Scrum. Therefore, before joining the class:

• read The Scrum Guide available at scrumguides.org page,
• read books about Scrum (the suggested lectures you will find below).

Understanding Scrum and how it can be effectively used is easier when participants:

• have basic knowledge about project management,
• are able to write requirements and split them (decompose) into smaller chunks,
• have knowledge about delivery and maintenance of a product (having practical experience is even better),
• tested their knowledge about Scrum using free exam at Scrum.org – read at least The Scrum Guide before taking this test.

The list of recommended books related to Scrum:

• Scrum Pocket Guide – Gunther Verheyen
• Agile Software Development with Scrum – Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
• Agile Project Management with Scrum – Ken Schwaber
  
• The Enterprise and Scrum – Ken Schwaber
  
• Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  
• Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum – Mike Cohn

We offer public classes of the Professional Scrum Master course (open for public registration) as well as private classes (purchased by organisations for their employees).

As a leading provider of Scrum and Agile training in Poland we can offer the competitive prices. All amounts are provided as net prices excluding 23% VAT.

We have created a workshop Scrum Master Toolbox® that extends the Professional Scrum Master class teaching the tools and practices that every Scrum Master should know and use at work.

All participants of the Professional Scrum Master classes delivered by Code Sprinters are eligible to 200 PLN discount when registering to the Scrum Master Toolbox®.

We can deliver this course to your organization as a private class. Please, use the button below to send us information necessary to create a dedicated offer for you.