Recommended Courses for Scrum Masters

In the Applying Professional Scrum™ course, work together with other students as a team in a series of Sprints to solve complex problems, facing similar challenges that they face outside of class and learning how to use Scrum to address them. As a Scrum Master, you learn Scrum and take on the Scrum Master accountabilities for your team learning new skills as well as experiencing common missteps and misunderstandings often seen while using Scrum. This allows you to develop an awareness of the associated symptoms and how to correct them. This is a great class to bring your entire Scrum Team together for a shared learning experience.

In the Professional Scrum Master™ course, you will gain a strong understanding of Professional Scrum, an agile mindset and the accountabilities of the Scrum Master. The course uses a combination of instructor-led and activity-based learning where you work together with other students in teams. Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) bring their own Scrum Master experiences and stories to the class and use their skills as professional trainers to deliver the material using their own unique delivery style. The result is an engaging, enjoyable learning experience where you will gain a deep understanding of Scrum theory and principles, the Scrum Master accountabilities and why each element of the Scrum framework is important.

In the Professional Scrum Master™ II course, you get a deeper understanding of the accountabilities of the Scrum Master and explore the challenges that Scrum Masters face, how to handle them by applying the principles and values of Scrum to help support the Scrum Team, and dive deep into how to serve the Scrum Team, Product Owner and the organization. This advanced course will help you to understand the stances that characterize an effective Scrum Master. You will also learn related practices and skills to enable you to have the right types of conversations and how to apply these practices to become a better Scrum Master and create an environment for agility to thrive.

In the Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ course, Scrum Masters will develop a facilitator’s mindset, increase proficiency in facilitation skills, and learn when and how to select effective techniques for various circumstances to better solve problems, create a shared understanding and foster transparency. The course addresses a series of common Scrum-related scenarios while you learn to apply several facilitation techniques that you can add to your collection of agile practices. You will create and leave with your own facilitation “plan” to improve their next team discussion or Scrum event by becoming a better facilitator to improve Scrum Team, stakeholder and customer interactions.

In the Professional Scrum™ with Kanban course experienced Scrum Masters and other Scrum practitioners learn how to improve the way you work by applying Kanban practices in the context of Professional Scrum. Through theory, case studies and hands-on exercises, you will learn the importance of flow and be equipped with practical knowledge to implement Kanban practices to help Scrum Teams enhance how they work. You will leave with a better understanding of what good Kanban looks like and how to implement it within a Professional Scrum environment.

In the Professional Scrum Product Owner™ course, you will explore and learn the accountabilities of the Product Owner to better support them and others on your Scrum Teams. During class, you will gain an understanding of the pivotal role the Product Owner plays in bridging strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products. Throughout the class, you will learn a number of Product Ownership practices that you can use when supporting your Product Owner and helping them improve. 

In the Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills™ course, participants will learn techniques and methods to effectively manage a Product Backlog that clearly expresses the future vision of the product and brings transparency to what is most valuable for the Scrum Team to work on to delight stakeholders and customers. Students will get hands-on experience with refinement techniques such as decomposing and slicing Product Backlog items, while learning how simplicity can cure complicated and complex Product Backlogs. 

In the Professional Scrum™ with User Experience course, Scrum Masters learn how to integrate the User Experience (UX) specialty with what you already know about the power of self-managing, cross-functional teams. This will enable you to help Developers learn about the customer, plan learning/discovery/design work, and still deliver a "Done" increment each Sprint. In addition, you will learn how to incorporate product discovery techniques into Sprints and how to balance the product discovery work with the product delivery work by experiencing how Scrum and UX align and integrate to create cross-functional teams, ultimately delivering more value and improving outcomes through combining design and delivery.

In the Scaled Professional Scrum™ course, Scrum Masters develop a collection of skills that can be applied to help their teams overcome challenges when scaling Scrum beyond a single Scrum Team, while learning about and using the Nexus framework. Throughout the course you will work together in a Nexus to organize and simulate a scaled product development project. In this case study based class, common challenges that are encountered when scaling are presented and more than fifty practices for overcoming them are revealed. Some of these practices rely on what you already know about Scrum and some are complementary techniques.

In the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials™ course Scrum Masters are often joined by other leaders where they together gain a practical understanding of how to best support, guide and coach your team(s) to create conditions for greater agility. You will develop a deep understanding of the role that you play as a leader in creating the conditions for a successful agile environment. This workshop uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help you learn how to form and support your Scrum Teams to achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioral changes that your organization must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach.

In the Professional Agile Leadership™ - Evidence-Based Management™ course Scrum Masters are often joined by Product Owners, coaches and consultants where you will experience how to guide your teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities and business results. You will learn what EBM is and how to apply the framework to set clear goals and measures through a series of exercises. You will learn techniques that support a more agile mindset by shifting the conversation away from measuring progress purely through team performance metrics, toward a focus on customer-centricity and improving customer outcomes.