Professional Scrum Master Advanced
- Raising organizational effectiveness to the next level
Available as in-house training
Date and location of the in-house training to be agreed
Price: 1200 EUR + VAT / person
Duration and language:
Onsite / online training - 16h - 2 days each 8 hours (including breaks).
Training is provided in English. A Polish version is also available.
Target group:
The training is intended for:
- experienced Scrum Masters,
- change agents, internal trainers,
- agile coaches, Agile consultants,
- specialists, members of operational teams,
- department/team leaders and managers.
Training preconditions:
The Professional Scrum Master™ - Advanced (PSM-A) training is designed for experienced Scrum Masters who have an in-depth knowledge of the Scrum framework. Scrum Masters who have at least one year of experience will get the most value from the training. People usually come with their own challenges that they would like to share and work out a way to improve together on the forum.
For online training, it is required to be computer literate and meet technical requirements: https://valkir.pl/en/online-training/.
Price includes:
- Preparation and training performed by an expert, accredited Scrum.org Trainer (PST), an experienced Agile and Lean consultant.
- Effective training in a small group - on average 6-12 people.
- Accredited Scrum.org training materials and requisites.
- License for performing the training (payable to Scrum.org).
- A 250$ voucher for the PSM II assessment, 40% discount for PSM III assessment and certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in English).
- In case of taking the PSM II assessment within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.
- 14 Personal Development Units (PDUs) for PMI PMP members.
- Lunch and catering (drinks and snacks). Not applicable to online training.
- Trainer’s travel and expenses (T&E). Not applicable to online training.
Certification:
Each participant completing the training will receive an non-expiring voucher to attempt the PSM II assessment and 40% discount for PSM III assessment. The assessment (in English) takes place online on Scrum.org website. In case of taking the PSM II exam within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.
Available dates:
| Date | Location | Price per person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To be agreed | To be agreed | 1200 EUR | Request quote |
Training description:
What is the Professional Scrum Master™ - Advanced (PSM-A) training?
Professional Scrum Master™ - Advanced (PSM-A) is an accredited training from Scrum.org based on hands-on exercises, designed for Scrum Masters who want to acquire additional knowledge and skills to support teams and the entire organization in holistic performance improvement. This is the next stage in the development of every Scrum Master.
The discussed program helps to reach a higher level of advancement, helping participants understand what stances characterize an effective Scrum Master and how to consciously switch between them. Participants will understand the differences between adopting the stance of teacher, impediments remover, coach, mentor, facilitator and change agent.
You will explore how to better serve Developers, the Product Owner, the organization and how to communicate better as a Scrum Master. In addition, you will learn what you need to do to become an effective Scrum Master. You will learn how to use the principles and values of Scrum to change the environment to one that is conducive to the development of teams working in Scrum.
During the training, each participant will be able to define the challenges faced by the role of Scrum Master, then diagnose in which areas may triumph and in which still needs development. You will leave the classroom with a set of actions for yourself and for your organization, all developed during the training based on your own participation.
Who is behind this?
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.
Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.
Training agenda:
- Scrum Master as a stance
- Back to the roots: Who is a Scrum Master and what can we expect from him/her?
- Discussion of popular myths and perceptions about a Scrum Master.
- Stances or anti-stances? Scrum Master behaviors depending on the context.
- The concept of Servant Leadership without dysfunction.
- Scrum Master and Scrum Team
- Examples and analysis of activities to support the effectiveness of the entire Scrum Team.
- Diagnosis, methods for removing and minimizing dysfunctions so-called “Zombie Scrum”.
- Techniques to reinforce the use of Definition of Done, Empiricism and Values.
- What is team success? How to help define it, measure it and support its achievement.
- Scrum Master and Developers
- Working with conflict in a team, techniques and activities to support difficult interactions.
- Definition of Done improvement from the perspective of technical development process.
- Techniques to stimulate efficiency through e.g. mentoring and team coaching.
- Scrum Master and Product Owner
- Back to the roots: Who is a Product Owner and what can we expect from him/her?
- Stages of building the PO’s competence, competency evaluation and how you can support him/her in development.
- Definition of Done improvement from the perspective of product value.
- Practices and metrics supporting the work of the Product Owner.
- Scrum Master and organization
- Understanding the needs, desires and pains of managers at various levels of the organization.
- Tools and methods for measuring organizational effectiveness.
- Methods of continuous competency improvement and a concept of learning organization.
- Scrum Master as a change agent for the environment, organizational culture and processes.
- Training summary
How our training look like?
Training goals:
What are the challenges we address?- What stances should a Scrum Master embody when supporting a Scrum Team and an organization?
- What stances should a Scrum Master avoid? What does it depend on?
- How to increase the quality of the delivered product using empiricism and the Definition of Done?
- How do the Scrum values and principles help a Scrum Master make better decisions?
- What coaching and facilitation techniques support leading the team to the goal?
- How to discover and address management challenges during Agile transformation?
- How to work on the organizational culture so that it is conducive to the success of Scrum teams?
- How to remove impediments towards agility while working with Scrum Teams & the organization?
What benefits do you get?
The training allows participants to better understand their organization, the challenges it faces and more effectively steer its growth. It contains theoretical knowledge and practical methods taken from the idea of systems theory, complexity theory, self-organization/self-management, psychology of motivation, product management, change management and many other areas.
As a result of this training, participants from different areas of the organization will:
- know and understand aspects needed to effectively stimulate organization growth and teams towards agility,
- acquire skills necessary to apply mentioned methods in practice,
- understand how and why new methods can positively affect their work.
