Professional Scrum Master-Advanced (PSM-A) Certification

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Course Description

During the two-day program, students will gain the skills and knowledge required to advance as successful Scrum Masters. We'll cover topics such as how the values and principles of Scrum can guide decision-making and how to create an environment conducive to agility. As a Scrum Master, you must be able to recognize the most appropriate stance needed depending on the team's circumstances.

Our role is to educate other organizational stakeholders about Agile and Scrum benefits. To succeed, you need pertinent information extensively discussed by the Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) throughout the class. The PST will also provide exercises, stories, facilitation techniques, resources, and more. Moreover, there's time for coaching on topical challenges you or your classmates may face today or encounter later.

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What makes an effective Scrum Master
How to support the Scrum Team
Challenges of middle management
Measurement in Scrum

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Course Objectives

  • What makes an effective Scrum Master
  • How to support the Scrum Team
  • How to support the organization
  • Challenges of middle management
  • Dealing with complexity and impediments
  • Measurement in Scrum
  • Successful product delivery and “Done”
  • Facilitation techniques
  • How to apply Scrum Values and Principles for decision making.
  • Understanding Servant Leadership
  • Tips and Techniques for Scrum Masters to work with a wider organization.

Who Should Attend?

The Professional Scrum Master-Advanced (PSM-A) course is for anyone involved in software development using the Scrum Framework. This PSM Certification is particularly beneficial for those people within an organization accountable for getting the most out of Scrum, including Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Change Agents, Leaders and Managers.

Course Topics

Scrum is a framework that highlights the problems with existing processes within an organization. It creates ample transparency so that people can Inspect and Adapt for improvements.

Here you will learn:
  • How Scrum Master creates an environment where Scrum Teams thrive.
  • How Scrum Master facilitates discussions with rest of the organization that do not impede the Scrum Team.
  • How Scrum Master will help the organization to adopt to Scrum to deliver business impact.

Most of the Product Development happens in the complex domain. Typical, traditional, predictive management/leadership styles impede creativity of individuals which is necessary to find solutions to complex problems.

Here you will learn:
  • Scrum Master’s contribution as a Servant Leader
  • How to implement Scrum and empirical process to address complex problems.

Any group of people has to go through a journey before it becomes a team. Often this journey is explained using the Tuckmans model. However, when there are people with different skills, experience, opinions and backgrounds, some conflict is deemed to happen.

Here you will learn:
  • The different levels of conflict
  • What is the role of Scrum Master in dealing with conflicts at each level
  • How can Scrum Master help team navigate through conflicts to deliver business results.

Scrum Guide states that the Scrum Master is accountable for improving the effectiveness of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master does so by removing any impediments that hinder the growth of the team.

Here you will learn:
  • What are the impediments?
  • Which impediments the Scrum Master should remove and which to leave for the Scrum Team to take care.
  • How not to become a bottleneck for the Scrum Team.

One important skill that the Scrum Master has to have is facilitation. There are numerous situations where team gets stuck such as business problem, technical solution or even a conflict. A Scrum Master has to help the team to get past that by effective facilitation.

Here you will learn:
  • What are different facilitation techniques
  • Liberating Structures

If Scrum is to be reduced to one and only one purpose then it would be to create a “Done” increment. It is not enough to have a “Done” increment every few sprints.

Here you will learn:
  • What makes an increment “Done”.
  • What can help teams identify their Definition of “Done”.
  • How Scrum Master facilitates creation of “Done” Increments.

Often, Scrum Team members keep working on individual tasks without having any clarity “WHY” they are doing “WHAT” they are doing, throughout the Sprint.

Here you will learn:
  • What Sprint Goal is?
  • How is commitment associated with Sprint Goal.
  • Scrum Master’s role in facilitating creation of meaningful Sprint Goals.

Every Scrum event is an opportunity to Inspect and Adapt. However, in the long run they turn out to be just motions done to meet some requirements of the framework without any real Inspection and Adaption happening.

Here you will learn:
  • To bring the focus back on the purpose of event.
  • Use facilitation techniques to make the events more meaningful.

Scrum Guide does not specifically calls out management or management roles within Scrum. But management is needed for an organization. So how is management handled with Scrum?

Here you will learn:
  • Distribution of management in Scrum
  • Self-managing team
  • How Scrum Master creates an environment for self-management.

Scrum does not solve your problems, it only makes visible the current efficacy of your system. How do we ensure successful product delivery when the current system is inefficient? And what do we really mean by successful product delivery?

Here you will learn:
  • What it means to deliver a successful product.
  • How can Scrum Masters help Product Owners to deliver successful products.
  • Helping PO and Developers to embrace complexity and uncertainty of product development.
  • Facilitating the use of empirical approach for successful product delivery.

What gets measured can be improved. However, not everything that can be measured, matters. As a Scrum Masters, knowing what metrics and measurements makes sense to growth of team is really important.

Here you will learn:
  • Measuring the success of Scrum
  • Outcomes vs Outputs
  • Focus on value

One service that Scrum Master provides is towards the Product Owner. Product Owners are often limited by their availability for the Scrum Team or their understanding of the empirical approach to product development.

Here you will learn:
  • Helping Product Owners to embrace empirical product development
  • Help Product Owner to manage Product Backlog
  • Support Product Owner to deliver business value.

Management within an organization has its own challenges while adopting agile/Scrum. They often don’t see their place in any of these frameworks, which results in fear and anxiety; thus not enough support for implementing Scrum.

Here you will learn:
  • To help management see their role in Scrum adoption
  • Understand their needs, challenges and pains
  • Help them understand which parts of their role can be shared within the Scrum Team accountabilities.

One important aspect of Scrum Master role is to be the torch bearer for change within an organization. Scrum Master has to inculcate habits and behaviors that would enable the organization to thrive in a complex environment.

Here you will learn:
  • How to promote a Scrum-friendly culture
  • Levels of impediments and removing impediments in the way of change.
  • Different levels where Scrum Master can operate as a change agent.

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Agilemania offers a 2-days PSM-A training, aimed at advanced Scrum Masters, that can lead to your PSM-A certification. Download the brochure and check the different Focus Areas covered within these 2 days of scrum master certification training and how it can help you become a certified scrum master.

Certification Assessments

Over the 2 days of scrum master certification (PSM-A Training), students will learn about areas critical to growing as a successful Scrum Master such as how the principles and values of Scrum help guide Scrum Masters in the decisions they make and how the Scrum Master can help change the environment of Scrum Teams, creating an environment for agility to thrive.

After the PSM-A Certification Course Completion
  • The password to take the PSM-A assessment – $250
  • 2nd attempt for PSM-A assessment is free – $250
  • 40% discount on the PSM III assessment from Scrum.Org – $200
  • Lifetime validity of your certificate – No renewal charges for certification.

FAQs

The Advanced Scrum Master Certification Class is a highly regarded and in-demand certification offered by Scrum Alliance, a non-profit membership organization that promotes the adoption and productive use of Scrum. Benefits of the PSM-II certification are as follows:

  • Scrum Master is one of the highest paying jobs in the U.S. according to The Washington Post.
  • Recruiters frequently search for this certification on resumes, and you can use it to make your resume more marketable.
  • PSM-II certification demonstrates that you have a complete understanding of Scrum and know how to apply its principles in the workplace.
  • PSM-II certification will help you build on your basic knowledge of Scrum and Agile to enhance the implementation of these methodologies.

  • Achieving PSM-II certification will help you demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge and experience in this field. Scrum is now being applied in industries beyond IT. A certified scrum master professional’s demand has increased tenfold, even beyond his/her current industry experience.
  • There are numerous career opportunities for certified scrum master professionals as they remain relevant and marketable across various industries.
  • This professional scrum master certification will widen your career opportunities in any organization that employs Agile practices.

Attending the 2 days scrum master workshop and completing all of the learning objectives will help you gain the certification.

At the end of this scrum master training, you will be able to:

  • Resolve difficult project management situations as a Scrum Master
  • Broaden the impact of Scrum across the organization
  • Extend Agile and Scrum beyond a single team
  • Utilize your learning to gain recognition and status as the local Agile expert in your company
  • Help your company adopt Scrum and Agile principles and support executives committed to Agile values
  • Apply your knowledge on the job and bring change in your organization to make your Scrum teams more productive

Agilemania is a leading registered education provider offering knowledge and expertise to corporate organizations and professionals across the globe. We frequently conduct PSM II training in all the other cities as well across the globe and here are a few listed for your reference: Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Philippines, and India.

Yes, you can cancel your enrollment if necessary. We will refund the course price after deducting an administration fee.

Anyone attempting the PSM II should have advanced Scrum knowledge, in-depth Scrum experience and/or have taken the Professional Scrum Master course prior to taking this assessment.

Just write to us at connect@agilemania.com, and we will answer any queries you have.
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Do you want to become an Advanced Scrum Master?

The advanced Scrum master certification training is designed to support Scrum Masters with at least 1 year of experience in their professional development by enhancing their knowledge and abilities. The 2-day PSM-A training by Scrum. Org will prepare you for the critical stances to help you become a successful Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Agent, or Change Leader.

The Scrum Master Training is conducted by highly experienced certified trainers to help you prepare for the globally recognized Professional Scrum Master-Advanced (PSM-A) certification exam. Over the PSM-A training, you will learn to identify and effectively apply your learnings to real-world scenarios for the success of your team, fostering an environment of agility to thrive.

With a team of highly professional globally recognized Scrum Master Trainers, Agilemania has curated the Professional Scrum Master-Advanced (PSM-A) training program aiming to help the Scrum Masters make the environment more conducive for the Scrum teams to be successful.

The PSM-A training provides an opportunity for the learners to become a part of Agile 30, a global community of professionals from Agile, Scrum, and related disciplines. Join the fastest-growing community in Southeast Asia and leverage the network of like-minded people.

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