Advanced Scrum Master - Professional Scrum Master - II

An Advanced Scrum Master Class

Professional Scrum Master II™ (PSM II) course is a 2-day advanced Scrum Master class designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development.  The PSM II class is intended for Scrum Masters with at least one year of experience who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities as a Scrum Master. This course is one step in that journey. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) certification exam.

Unlike the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course which focuses on how to use Scrum, the Scrum framework and the role of the Scrum Master, PSM II is an advanced course helping students to understand the stances that characterize an effective Scrum Master and servant-leader while diving deep into how they serve the Scrum Team, Product Owner and organization. The class then teaches students about related practices and skills to enable them to have the right types of conversations and how to apply them to become better Scrum Masters.

What You Will Learn

Over the 2 days, 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. The Scrum Master role is complex and often, a Scrum Master must be able to apply different stances in order to be effective, such as:

• The Scrum Master as a Teacher
• The Scrum Master as a Coach & Mentor
• The Scrum Master as a Facilitator
• The Scrum Master as a Change Agent

As a Scrum Master, being able to identify, and effectively apply, which stance would benefit your team the most depending on the situation or circumstance could prove to be the key to the success of your team.

As a Scrum Master, part of your role is to help management and other stakeholders across your organization understand the benefits of Scrum and Agile. Therefore, it is imperative that you have the information and background that is needed to gain credibility in order to be an effective change agent.  Throughout the class, your PST will provide stories, exercises, facilitation techniques (such as “Liberating Structures”), resources and more.

There will also be time in class for the Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) to provide coaching on challenges that you and your classmates may be experiencing today or may in the future.  

Why Scrum.org

Scrum.org provides the highest quality Scrum training, training materials and certified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) to teach them. Our training materials are created and maintained by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber, Scrum.org and the community of PSTs who teach the courses, helping to ensure that they are in tune with what’s happening in software development organizations and always up-to-date with the latest practices.

Professional Scrum Trainers bring their own style and experience to the courses, but use the same materials so that students are learning from the same content regardless of who teaches the course or where it is taught around the world.  Read more about the differences.

Our Course Steward Model

Each Scrum.org course is assigned 2 stewards.  The stewards are ultimately responsible for collecting input on the course materials, both those that exist and potentially additions to be made, review that input with the community along with Ken Schwaber and provide updates as required. 

Each course is stored in GitHub, allowing version control, feedback mechanisms, distribution and much more, not unlike the code that Scrum Teams deliver for their products.  Through GitHub capabilities, a PST can submit feedback on a course materials, its delivery content, speaker notes, exercises and much more.  With over 210 PSTs around the world teaching the materials, that provides a fantastic number of people to provide excellent feedback to improve the content and quality of the courseware. 

Download Professional Scrum Master II datasheet and read more.

Course Objectives

• What practices, tools, skills and stances make an effective Scrum Master
• How the Scrum principles and values help guide Scrum Masters in the decisions they make
• How the Scrum Master acts as a servant-leader and improve their ability in this role
• What the Scrum Master can do to support Development Teams and Product Owners to become more effective
• Ways that the Scrum Master can help to change the environment making it more conducive for Scrum Teams to be successful with greater agility
• Provide tips and techniques for the Scrum Master to work with the rest of the organization in support of their Scrum Teams

Who Should Attend

The Professional Scrum Master II course is an advanced course specifically designed for experienced Scrum Masters who have a thorough understanding of the Scrum framework.  It is particularly beneficial for those people with at least one year of Scrum Master experience.

 

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master II course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) assessment, and are also entitled to a 40% discount on the PSM III assessment. These industry-recognized PSM certifications require a minimum passing score.

TRAINER PROFILE

Venkatesh Rajamani is an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach & Trainer helping organizations to exploit the fundamentals of Agility to leave behind conventional style of working and enable continuous delivery of the greatest value of all.  He has guided many large enterprises through 'Agile transformations' and helped them on their journey to continuous improvement in their product development capability. Venkatesh is comfortable operating at all levels of the organisation, have helped both enterprise and Multi-Team/Program level to Improve Agility. Venkatesh is well placed to build internal capabilities in an organisation; be it developing Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers or working with Leaders to help leaders make the changes necessary to enable true, large-scale business agility.

Venkat is a resident from Chennai, India with a strong belief that the profession of Software development can definitely be improved by focusing on human elements and  by creating  a space which enables better people interactions.

• Venkatesh is a Certified Team Coach® from Scrum Alliance - second person in India to hold this Credentials, Professional Scrum Trainer ® from Scrum.org, Scaled Professional Scrum  and ICagile Agile Certified Coach®.
• Venkatesh worked with variety of Clients including RBS, Ericsson,HID Global, PayPal.

For more Information about me visit - www.tryscrum.com

 

 

Blog Posts by Venkatesh Rajamani

• Scrum Master Studio : Platform to  Inspect & Adapt Scrum Mastery, May 14, 2018
• Scrum Master Studio Series: Frame# 2 - Sprint Goal , April 22, 2018
• Scrum Master Studio Series: Frame# 1 , March 14, 2018
• Myth: Velocity is Productivity, February 23, 2018
• Myth:  Scrum Master is a Project Coordinator, February 19, 2018
• 6 Things I learned from 5 Mentors in my Life, January 4, 2018
• Scrum Master Role- What to expect?, November 22, 2017

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