Professional Scrum Master - Advanced
Certified
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced (PSM-A) is a two-day advanced Scrum Master course designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development. The PSM-A course is intended for Scrum Masters with at least one year of experience looking to grow their knowledge and abilities. During the course, you will experience the stances of a highly effective Scrum Master and create awareness of the stances that feel very natural to you and the ones that need attention.
Delivery method
In-Person classes
In person training will be in English by default. If you don’t speak English and you want to participate in in-person training; please contact us. If all other participants agree, we can switch to a local language. All course material will be English by default.
Who should take this course?
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced is a course specifically designed for experienced Scrum Masters who thoroughly understand the Scrum framework. It is particularly beneficial for those with at least one year of Scrum Master experience. The PSM-A is not going to teach you a lot of new things about Scrum. Instead, the goal is to get better at what you already know through conversations and discussions with the group, while focussing on specific case studies.
You will learn about critical areas for growth as a successful Scrum Master and create awareness of the areas that feel very natural to you and the ones that need improvement. You will explore the stances of an effective Scrum Master: The Scrum Master as a Teacher, Coach & Mentor, Facilitator and Change Agent. The accountabilities of a Scrum Master are complex. As a Scrum Master, you have to learn how to identify and effectively apply the most beneficial stance in each circumstance. During this course, you will learn how to support your team, Product Owner and the organization with those stances to become more effective in delivering value to the customer.
The Professional Scrum Trainers will provide stories, exercises, facilitation techniques (such as "Liberating Structures"), resources, and more throughout the course. There will also be space in course to provide coaching on challenges that you and the other students may be experiencing today or in the future. The course is divided into different modules. Of course, we will inspect and adapt based on your questions and experiences. The training consists of:
- Introduction
- Difference between a Scrum Master and a Professional Scrum Master
- How to support the Developers
- How to support the Product Owner
- How to support the organization
- Practical coaching techniques, methods, and practices
To maximize your learning experience, we advise you the following:
- Read the Scrum Guide (at least once) and write down any questions or remarks.
- Additionally, the free online Scrum Open and Product Owner Open assessments on the Scrum.org website can provide valuable insights.
After the training, you will have access to the ‘classroom page’, which contains all relevant training materials. As a bonus, via this page, you will also have access to content which dives deeper into specific topics, related to your role and the challenges and environments you might encounter.
Additionally, you will receive an invite to the Scrum Facilitators Slack community. On this platform, you can connect with other professionals for help and receive discounts for products and other courses.
After the training, you will receive an assessment code from Scrum.org support to take the PSM II assessment. There is no expiration date on this assessment code. However, when you take your first attempt within two weeks after the training and do not pass the 85% marker, you will automatically receive a new code for your second attempt.
You will:
- Understand the stances of a Scrum Master
- Know what practices, tools and skills make an effective Scrum Master
- Understand how the Scrum Master acts as a servant-leader
- Understand what the Scrum Master can do to support the team and Product Owner to become more effective
- Be able to help management and other stakeholders across your organisation to understand the benefits of Scrum and Agile
- Be able to use Liberating Structures to facilitate your team and organization
Your trainers
Sanjay Singh Rawat
More infoSanjay is an experienced Scrum Trainer with 15 years of IT Services and consulting experience, working in both Defense, private and public sectors. Sanjay is passionate about instigating change through his storytelling, coaching and training abilities.
Sanjay has trained 1000+ people in Scrum and Kanban and co-led Digital Transformation in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Automotive Industries by training and providing structure, reengineering business processes and policies, and enabling a learning culture.
He is a licensed Leadership Circle Profile Facilitator and earned an Expert credential in Enterprise Coaching from ICAgile.
Chee Hong Hsia
More infoChee Hong is one of the handfuls of scrum.org certified trainers worldwide licensed to teach all the scrum.org courses. He has been heavily involved with Scrum since 2006. His experience comes from working with numerous organisations in Europe and Asia, where he helps and coaches scrum teams, middle management and C-level executives in the art of servant leadership, empirical thinking, bottom-up intelligence, the power of self-organisation, evidence-based management and validate-learning. Chee Hong's mission is to improve the profession of product delivery and coaching organisations in their Agile transformation journey. To do this, he combines Scrum with Kanban, Lean, and Extreme Programming practices while respecting the underlying Agile values and principles.
As a Professional Scrum Trainer, Chee Hong combines his two passions: travelling and Scrum. He travels worldwide with Scrum in my backpack to meet other Scrum experts. During his travels, he writes, speaks at conferences, helps professionals discover the underlying values and principles behind Scrum, and challenges students to re-imagining Scrum's true potential. All this travel experience and learning can be found in his classes, where he mixes up the craziness, fun and serious learning to make Scrum stick.
Overview of our PSM-A courses
Class | Details | More | ||
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Professional Scrum Master - Advanced Handle advanced level challenges and situations | 6-7 Feb 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT | Bristol United Kingdom | Show details | |
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced Handle advanced level challenges and situations | 5-6 Mar 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+1 | Amersfoort Netherlands | Show details | |
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced Handle advanced level challenges and situations | 20-21 Mar 2025 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+8 | Singapore Singapore | Show details | |
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced Handle advanced level challenges and situations | 20-21 Mar 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT | Leeds United Kingdom | Show details | |
Professional Scrum Master - Advanced Handle advanced level challenges and situations | 23-24 Oct 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+2 | Amersfoort Netherlands | Show details |
If you have a different date you'd like to propose or have an in-company request, then you can make a request about the course.