Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials Training and Certification (PSM-AI)

Leverage AI to Enable Higher Performance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformational capability, helping organizations optimize product delivery and enable higher performance. Through the application of AI tools and techniques, people and teams dedicated to product delivery can become more efficient and effective.

Scrum.org's 1-day Professional Scrum Master-AI Essentials (PSM-AI Essentials) is an interactive, hands-on course designed to help you understand and apply AI to support your work, your teams and your organization.

Throughout this class, you’ll engage in discussion and exercises to explore practical uses of AI tools and techniques. In addition, you’ll learn how to enable others to effectively use AI by diving deeper into:

What AI means for Scrum Masters.
How Scrum Masters use AI to improve their capabilities and support Scrum Teams.
How AI can be applied by members of a Scrum Team.
How AI influences an organization, including essential guidance on adopting AI responsibly and securely.

Ultimately, a successful Scrum Master needs to understand AI, how to apply it and how to help others apply AI. With this training, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to harness AI effectively, enabling high-performing Scrum Teams and organizations in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

After completing a PSM-AI Essentials class, you'll have an opportunity to attempt the PSM-AI Essentials assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSM-AI Essentials Certification. Earning your PSM-AI Essentials Certification makes you part of an elite community of 1,500+ PSM-AI Essentials badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

Who Should Attend?

This course is appropriate for people with a solid understanding of the Scrum framework and experience working on a Scrum Team, as they learn how to integrate AI into their profession, including:

Scrum Masters.
Developers.
Agile leaders and coaches.
Team facilitators.
Anyone who wants to stay ahead in the evolving digital landscape by mastering AI fundamentals and practical applications.

Learning Outcomes

The PSPO-AI course introduces you to the fundamentals of AI and its applications in modern product development.

Following class, you'll be able to:

Explain key AI concepts, including machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and agentic AI.
Describe how AI supports effective Scrum Team facilitation and collaboration.
Discuss how AI tools can enhance a Scrum Master’s role and responsibilities through real-world examples.
Demonstrate practical uses of generative AI tools to support Scrum Teams and Scrum events.
Demonstrate effective AI prompt engineering to get the desired results.
Move from theory to practice by embedding AI tools into your daily work.
Integrate AI tools and AI-informed behaviors in daily work.
Apply ethical and responsible practices when working with AI.

Learning Objectives & Course Topics

You’ll be empowered with essential AI knowledge and hands-on skills within the scope of leveraging AI to enable higher performing teams and organizations.

The PSM-AI Essentials course is a mix of discussion and exercises as you explore the following topics:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Essentials.
You and AI.
Your Scrum Team and AI.
Your Organization and AI.
Security and Ethics.

Scrum.org Certification

After participating in this class, you'll have an opportunity to attempt the PSM-AI Essentials assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSM-AI Essentials Certification. If you attempt the assessment within two weeks after class and don't receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee.

Earning your PSM-AI Essentials Certification makes you part of an elite community of 500+ PSM-AI Essentials badge holders from around the globe.

Public and Private Training

Please visit our public training schedule to find our upcoming public classes.

Interested in private on-site or Live Virtual Training? If so, private classes are available with group discounts! Please contact us at training@madisonhenry.com or 844.BE.AGILE so we can discuss your needs.

PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 7 PDUs. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for earning a Scrum.org certification. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s "Education courses provided by other third party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs here.

About Scrum.org

Scrum.org is the home of Scrum, leading the evolution and maturity of Scrum to improve the profession of software development.

In addition to defining industry-leading Scrum training for practitioners at all levels, Scrum.org provides all of the tools and resources needed by Scrum practitioners to deliver value using Scrum. It hosts the Scrum Guide in 30 languages, provides assessments to allow people to evaluate themselves and improve and hosts community blogs, forums and resources to foster discussion and knowledge transfer.

Why Train with Scrum.org?

Scrum Leadership – Scrum.org is led by the co-creator of Scrum, Ken Schwaber.
Scrum Guide Alignment – Scrum.org's training is aligned with the Scrum Guide that is published and maintained by Scrum co-creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Consistent Quality – Scrum.org has developed and regularly enhances 1 body of content for each of its courses in collaboration with Scrum.org's 300+ global Professional Scrum Trainer to help ensure consistency and high quality. Scrum.org's approach of integrating lectures with team-based case studies and interactive exercises helps enable a great learning experience and preparation to begin effectively applying Scrum.
Meaningful Certifications – Scrum.org's Assessment & Certification Program includes rigorous assessments with the opportunity to examine your knowledge of Scrum, earn highly respected certifications and be recognized on Scrum.org. And unlike other Scrum training organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

About Madison Henry

The Madison Henry Group helps clients realize the benefits of agile software development and pursue organizational agility.

Founded in 2005, Madison Henry enables high performance and optimizes the value delivered by complex software through three lines of professional services: Agile Transformation with coaching and consulting across the enterprise; Training & Certification in partnership with industry leaders such as Scrum.org, ProKanban.org and Scaled Agile (SAFe); and Staff Augmentation for the key roles of Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Kanban Delivery Managers.

We are passionate about our work. We value insight, commitment and innovation. We maintain an unwavering pledge to client success and satisfaction.