Professional Scrum Master: Live Virtual Class. Jun 10-11, 2024 @ 9:00am-5:00pm ET.

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Leading Edge Training for Scrum Masters & Servant Leaders

Scrum.org's 2-day Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course was initially developed in 2009 by the co-creator of Scrum, Ken Schwaber and has evolved over the years under Ken's leadership with the contributions of Scrum.org's 300+ Professional Scrum Trainers across the world.

Our latest version of the PSM course provides leading-edge training for Scrum Masters and anyone dedicated to helping individuals and teams realize the benefits of Scrum.

Through a combination of instruction and exercises, you’ll learn the underlying theory and principles of the Scrum Framework with a focus on the role of Scrum Master and how Scrum can help manage changing priorities, increase productivity and accelerate product delivery. In addition, you'll be provided techniques and tools to facilitate behavioral change and cultivate servant leadership.

After completing a Professional Scrum Master class, you'll receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSM I Certification. Earning your PSM I Certification makes you part of an elite community of 600,000+ PSM I badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

Special VIP Student Ticket Packages

Want to Maximize Your Learning Experience? Upgrade Your Student Ticket to VIP!

VIP Student Ticket Packages add two hours of one-on-one Live Virtual Coaching with your Professional Scrum Trainer (who also serves as an Enterprise Agile Coach) to help you get the most from your learning experience.

You can use your two Live Virtual Coaching hours for guidance and mentoring in multiple ways, including:

Planning - Collaborate on applying what you learn in class to your work.
Development - Ask questions and dig deeper on topics of interest.
Certification - Obtain advice on passing Scrum.org's assessment and earning your certification.

Interested? Select the VIP Student Ticket Package option when registering and we'll coordinate with you to schedule your Live Virtual Coaching hours. Contact us at agile@madisonhenry.com or 844.BE.AGILE with any questions.

Topics

The PSM course is a mix of lecture, case studies and interactive exercises as you collaborate with other students:

Scrum Theory & Principles
- How variables can lead to complexity.
- Relating complexity and management styles.
- Predictive and empirical approaches to problems.
- Exploring the advantages of Agility.
- Scrum and the three legs of empiricism.
The Scrum Framework
- What's needed for Scrum?
- Exploring accountability.
- Scrum roles, events and artifacts.
- Examining the value of time-boxing.
- Scrum values and empiricism.
Done and Undone
- Can quality become a habit?
- Technical debt and addressing its effect.
- Understanding the importance of Done.
- Defining "potentially releasable".
- Impacts of not defining Done.
Product Delivery with Scrum
- Why Plan Product Development with Scrum?
- Techniques for Product Backlog ordering and valuation.
- Methods of Product Backlog organization.
- Techniques for estimating size of Product Backlog Items.
- Planning and forecasting.
- Monitoring and reporting progress.
People and Teams
- Great teams.
- Intrinsic motivation.
- Cross-functionality.
- Scrum Values.
- Stages of Group Development.
The Scrum Master
- Experiencing positive leadership.
- Choices of servant leaders.
- How will you help others improve?
- Responsibilities of a Scrum Master.
- Scrum Master skills and traits.

Scrum.org Certification

After completing a Professional Scrum Master class, you'll receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment and earn the industry-recognized PSM I Certification. Your password will never expire, however should you attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days after receiving your password and not receive a passing score, you'll be granted a 2nd attempt for no additional fee.

Earning your PSM I Certification will make you part of an elite community of 600,000+ PSM I badge holders from around the globe and unlike other Scrum training and certification organizations, your certification will never expire or require future renewal fees.

About Your Trainer

Rich Visotcky

Professional Scrum Trainer and Enterprise Agile Consultant, The Madison Henry Group

Rich Visotcky is a Professional Scrum Trainer and Steward with Scrum.org and a licensed Management 3.0 facilitator. The clients he has worked with span a variety of industries including finance, insurance, healthcare, real estate, energy, manufacturing, and aerospace in companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to five person start-ups. Rich is an experienced professional trainer and consultant with a demonstrated history of connecting thousands of people with leaner, agile principles and practices.

A BS in Computer Engineering from West Virginia University taught him to think systematically and identify right-sized solutions to problems. After a decade of software development, Rich saw the challenge of getting people to work openly together towards a common goal was often harder than technology problems. That led him to focus on teaching people about building products and solving problems iteratively and incrementally.

When he’s not thinking about the complex systems of how people work and build things together, Rich can be found working on projects with his son, playing all manner of video and board games, exploring the world and its beer, or enjoying his wife’s laughter.

Additional Information

PMI PDU Credits
Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending the two-day Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course. 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.

Cancellation Policy
The Madison Henry Group accepts student substitutions or postponements for classes at any time. Student cancellations must be made via email. Madison Henry shall provide refunds for student cancellations as follows:

Cancellation received more than 30 business days prior to the first day of class = 100% refund of course fee
Cancellation received more than 20 business days prior to the first day of class = 75% refund of course fee
Cancellation received more than 10 business days prior to the first day of class = 50% refund of course fee
Cancellation received less than 10 business days prior to the first day of class = no refund provided

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.

4 Reasons to 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 High Quality – Scrum.org has developed and regularly enhances 1 body of content for each of its courses in collaboration with its community of 300+ global Professional Scrum Trainers 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 that Never Expire – 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 and certification organizations, your certification will never expire nor require future renewal fees.

About The Madison Henry Group

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, Kanban University 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.