Evolve from Scrum Master to agile team coach

PSM II™

Certification by SCRUM.org™

Intermediate

Skill Level

2 Days

Duration

English

Language

Overview

In the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) certification course, ZXM’s most experienced agile practitioners will teach you some of the most effective patterns for facilitation, coaching and mentoring of teams, Product Owners, managers and the wider enterprise.

In this course, you’ll 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.

Completing this course will help you:

The 8 Stances of an Agile Coach
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
Assessing the agility of teams
Preparing a coaching plan for teams
Using facilitation techniques from Liberating Structures

Who is the course for?

Agile leaders who seek to support their teams to be agile
Scrum Masters who want to evolve their team-level support and grow as coaches and mentors of Product Owners and the wider enterprise
Agile Coaches and Consultants who seek to learn the latest patterns, practices, tips and tricks to support their teams and organisation to become more agile

Learning Path

Day One - The role of the Scrum Master as an agile coach

The responsibilities of the Scrum Master
What is self-organisation and self-management?
An introduction to the 8 stances of agile coaching

Day One - Coaching an Agile Team

Supporting distributed control and self-organisation
What does a successful Scrum Team look like?
Assessing a team’s agility
Coaching teams to reach their Sprint Goals
Using Agile IQ^®to assess and coach teams
Creating a coaching canvas and using Toyota Kata to iterate through continuous improvement

Day Two - Coaching the Product Owner

Management in Scrum
Coaching successful product delivery
Helping the Product Owner to make things transparent

Day Two - Coaching the Organisation

Coaching management in agile product development
Empathy mapping to deep-dive into organisational issues with delivery management
Measuring impacts and outcomes over outputs and deliverables
What it means to be a change agent in an evolving agile enterprise

What people are saying

"Mia is a great presenter who draws from a wealth of knowledge gained from first-hand experience. A brilliant two-day course providing great insight into Scrum. I highly recommend Zen Ex Machina as a provider"

CERTIFICATION

After attending the two-day course, you’ll receive a key to attempt the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) assessment. PSM II participants who attempt the PSM II assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.