Accredited Professional Scrum Master

Course summary

Our accredited Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM) training will equip you with the skills and knowledge to take advantage of this simple and effective agile framework, used by Fortune 500 companies all over the world. You’ll sharpen your product development and teamwork skills, become a better communicator, and gain a globally recognised professional certification that adds value to your CV.

Delivered by a certified Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), this two-day course provides a concentrated study of the principles, theory and competencies supporting the Scrum framework and how to use it to optimise productivity and effectiveness.

The scrum master framework focuses on providing early business value to business users. Projects, product delivery and enhancement are divided into short bursts of work referred to as ‘sprints’ that last no more than one calendar month. At the end of each sprint, the team holds a sprint review to review progress and agree what to do next. Immediately after the review, the team inspects its own performance to encourage continuous improvement.

At the end of the course, all participants will have access to sit the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) exam; on successfully passing the exam, the industry recognised PSM 1 Certification is awarded from Scrum.org, to demonstrate a fundamental level of Scrum mastery.

Who is the course aimed at?

The Professional Scrum Master course is targeted at Scrum Masters and anyone else responsible for the successful use and/or rollout of Scrum. Any team member, team manager or person who is looking to know how to lead in an agile organisation can benefit from this course. This may include but is not limited to: project and product managers, development and QA managers, existing Scrum Masters who want to improve their skill set, business analysts, product owners, developers, QA/testers, team leads, managers, and architects. Indeed Scrum practitioners may come from non-technical backgrounds, e.g. marketing, legal, HR. 

Further information

The two-day course costs £695. Please note that no VAT is payable on our short courses and the course fee includes:

• all training
• the latest version of the official Scrum Guide™ (2020)
• access before and during your course to additional materials and learning resources via Blackboard 
• certificates of attendance upon request and subject to 100% attendance
• PSM I assessment* and certificate

Scrum is one of the biggest sub-groups of the agile project management methodology and, as more and more businesses start to understand the benefits of agile working practices, qualified scrum masters are in increasingly high demand. Scrum focuses on providing business value to business users in the minimum time.

When you pass the PSM I assessment, you will receive the globally recognised 'PSM I' certification, along with a PSM I logo that you can use to identify your achievement. In addition, your name will be posted publicly for colleagues, managers and potential employers to see.

*Please note that you will be provided with a password to sit the assessment. Resits are not included in the course fee with the exception of class participants who attempt the PSM I assessment within 14 days of the class and do not score at least 85%. In this scenario, you will be granted a second attempt at no additional cost.

Discounts and offers

We are now offering a 20% discount on our Professional Scrum Master course fee to University of Westminster alumni.

Course structure

On this course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of professional Scrum roles, events and artefacts, including your own role as a Scrum Master to encourage performance at the highest level. The objectives of the course are to:  

• Provide a clear understanding of the rules of Scrum through the empirical foundation of Scrum. 
• Enable you to act as a Scrum Master for Scrum teams as well as stakeholders from an in-depth understanding of servant-leadership. 
• Enable you to effectively start up Scrum or increase its effectiveness if already underway.

Topics covered include Agile Basics; complexity and Scrum theory; The Scrum Framework; the Definition of Done; The role of the Scrum Master; Scrum values and teams; Scrum in your organisation. 

Once you have completed the course, you will receive a password to sit the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) exam (the cost of which is included in your course fee). You may be entitled to a free second attempt if your first attempt is taken within 14 days. Those who pass the assessment will receive the industry recognised PSM I Certification to demonstrate their fundamental level of Scrum mastery.

Day 1 

• The Scrum Framework
• Complexity and empiricism
• Origins of Agile
• Scrum values and teams
• Scrum roles

Day 2 

• Scrum events
• Scrum artifacts
• Prioritisation
• Estimating
• Scaling and projects

Entry requirements

This course is taught in English and the online Professional Scrum Master™ examinations are also in English, so a good working knowledge of the language is essential. There are no formal entry requirements and the course is aimed at anybody involved with product or project delivery using Agile and particularly the Scrum framework. 

Course accreditation

Professional Scrum certifications are yours for life with no renewal costs to retain them. Once you pass the assessment, you will retain that certification, you will be listed on the Scrum.org website and remain there forever with no additional future costs. You will also receive a certificate of attendance from the University of Westminster.