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Professional Scrum Master

Associated Courses

Date

Q1 2025 (2 days)

Time

All day

CPE Hours

24 hours

Competency

Professional

Location

Online | Live instructor-led

Price

€1320

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Course Description

This course is designed to prepare you for Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification exam. By attaining the Professional Scrum Master certification, you’ll demonstrate your ability to lead or support the software development process in your organisation. You’ll learn the Scrum basics, and how to use Scrum to optimise productivity and efficiency. This course is very hands-on and you’ll experience all the aspects of the Scrum framework. The Professional Scrum Master certification is the first major update to the programme since it was first created in 2002.

Course Structure

This course is split into the following modules

Introduction to Agile/Scrum

  • The Scrum Framework
  • Requirements in Scrum
  • Planning and estimation with Scrum
  • Working as a Scrum team
  • Agile Testing
  • Keeping Scrum healthy – Pitfalls and Lessons Learnt
  • Getting Started
  • Sample Exam

Should Attend

This course is appropriate for anyone working on or with a Scrum team. Whether you or your organisation is investigating Scrum, beginning to utilise Scrum or struggling to implement Scrum effectively. Typical attendees include Project Managers, Team Leaders as well as cross-functional team members such as Developers, Testers, DBAs, Business Analysts, etc. and project support personnel who will benefit from an understanding of Agile/Scrum.

Prerequisites

We would recommend the following:

  • Are familiar with the basics of project management
  • Understand ‘requirements’ and ‘requirements decomposition’
  • Have been involved with a project that creates or improves a product
  • Understand the basics of Scrum and have read the Scrum Guide

Assessment

At the end of this course you will sit for the exam. The exam is included in the price.

Exam Details

Passing score: 85%

Time limit: 60 minutes

Number of Questions: 80

Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False

Key-Features

There are no key features

Course Structure

This course is split into the following modules

Introduction to Agile/Scrum

  • The Scrum Framework
  • Requirements in Scrum
  • Planning and estimation with Scrum
  • Working as a Scrum team
  • Agile Testing
  • Keeping Scrum healthy – Pitfalls and Lessons Learnt
  • Getting Started
  • Sample Exam

Should Attend

This course is appropriate for anyone working on or with a Scrum team. Whether you or your organisation is investigating Scrum, beginning to utilise Scrum or struggling to implement Scrum effectively. Typical attendees include Project Managers, Team Leaders as well as cross-functional team members such as Developers, Testers, DBAs, Business Analysts, etc. and project support personnel who will benefit from an understanding of Agile/Scrum.

Prerequisites

We would recommend the following:

  • Are familiar with the basics of project management
  • Understand ‘requirements’ and ‘requirements decomposition’
  • Have been involved with a project that creates or improves a product
  • Understand the basics of Scrum and have read the Scrum Guide

Assessment

At the end of this course you will sit for the exam. The exam is included in the price.

Exam Details

Passing score: 85%

Time limit: 60 minutes

Number of Questions: 80

Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False

Key-Features

There are no key features

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