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Scrum Master Advanced

Designed for Scrum learners and professionals with a foundation in: Scrum theory, team structure, deliverables, events and artifacts. You’ll dive into the value a Scrum Master offers by bringing organizations and teams through change within an Agile framework.

Skills you'll learn

  • Successfully apply appropriate coaching strategies.
  • Support the Product Owner with Scrum strategies and tactics.
  • Identify metrics that support the empirical process and enable continuous improvement.
  • Mitigate dependencies and optimize a multi-team workflow.

Skill modules

Scrum Master Adv: Coaching Strategies

    • Building Trust through Servant Leadership and Nurturing the Scrum Team
    • Scrum Master as Coach and Purposeful Retrospectives

Scrum Master Adv: Support Product Owner

    • The Product Owner Role and Gaining Product Team Clarity
    • Coaching the Product Owner

Scrum Master Adv:Metrics for Continuous Improvement

    • Selecting Agile Metrics That Matter & the Four Categories of Agile Metrics
    • Implementing Data-Driven Strategies

Scrum Master Adv:Optimizing Multi-Team Workflow

    • Implications for Roles, Events, and Artifacts
    • Mitigating Dependencies

Showcase your achievement

You will earn a Certificate of Completion and Skill Badge for each individual skill in this Skills Pathway when you've successfully completed each skill with a score of 85% or higher. Share your accomplishments by uploading them to your social media profiles, such as LinkedIn®¹.

¹ LinkedIn is a registered trademark of LinkedIn Corporation and its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.

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Frequently asked questions

The Scrum Master Advanced Skills Pathway could be the right fit for you if you are interested in learning more advanced skills than those taught in the Scrum Master Fundamentals Pathway. This Scrum Master Advanced Pathway may be able to help you grow your career in the IT Project Management field.

Purchasing our Scrum Master Advanced Skills Pathway is a great first step in growing your coaching strategies within a multi-team environment. You should purchase this Pathway if you're interested in learning more about servant leadership and Scrum anti-patterns.

Everyone is welcome to take our Scrum Master Advanced professional development Skills Pathway. No application is necessary.

All skill levels are welcome to take the Scrum Master Advanced non-credit Skills Pathway. There are no prerequisites for this Pathway.

This Skills Pathway helps prepare you to test for Professional Scrum Master II (PSMII). This Pathway is not endorsed by Scrum.org.

Scrum Master Advanced has four modules comprised of subjects like “servant leadership” and “coaching techniques.” Each module has a knowledge check and brief assessment to validate your skills. You can expect the Skills Pathway to take about 4 hours, and all Pathways are 100% online and self-paced.