PSM II
Professional Scrum Master II study plan
3 sessions, about 2.2 hours in total. Each one ends at 85% — the mark PSM II actually requires — so you find out you have not understood something while it is still cheap to fix.
Advanced Scrum Mastery
What a Scrum Master actually does once the mechanics are in place and the hard problems are organisational.
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Read
- Stances of the Scrum Master · Self-Management Is Grown, Not Declared · Facilitation Without Steering · Measuring a Scrum Master’s Effectiveness
- Practise
- 10 questions on Coaching & Mentoring, Facilitation & Conflict, Servant Leadership
- Move on at
- 85%
Coaching the Organisation
The impediments that matter most at PSM II level sit outside the team, in structures nobody has been asked to justify.
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Read
- Organisational Impediments · Working with Managers, Not Around Them · Evidence-Based Change · Scaling Without Losing Scrum
- Practise
- 10 questions on Organisational Impediments, Scaling & Multi-Team, Evidence & Metrics, Product Ownership Support
- Move on at
- 85%
Final Assessment
- Time
- about 90 minutes
- Practise
- 30 questions on Coaching & Mentoring, Facilitation & Conflict, Organisational Impediments, Scaling & Multi-Team, Servant Leadership, Evidence & Metrics, Product Ownership Support
- Move on at
- 85%