PSM 2 Certification Prep+Scrum Master+PSM ii Certification

Explore how agile serves as a mindset and set of practices for incremental delivery and collaboration. Embrace its principles to respond to change and deliver value quickly.

Discover scrum as a framework for developing products with self-organizing cross-functional teams. Learn how transparency, inspection, and adaptation guide iterative sprints, backlog management, and the delivery of a releasable increment.

Identify the three scrum roles: the scrum master, product owner, and development team, and summarize how they deliver a releasable increment by removing impediments and prioritizing the backlog.

Discover Scrum events and time boxes, and see how the scrum master organizes and facilitates sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective to deliver increments.

Explore scrum artifacts: product backlog, release backlog, and sprint backlog, and how the product owner and team use them with burn down charts to track progress toward a releasable increment.

Compare the scrum master and traditional project manager, contrasting authority over the scrum framework with guiding the team, while product owner steers product decisions and the scrum master coaches impediments.

Discover how a scrum master navigates a day by coordinating standups, analyzing impediments, tracking velocity and burn-down, refining the backlog with the product owner, and guiding test-driven development and retrospectives.

Explore how scrum tools and processes drive results, enabling a scrum master, the team, and the product owner to achieve greater efficiency through planning and collaboration tools.

Coach and facilitate as a servant leader, uphold the Scrum Guide, enable self-organization, remove impediments, and align the team with sprint and product commitments.

Enhance product owner efficiency by fostering collaboration with the scrum master. Improve the backlog, align on the vision, strengthen team communication and morale, and coordinate interdependencies.

Drive the development team's performance within the scrum framework by protecting focus, facilitating daily standups, maintaining scrum tools and backlogs, and guiding continuous improvement toward a clear definition of done.

Master Scrum by embracing lifelong learning, facilitating the team with collaboration, coaching self-reliance, and aligning with the product owner to maximize value and clear user stories.

Use the scrum framework to craft a product vision through stakeholder meetings and time-boxed sprints. Build a world-class sports website delivering up-to-date news and results for sports fans worldwide.

Provide a forecast of feature scope within a timeframe aligned with the product owner's vision. Binds the team and surfaces issues early.

Compare scope driven and data driven releases, explain how date driven releases hinge on marketing events and revenue, and define minimum scope as in‑game features plus advertising.

Coordinate release planning to agree achievable release scope and date with the scrum team, while the product owner and scrum master align velocity and create a release backlog.

Learn how to craft user stories for a product backlog using the role, requirement, reason framework and define acceptance criteria to guide testers and the product owner.

Rank backlog items by value and ROI to place user stories by priority, guided by user experience. Use paper or digital story cards to drag items for the next sprint.

Learn to groom and estimate the product backlog with the product owner, Scrum Master, and development team through time-boxed mid-sprint sessions, breaking down epics into manageable stories for release planning.

Learn how the continuous delivery pipeline automates production-ready builds from source control management through continuous integration, testing, provisioning, and deployment to improve speed and quality.

Be knowledgeable and responsible in your role as scrum master by mastering the scrum guide, guiding the team through politics and impediments, and becoming the north star for their success.

Foster a fun, inviting work environment to motivate teams toward high standards of work by using a sense of humor, a positive attitude, and thoughtful touches like decor.

Implement good engineering practices to boost productivity and speed up releases, such as pear programming, test driven development, and continuous integration, guided by mentorship when needed.

Navigate conflicts between scrum and organization by making a strong case, then align when needed, and implement changes in baby steps to protect the team.

Encourage the team to stick to sprint backlog and negotiate changes with the product owner, protecting the development team from work outside the backlog while clarifying scrum rules for management.

Collaborate effectively as a scrum master by guiding the development team and partnering with the product owner to groom the backlog and optimize team dynamics.

Maintain balance between the scrum master and product owner by upholding quality, applying best practices, and delivering maximum product value.

Keep the team focused on the present sprint by constant reminders and visible sprint goals, with the scrum master and product owner guiding them after daily stand up meetings.

Familiarize yourself with the work of all team members to foster Scrum collaboration. Ask about the product owner's duties early and offer support to everyone on the Scrum team.

Foster strong relationships with other teams by liaising with Scrum masters, product managers, and Scrum teams to exchange ideas and share mutually beneficial solutions.

Dissuade the team from over-committing by guiding them away from taking too many stories in a sprint, and push to finish what they start.

Note your team's strengths and weaknesses early to guide them, avoid overcommitment or delays in sprints, and tailor engineering practices like Perry to fit the team's capabilities.

Respect your team's space in scrum, trust the product owner and development team to work autonomously and collaborate to guide sprint work with minimal interference.

Build cordial relationships with management to navigate workplace politics while upholding Scrum values. Understand their viewpoints and align Scrum with the company’s plans.

Model strict time boxing as a scrum master by keeping daily standups to 15 minutes and enforcing sprint time boxes. Demonstrate punctuality to train the team to respect time boxes.

Foster camaraderie within the dev team to improve product quality and trust. Promote We/Us, encourage retrospectives to resolve disputes, celebrate achievements, and work as one.

Motivate the scrum team to reach for the stars by encouraging accountability, mutual encouragement, and relentless effort. Empower peers to challenge each other to high standards and exceptional performance.

Build a multi-skilled scrum team with varied skills to deliver high-quality software, while the scrum master ensures a right mix of capabilities and guides recruitment to cover essential roles.

Coach teams to use traditional scrum tools and web tools, like Jira, to boost backlog management, burn up charts, velocity tracking, and story mapping, enhancing communication with stakeholders.

Be a one team facilitator whenever possible. Working with two teams doubles the work and can prevent giving 100 percent commitment; book a meeting with your manager to discuss capacity.

Apply the tips and strategies from this class to your scrummaging journey with confidence, and practice being a scrum master with practical insight.

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