SAFe® 6.0 Scrum Master (SSM)

Explore the Scrum sprint lifecycle, delivering a tangible increment of value in 2–4 week sprints, with constant length, planning, execution, review, and feedback loops for agility.

Master the business agility value stream to sense opportunities, fund MVPs, organize around value, deliver through cross-functional teams and continuous delivery, and pivot or persevere based on MVP learnings.

Master seven core competencies for business agility in SAFe, including team and technical agility, built-in quality, agile product delivery, DevOps, enterprise solution delivery, lean portfolio management, and organizational agility.

Connect SAFe essential configuration with scrum elements, showing how features and stories align with roles from product management, system architects, to the release train engineer during pi planning.

Establish built-in quality at the agile release train level by embracing continuous learning, automation, and collective ownership to deliver high-value solutions quickly and reliably.

Explore SAFe essential events that drive value in an agile release train, from team-level rituals like iteration planning and daily standups to art-level ceremonies like PI planning and system demo.

Learn how cross-train collaboration and proactive alignment across the release train drives enterprise agility, through early integration, automated tests, coordinated events, and strong ties with the system architect.

Identify team dysfunction patterns, such as lack of trust, avoidance of conflict, silos, miscommitments, and disengagement, and coach through facilitation and conversations to build capability rather than dependency.

Learn how servant leaders prevent and resolve team conflicts by building trust and a shared vision. Practice consensus building, open dialogue, and clear working agreements to transform tension into collaboration.

Explore pi planning as the heartbeat of Safe, a cadence-based, face-to-face event that aligns the agile release train on the next pi with direct communication and early dependency discovery.

Assume the RTE role and design an ART kanban board, using columns and WIP limits to reveal bottlenecks and flow of features from concept to delivery in regulated healthcare.

Develop a proactive PI planning plan for a scrum master, covering backlog readiness, dependencies, capacity, and definition of done alignment, while guiding feature breakdown into stories for learning and flow.

Turn user stories into testable acceptance criteria using given-when-then to reveal assumptions, edge cases, and missing details, ensuring tester, developer, and product owner agree on done through observable outcomes.

The team sync acts as the heartbeat of alignment, with a brief daily update and a meet after to surface impediments, promoting ownership, collaboration, and value delivery by product owners.

Explore why iteration burndown charts mislead by tracking tasks, not completed stories or value. Learn to use burn up charts and cumulative flow diagrams to reveal scope changes and progress.

Drive effective backlog refinement by maintaining a short, frequent timeboxed session, ensuring full team participation and right subject matter experts, to shape near-term stories with clarity and predictability.

Inspect and Adapt drives continuous improvement across the agile release train by evaluating progress and planning improvements through the Pi System Demo, measurement review, and problem solving workshop.

Measure competency by using seven core competency assessments organized around key dimensions. Ratings provide quantifiable data to track progress and guide improvements in business agility and team and technical agility.