In this official certified Professional Scrum Master training from Scrum.org, participants learn how to guide teams, product owners and development departments to be successful with Scrum. The training deals extensively with the foundations of Scrum and Agile. The training is full of practical examples and tips to successfully complete the Scrum Master role in practice. There is also a lot of attention for Scrum adoption and how you can optimize value creation and development productivity.
Official PSM I certification
To obtain the official Scrum.org certification, students must take the Professional Scrum Master exam. This is an online exam, the costs of which are included in the price of the training. The exam is in English. After obtaining the certificate, you may from now on call Professional Scrum Master. You are also automatically a member of Scrum.org for an unlimited period of time.
Professional Scrum Trainers
Cesario Ramos is an agile management coach and product development expert. He works as an organisational design consultant on large scale Scrum adoptions worldwide. He is Professional Scrum Trainer @ Scrum.org and also a Certified LeSS Trainer. In 2010 he founded AgiliX, a consulting company that provides consulting and training across the globe. Cesario is the author of the books Creating Agile Organizations, ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption for an innovative workplace’ and co-author with Jeff Sutherland and James Coplien et. al. of the book ‘A Scrum Book’. He is a frequently invited speaker at conferences around the world and organiser of the international Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) conferences.
Guiding the organization in multi-skill development
23 May 2022
The sixth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. A successful team works together towards serving the business goals. The team skills required to do that are always changing. For example, a top technology at the moment will likely not be […]
Why Isn’t Your Current Approach to Scaling Agile Working?
31 March 2019
The paper ‘Why Isn’t Your Current Approach to Scaling Agile Working?” written by Cesario Ramos co-authors with Kurt Bittner was recently published on InfoQ. Having trouble scaling your agility? You’re not alone; even organizations who have agile success in isolated pockets have trouble scaling that agility to the broader organization. The challenges express themselves in […]
On September 12 2019, we ( Nadine, Joris, Vaishal and Cesario ) provided the keynote at the LeSS conference in Munich. We shared the story about how we improved the Spotify inspired ING model with LeSS. My friend Rowan Bunning was present at the keynote and wrote a super nice summary of the talk. You […]
These days scaling Scrum is a hot topic. How can I use Scrum to deliver a big product with multiple teams? The most common approach I see at my customers is scaling Scrum by adding more Scrum teams with a Product Owner and Scrum Master per team. Scaling using Copy-Paste Scaling is about increasing in […]
The eighth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. In this blog, a short description of one workshop from Chapter 11: Guiding The Product Ownership. Avoid Product-Part Owners Misconceptions about the Product Owner (PO) role often lead to reduced agility, development […]
Over the last weeks I’ve been working on a paper about the role of a Business Analysts within Large Scale Scrum, and I thought I’d write a little post on it too, here it goes. On the website of the IIBA you can find their definition of a Business Analyst. a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of […]
Coaching works great for change. Coaching is asking the right questions. It is not about providing answers. Every time you provide an answer to a person or team you take away an opportunity for them to self-organize, grow and learn. You take away an opportunity for them to take ownership of the change and get […]
I observed a Sprint Planning meeting the other day where people wanted to reuse the task stickies from other sprints as they claimed to be more or less the same in every sprint. It actually was a Déjà vu moment. While having lunch with a old friend he said the same issues came up in […]
Multifunctional Learning & the reusable Sprint Backlog
2 October 2015
Have you ever seen a Sprint Backlog that can be reused across Sprints? I have! A reusable Sprint Backlog contains obvious tasks, for example tasks like ’write code’, ‘make test scripts’ , ‘execute test cases’ and so on. These tasks are too trivial to be useful and undermine one of the fundamentals of Scrum. Let […]
Back in the early days of Scrum, the Scrum Master role was exciting. The days of the pigs & chickens, the days when being a Scrum Master was considered dangerous. In those times there was the saying a dead Scrum Master is a useless Scrum Master And even today I still use that when selecting […]
In this blog, I talk about how you could deal with the challenges of defining your product in a LeSS adoption. Why do you need to define your product? In a LeSS adoption, you need to have a product definition because your product definition determines what organisational elements (people; components; processes and systems) will be […]
Some companies develop 1 product with 10s to 100s of people using Scrum. And they do that without adding any roles, events or processes to Scrum. They can do this because they use an organisational design that optimises for the right goals. Design Goals An organisation has a design, just like a truck or a […]
Excellent insight in what it takes to be an agile coach.
Edward van Gelderen
Certified LeSS Practitioner | Diego Callizo
I am so happy I decided to participate in this training!. Cesario is a rare to find Agile Genius. I got tons of value by responding a lot of my old questions. I.e. What are the musts in order to facilitate a successful Agile adoption?
I liked that the training is not based on prescribing roles and structures but mostly on changing the way we understand and think about complex systems. Some of the concepts explained like i.e. system thinking transform the way I understand big scale software development forever.
Diego Callizo
Certified LeSS Practitioner | Remi Kok
I wanted to thank you again for an inspiring course. It was three long days with a lot of good practices. Loved the discussions and the contribution from Cesario’s experience. I learned that scaling up Scrum is made possible through the LeSS (Huge) Framework without losing the Scrum principles. For me there where a few great eye-openers. Going to use it that’s for sure.
Thanks Cesario for a great time.
Remi Kok – infosupport.nl
Certified LeSS Practitioner | Brigitte Thie
Inspirational, eye opener. A course I can recommend to everybody working on the transition towards agile working or working within an agile environment.
Brigitte Thie – Delta Lloyd
Professional Scrum Master | Jean Kuppers
“Great training. Really enjoyed Cesario’s interactive training methods. He did a great job tailoring the content of the course to the needs of the group. I can recommend this training to anyone who wants to understand SCRUM beyond just passing the assessment.”
Jean Kuppers
Case studies
Large Dutch Bank |Our Journey Towards Agility at Scale
By Cesario Ramos, Mr. X, Ms. Y and Mr. Z. BECAUSE OF LEGAL REASONS I CANNOT USE THE REAL NAME OF THE COMPANY AND PEOPLE(...)
