Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials

Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches have a key part to play in the use of AI and introducing AI to teams, products and organizations, acting as a catalyst for change. Through the proper use of AI tools, Scrum Masters, their teams and organization become more effective.

This course is an interactive, hands-on course designed to empower Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to understand, leverage and apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support their job, teams and organization.

Course overview

In this course, students engage in discussions and exercises to explore practical uses of AI tools and techniques to help them as a Scrum Master and to learn how to enable their Scrum Teams and organization to effectively use AI. The Professional Scrum Master – AI  Essentials (PSM - AI Essentials) course continues the journey into Scrum by diving deeper into:

• What AI means for Scrum Masters
• How Scrum Masters use AI to improve their capabilities and support the Scrum Team
• How AI can be applied by the members of a Scrum Team
• How AI influences the organization, including essential guidance on adopting AI responsibly and securely

Throughout this course, participants gain the skills and confidence to harness AI effectively, ensuring they enable high-performing Scrum Teams in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Ultimately, an effective Scrum Master should understand AI, its impact and how to apply it. This training prepares students with a greater understanding of AI and how it can be applied for use by Scrum Teams.

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to apply core AI concepts and leverage generative AI through effective prompting to improve Scrum Team collaboration, support Scrum Events and ultimately strengthen their ability as a Scrum Master while responsibly and ethically embedding AI-informed behaviors into day-to-day work.

Language English, but...

The course will be delivered in English. However, if all participants speak Dutch and agree to conduct the training in Dutch, that option is also available.

What You Will Learn 

• Explain key AI concepts, including machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and agentic AI
• Describe how AI supports effective Scrum Team facilitation and collaboration
• Discuss how AI tools can enhance the Scrum Master accountability through real-world use cases
• Demonstrate practical uses of generative AI tools to support the Scrum Team and Scrum events
• Demonstrate effective AI prompt engineering to get the desired results
• Integrate AI tools in day-to-day work
• Implement AI-informed behaviors in day-to-day work
• Apply ethical and responsible practices when adopting and working with AI

View the different Focus Areas covered within this class and others.

Who Should Attend this class?

This course is appropriate for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches with a solid understanding of the Scrum framework and experience working on a Scrum Team in any industry, as they learn how to integrate AI into their roles. This includes:

• Scrum Masters
• Agile Coaches
• Agile leaders
• Team facilitators
• Other related professionals

This course is designed for professionals who want to work with AI tools in practice. It is not intended for those seeking advanced machine learning or data science content. Scrum Master training and certification is recommended.

Professional Scrum Master-AI Essentials Certification

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master-AI Essentials course receive a password to take the Professional Scrum Master Essentials (PSM-AI Essentials) assessment.

The industry-recognized PSM-AI Essentials certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. Class participants of official Scrum.org classes who attempt the PSM-AI Essentials assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a second attempt at no additional cost.

Extra feedback on your first assessment

Although this training greatly aids in preparing you for the Professional Scrum Master-AI Essentials (PSM-AIE) assessment, it still is possible that your score may be below 85%. If this happens, you can reach out to the trainer for additional feedback regarding the results of your first attempt, to help you study and succeed on your second attempt.

The trainer - Michel van der Meulen

Organizations hire me to help them find better ways of working that enhance business agility and increase the delivery of business value.

Before becoming a Scrum Master, I worked as a software engineer for over fifteen years, followed by more than ten years as a business analyst. During these years, I realized that we can't predict the future. We can make plans and hope that things will go as expected, but often they don't. Therefore, when making a plan, it's important to consider that everything can change and that a Sense and Respond approach is more effective and actually a natural way of working.

It is my passion to help people and organizations (re)learn this natural way of working. I achieve this by coaching people on the job and, as a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) at Scrum.org, by teaching (aspiring) Scrum Masters how they can help others rediscover this natural way of working.

What other students say about the trainer

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Read more about the trainer and the Trustpilot reviews on his Scrum.org Profile page

For this training we will use Zoom.