Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials

This event takes place online

This live virtual class runs 15 April 2026, 09:00-17.00 BST.

Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials (PSPO-AI Essentials) is an interactive, hands-on, one-day course designed to empower Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to understand, leverage and apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support their job, teams and organisation.

Participants continue their journey into Scrum by engaging in discussions and exercises to explore practical uses of AI tools and techniques. Participants learn ways that AI can help them as a Scrum Master and how to enable their Scrum Teams and organisation to effectively use AI.

AI has become a core capability in product delivery and is transforming every role. Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches have a key part to play in the use of AI and introducing AI to teams, products and organisations, acting as a catalyst for change. Through the proper use of AI tools, Scrum Masters, their teams and organisation can become more effective.

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.

This is an introductory class that covers the basic "essentials" for participants to get started with AI in Scrum environments.

Overview

• 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

Prerequisites

This course is appropriate for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Agile Leaders and other related professionals who have 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.

Participants will be sent instructions to create their own free versions of accounts for AI tools that will be used in the class.

For all of our live virtual classes, we use Zoom as our conference tool. Zoom is very secure. It uses end-to-end encryption and delegates can only access the conference via an admin controlled waiting room. Activities are carried out with Mural. No software is required to be installed for these tools, though you may need to check that there are no security policies that block the use of these tools if you are joining us through a corporate network. We ask you to try to ensure a steady internet connection (for example by connecting through cable rather than with WiFi).

Certification and Assessment

All participants completing the Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials (PSM-AI Essentials) assessment. PSM-AI Essentials class participants who attempt the PSM-AI Essentials assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score the pass mark of at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

What else is included?

• Course eBook
• Membership to the Red Tangerine Slack channel giving access to our alumni community
• Optional complimentary follow-up session where we discuss any concerns you may have regarding the assessment
• Further support with your real-world experiences, with an optional, complimentary follow up session
• Free re-sit of the class if you want a refresher in the future (subject to availability and viability, Scrum.org assessment not included)

About the Trainer

David Spinks

David's professional experience spans roles of; Agile Trainer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Kanban Service Delivery Manager, Team Leader and Software Developer in a variety of industries, including finance, eCommerce, social housing and education. He is a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP). David is also the co-author of the books Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams, Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team and Adopting Agile Across Borders.

David is a Course Delivery Enabler with Scrum.org. CDEs act as ambassadors for the Scrum.org courses that they support for the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer community. This involves working closely with the community to improve course delivery and supporting Professional Scrum Trainers in gaining deep understanding of the intent and design of the courses and collaborating with trainers and the Scrum.org Courseware Team to identify and refine ideas for improving the delivery of courses.

David believes in servant leadership, and he values environments where empowerment, autonomy and flexibility enable teams to do the best work possible. He is committed to continuous learning and development in himself and others. He is passionate about getting the best out of teams and seeing people reach their full potential.

David is active in the global Agile community, including blogging, and speaking at conferences and meetups around the world.

David enjoys travelling, keeping fit, the outdoors and spending quality time with his guitar.