Preparing for Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials
Prove Your Knowledge of using AI as a Scrum Master
The Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials test includes questions that test your understanding of how AI can be applied in increase the effectiveness of a Scrum Master.
Questions on the test fall into Four categories;
- AI for Scrum Masters
- Effective AI Prompting
- AI Security and Ethics
- AI Theory and Primer
Prior to taking the Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials test you must attend the Professional Scrum Master™ - AI Essentials Training taught by a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer. The course alone may not be sufficient for everyone to pass PSPO AI - Essentials test, the resources listed on this page will help you to prepare.
How to prepare for the test
- Review the reference material you received during your Professional Scrum Master™ - AI Essentials class.
- Take the Scrum Master AI Open assessment.
Additional resources
While the class material and open assessment should be your primary study resources, we have also curated some additional resources that you may find helpful.
AI for Scrum Masters
- AI-Enhanced Scrum Events (Complete Guide)
- AI Impacts On Your Definition of Done
- Setup an AI-Powered Scrum Team
- Giving your AI a Job Interview
- 20 AI Keywords Agile Professionals Must Know
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Effective AI Prompting
- 6 Professional AI Prompts for Scrum Masters
- The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
- Rapid Prototyping on Steroids - with Claude
AI Theory and Primer
- OECD AI Principles
- AI QuickStart For Agilists
- The Layman’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
- The Economic Potential of Generative AI
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
AI Security and Ethics
- How AI Reflects Human Bias…and What to Do about It
- Debating the ethics of deepfakes
- When AI Gets it Wrong
- What is Algorithmic Bias?
- Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
- Privacy and Data Protection
- Generative AI's Environmental Impact
Books
These books are not required study material for earning the certification, but you may find them informative.
- Lateral thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward de Bono
- Human Robot Agent: New Fundamentals for AI-Driven Leadership and Algorithmic Management by Jurgen Appelo
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
- Generative AI in a Nutshell: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of AI by Henrik Kniberg
- Moral AI – And how we get there by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer