Scrum Master, Level 1
Become an Effective Scrum Master
A 2-day immersive training focused on mastering Scrum facilitation, servant leadership, and team dynamics. Learn to guide Agile teams through ceremonies, remove impediments, and foster continuous improvement. Includes official Agile Academy Certification.
Official Certification & Learning Bundle
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive the Scrum Master Level 1 certification from the Agile Academy. This globally recognized life-long credential validates your understanding of Scrum and your ability to serve as an effective Scrum Master.
Benefits:
- Certification exam after the training (30 questions, unlimited retakes)
- Official Agile Academy certification included in course fee (lifetime validity, no renewals, no hidden fees)
- Digital certificate and badge upon passing
- Scrum Master E-Learning (lifetime access; valued at EUR 249,-)
- Agile Academy Community membership (lifetime access)
- Any other Agile Academy E-Learning (one year membership; valued at EUR 249,-)
- AI Agile Coach (one year membership)
What You’ll Learn
Day 1: Agile and Scrum Foundation
- Deep dive into what agility brings to the table
- Complicatedness vs. Complexity
- Pull vs. Push and other Lean and Agile concepts
- Deep dive into the Scrum framework as a whole
- The three Scrum accountabilities/roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer)
- The five Scrum events (Daily, Planning, Review, Retrospective, Sprint)
- The three Scrum artefacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment)
Day 2: Advanced Facilitation & Coaching
- Understanding the Scrum Master role
- Servant leadership principles
- Facilitating effective Scrum events
- Building trust within the team
- Coaching techniques for agile teams
- Handling conflict and team dynamics
- Working with Product Owners and stakeholders
- Scaling Scrum in larger organizations
- Metrics and continuous improvement
Who Should Attend
- Aspiring Scrum Masters
- Current Scrum Masters looking to deepen their skills
- Team leads transitioning to agile
- Agile coaches
- Anyone involved in Scrum implementations
Key Takeaways
- Practical tools and techniques for facilitating Scrum events
- Strategies for coaching teams toward high performance
- Methods for identifying and removing impediments
- Approaches for fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of Scrum is helpful but not required. We’ll cover the fundamentals before diving into advanced topics.
Your Trainer
Klaus Bucka-Lassen is a veteran in Scrum Trainings. He has trained more than 20 times together with Jeff Sutherland, the father and co-creator of Scrum and gained an extremely deep understanding of how and why Scrum works. Something you will hardly get anywhere else in or near Switzerland. With a total of 200+ Scrum Master, Product Owner and Scrum@Scale trainings and more than 2000 students, Klaus is one of the most experienced trainers in Switzerland. He speaks fluently English and native Danish and German (and even Swiss-German). Klaus is really proud of his average rating of 4.82 out of 5 from the participants of his courses.
What Participants Say
“Greatest Teacher ever!”
“Solid methodology combined with the latest tools & technology delivered and explained hands-on and practicing in small groups of good colleagues gives you such a boost in agility every time. I really love it!”
“Klaus shared - besides the standard theory items and topics - a lot of insights and examples of the real world. These helped me a lot to classify the technical terms. And: 'Obnoxious Fred' is super cool!”
“Great speaker. We used games during the course to understand principles, the speaker has a lot of experience in different industries and could explain how different philosophies from this industries have an impact.”
“Simple explanations, good exercises, excellent mix between theory/input and student engagement, visible passion for the topic and fun in instructing”
“Rarely have I experienced such an informative and active course. Would gladly attend again!”
“Very effective knowledge transfer and extremely motivational style of training. Could have easily lasted longer than 2 days!”
“Klaus was an amazing instructor. He has so much knowledge and a very easy way to explain thing and get into the questions of the participants.”