The Scrum Master Training Manual: The Definitive Guide for Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certification

The scrum master helps to facilitate scrum to the larger team by ensuring the scrum framework is followed. He/she is committed to the scrum values and practices, but should also remain flexible and open to opportunities for the team to improve their workflow.

As the title implies, the scrum master is the master of scrum, who ensures the scrum framework is followed. Scrum has a clearly defined set of roles and rituals that should be followed and the scrum master works with each member of the scrum team to guide and coach the team through the scrum framework.

Each chapter begins with CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVES – what you need to know to pass the section on the exam dealing with the chapter topic. The objective headings identify the objectives within the chapter.

EXAM WATCH notes call attention to information about and potential pitfalls in the exam. These helpful hints are from the perspective of the PMI-ACP® examination and align you to the expectations of the certification examination.

ON THE JOB notes describe the issues that most often arrive in real-world settings. They provide a valuable perspective on how the industry and projects would view certain artifacts and ceremonies and would give you a great leg-up during interviews to demonstrate real-world experience along with your PMI-ACP® Certification.

INSIDE THE EXAM sidebar highlights some of the most common and confusing problems that students encounter while taking the examination. Design to emphasize what the exam will emphasize, this along with the practice tests would prepare you adequately for passing the PMI-ACP® certification easily. You get a leg-up on how to respond to those difficult-to-understand questions by focusing extra attention on the sidebars.

The PMI-ACP Coach is there to encourage you. It is the author’s way of saying “Keep going and don’t give up!”

One of the best tools to prepare yourself for the PMI-ACP® certification is to review our 400+ terms in the Agile Glossary section.

Feeling out of time? The 2-MIN CHECKLIST at the end of each chapter is the right place for you to summarize all the key contents of the chapter. It can be used for last-minute reviews.

Each chapter ends with a dedicated Q&A section, where you can benchmark your understanding and also review the detailed answers to get more insights.