Certification courses for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches

Become a chage agent with impact

  • Expand your team and organizational coaching skills
  • Move agility from the team to the product and organization level
  • Strengthen collaboration across the entire organization

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The Scrum Master role

The Scrum Master ensures that Scrum is useful (not necessarily strictly by the book). To product teams, the organization, product value, and therefore customers.

  • Develops team and cross-team collaboration
  • Guides the use of Scrum for managing uncertainty and risks
  • Elevates agility to the product and organizational level

Who does the Scrum Master help?

Product teams

  • Turns groups of individuals into truly self-organizing teams.
  • Guides teams toward team accountability and decision-making, close collaboration, and multi-specialization.
  • Shifts attention to the customer and their needs. Process is in the background.

The Product Owner

  • Helps visualize and manage the vision, roadmap, and product backlog.
  • Teaches how to use Scrum to understand customer needs, iterate, and manage risks.
  • Integrates product management and development into one shared rhythm.

The organization

  • Creates end-to-end teams and breaks down organizational silos.
  • Adjusts company processes and organizational structure to support self-organization and collaboration.
  • Contributes to a collaborative environment across the entire organization.

Become a successful Scrum Master!

Become a change agent with impact on organizational agility

SINTRO

Scrum Intro

½ dayintroductorynew

Half a day. Online. Highly interactive. No fluff. No BS.

  • When is Scrum suitable and when not
  • Real-life case studies from a corporate and a startup
  • Why Scrum often "doesn't work" and how to avoid it

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PSM

Professional Scrum Master™

2 daysintroductorypopular

The most sought-after introduction to Scrum.

  • Solid foundations of Scrum and agility
  • How to turn a group into a real team
  • When Scrum works and when it doesn't

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CLB

Certified LeSS Basics

1 dayadvancedcoming soon

Multiple teams, one backlog. Everyone works on product priorities.

  • One backlog vs. team backlogs
  • Specialized vs. end-to-end teams
  • The Product Owner role in LeSS

coming soon

PSFS

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™

1 dayadvanced

Guide meetings to team decisions everyone will stand behind.

  • How to engage even the biggest grumblers?
  • How to leverage conflict towards a shared agreement?
  • How to be an impartial facilitator?

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PSM-A

Professional Scrum Master™ Advanced

2 daysadvancedpopular

Increase your impact across the entire product organization.

  • Fine-tune Scrum at both team and product level
  • Experience 10+ Liberating Structures
  • LeSS + Organizational agility

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CLP

Certified LeSS Practitioner

3 daysexpert

How to flip a product organization around a single backlog.

  • How to drive transformation bottom-up for lasting change
  • Introducing end-to-end teams
  • Collaboration, coordination, prioritization

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OTC

Org Topologies™ Consultant

2 daysexpertnew

Struggling to navigate dozens of agile frameworks?

  • Find your way through a map of organizational archetypes
  • Expand team mandates towards end-to-end
  • Create a custom organizational design

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SMDOJO

Scrum Master Dōjō

0 daysexpert

Year-long intensive training for change agents towards end-to-end teams.

  • Convince key stakeholders
  • Master systems thinking and organizational patterns
  • Gradually apply acquired knowledge in practice

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PSPO

Professional Scrum Product Owner™

Introduction to Scrum focused on product and customers.

  • Product definition
  • Product vs. team-level Product Owner
  • Scrum Framework

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PSK

Professional Scrum™ with Kanban

Scrum + Kanban = ❤️. Get the best of both approaches

  • Limit work in progress (WIP) and finish what you start
  • Optimize flow and productivity during the Sprint
  • Work with data instead of impressions and guesses

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PAL-EBM

Professional Agile Leadership™ Evidence-Based Management™

Track and measure customer value and your organizational agility.

  • Setting strategic and tactical goals
  • Customer value
  • Organizational agility

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Do you want to have a private course for your company?

You pay a fixed price, regardless of the number of participants up to 30. Invite everyone who can benefit from the course.

  • We will prepare an agenda tailored to your needs

  • In-person or online, in Czech or English

  • Certification exam for everyone included

I thoroughly enjoyed the Scrum course with Karel. A pleasant experience that lets me confidently say I understand Scrum theory and practices. Thanks for this amazing and enriching experience!
Martin Zůza, CN Group
The training was great, if not the best in recent years. And trust me, I don't throw superlatives around. The trainer was awesome! Real-world examples always make a difference. Thanks Karel!
Jiří Prokeš, Technology Transformation Lead, EY
Great course! Richard inspired me to change the way I think and lead my team. A two-day experience I'd recommend to any leader or manager.
Barnaby Smith, Senior Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Karel has been living and breathing Scrum for many years and understands it deeply. He shares lots of stories and examples for better understanding. He's a natural-born trainer.
Roman Řípa, Project Leader, RomanRipa.com
An excellent interactive course led by Richard helped me align my line manager plans with the Scrum Framework. You could tell he draws from vast experience, not just theory.
Standa Houdek, Devops Manager, DHL
The best training I've attended in recent years, interactive, full of real-world examples. Simply TOP! Thanks Karel
Martina Kruzic Kulisiakova, Test Manager
Richard was great! He led the course with enthusiasm and expertise, keeping us 100% engaged even online. Thanks to him I'm confident I'll pass the PSM and I'm looking forward to applying what we learned!
Ellie Bodman, Consultant, Mason Advisory Limited
Karel's approach was very open and professional. He wasn't afraid to answer any question.
Eduard Fuzessery, 2N Telekomunikace
An absolutely phenomenal course! Richard is an amazing instructor who teaches from both practice and theory. He encouraged useful discussions and pushed us to ask tough questions.
Itrza Suhail, Senior Software Engineer, Sky
Trainer Karel was fantastic! Excellent examples, entertaining, and he even has acting talent! The course pace and switching between theory and practice kept our attention.
Jan Novák, Senior SW Develoer, compacer CZ
The PSM I course with Richard was a great experience. He explains Scrum in a knowledgeable and witty way. Ideal for beginners and those who want to organize their knowledge.
Adam Kozany, Service Specialist, Stora Enso
I was skeptical about the training, but it was very insightful. Scrum is a simple framework that often struggles with misunderstanding and fear. Karel is a great coach, highly recommended!
Jakub Kuba, 2N Telekomunikace
Karel's approach was great. The course was interesting, enriching, and definitely not boring. Looking forward to more courses with ScrumDojo!
Martin Schule, AIKIT Digital
Great course! Richard inspired me to change the way I think and lead my team. A two-day experience I'd recommend to any leader or manager.
Barnaby Smith, Senior Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
I really liked the prepared materials and how Karel Smutny led the course. I enjoyed the collaborative atmosphere among students. The course inspired me to learn more about Scrum and agile SW development and to work in a Scrum team in the near future.
Miroslav Renda, Tesena
I really enjoyed the course! I was expecting dry theory, but it was full of discussions, sharing examples, and interaction! A great start to the Scrum Master journey!
Naushad Velgy, Data Scientist, M&C Saatchi World Services
I appreciate Karel's rich practical experience that backed up the theoretical part of the course, as well as his positive attitude and enthusiasm. Two days well spent, thanks!
Milan Mokrý
Richard is a great instructor and the whole training served its purpose. No boredom -- theory, examples, experience, fun. Definitely recommend!
Martina Novakova, Developer & Scrum Master, Stora Enso
Perfect training for beginners. I enjoyed the friendly and professional atmosphere.
Johana Sladká, Invia.cz
The course was very valuable! Riki handled the online format brilliantly, it was interactive and full of practical examples. Even though I already knew Scrum, I'm taking away a lot of new things. Definitely recommend!
Jana Hajduová, Project Manager, Air Navigation Services of Czech Republic
Karel introduced us to Scrum in a clear and playful way. He told a number of stories from various companies with emphasis on the topic being discussed. The best training in the last X years. Thanks!
David Štípský, SolarWinds
Honestly one of the most useful trainings that truly moved me forward.
Dominik Chabron, Scrum Master, Tietoevry
A trainer with experience. Great approach, great stories. Great course.
David Šanda, HID
Great insight into Scrum and team effectiveness.
Pavel Studený, Outreach

Meet your trainers

Karel Smutný

Karel Smutný

Chief Energizing Officer, founder of ScrumDōjō

Karel is one of the first Scrum and organizational agility consultants in the Czech Republic. He founded ScrumDōjō as a platform for long-term education of agile teams and organizations.

Robert Batůšek

Robert Batůšek

Consultant, programmer, LeSS trainer

Robert has 20 years of experience implementing Large Scale Scrum in large development teams. As a technical coach, he helps SW teams improve agile engineering practices.

Richard "Riki" Ross

Richard "Riki" Ross

Senior Agile Coach

Riki is an experienced and empathetic agile coach and Scrum and Kanban trainer. He spends most of his work time actively coaching, which he reflects in practically-oriented trainings.