SAFe Scrum Master Exam Prep

What you will be able to do

• You will be able to explain how Scrum operates inside SAFe and how team events feed the Agile Release Train.
• You will be able to describe the responsibilities of the Scrum Master / Team Coach and tell servant leadership apart from command and control.
• You will be able to prepare for, facilitate, and follow up on PI Planning, including ROAMing risks and running the confidence vote.
• You will be able to facilitate the team iteration events and help the team protect flow during iteration execution.
• You will be able to run the close of a Planning Interval, including the System Demo and Inspect and Adapt, and convert improvements into backlog work.
• You will be able to coach an Agile team toward self management using powerful questions, active listening, and an understanding of team dynamics.
• You will be able to reason through scenario based SSM exam questions that test judgment about facilitation, flow, and coaching.

What is inside

6 modules, 6 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz.

1. 01

   Introducing Scrum in SAFe

   How Scrum works at the team level inside the Scaled Agile Framework, how the Agile Release Train lines many teams up on one cadence, and the Lean-Agile mindset, values, and principles that hold it together.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

2. 02

   The SAFe Scrum Master Role

   What the Scrum Master / Team Coach actually does on a SAFe team, how servant leadership differs from managing, and how the role connects the team to the wider Agile Release Train.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

3. 03

   Facilitating PI Planning

   How the ART plans a Planning Interval together, what the Scrum Master does before, during, and after the event, and the outputs that come out of it: committed PI objectives, the ART planning board, ROAMed risks, and a confidence vote.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

4. 04

   Facilitating Iteration Execution

   The team events inside an iteration and how the Scrum Master facilitates them, plus how to help the team plan with story points, track with flow, and protect value delivery day to day.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

5. 05

   Finishing the Program Increment

   How an ART closes out a Planning Interval: the System Demo as the true measure of progress, the Innovation and Planning iteration, and the Inspect and Adapt event that turns measured results into real improvement.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

6. 06

   Coaching the Agile Team

   How the Scrum Master / Team Coach grows a high performing, self managing team: the coaching stance, powerful questions and active listening, the stages a team moves through, and the dysfunctions that hold a team back.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions