SAFe Scrum Master.
Two days. One certification. The Scrum Master role is easy to describe and hard to do well — this course closes the gap. Facilitation, PI execution, team coaching, and servant leadership, taught by instructors who hold the role in the field, not just in the slide deck.
The course, at a glance.
Everything you need to make the case to your manager — or to yourself.
- Certification
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
- Length
- Two days
- Format
- Live online — or private training for your whole team
- Instructors
- Elisabeth White — Co-Founder & CEO, among the world's highest-rated Scaled Agile instructors — and Parker Stephenson, Co-Founder and Lead Agile Coach on the TTCU engagement
- Pricing
- Current pricing at registration on Humanitix
- Guarantee
- Guaranteed to run Every course we publish runs. Standing policy — book travel and block calendars with confidence.
What you'll learn.
Anyone can memorize the events. The craft is making them work — for real teams, under real pressure, inside a real enterprise. By the end of two days, you'll be ready to:
- Facilitate the team events that make Scrum work — iteration planning, team syncs, reviews, and retrospectives people stop dreading.
- Support successful PI execution, from planning preparation through delivery.
- Identify and remove the impediments that quietly kill team flow.
- Coach high-performing, self-organizing teams — without becoming their bottleneck.
- Practice servant leadership as a daily discipline, not a slogan.
- Understand where the Scrum Master fits in a SAFe enterprise — and why the role matters more there, not less.
Two days, no filler.
The standard SAFe Scrum Master curriculum — delivered with stories from live transformations, not just the courseware.
Day one — the role and the team
- Introducing Scrum in SAFe — where your team fits in the bigger picture.
- Characterizing the role of the Scrum Master.
- Facilitating team events and iteration planning.
- Managing the team backlog and improving flow.
Day two — execution and coaching
- Experiencing PI Planning — the event that aligns the whole train.
- Facilitating iteration execution and relentless improvement.
- Finishing the PI: Inspect & Adapt.
- Coaching the Agile team through servant leadership.
Who it's for.
You don't need years of Agile experience to attend. You need curiosity and a team. This course is built for:
- New and aspiring Scrum Masters stepping into the role for the first time.
- Team leads and project managers transitioning to Agile ways of working.
- Engineers, analysts, and testers who want to understand — and improve — how their team really works.
- Anyone whose organization is adopting SAFe and needs people who can lead teams on an Agile Release Train.
Already leading at the portfolio level? Look at Lean Portfolio Management or Leading SAFe instead. Guiding product decisions? That's Product Owner / Product Manager. Bringing your whole team? Start with SAFe for Teams.
92%+
Of participants go on to earn certification.
99%+
Instructor recommendation ratings, course after course.
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Of ART members given access to development workshops and certification courses.
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Public sessions are scheduled on our Humanitix calendar — and every one we publish is guaranteed to run.
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Want SAFe Scrum Master sooner? Tell us — enough requests move a course onto the calendar, or we'll bring it to you as private training. All scheduled courses and current pricing live on our Humanitix host page. Training line: 918.210.9061.
First-time Scrum Master? Perfect.
Everyone in this role started exactly where you are. Two days from now, you'll start it better prepared than most. Request a date — or ask us anything first.