A Week in the Life of a Scrum Master

As you lean into learning about how to be a more effective scrum master, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could shadow an experienced one? Getting an inside look into how to leverage your skills will help any scrum master. Accompany Ben Kopel, CST®, CTC, CEC, while he guides you in pivoting through the four scrum master stances and assessing how best to support a team.

This course is aligned with the following Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) learning objectives:

• 1.2  describe the responsibilities and accountabilities of the Scrum Master.
• 2.3  discuss how facilitating, teaching, mentoring, and coaching are different. 

This course is aligned with the following Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM®) learning objective:

• 2.9 describe at least three elements of a coaching stance.

Course Sections: 

• What does a scrum master do all day?
• Day 1: Wednesday
• Day 2: Thursday
• Day 3: Friday
• Day 4: Monday
• Day 5: Tuesday
• Final Thoughts
• Course Resources
• Claim SEUs

Course created in collaboration with subject matter expert: Ben Kopel

Ben Kopel (CST®, CEC, CTC) is a Business Agility Coach at Project Brilliant. He is a curious learner focused on supporting teams and Leaders, as well as enabling adaptive organizations through awareness, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Ben has worked with Agile teams since the late 2000s as a developer, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, trainer and manager. He has coached hundreds of individuals and teams, led large scale Agile adoptions and taught classes at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Ben was the co-founder of the Agile Coaching Summit – a two-day Open Space event in Chicago – and an organizer of the PittAgile Gathering, the first grassroots Agile conference in Pittsburgh. In addition to speaking at events and supporting Agile communities across the globe, Ben serves on the Scrum Alliance Guides Advisory Team and Certified Enterprise Coach Review Team.

Ben was only the second person in the world to become a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®), Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Team Coach (CTC).

He lives with his wife and two children in Pittsburgh, PA.