PST case studies
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The Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) credential is offered by Scrum.org. The source pages retrieved for this profile do not describe an exam, assessment, or certification with that name; the only PST-related material present is navigational, pointing to pages such as "Become a Professional Scrum Trainer" and "Why Engage a Professional Scrum Trainer." The canonical trainer page returned a 404 at retrieval time, so no exam format, duration, item count, passing score, fee, retake policy, or validity period can be stated here. The PST case studies are 5 cases and about 4,351 words.
1Fixed Price, Fixed Scope, 'Fixed' Scrum
You are a Professional Scrum Trainer delivering a two-day Applying Professional Scrum course to 14 people from a government IT supplier. In the forecasting exercise, every table plans to 100% of capacity and treats the Sprint Backlog as a promise of a date.
907 words, about 5 min2The Proxy Product Owner and the Review Nobody Attends
At a financial services firm, one product is delivered by two Scrum Teams of eight developers each, sharing a single Product Backlog. The Product Owner is the Head of Digital, who attends no refinement sessions and has delegated all prioritisation to a business analyst she calls the "Proxy PO"; the analyst can rank items but cannot approve anything above a fixed cost threshold.
900 words, about 5 min3Day Two, One Trainer, Sixteen Opinions
You are halfway through day two of a two-day Professional Scrum Master course with 16 participants. Your co-trainer called in sick this morning.
857 words, about 4 min4Nine Scrum Masters, One Certificate Ladder
The agile practice lead at a telecom asks you to design a 12-month development plan for nine Scrum Masters. The data she gives you: seven hold PSM I and three hold PSM II; all nine can recite the Scrum Guide accurately; none has ever coached a Product Owner on value or backlog management; Retrospective actions are recorded but 80% are abandoned within two Sprints; the organisation still runs a quarterly stage-gate requiring each team to commit to a fixed scope; and the Scrum Masters spend about 60% of their time administering Jira and producing status reports for the PMO.
823 words, about 4 min5Certification Included: The One-Day Combined Course
A client asks you, a Professional Scrum Trainer, for a one-day private course for 30 people that combines "the best of" Professional Scrum Master and Professional Scrum with Kanban, delivered using their internal tooling, with "Scrum.org certification included". They also want every attendee to receive a certificate, want to drop the practice assessments because "they stress the team out", and want to replace the Sprint simulation with a walkthrough of their own delivery process.
864 words, about 4 min