CSM: Scrum, facilitation, and service to the team

Objectives and progression

Seven lessons, 37 regular questions, five cases, and an internal assessment of 26 decisions in 50 minutes. Practice team decisions and operational collaboration without reproducing official questions. January 2022 CSM objectives, formatted February 2024. All 24 Scrum Foundations 2022 objectives were compared using the workbook linked by the official resource page on October 1, 2026; the separate PDF was not read in full.

Audience: Early-career Scrum Masters, technical managers, and APS professionals collaborating with Scrum Teams.

Prerequisites: No prior knowledge is required for the DR path. For the CSM test, Scrum Alliance requires an approved 16-hour Certified Scrum Trainer course. DR does not replace that training, confer eligibility, or include official attempts.

275 estimated study minutes

• Explain the Scrum structure and recognize adaptations preserving goals and quality.
• Distinguish actual progress, product direction, and implementation organization.
• Use planning, the Daily, review, and retrospective to make useful decisions.
• Choose participation, teaching, mentoring, or coaching according to the need.
• Prepare, conduct, and close discussions that can produce traceable action.
• Support autonomy, quality, and product decisions without creating dependence on the Scrum Master.
• Address organizational barriers and evaluate changes in context.

Modules

1. Foundations for facilitating Scrum
2. Transparency, quality, and accountabilities
3. Events that lead to adaptation
4. Facilitation and support approaches
5. Group decisions and useful closure
6. Service, quality, and impediments
7. Organization, boundaries, and observable improvement

Continue learning

Agile / Scrum

• PSM I — Professional Scrum Master I
• Technical Project Manager
• PMI-ACP — Agile Certified Practitioner

References and version

CSM learning objectives January 2022 (formatted February 2024), current linked syllabus; Scrum Guide November 2020; no numbered exam revision published

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