 Have you got a certification because you needed to get one to get the job interview but when it came to actually doing the work you felt out of your depth or perhaps you've hired certified scrum masters but when they've started work you realize that they barely know what scrum is let alone how to be a great scrum master. I've been teaching and coaching and supporting scrum masters for over 20 years and I've noticed one significant pattern. A two-day class even classes that people describe as game-changing or the best training I've ever had or sometimes even life-changing they're not enough to actually set people up for success in their day-to-day work over time and through my work I've noticed without doubt that those scrum masters who combined their classroom training with real-time support and coaching and follow things up with deeper training in time they tended to fly when you compare them to those people who just attended a single two-day introductory class and were then left to figure things out on their own and that's why I've created the scrum mastery pathway. So what is the scrum mastery pathway? Well did you know that less than 2% of certified scrum masters go on past that introductory level certification? Now as someone who deeply cares about mastery and giving people the support and space to become great at their jobs that is a huge source of frustration and disappointment for me and that's why I created the scrum mastery pathway. It's a long-term development program for scrum masters and it's going to set those people up for success in that crucial servant leadership role compared to the current option which is pretty much a two-day introductory class. The scrum mastery pathway is what I call a multi-modal approach because it's made up of in-person workshops, group supervision, coaching, reading, videos, smartphone media and an ad hoc real-time community. The pathway is a commitment to learning and development over at least six months with resources that last a lifetime. It starts with an in-person workshop now that could be face-to-face or online and that workshop will cover every aspect of my retrained model to help people develop the skills and characteristics necessary to become effective scrum masters. You'll learn how to become more respected, more enabling of others, more tactful, more resourceful, more alternative, more inspiring, more nurturing, empathetic and disruptive and then after that workshop you'll get back together with your guide and your classmates, your cohort every month to go through the real challenges that you're facing when applying that theory to practice. You'll also have lifetime access to the video versions of the modules of the workshop that you've been through so you can access them at any time. You'll have a free copy of my book, you'll have a huge bundle of digital coaching cards in my Agile Coaching Cards smartphone app and a dedicated community forum where you can discuss challenges, share experiences in real-time and then six months after your first in-person workshop you'll all get together again for your second in-person workshop where you'll go deeper into the theory and insight into each of the characteristics of great scrum masters. Now over the last 20 years this for me has proven to be a much more effective way for people to learn, apply and retain information when learning new skills. So as well as getting a licensed certification from the Agile Mastery Institute after each level of learning you will more importantly have deep skills and confidence to be a great scrum master. This is a paradigm shifting moment for scrum training around the world. It's going to really separate out the badge hunters from those who are really serious about their craft. I'm excited about what it could become and the impact that it can have not just for those people in what I still believe is a challenging but crucial role but also the teams and the organizations that they're serving. So if you want to really become a great scrum master then come and join me or one of my licensed trainers around the world on the scrum mastery pathway.