Current non-technical BA, entering a scrum master role. Have < a month to get PSM certified & will take tech courses to go above and beyond. Can anyone recommend tech topics to learn, & to what depth?

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Best Scrum Masters I have worked with aren’t deep in the technology but have great people skills and know how to build a network to easily remove impurities. Understanding some concepts will help you understand what the team is doing. Scrum when does right empowers the team rather than manages them.

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Agree with EY1, scrum masters are not the experts but facilitators. You might try getting the audio book "scrum" by jj southerland

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Short answer - for your scrum master responsibilities, you don’t need tech knowledge. However tech familiarity helps to better understand your teams challenges and needs when experiencing risks or blockers. But tech is such a large area, so it really depends on the specific type of project work your team is doing (I.e. application implementation, custom software development, product development).

It would probably be better that you have scrum knowledge solid first. Then as you begin working with team, identify areas where you don’t comprehend what’s going on. Even then, it’s easier to have a 1-on-1 with a tech lead to learn about it.

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Lots of Scrum materials online. Cert. Is easy enough, understanding the Scrum Guide is enough. If you have someone to discuss it with that helps a lot to understand. Plus I liked reading and discussing in Scrum forums

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More than enough time to study everything at a high-level, would appreciate help identifying what topics "everything" consists of. E.g. API calls, databases, OOP, and so on.

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