2026 Registered Scrum Master for Nonprofit Credential
The Registered Scrum Master for Nonprofits course is a powerful tool to help your organization break down silos, strengthen communication, and empower your teams to create twice the impact in half the time. This course, designed in collaboration with Scrum Inc.™, is an empowering and exciting way for nonprofits to see the benefits of Agile methodologies.
The training is led by Diane H. Leonard, a Registered Scrum Trainer with decades of experience in the nonprofit field, who will help you implement the Scrum framework in your organization.
This course is for nonprofit professionals who want to lead their team, even if it is a “team of one.” You will learn how to improve your team’s effectiveness by coaching them in self-management and cross-functionality, supporting the removal of impediments, and ensuring all Scrum events are productive and positive. The training also shows how to help the Product Owner with effective backlog management and how to lead, train, and coach your organization in its Scrum adoption.
The course is open to anyone, from CEOs to office managers, with a sliding scale pricing model based on your organization’s operating budget.
2026 Scrum Master Courses:
$746 Early Bird
$995 Just in Time Pricing
This training is for all levels of Scrum experience. There are no prerequisites.
We are breaking down silos, opening up and strengthening communication, and empowering teams to help your nonprofit create twice the impact in half the time.
Who should attend the Registered Scrum Master course?
- Nonprofit professionals who want to lead by serving their team, even if they are a “team of one” based on their org chart.
- Everyone from nonprofit CEOs to Directors of Development to Grant Professionals to Office Managers!
This course is credentialed by the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum Inc.™
The Scrum Master serves the Scrum team in several ways, including:
● Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality;
● Helping the Scrum team focus on creating high-value work toward their mission and vision;
● Supporting the removal of impediments to the Scrum team’s progress; and,
● Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including:
● Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management;
● Helping the Scrum team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
● Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment; and,
● Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.
The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:
● Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
● Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization;
● Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work; and,
● Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum teams.
2026 Scrum Master Courses:
$746 Early Bird
$995 Just in Time Pricing
This training is for all levels of Scrum experience. There are no prerequisites.
About the Registered Scrum Master (RSM) for Nonprofits Course
In this course, we’ll share the co-creator of Scrum, Dr. Jeff Sutherland’s insights and strategies from decades of success training people to become high-performing Scrum Masters and Scrum teams in businesses around the globe. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on exercises, and review of real-world case studies of nonprofit organizations, you will experience first hand the impact of the Scrum framework and the importance of the Scrum Master role.
With the help of your Scrum Trainer, who has years of experience not only in Scrum, but also decades of experience in the nonprofit field, you will walk away with the ability to know how to implement the Scrum framework in your nonprofit organization. You will also understand how implementing the Scrum framework will accelerate the speed and value of any project or service in your nonprofit and enable you to create twice the impact in half the time.
Who you are as a nonprofit organization, who you serve, what you offer stays the same. The way in which you approach planning your work, engaging with your stakeholders, and developing and iterating your programs and services is what will change as a result of adopting the Scrum framework in your organization.
Utilizing the Scrum framework in your nonprofit organization will significantly improve your way of doing work whether your team is focused on fundraising events and grant writing, program design and implementation, or organizational management and strategic planning.
By joining us for the Registered Scrum Master course you receive one free year of e-mentoring.
This course is approved for 12 CE credits
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain that Scrum is a lightweight framework that can be applied consistently across any industry and domain.
- Recognize that having different interpretations of Scrum across teams will present significant challenges when scaling a Scrum implementation.
- Explain the value of agility over traditional project management in today’s rapidly changing marketplace.
- List the 5 Scrum Values and explain how they relate to one another.
- Relate hands-on experience with iterative development to their own working context.
- Express the value of sharing learnings and insights across teams.
- Run the 5 Scrum events successfully.
- Implement the Scrum patterns that will work best with your nonprofit.
- Access and complete the Registered Scrum Master exam.
- Download their Registered Scrum Master Credential (upon successful completion of the exam).
- State the Credential renewal process.
The Registered Scrum Master Credential powered by Scrum Inc. is a distinguished designation highlighting individuals who can systematically implement Scrum in a way that drives immediate business results while simultaneously accelerating personal and team performance.
2026 Scrum Master Courses:
$746 Early Bird
$995 Just in Time Pricing
This training is for all levels of Scrum experience. There are no prerequisites.