PSF Skills is a Scrum.org certification that validates your knowledge of facilitation techniques and how they're applied inside Scrum. Earning it demonstrates that you understand how to harness facilitation principles, skills and techniques so a team can move forward toward its desired outcomes — leveraging diverse perspectives and different team dynamics to improve collaboration and participatory decision-making, whether that's inside a Scrum event or any other team interaction.

 PSF Skills is designed for all Scrum Team members — Scrum Masters, Developers and Product Owners alike — plus Scrum Coaches, Agile Coaches and Agile Consultants who want to strengthen how they run team interactions. It's particularly valuable for anyone who already has Scrum knowledge and experience and wants to go deeper on one specific, high-leverage skill: helping a group actually reach a good outcome together, not just run through the motions of a meeting.

No — this is one of the most common misconceptions about PSF Skills. Facilitation isn't exclusive to the Scrum Master accountability; Product Owners run Product Backlog refinement and stakeholder conversations, and Developers regularly need to facilitate technical discussions or working sessions. Scrum.org explicitly designed PSF Skills for all Scrum Team members, which is why it's grouped as a skills-based certification rather than a role-based one like PSM or PSPO.

There's no mandatory prerequisite certification, and course attendance isn't required either. That said, Scrum.org strongly recommends having attended Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training or holding an equivalent foundation, since earning PSF Skills requires a fundamental understanding of Scrum — the certification tests how facilitation principles apply within Scrum specifically, not general facilitation skills in isolation.

PSM I and PSPO I validate your understanding of a specific Scrum accountability — the Scrum Master's or the Product Owner's. PSF Skills validates a cross-cutting skill that every Scrum Team member benefits from, regardless of accountability. It sits alongside other Scrum.org “Skills” certifications — like Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills — that go deep on one practical capability rather than covering an entire accountability.

No. Like all Scrum.org certifications, PSF Skills is yours for life once you pass the assessment — there's no renewal fee, no continuing-education requirement, and no expiry date.

It means treating facilitation not as a single technique you pull out occasionally, but as a way of showing up in any team interaction — staying neutral on content while actively guiding the process, creating space for quieter voices, and steering a group toward a shared outcome rather than just managing the clock. PSF Skills training frames facilitation this way deliberately, since the exam tests whether you understand facilitation as an ongoing stance embedded in Scrum Values, not a checklist of icebreaker activities. 

Tezzonix Academy delivers the PSF Skills programme online, so you can join from anywhere. Tezzonix Academy trains professionals internationally, with hubs in Kerala, India and Bergamo, Italy.

Sessions are led by Scrum.org-accredited trainers with genuine, hands-on facilitation experience across real Scrum Teams, stakeholders and customer interactions — not just Scrum Guide familiarity. That matters because facilitation is fundamentally a practised skill: knowing how to read the room, when to intervene, and when to let a difficult silence sit is best taught by people who've actually had to do it under pressure.

PSF Skills strengthens the profile of Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Team Leads whose day-to-day work is largely about running effective group interactions. It's also a genuine differentiator for Product Owners and Developers who regularly lead workshops, backlog refinement sessions, or cross-functional discussions, since strong facilitation is one of the more transferable, visible skills a Scrum Team member can demonstrate.

Yes. PSF Skills is issued and verified directly by Scrum.org, one of the most widely recognised Agile and Scrum certification bodies globally, and includes a free digital credential you can display on LinkedIn and professional profiles. A PSF Skills credential earned through Tezzonix Academy in India carries exactly the same international standing as one earned anywhere else in the world.

Yes. Once you pass the official PSF Skills assessment through Scrum.org, you'll hold the industry-recognised PSF Skills certification and digital credential issued directly by Scrum.org. Alongside that, Tezzonix Academy issues a certificate of training completion, useful for showing your structured preparation to an employer or for internal records.

The Scrum.org PSF Skills assessment carries its own fee, set and collected directly by Scrum.org (currently $200 USD per attempt), which is separate from what you pay Tezzonix Academy for training. Whether a given course package bundles the assessment fee can vary, so it's worth confirming exactly what's included — and current batch pricing — when you enrol.