Advanced Certified Scrum Master® (A-CSM)

Feeling challenged as you face obstacles adopting scrum Take your Scrum Master expertise to the next level, coach teams, assist your product

Do you relate to these while working with your team and organization?

• Customer demands are growing. How do I coach my product owner to keep up?
• How do I convince my executives and stakeholders to support adopting scrum?
• Teams take multiple sprints to deliver a working feature. How do I coach them to become effective?
• Decisions on product features are not made quickly enough. How can I help my stakeholders?
• Many team members complain that scrum is not working for them. What alternatives can I present?
• Teams are growing. How do I scale the work across different locations?
• Attendees of scrum events are distracted or snoozing. How do I breathe energy and enthusiasm into these events?
• Teams are struggling with good engineering practices. I am not technical. How do I assist?
• Some features delight customers and some don’t. What are we missing?
• How do I influence a matrix organization and lead without authority?]

Become Part of The ScrumMaster Journey

Become part of a cohort-based training where you will journey through a scrum master who is looking where to start being effective at what they do to someone who is selling scrum to stakeholders, building effective teams by working with stakeholders to resolve impediments, and coaching the product owner to create effective products. This training combines live training with self-paced team challenges where your co-participants become your accountability partner.

The 4 week four hour live online training is a cohort-based class that offers learners fast, condensed lessons combined with on-the-job application of key Scrum concepts and real solutions for difficult scenarios for immediate business impact

What do you get?

During the 4 weeks for four hours a week session you will

• Practice over 50+ tools and techniques and get live feedback from the trainer and your cohort
• A clear roadmap to help you chart your course of scrum adoption in your organization
• Resolve team and organizational challenges and receive feedback from the instructor weekly
• 16 Scrum Education Units from Scrum Alliance
• Attain Scrum Mastery to teach, mentor coach, and facilitate teams, product owners, and your organization
• Discuss Real-life case studies of successful Scrum implementations.
• Practice servant leadership and how to build a safe-to-fail culture
• Discuss Real-life case studies of successful Scrum implementations.
• Become a member of an online community with hundreds of agile professionals including ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Trainers, Coaches and Leaders

What were some important takeaways from our last class?

• Self-Organization, Working Agreements, Definition of Done
• Listening and coaching techniques
• liberating structures
• Powerful questions
• Self-Management, Retrospective formats, Coaching stances, Conflict Management
• Coaching triads, active listening, coaching, and facilitation techniques
• Active Listening, Asking powerful questions
• Coaching Stance, Active listening, Satir curve lookout
• Coaching stance, facilitating techniques, Retromat formats
• Open powerful questions, designing good retro using techniques from retromat, facilitation techniques, divergent vs convergent, conflict resolution
• Defining Done, Conflict Resolution, Decision-making process matters

What are the requirements for the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster certification?

To receive the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification, you need to have a current Certified ScrumMaster certification with the Scrum Alliance and have 1 year of work experience as a ScrumMaster in the last 5 years, and satisfactorily complete an accredited A-CSM program like ours.