Reach the top level of scrum master certification provided by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers who have the experience and insights to help you reach your goals, whether you want to scale scrum across an organization, launch new scrum teams, or take your career to new heights. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.
Do you want to Advance your skills as a ScrumMaster? You have reached the right place to learn to be a great one!
What is CSP-SM?
Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (CSP-SM) is one of the top most certificates in the IT industry. It’s a certificate program awarded to Scrum Masters with atleast two years of experience as a Scrum Master.
Who is a ScrumMaster?
A ScrumMaster is a development facilitator who is responsible for enabling Scrum teams to maximize their effectiveness by addressing systemic issues and dysfunctions in the team. The ScrumMaster has four primary focus areas: System Design, Development Practices, coaching Product Owner and coaching Development Team. This workshop is a role-specific workshop to learn about the role of ScrumMaster.
Who is a Certified Scrum Professional?
A Scrum Professional is a seasoned Scrum Master with at least two years in the trenches working as a Scrum Master. They are the ones who would have helped teams succeed as a team-building customer loving products using Scrum. They may have expanded their skills beyond basic Scrum to Systems Thinking, Lean, Coaching, Advanced facilitation etc.
What's the career path for Scrum Masters?
Every organization crafts its own path for Scrum Masters. However, the general path is as below:
How are the workshops run?
The workshop us run using Scrum with a digital board as shown below(from a recent CSPO workshop). We use Zoom as video conferencing tools and teams will usebr eakout rooms for team excercises. The workshop would consist of real life cases and experience sharing from the instructor.
About the trainer:
Satisha K Venkataramaiah is a practicing Product Owner and CEO of LeanGears and Leanpitch. He works as a Product Owner 5 days a week and his team uses Scrum to build products. He has been in the industry for 20+ years and has experience working in the Service organization, Product Organization and as a well as captive house. He has built two companies from scratch (leanpitch and leanGears) so he understands the dynamics of all type of organizations. He is also a practicing co-active coach and understands what it means to coach people.
Course Material:
1. You will get digital copy of the workbook and all the content created during two days.
2. Access your course material anytime on the go throuh Leapitch App.
Access your course content, addtional eLearning courses, Quizzes, videos and webinar recordings on the Leanpitch mobile app. Download the app here.
3. Get FREE membership to Agility Thinking and Product Thinking Community
Agility Thinking community conducts weekly webinars and monthly meetups on various topics like oragnizational design, transformation, coaching, agile, scrum, kanban and more. Join community here.
Product Thinking Community conducts weekly webinars and monthly meetups on topics of Product Management, Product Design, User Research, UX design and more. Join the community here
4. Live and breath Agile Values with PlayScrum Flash Cards
You get a free pack of PlayScrum Flash Cards. The PlayScrum cards include:
- A Set of Planning Poker Cards for estimation
- Quick Reference cards for Scrum Roles
- Quick checklist of things to do in Scrum Events
- Agile Values and Principles Card
What do you get out of the course?
After you complete the course, you’ll know
Why do Organizations need ScrumMasters?
What are the skills a ScrumMaster should have?
How to help Organizations design a process that helps them build right products?
How to facilitate Organizational change?
How to help Product Owner to convert vision into incremental pieces of delivery?
How to help Development teams address the issues that affect their effectiveness?
On successful completion of the course, you’ll receive
Certified Scrum Processional - ScrumMaster Certification the fee is covered in the course fee.
Scrum Alliance membership for 2 years.
Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master PlayBook
A deck of PlayScrum cards
16 SEUs for Certified Scrum Professional
16 PDUs towards any PMI credential
Frequently Asked Questions
When do we start and end each day?
The classroom will be on Zoom. The zoom link opens at 1:40 PM each day and the class will begin promptly at 2:00 PM. We will end at 7 PM each day.
Do I need to make notes?
All the content discussed during the course will be made available after the workshop.
How much internet data is required to take online course?
For the whole course, you might need about 6-8 GB data.
How are activities done onlie?
The activities are done online using a digital workspace.
Do you offer a guarantee?
We offer 100% happiness guarantee not the certification guarantee, which depends on you. If you are not happy with the workshop or if you are not able to clear the CSM test, we offer 100% refund unconditionally.
What is your refund policy?
You get 80% refund if you cancel 4 days prior to the workshop.
You get 70% refund if you cancel 48 hours prior to the workshop.
You will not get any refund if you neither inform or turn up for the workshop.
If the GST amount is already deducted then it won't be refunded as well.
We want you to make most of the time you spend with our trainers and other participants. Learning maximizes with the perspective of others. So we expect you to go through online articles and videos to prepare for the workshop. The online material includes:
Go through the pre-workshop material for CSP-SM workshop on Leanpitch Dashboard.
Take an assessment validate your learning from CSM and A-CSM
Submit writeup on your experience as a Scrum Master
Work on pre-workshop case studies
Learning during the course:
The workshop is designed to help participants gain experience as Scrum Master. The topics covered in the workshop are based on the focus areas of the ScrumMaster. You will be learning the role of Scrum Master through role-plays and by doing. The whole course is split into 4 Sprints with each Sprint focusing on the following topics:
Sprint 1: System and Complexity Theory
Complex Systems
Product Contexts and thinking tools for different contexts
Systems Thinking and tools for applying System
Systemic Structures
Designing System for Agility
Sprint 2: Lean Thinking for Lean Enterprise
Lean Thinking and tools for applying lean thinking.
Designing systems for flow
Application of Value Stream Mapping in Business
Building Lean Enterprise
Sprint 3: Building Functional Teams
What are the functions of an effective team?
Uncovering dysfunctions of a team.
Tools for addressing dysfunctions.
Promoting the culture of Non-Violent Communication.
Group facilitation techniques.
Sprint 4: Coaching the Product Owner
What is Product Management?
Challenges facing Product Owners doing Product Management and how a Scrum Master can support them?
Techniques for generating effective user stories.
Splitting techniques to help the PO plan incremental releases.
Prioritization Techniques to help PO maximize the value.
Post-workshop Learning
There are multiple ways to learn.
Attend Weekly AgilityTuesdays Webinar: https://agilitythinking.io/ You can be a speaker too and share your exeprience.
Listen to past webinars, podcasts and interviews of Scrum Masters on Leanpitch Mobile App:
What is the eligibility criteria for CSP-SM Certification?
Participants should hold an active Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) certification with Scrum Alliance
Participants should have at least 24 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years)
What is the validity of CSP-SM Certificate?
CSP-SM certification is valid for 2 years from the date of attaining the certificate. Scrum Alliance will send you a reminder once the validity of your certificate is about to expire. You need to renew your certification by paying fees and 30 SEUs. SEUs are Scrum Education Units and 1 hour of learning is equal to 1 SEU.
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