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Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster

Taught by: Apeksha Patel
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.
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02 - 04 December, 2025 |
 14:00 IST |
 5 hrs/day
₹34,216
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This is an Online session through ZOOM from 2 pm IST to 7 pm IST with enough breaks in between with an option to attend face to face in person session in Future for FREE.

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:

 

Apeksha Patel is the first woman CST in India and is the first Accredited Kanban Trainer. She is a practicing Coach and works as part of a Scrum team. She practices a wide variety of coaching frameworks like ORSC, NLP and Leadership Gift. She has been in the industry for over 17 years in both service and product companies as a DevOps expert. You will get a flavor of both the coaching and development world. 

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. Access to 4 crash courses every month to enable continuous learning to help you lead trasnformation. The following recordings are available now:

  • REDUCEing barriers for change
  • Overcoming Immunity to Change
  • Agile Estimation using Story Points
  • Inquiry using NLP Meta models
  • Managing Conflcits
  • JIRA for Scrum Teams
  • JIRA Project Administration

Visit https://leanpitch.com/onlinecourses for upcoming schedule of crash courses.

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.
  • Digital material of eveything discussed during the workshop.

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 7:00 PM each day. (Time Zone: IST)

  • 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. 

  • What if I have more questions?

Feel free to contact Neeraja @ +91-9945621122 or [email protected] 

Pre-course Preparation

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:

iOS: https://apple.co/30jTIAf  |

Android: http://bit.ly/2lpapp

What is the eligibility criteria for CSP-SM Certification?

  1. Participants should hold an active Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) certification with Scrum Alliance

  2. 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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