Overview
Our live-online Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) course allows you to take the next step in your Agile journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of Scrum further. You will enhance your implementation skills, distinguish yourself in the global marketplace, stand out in your industry, and unveil advanced value to your employer.
In our Advanced Certified Scrum Master course, you will learn to:
- Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives.
- Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people.
- Increase engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in.
- Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.
You can book a place at one of our scheduled events, or we can teach a private in-house course for your organisation.
What Does The Course Cover?
The course covers:
- Lean, Agile and Scrum
- Scrum and its Relationship to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- Traits of an Excellent Scrum Master
- Other Lean/Agile Development Approaches
- Optimising Your Scrum
- Facilitation
- Listening Techniques
- Facilitating Collaborative Events
- Creating Working Agreements for Effective Communication
- Coaching
- The GROW Model
- Active Listening
- Powerful Questions
- Practice Coaching Interventions
- Explaining Scrum and Its Benefits to a Business Stakeholder
- Service to the Scrum team
- Fostering Self-Management
- Understanding How Teams Develop
- Creating a Strong Definition of Done
- Agile Development Techniques and Technical Debt
- Service to the Product Owner
- Creating a Product Vision and Goal
- Techniques for Creating the Initial Product Backlog
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Service to the Organisation
- Working with Organisational Impediments
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Scaling Scrum
- Organisational Change
- Scrum Mastery
- Your Personal Development as a Scrum Master
- Facilitating Conflict Resolution
- The Scrum Master as a Leader
To receive your A-CSM certification, you must take the course, complete a range of follow-up activities, and show you have at least one year of experience as a Scrum Master or similar role.
Pre- and Post- Course Work
We cover a lot of material in the A-CSM workshop; however, there are a few learning objectives for A-CSM that cannot be directly covered in the workshop itself. The pre- and post- course work is as follows:
- Before the course, a list of articles to read and videos to view will be provided.
- After the course, you will be asked to prepare three experience reports and send them to the instructor for feedback.
- There is also a small amount of homework during the course between the second and third days.
Why Choose ScrumCenter?
Taught over three days, our live-online A-CSM course is interactive, engaging and fun. It is completely instructor-led, and it’s designed using training from the back-of-the-room techniques. As a result, it leverages the science behind how the human brain learns. The course is:
- Immersive
- Instructor-led
- Taught at a sustainable pace.
The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has a wealth of experience supporting large, medium and small companies to adopt agile into their organisation through consulting, coaching and training.
Simon is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Path to CSP Educator, an Agile Coaching Skills Educator, an ORSC® Trained Coach, a Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and a Changewise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He has trained thousands of students over many years.
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What Will You Get?
If you attend the Advanced Certified Scrum Master training course and complete the pre- and post-course activities, you will benefit from the following:
- An immersive online learning experience facilitated by our Certified Scrum Trainer and Path to CSP Educator, Simon Roberts.
- Registration for the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Certification.
- Comprehensive follow-up materials (patterns, ebooks, canvasses, articles).
- A free follow-up coaching/mentoring call with the trainer.
- Access to the ScrumCenter Network, where you get free online access to ScrumCenter coaches.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) members can claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) after attending the course.
After the course, you can book
a free agile coaching/mentoring call with the trainer!
About Your Trainer:
Simon Roberts
Agile and Lean Coach (ORSC™ Trained), Certified Scrum Trainer®, Path to CSP Educator, Certified Scrum Developer Educator, Agile Coaching Skills Educator.
Simon has used lightweight/agile methods since the late 1990s and works with organisations large and small to help them achieve better results by leveraging the power of self-organising teams. He has consulted for and led several large-scale agile transitions at DAX companies in Germany, is the author of several articles and regularly speaks at conferences on agile leadership. Simon’s company, ScrumCenter Limited, is based in the West Coast of Scotland.
Simon holds an MBA specialising in Creativity, Innovation and Change from the Open University Business School.
Are You Looking for Private Company Training?
If your company is looking for private training ScrumCenter can provide this online or in-person at discounted group rates. Contact us directly at [email protected] or call us on +44 20 36089951.