Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

3Back's A-CSM training

WHAT'S INCLUDED

A-CSM CERTIFICATION
By taking and completing the class, you will receive your Scrum Alliance A-CSM Certification.

SCRUM ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP
Two (2) year membership to the Scrum Alliance ($50 value).

PMP’S
16 Category B PDUs from PMI® upon completion of this course.

ACCREDITED TRAINING FROM THE EXPERTS
3Back trainers don’t just teach Scrum; they have a combined 46 years of working on and with Scrum teams. They are authors of the Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals, the Scrum Study Guide and the agile tool Get To Done®, as well as world-renowned conference speakers.

A FUN AND MEMORABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
3Back’s A-CSM course is not your usual online training. Our trainers use cutting edge adult learning practices, which not only make the class enjoyable, but are proven to increase retention and understanding.

ADDITIONAL

SCRUM RESOURCES

GET TO DONE® is both online software and cards on walls. We have worked hard to bring this unique tool to you so that you have full support for writing and managing complex backlogs. Stop regressing! Getting Scrum implemented right is hard, your software tool needs to support the right behaviors or groups often regress. As a 3Back public course participant, we encourage you to use the Get to Done® planning and implementation tool. This powerful tool will help to enable your team to excel with increased team visibility and accountability.

SCRUM DICTIONARY exists for one simple reason. Words matter. In the world of Agile frameworks, words matter even more. Scrum Dictionary removes the lexicon noise and delivers a clear, concise definition of Agile terms, complete with examples and related terminology, in a format that’s as user-friendly as they come.

SCRUM HANDBOOKS The Scrum Handbooks are a description of Scrum (both single-team and multi-team) that both unifies and extends older descriptions of Scrum, and is easier to relate to real world scenarios. It is the cleanest, most flexible and most agile version of Scrum there is…

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3Back's A-CSM training

AGENDA

This course is built upon shared experience and exercises that provide concrete practice to build deeper understanding of and skill with the topics covered.

CHAPTER 1: SCRUM REFRESHER

• Elevator Pitch
• Roles
• Events
• Artifacts
• Summary
• Exercises

CHAPTER 2: HISTORY, VALUES, AND PRINCIPLES

• The Three Scrum Pillars
• Scrum Values
• Lean Values and Principles
• History of Software Agility pre-Manifesto
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Twelve Principles of Agile Software Development
• Description of eXtreme Programming (XP)
• Description of the Kanban Method
• Exercises

CHAPTER 3: GREAT SCRUM TEAMS

• Defining ‘Great’
• Self-Contained and Getting to “Done”
• Self-Organized and WorkFlow
• Value Driven
• How a Team Becomes Great
• Summary
• Exercises

CHAPTER 4: BASIC FACILITATION TECHNIQUES

• Facilitation Basics
• Facilitating Open Discussions
• More Formal Techniques
• Exercises

CHAPTER 5: COACHING TECHNIQUES

• Coaching Stances
• Coaching Techniques
• Exercises

CHAPTER 6: FACILITATING FORMAL MEETINGS

• Complicated Decision-Making
• Facilitating Formal Meetings
• Summary
• Exercises

CHAPTER 7: VISION AND PRODUCT BACKLOG

• The ‘Formal Vision Statement’ Method
• User Story Mapping
• Exercises

CHAPTER 8: REFINING THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

• Example Mapping
• Strategies for Splitting Stories
• Exercises

CHAPTER 9: DEFINITION OF “DONE”

• Technical Debt, “Undone” work, and “Not Done” work
• Creating a definition of “Done” for Software
• A Definition of “Done” for a non-Software Product
• Storyotyping
• Having good “Doneness” Criteria
• Exercises

CHAPTER 10: TEAM IMPEDIMENTS

• What are Team Impediments?
• Impediments to Production
• Impediments to becoming a “Great Team”
• Typical Impediments
• Exercises

CHAPTER 11: ORGANIZATIONAL IMPEDIMENTS

• What are Organizational Impediments?
• Helping Scrum Teams Remove their Impediments
• Organizational Culture Change
• Final Words
• Exercises

CHAPTER 12: SCALING

• An Example of Growing an Organization
• Scaling Scrum
• Scaling is a Form of Organizational Change
• Scaling Methods/Frameworks
• Exercises

CHAPTER 13: INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION

• Exercises

Most importantly, by receiving the A-CSM certification, you will improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace and keep your team on the right track.

PREREQUISITES FOR THE COURSE

12 months of professional experience as a Scrum Master during the last five years and a Scrum Alliance issued Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) certification is required for this course.

3Back's A-CSM Training

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is for those with agile experience, and specifically for those that have their Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM), from the Scrum Alliance.

If you don't have any agile experience or training, you should look for a Certified ScrumMaster training course here.

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