Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

What to Expect

We take training and learning seriously, whether in-person or virtual, and respect the investment of both time and money you are making to advance your skills. We have significant experience creating engaging and valuable training experiences and believe in building instructor-led sessions that don’t rely on pre-recorded video or extensive slides.

Whether you choose in-person or virtual instruction, you can expect:

• Brain-friendly, experiential training to dramatically increase learning and retention. Our aim is a class that’s extremely engaging, interesting, and applicable, taught by instructors practiced in neuroscience-based training methods.
• Color, in-depth printed workbooks provided for all students. For virtual courses, we ship worksbooks direct to your home (or other location).
• Learning canvasses, interactive discussions, and answers to reality-based questions beyond the theory.
• Opportunities for challenging work throughout the course that focus on your real-world situations.
• In-depth engagement with your instructor and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture (or to watch your instructor click through endless slides), this class is NOT for you!

We're happy to walk you through a live training session to illustrate how we teach and answer any questions.  We offer this course publicly and privately for your organization. Currently, public classes are running virtually to accommodate people from multiple locations. If you are interested in a private class for your organization, please contact us to discuss options.

Details

Length, Level & Credit

• Length: 2-Days + prework
• Level: Intermediate
• Course Credit:
  • 16 PMI PDUs
  • 16 Scrum Alliance^® SEUs
  • Qualified to apply for the Scrum Alliance – Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)

Prerequisites

• Anyone interested in learning these practices and ideas with a mindset open to new concepts (skeptical is still okay as long as you are open)
• For the A-CSM Certification, see the Certification Requirements below.

A-CSM Certification Requirements

The course meets the learning objectives for the Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Certification Training. This class is one of the requirements to receive the A-CSM certification. To qualify, you must:

1. Have an active Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
2. Complete the class prework.
3. Attend and participate in the entire A-CSM class.
4. Document at least 12 months of experience as a ScrumMaster on your Scrum Alliance Profile.

Note: If you do not meet this requirement, you can take the class and document the experience as you get it. You will not receive the certification until the documentation is complete.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how facilitation helps leaders achieve high-performance teams
• Explain the value of facilitation and all aspects involved in great facilitation (and learn why it is not the same as ‘leading the meeting’)
• Examine common facilitation challenges to improve your results
• Analyze challenges and break assumptions to identify the real issues slowing you and your team’s down
• Identify key aspects of what it means to be a team leader and how you can leverage those skills
• Discover what drives your team towards shared ownership
• Define what it means to be a high-performance team and factors to focus on to help teams improve
• Practice designing, facilitating, and evaluating several events using multiple facilitation tools and techniques
• Explore key scrum challenges and gain techniques to deal with topics such as conflict, listening, collaboration, and decision making
• Recognize various scaling approaches and discuss when to scale
• Observe and evaluate the differences between coaching and other approaches
• Evaluate how engineering principles and practices can help teams collaborate and deliver value
• Learn new ways to improve how you listen, how you can stop blocking your listening, and techniques to have hard conversations

Who Should Attend

Typical attendees include ScrumMasters, manages, agile coaches, project managers, product owners/managers, facilitators, and agile team members.

We welcome anyone who wants to level up their facilitation skills or incorporate new leadership approaches, including:

• Leaders and others in the organization who are looking for ways to tap into more of their people’s knowledge
• Anyone who wants to explore new approaches and concepts to help improve as a leader
• Those interested in learning how to use facilitation techniques to increase team engagement
• Individuals who understand the basics of scrum and want to look at root cause issues behind surface level challenges
• People with an interest in improving themselves so they are not – inadvertently – the impediment to progress