• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

If you’re already a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and have built your base on Scrum values, practices, and applications, then getting an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification is the next step of your Agile journey. This certification equips you with the knowledge to implement the Scrum framework for Agile and Lean project management which further includes Agile coaching, Agile facilitation, service delivery, as well as setting up and managing the Scrum lifecycle. It also lays emphasis on how to make Scrum teams more productive in the workplace and bring about changes in the organization for adoption of Scrum and Agile principles.

Audience profile
  • Scrum Masters
  • Team Leads
  • Development Managers
  • Delivery Managers
  • Project Managers
  • Agile Coaches
At course completion

You will be able to:

  • Facilitation techniques
  • Responding to change
  • Scrum adoption
  • Removing impediments
  • Scrum values and principles
  • Improve engagement
  • Enterprise-level impact
  • Scaling initiatives
  • Agile identity

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Course details

Module 1: Coaching Concepts

  • Coaching Stances
  • Key coaching skills and their application at personal and Scrum Team level
  • Agile coaching

Module 2: Agile Facilitation

  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
  • Decision making

Module 3: A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum

  • Value, principles and practices to leverage as a Scrum Master

Module 4: Services to Development Team

  • Self-Organization and team Dynamics
  • Key attributes of effective teams
  • Coaching for high performing teams
  • DoD
  • Agile engineering practices

Module 5: Services to Product Owner

  • The services around Product Vision and Strategy
  • Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
  • Product Backlog Refinement tactics
  • The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team

Module 6: Services to Organization

  • Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
  • Agile scaling approaches and principles
  • Introducing new ideas
  • Tactics and tools for organization change

Module 7: Personal Development

  • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
  • Pivotal conversation
  • Scrum Master as Servant Leader

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Prerequisites

To earn an Advanced CSM, you must have an active CSM certification with Scrum Alliance, in addition to demonstrating at least one-year work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master.

Our Technology Partners

Spectrum Networks is the Authorised Learning Partner for some of the leaders in IT technology for Digital Transformation