Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

• Qualification for Advanced ScrumMaster Certification (demonstration of at least one year of work experience specific to the role of ScrumMaster within the past five years is also a requirement for certification)
   
• Payment of your first two year dues for the Scrum Alliance
   
• 16 SEUs from the Scrum Alliance. Additional SEUs can be earned for review of pre-course and post-course materials
   
• 14 PDUs from PMI (Project Management Institute)
  This class also satisfies 14 of the 21 training hours for the
  PMI/ACP certification (for the full 21 hours, consider the
  CollabNet VersionOne PMI/ACP Prep course)
   
• Membership in the CollabNet VersionOne Agile Community

Learn the Agile and Lean Values, Principles, Worldview and Empirical Process Control. Values and principles of the Agile Manifesto in Scrum. Discuss at least two other Lean/Agile development frameworks (e.g., LSD, XP, Kanban). How ScrumMaster can rectify violation of Agile principles. Five personality traits of an excellent ScrumMaster. Describe the function of the inspect-and-adapt process in the Daily Scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Evaluate three situations when transparency, inspection, and adaption are not working.

How to facilitate the Scrum Team. Three indicators when a group is engaged in divergent thinking and when a group is engaged in convergent thinking. Three challenges of integrating multiple frames of reference. the “Groan Zone”). Three ways to reach a final decision. Five facilitative listening techniques for effective meetings/events. When the Scrum Master should not act as facilitator for the Scrum Team. Contents and an agenda for at least two collaborative.

Coaching Fundamentals. Coaching stance in an interaction with one or more people. Three coaching techniques with Product Owners and/or stakeholders.

Self Organization, Team Dynamics, Definition of Done and Value of Engineering Practices. Two coaching techniques to foster greater self-organization within teams. A countermeasure to reduce the impact of challenges facing a self-organizing team. How a self-organizing team approaches challenges that may occur during a retrospective. The difference between a working group and a team. Three key attributes of effective Agile Teams. Two methods for improving team performance. Two pitfalls of a homogenous team. A multi-staged model for team formation and development. A strong definition of Done. Five technical practices that help Scrum Teams deliver a high-quality product increment and reduce technical debt each sprint. Three ways technical practices may impact the Development Team’s ability to deliver a potentially releasable Increment each sprint. Three engineering practices that are essential when using Scrum at scale.

Coaching the Product Owner. Facilitating the creation (or refinement) of the product vision between the Product Owner and the Development Team. Two techniques for moving from product vision to product backlog. Three benefits that arise if a Product Owner participates in the retrospective. Organize and facilitate a product backlog refinement session with stakeholders and/or team members and explain two techniques that could be used to create product backlog items that are ready to be taken into the next sprints. Explain Scrum to a business stakeholder.

Resolving Impediments, Scaling Scrum and Organizational Change. Three typical impediments for a Scrum Team and how to address them. Three techniques to evaluate impediments in depth. Identify a root cause(s) and/or underlying issue(s). Two reasons, why scaling might not be such a great idea. Three techniques for visualizing, managing, or reducing dependencies between teams. Impact of feature teams versus component teams on the delivery of value. Three different scaling frameworks or approaches. Two techniques to effect change in an organization in order to help Scrum Teams be more productive.

Personal Development and Servant Leadership. How could improve upon at least two of the five Scrum Values. Analyze your own fundamental driving factors. Three characteristics of a destructive conflict. Three different ways to respond to conflict. Two goals of a servant leadership. Three attributes of an effective servant leader.

Pass the certification examination. What is the Scrum Alliance Certification? What content is covered on the exam? What are the questions like? How should you prepare? What are the mechanics of the test? Are there good ways to increase your chances of passing? Can you take the test more than once? If you have any questions regarding certification, please contact us at [email protected].