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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
Taught by: Vijay Bandaru
Discover advanced scrum master techniques and problem-solving while renewing your membership with Scrum Alliance. Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® is delivered by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers whose coverage and exploration of advanced facilitation, coaching, and teaching are unmatched.
The Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM®) is the next step in your Agile journey to achieve a broader level of understanding of Scrum Master Accountabilities. A-CSM is very popular and highly valuable certification for those who wants to build their career to be long-lasting career in Agile world. This is a 2 days classroom/Live virtual training program filled with activities, group discussions, case studies, interactions and fun filled learning. A-CSM will help you to plan your Scrum Alliance Guide Level certifications: CTC, CEC and CST.
What are the benefits of doing A-CSM?
You will be part of a smaller group (<1300 in India) compared to large group of CSM certified group
It improves your job opportunities due to the advanced skills you acquire through A-CSM
It helps you to build your career towards becoming an Agile Coach
Helps you to grow faster in the career ladder
It helps to work in a Large Scale Scrum environment confidently
Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace
Show advanced value to your organization as a highly skilled Agile professional
Your CSM certification will be automatically renewed for next 2 years
Understand the Role of a Scrum Master in Organization, through This Article
About Us and our Trainer:
We are Learnovative (www.learnovative.com). Our Vision is “Make Learning SPECIAL”: Simple, Practical, Effective, Collaborative, Innovative, Adaptive, Long-lasting
Our Trainer is Vijay Bandaru, having over 23 years of software industry experience in both Service based and also Product based. He delivered Projects and Products related to different domains include: Healthcare, Hospitality, Travel, Mining, Entertainment, Gaming and infrastructure. He played different roles in Engineering and Leadership in his career.
He has 11+ years of Training and Coaching experience. He uses his industry experience in his training to give real-time scenarios, case studies and examples, which help you to understand the concepts easily. Vijay also has extensive Agile Transformation experience in collocated as well as distributed organizational environments. He is the World’s FIRST Certified Team Coach (CTC) from Scrum Alliance. He is also a certified Agile Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Executive & Team coach, and International Coach Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach and Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC). He has strong team level, executive and leadership coaching experience in his coaching and consulting career. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) from Scrum Alliance, and he is authorized to teach Scrum Alliance certification courses.
Vijay is a certified TBR (Training from the Back of the Room) Trainer. He conducts his training using the TBR techniques: interaction activities, pair learning, concept maps and group discussions. This will help the participants to learn by doing. He uses zero PowerPoint in his training, instead he uses flipcharts (in classroom training) and iPad to explain concepts through drawings in live virtual classes.
Vijay is one of the very few Trainers in India who hold all 3 Scrum Alliance Guide level Certifications: CST, CEC and CTC.
Training is not just Vijay’s PROFESSION, it is his PASSION
Key highlights:
Trained more than 9000 people across 6 countries.
NPS is above 87
Google Review feedback is 4.9/5.0
Zero PPT based Training (Learning by Doing)
You can check how Vijay’s workshops are conducted through this video:
Why should you attend our Training?
We truly SUPPORT my participants. It is not about 2 days of training, it is about a long term relationship building. The training is just the beginning.
Course Deliverables:
2 Years Scrum Alliance Membership
16 SEUs to get A-CSM certification
A-CSM certification fee
16 PDUs to use for your PMP renewal (only for those who are PMP certified)
Scrum Master interview questions
Training material (Workshop version and a complete filled version)
Additional reading material in Google Drive
Practical scenarios
PDF version of Agile books
Access to our You tube channel
Access to our Linked in User group (3500+ active practitioners)
Future career guidance
Linked in feedback received from the participants attended my CSM Training:
Google reviews received from the participants attended my CSM Training:
Video testimonial from one of the Participants attended my A-CSM Training:
Vijay is the founder of LEARNOVATIVE, a leading Agile and Scrum Training and Consulting organization. You can check the details of LEARNOVATIVE at:
Prerequisites:
To participate in the A-CSM® event, you must already hold the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) credential with the Scrum Alliance
To qualify for the A-CSM® designation, you must attend 2-days Trainer led Training, and also demonstrate 12 months of collective experience using agile methods
If you attend your second certification training with us, you will get 20% discount on our list price
If you refer your friends/colleagues to our training, you will get Amazon gift voucher as a referral discount (Only after the person’s registration and the workshop completion)
Refund Policy:
You get 100% refund OR you can shift your registration to other available dates if you inform 5 days prior to the workshop.
You get 60% refund if you cancel your registration within 48 hours prior to the workshop.
You will not get any refund if you do not attend the workshop.
If the GST amount is already deducted then it won't be refunded.
Guarantee Policy:
We value your satisfaction unconditionally. If you are not satisfied, and happy with our training, we are not either. We will work with you to make it right, and if it does not work, we are happy to refund your money without any conditions.
Course Content:
Our Training (classroom or live virtual) are based on brain based learning approach and techniques. We understand “knowledge is precious” so we create it with responsibility. We use limited class size with personal attention, interactive learning, activity based understanding of concepts, simulations and group discussion with knowledge sharing. So overall, it will be a fun filled, thought provoking learning experience for you. Below will be brief agenda of the topics that you will understand in the A-CSM (Advanced Certified Scrum Master) workshop.
Agile, Scrum and Lean
History of Scrum and Agile
Recap of Agile Values and Principles
Characteristics of a good ScrumMaster
Other Agile practices
Engineering Practices
Agile Facilitation
What is Facilitation?
Facilitation Techniques for Decision Making
Facilitative Listening Skills
Facilitating Diverging and Converging thinking
Facilitation hands-on practices
Agile Coaching
What it is coaching?
What is NOT coaching?
Coaching competencies
Coaching Stance
Active Listening
Powerful Questions
GROW model
WONDER Model
Service To Product Owner
Facilitating Creation/Refinement of Product Vision
Facilitating the team from Vision to Product Backlog creation
Facilitating a Product Backlog Refinement
Coaching Product Owner
Service to Scrum Team
Coaching the team for Self-Organization
Teams vs Groups
Coaching Teams for higher performance
Team formation phases
Coaching for stronger DoD
Coaching on Engineering Practices
Service to Organisation
How to scale Scrum beyond one team?
Large scale meeting formats
Resolving Organizational Impediments
Root cause analysis of Impediments
How to improve organisational performance in delivering the work
Scrum Mastery
Servant Leadership
Conflict Management
Your Personal development towards Scrum Mastery
Where do you stand today?
What are your values and strengths are?
What are the action items for you going forward?
You will create your own "Scrum Master Toolkit" by the end of the Training.
Product Development people: CSM helps you understand how to deliver Products in iterative and incremental way to create value to your customers.
Agile Coaches: CSM will deepen your understanding of Scrum.
Team leads/Project Leads: CSM helps you in redefining your role in terms of enabling your team and make them self-organized and cross-functional.
Release Managers: CSM helps you to understand what changes that will be required in your role in order to support Product releases early and often.
Delivery Managers: CSM helps you to understand how iterative and incremental way of Product Delivery and it opens doors for your to transform yourself to a Servant Leader role.
Start-up Owners: CSM helps you understand the value driven product development, how to eliminate waste through iterative and incremental delivery. You can understand how you can deliver twice the work in half the time as told by Jeff Sutherland in his book.
Entrepreneurs: CSM is a perfect match for your to understand how you need to transform your organization to make it more agile and customer centric and also make your employees more self-managed.
Agile team members: CSM will help you to understand some good technical practices to explore in terms of improving quality, optimize the collaboration and communication within your team.
Project Managers / Program Managers/Portfolio Managers: CSM lets you understand the difference of your current role and what you to unlearn and relearn in order to transform yourself into a Scrum Master role.
Tech Lead/Architects/DBAs: CSM helps you understand how support teams with special skills will be embedded into Scrum Teams and how you will provide your support within Scrum environment.
Business Analysts: This is a good opportunity for you to understand Scrum and how you can help a Scrum Team. You may also get clarity on how you can transform into a Scrum Master eventually (if your goal is to become a Scrum Master)
PMO Team members: CSM will help you to understand how your processes and tools can be aligned to promote more transparency, improves collaboration.
IT Leadership (Managers, Directors, AVP/VP, CIO, CTO): CSM helps you in terms of shaping the leader in you to become more of leading instead of micromanaging.
People who are non-IT (Manufacturing/Infra/Healthcare etc): Through CSM course you will be able to understand how your work can be done effectively using Scrum with frequent feedback, regular customer interactions and improve overall effectiveness of the work you do.
Anyone interested in learning about the benefits of Scrum: For you, this is a great opportunity to understand the Scrum framework and compare with your current way of working and validate the benefits of Scrum.
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(82 ratings)
knowledgeable instructors provided a practical, hands-on approach
It was great session
Great 👌 training with live examples
Amazing instructor and interactive sessions
A really good learning activity.
Greater learning Experience with Practical Sessions..Expecting lot of SM courses with Best Coach - Vijay Kumar
The training session was interactive and engaging.
Great experience !!!
The training is good and the content is good. Looks like the breakout sessions and videos are more. Please try to reduce them.