Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

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Do you relate to these while working with your team and organization?

• Customer demands are growing. How do I coach my product owner to keep up?
• How do I convince my executives and stakeholders to support adopting scrum?
• Teams take multiple  sprints to deliver a working feature. How do I coach them to become effective?
• Decisions on product features are not made quickly enough.  How can I help my stakeholders?
• Many team members complain that scrum is not working for them. What alternatives can I present?
• Teams are growing. How do I scale the work across different locations? 
• Attendees of scrum events are distracted or snoozing. How do I breathe energy and enthusiasm into these events? 
• Teams are struggling with good engineering practices. I am not technical. How do I assist? 
• Some features delight customers and some don’t. What are we missing?
• How do I influence a matrix organization and lead without authority?

Become part of the ScrumMaster Journey

Become part of a cohort-based self paced training where you will journey through a scrum master who is looking where to start being effective at what they do to someone who is selling scrum to stakeholders, building effective teams by working with stakeholders to resolve impediments, and coaching the product owner to create effective products. This training combines live training with self-paced team challenges where your co-participants become your accountability partner. 

The self paced training along with 4 hours with a live online instructor is a cohort-based class that offers learners fast, condensed lessons combined with on-the-job application of key Scrum concepts and real solutions for difficult scenarios for immediate business impact

What do you get?

In the self paced learning + four hour instructor lead sessions you will

• Practice over 50+ tools and techniques and get live feedback from the trainer and your cohort
• A clear roadmap to help you chart your course of scrum adoption in your organization
• Resolve team and organizational challenges and receive feedback from the instructor weekly
• 16 Scrum Education Units from Scrum Alliance
• Attain Scrum Mastery to teach, mentor coach, and facilitate teams, product owners, and your organization
• Discuss Real-life case studies of successful Scrum implementations.
• Practice servant leadership and how to build a safe-to-fail culture
• Discuss Real-life case studies of successful Scrum implementations.
• Become a member of an online community with hundreds of agile professionals including ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Trainers, Coaches and Leaders
• Weekly coaching calls for an hour each. You need to attend a minimum of 4 to achieve your certification

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Beyond the basics, we also explore Scrum in action - facilitating team interactions, working with the team's Backlog of work, and getting work "Done" (or perhaps it's Done-Done)! Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this counterintuitive tip to accelerate the arrival of high performance in your teams:

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Meet your instructor:

 Anil Jaising 

Anil's career had an explosive start in the early 1990s, he worked on a messaging product that sent messages across the world in 3 seconds with a team that aligned with the Values and Principles of Agile. The product won the best Open Systems Award in 1994. From the beginning of his career, he has been tinkering with code, infrastructure, product development, and consulting in various industries.  

His deep expertise in financial services and startups in developing business models has resulted in multiplying revenue and avoiding risk. He recently led a cloud transformation program for 250 application teams that saved one of the world’s largest bank over $25 million. His deep Agile, DevOps, and leadership experience have guided multiple organizations to achieve high throughput, market focus, productivity, and quality in building products. He has a deep interest in instructional design and is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room Trainer.

He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance and a Certified DevOps Trainer with DevOps Institute. Anil is also adjunct faculty teaching “transforming organizations” in the project management graduate program at New York University. Anil is well regarded in the industry as an Agile, Executive, and Technical Coach. He has helped several organizations successfully implement continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and SRE practices. He is currently guiding the product marketing and development of a telemetry dashboard for Atlassian products.

 TrustScore 4.9

"the class allows you to go deep on key SM topics and techniques to help you along the journey and become a much better SM" - Andrea Scrum Master

"I would highly recommend attending it because of the ease of acquiring new skills and the level of detail being studied" - Ulrich Z

"The instructor was resourceful and had very direct approach to the material, it felt like hanging out with my friends but every word was opening a new dominion of knowledge." - Mark L

"Anil is an excellent trainer. He ensures that you understand the concepts as well as gives you live examples which makes it worth while. I believe I am good at agile, specifically the scrum framework and these are the trainings that I received from Anil. He also helps you in getting more info and replies to your personal queries." - Vikas Y.

"Thank you for the wonderful sessions and making the course more of self-managed with your awesome facilitating skills. To be honest, my opinion was if everything is to be done by the attendees then what is the role of the Trainers: disappointed: but after completing the assignments slowly the experience is sinking down the brain that it was all about facilitating skills to ensure the attendees learn the advanced scrum skills through self-awareness, visualize the problems, identify the solutions and Strategize according to the needs of our teams" - Shaik Jaffery.

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What do you learn?

• Scrum Master Core Competencies: Teaching, Mentoring, Facilitation and Coaching
• Self Organization, Team Dynamics and Personal development as a leader
• Resolving Team and Organizational Impediments
• Driving Organizational Change
• Coaching the product owner
• Scaling Scrum
• Servant Leadership
• Value of Engineering practices

Cohort Based Learning

Four-hour cohort sessions to engage and learn advanced topics from the trainer and each other and try out what you learned in your organization between the sessions. You will be part of a scrum team that has to overcome real-life challenges in facilitation, coaching, organizational impediments, and more.  

Build relationships with the instructor — and your classmates

Learning works best when you are in a community and the best learning experiences are shared.

Become part of a cohort to become accountability partners for each other and journey teaching scrum to executives, become better at facilitation and coaching, be able to decide to scale or not, coach your product owner, and create a roadmap for effecting change in your organization. In our program, you will feel like you are doing your A-CSM journey within a team, even though it is an online program.

Unique format — no more boring lectures

Most online training is boring and prone to distraction. Too many instructors talk for far too long about topics and theories not relevant for real-world application. The other spectrum is self-paced or self-directed learning where you need to be motivated to watch videos and work on the myriad of challenges without the guidance of a live instructor and might struggle to complete

With our A-CSM program, all our lectures are crisp (no more than fifteen minutes) and are combined with practical, on-the-job exercises so you can immediately put into practice what you have learned under the mentorship of a Certified Scrum Trainer. The challenges are carefully interspersed between the online live sessions so as to get continuous feedback and guidance from the instructors.

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Why is this course so crucial?

Scrum is not all about software anymore, nor is it an all-or-nothing prospect. This class will point out real-world examples of how well-known organizations from startups to enterprises have adopted Scrum and witnessed dramatic incremental changes and value. While Software is still a very important industry where Scrum can be applied, many organizations are finding ways to apply this method throughout their organization. This is not a PowerPoint lecture-type training and does require active participation from each attendee. Read more about the future of online learning and the inspiration behind the format

FAQ:

Cancellation Policy

Concepts & Beyond support staff is happy to assist you! We understand that things can change, to cancel or substitute your registration for future date please contact us via email [email protected] or call us at 201-374-0893. Please note! Cancellation is possible up to 5 days before the start of a course with full refund excluding 4% transaction fee. Cancellation requests received within 5 full business days prior to the course, will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. No credits or refunds will be available for participants who fail to attend after the class starts.

What are the requirements for the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster certification?

To receive the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification, you need to have a current Certified ScrumMaster certification with the Scrum Alliance and have 1 year of work experience as a ScrumMaster in the last 5 years, and satisfactorily complete an accredited A-CSM program like ours.

I do not have the required work experience yet, can I still start the program?

The 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master or Product Owner can be met at any time once you've attended an A-CSM or A-CSPO course. The work experience must be within the past five years.

How long does it take for me to complete the program?

The cohort-based program is part of a team-based training where you will be taken through a scrum master journey from teaching scrum to stakeholders to creating a roadmap that suits your organization. In addition to self-paced tasks, the learner will participate in a weekly one-hour session to complete the certification within 4 to 6 weeks. The four sessions will consist of live training.

How soon can I start the program after I sign up?

As soon as you join you will be invited to join our learning academy to start the pre-work and the dates for the cohort sessions will be as per your registration page.

Is there a test at the end of the program? Will my work be graded?

There are NO tests to obtain any of the certifications that you can achieve with our programs. However, the Scrum Alliance places a strong emphasis on validated work experience to receive more advanced certifications. Since our CSTs are the ones charged by the Scrum Alliance to make sure that learners who they certify meet a level of competency, as you go along, your assignments and exercises will be evaluated by your instructor and will have to be satisfactorily performed for them to request your certification be issued. They will be looking for evidence that you can put into practice what you have learned in the program with a Scrum/Agile team. In addition, you can agree to mentor if you would like deeper responses to questions and topics.

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