Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster®

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Here's what we do

The CSP-SM is a very intense course, and our goal is to maximize our student outcomes in the 16 hours we have together.

12 of those 16 hours are guided learning, where you will be working, reading, completing exercises, discussions, and so on. We guide you through 14 learning modules with great materials, discussions, and exercises. All of the Learning Objectives will be verified in 12 Contact hours while you are working through assignments that are reviewed. We facilitate this for you by review, by verifying you've completed each module before moving to the next one, and by having our admin available to you for questions.

4 of these 16 hours are Office Hours, where the Trainer does Coaching, Mentoring and Q&A based on the Students' questions and supports the LOs. In practice, the vast majority of this time is spent talking about work problems or misperceptions about agile and scrum.

We believe, and our reviews validate, that this structure provides a near-optimal learning experience for our Students.

more about the course

As a Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM®), you are actively working on Organizational Improvement. You are now deeply skilled at building great teams and have built great Scrum Teams as a Scrum Master and emergent leader in your organization. You have encountered numerous challenges to Great Scrum Team development and now want to take your skills to the next level.

The next step in your journey is to obtain a Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM®) credential from Scrum Alliance®. To obtain your CSP-SM you need to take a CSP-SM class and have at least 24 months of experience as a Scrum Master. (For Details see here.)

SELF-PACED LISTING

We believe our CSP-SM is ideal for you. We offer web-based, self-paced CSP-SM classes that will satisfy your needs. Students typically take 1-2 months to complete the course, but you can do it whatever pace you need -- at your convenience, on your schedule. (See the Agenda for details.) You have up to 3 months to complete this course - you decide your pace! (see our policy page for details).

Through the CSP-SM course you will learn how to:

•  apply visual facilitation techniques for a collaborative session.

•  identify practices for facilitating remote meetings.

•  explain the core concepts of Lean Thinking and how they can be applied to Scrum.

•  relate at least five wastes in product development to the seven wastes in Lean manufacturing.

•  identify at least three actions the facilitator can perform to support the development of an inclusive solution.

•  create a coaching agreement with an individual or a team.

•  list fundamental psychological concepts that help transform individual behavior.

•  appraise different models for team development.

•  plan the launch of a new Scrum Team.

•  propose strategies to fill in missing skills or capabilities the team needs to create successful products.

•  illustrate how at least one element of software craftsmanship applies to your work.

•  analyze your approach to a complex intervention that addresses the root cause(s) of organizational dysfunction.

•  contrast patterns for scaling the Product Owner role.

•  explain the benefits of supporting strong development practices when working with multiple Scrum Teams.

•  plan the launch of Multi-Team Scrum.

•  outline a personal development strategy toward Scrum Mastery.