Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

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Lean, Agile, and Scrum

Agile and Lean values, principles, and worldview

• Leveraging other Agile frameworks, and how they related to Scrum
• Practical experience rectifying common pitfalls

Empirical process control

• Function of inspect-and-adapt in each meeting
• Triage situations when transparency, inspection, and adaption need improvement
• See the linkage between the mechanics of Scrum and the underlying theory of Empirical Process Control

Agile Facilitation and Coaching

Basic facilitation

• Overcoming challenges of integrating multiples frames of reference
• Understanding when not to act as the facilitator, and let a group self-organize
• Planning collaborative meetings
• Demonstrate facilitation of a meeting, opening
• Integrating different perspectives
• Coming to a group decision

Coaching fundamentals

• Understanding the ScrumMaster’s many “stances”
• Gain a basic toolkit of coaching techniques

Service to the Team

• Identify the common issues the undermine Self-Organization
• Definition of Done
• Value of Engineering Practices
• Coaching the Product Owner

Service to the Organization

• Resolving Impediments
• Scaling Scrum
• Organizational Change

Scrum Mastery

Important Course Information

Additional benefits:

• This programme is the next step towards achieving the Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification, recognising your professional experience and deep education in agile methods.
• The programme will also qualify for 16 PMI PDUs and 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs

Prerequisites:

• To participate in the ACSM event, you must already hold the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) credential with the Scrum Alliance.
• To qualify for the ACSM designation, you must attend this event, and also demonstrate 12 months of collective experience using agile methods.

Pre-course preparation:

• Pre-course preparation is required to gain the most from the programme. This will include reading materials and a personal review of your own experience using Scrum.
• Clear your schedule to be fully present during the training hours; if a participant misses more than 30 minutes of the class, they will not be eligible to be certified. Should your schedule prevent you from attending the entire class, our team will work with you to schedule another class on a different date.

Exam information:

• Taking an Advanced CSM course, meeting the 7 learning objectives, and accepting the license agreement designates you as an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster. There is no exam.
• The Certified Scrum Trainer, leading your class, will register your attendance with the Scrum Alliance, after which you will receive an email from them with your certification.

Certification FAQs

• For further certification details, please see common questions and answers here.