Back to results

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Rowan Bunning

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.

Copied to clipboard

+64 9 307 9450

More Information

Back to results

16 hours |

Start September 6, 2018 CUT

Early bird pricing

NZ$1700

Early bird pricing

Course details

Location

In-Person

TBC, Wellington, NZ

Schedule Details

Thursday, September 6 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

Friday, September 7 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

Course

About this course

Our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM^™) course is a two day exercise-based learning experience focused on skills acquisition to help you to take your leadership of Agile capability building to the next level. It builds on your learning and experience since you completed your CSM course. It is also a critical next step for ScrumMasters who are looking to attain the high bar of Certified Scrum Professional – ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM^®). Here are some reasons to become to a CSP..

A-CSM says to your employer and the jobs market that you have proven that you can work in a ScrumMaster capacity with teams.

Description

From your CSM you already know about the values, principles and practices of Scrum. Now it is time to extend your capability to overcome the challenges that you have been facing in implementing it at work.

Having practised Scrum or a Scrum-like Agile approach for 12 months or more, you know that the ScrumMaster role is a very challenging role to perform in an impactful way. It involves much more than being just a “team facilitator”. It requires development of a variety of skills from professional coaching to systems thinking to change and growth leadership whilst serving the Product Owner and broader organisation in addition to one or more development teams. It requires deep understanding of Scrum, Agile and Lean principles as well as the confidence to challenge both yourself and your colleagues to change their thinking and unwind their ingrained habits.

Our A-CSM program involves a two day in-person course plus several hours worth of preparation work prior to the course. It builds on the foundations from CSM, providing the next stage of growth for ScrumMasters who want to help Scrum be adopted more successfully in their organisations.

Our A-CSM is an invitation to bring your real-world context in for exploration and problem solving with a diverse group of experienced ScrumMasters. As well as coming away with a set of thinking and problem solving tools, you may even come away with fresh perspectives and new options for the challenges that you are facing at work right now.

The course is delivered by Rowan Bunning, a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer since 2008. Rowan became a ScrumMaster in 2003 whilst in Australia, subsequently working in this capacity with a leading Scrum-based digital consultancy in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland. He became the first CSP in Australia in 2006 and the country's first Path to CSP Educator in 2018.

Rowan has designed this A-CSM course from the ground up to be experientially based with rich learning resources for you to discuss and enact. This minimises time spent listening to lectures and allows you to learn through multiple modes including through hands-on practice. It also provides many opportunities to learn from the experiences of the ScrumMasters in the room. Rowan puts the techniques into context with real-world examples from his Scrum experience over the last 15+ years.

Inclusions

Two full days training with a highly experienced agile practitioner.
A printed course workbook.
Full catering during the course including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
Certification as an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) for participants who satisfy all coursework requirements to the satisfaction of the trainer.
A letter of course completion that may be submitted to your employer and/or a professional body (PMI, ACS or similar) for PDUs (available on request).
Support to have your post-course questions answered via the Scrum WithStyle Alumni network.
Guidance on continuing your professional development along the Path to CSP.

Agenda

Learning outcomes

You will learn:

Personal Development – identify your drivers, strengths and weaknesses as a ScrumMaster.
Teaching Stakeholders – practice explaining Scrum to stakeholders who don’t share your frame of reference… including executives.
Violations of Agile principles - better recognise when people are ignoring Agile principles, when Scrum’s self-adjusting empirical control is compromised and what to do about it.
Team Dynamics – understand the attributes of effective teams, a rich team development model, be equipped with techniques for improving team performance and team development pitfalls to avoid.
Conflict Navigation – recognise different types of conflict and ways to respond to it effectively.
Facilitation – practice techniques for energising regular Scrum events and other meetings, getting past clashes of perspective to get the most out of groups and arrive at decisions that the group is committed to.
Coaching – understand how professional coaching differs from advising and practice coaching techniques that you can use every day.
Servant Leadership – learn about specific characteristics of a Servant-Leader and how to lead capability building from the stance of Servant-Leader.
Serving the Product Owner – practice techniques for moving from vision to product backlog and through to refined backlog with shared understanding.
Resolving Impediments – practice systems thinking techniques for revealing the dynamics causing impediments and where to best intervene to truly eliminate them.
Definition of Done – practice surfacing what is required to deepen your Definition of Done to Potentially Releasable every Sprint.
Complimentary frameworks – know when to leverage XP, Kanban and Lean Startup techniques in ways that compliment Scrum.
Engineering Practices – understand the various technical practices and how they improve the team's ability to sustainably deliver potentially releasable increments and enable scaling.
Scaling Scrum – understand key differences between scaling frameworks, gain techniques for visualising, reducing and eliminating dependencies and well as for facilitating large-scale meetings.

Who should attend

Accreditation & Certification

To achieve the certification, you must meet the prerequisites (as stated below), you must attend the full two day course, and complete all coursework, including all in class coursework and any pre, during and post training event coursework that we provide as part of the course. You will then be eligible to receive your certification. There is no test or exam component as part of this certification.

Attaining your A-CSM is the second of three substantial accreditation steps toward becoming a Certified Scrum Professional in the ScrumMaster track (CSP-SM).

Prerequisites

To obtain your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster accreditation, you must satisfy the following:

Hold a current 'active' Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) accreditation, noting that if you originally obtained your CSM more than two years ago and have not renewed this, then you are no longer a current CSM,
Have at least one year of work experience in the role of ScrumMaster, and
Actively participate in the full two-day course and complete all coursework to the satisfaction of the trainer.

Reviews

No ratings yet TrustPilot logo

This course does not have any reviews yet.

More courses by Rowan

This trainer has no other upcoming courses of this type.