Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

There are almost one million Certified ScrumMasters in the marketplace, but fewer than 11,000 people have achieved the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster title. 

Are you ready to take your Scrum Master capabilities to the next level? Our two-day advanced course is designed to help you dive deep into the nuanced skills that are crucial for successful Scrum Masters.

Our comprehensive course goes beyond the basic foundations, providing you with an understanding of advanced techniques such as coaching, facilitation, and day-to-day team-building methods. These skills are invaluable in real-life scenarios, and will make you a standout asset in any Agile team.

How It Works

Our training classes are structured to maximize learning while offering time for deeper issues that are often overlooked in other training options.

• Live and engaging discussions and team exercises utilizing online tools Mural and Mentimeter.

• About two and a half-ish hours of recorded video to watch before the course, allowing for interactive and engaging live sessions, free of put-you-to-sleep lecture.

Upon course completion, students who participated and engaged will have earned their Advanced Scrum Master Certification. There is no exam. 

Course Prerequisites

• To be eligible for your A-CSM certification, you must hold a CSM designation with the Scrum Alliance; Your certification does not need to be active at the time you take the A-CSM course.
• Demonstrate 12 months of work experience as a Scrum Master within the last five years. However, you may take the course at any time, you need to demonstrate the work expereince to claim the A-CSM certification. 

Daily Live Class Attendance

For our in-person classes, you are expected to come prepared and participate each day. 

For our live-online classes, you are expted to compe prepared and be ready to engage in the live discussions and group exercises using Zoom. .

Before any class, you will receive some videos to watch. You will need to watch those videos before you attend the live class, so you are prepared to discuss them.

During the course, you will have the opportunity to learn from real-life experiences and practical examples shared by the instructor who has extensive experience in managing Agile projects and coaching Scrum teams. The course content will cover a variety of topics including lectures, group exercises and discussions to provide a comprehensive learning experience. Make sure to come prepared by watching the assigned videos beforehand so you can actively participate in class discussions. 

Read more about Mitch, including customer testimonials, on Mitch's LinkedIn profile page.

You Will Get

• LIFETIME access to all course videos
• A PDF, color copy of the course materials, plus all class exercise materials
• Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) designation

You Will Learn Practical Advice to Help With...

• What dysfunctions are introduced when organizations try to cheat by adapting partial practices, and how to fix it. 
• Facilitating effective collaboration and communication within cross-functional teams.
• Tecniques for coaching team members on self-organization, continuous improvement, and conflict resolution.
• Developing strategies to address common challenges in agile adoption and transformation.
• Working Agreements and Sample Agendas.
• Coaching Stances and "Challening People".
• Various Development Practices and how they fit in Scrum.
• How to Facilitate and Create a Definition of Done.
• And More!

In addition, you will gain hands-on experience through various interactive activities and simulations, allowing them to practice advanced concepts in a safe environment. You will also have the opportunity to network with other experienced Scrum Masters and learn from their successes and challenges.

Furthermore, the class will delve deeper into servant leadership and how it applies to leading self-organizing teams in an agile environment. Overall, this class will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to take your agile practices to the next level and drive successful outcomes for their organizations.

What People are Saying

1. "Though I knew much of the material, this reinforced the NEED to review and reflect with more knowledgeable people"
2. "Enjoyed the examples from real life"
3. "Best I've attended"
4. "Really liked the exercises and found Scrum to be inspiring"
5. "Really liked the pragmatic no BS presentation style. Greatly appreciated the messages and focus on the human factor side of Scrum"
6. "Great course, very good teaching, will recommend to my peers"
7. "This was a great course, and I am super excited to implement"

Read more about Mitch, including customer testimonials, on Mitch's LinkedIn profile page.

Development Units (PMI PDUs and Scrum Alliance SEU's)

SEU's: You can receive 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs for this course which can be applied towards the 70 required to be a CSP. Read more at ScrumAlliance.org

PDUs: You can receive 15 PMI PDUs for this course which can be applied towards the 21 required to be a ACT. To learn more on how to maintain your PMI PMP (or other) credential, please visit this link on PMI.org. 

About your Instructor - Mitch Lacey, PMP, ACP

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over fifteen years & is credited with many plan-driven & agile projects. He is the author of “The Scrum Field Guide”, a book targeting teams adopting Agile and Scrum practices.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch’s first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham, Jim Newkirk & David Anderson.

While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs & white papers.

He has published many papers including “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing”, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field”, “The Impacts of Poor Estimating - & How to Fix It”, a variety of papers for Microsoft and “Immersive Interviewing - Building Great Agile Software Teams”.

He has keynoted and presented at a variety of conferences including the Agile Alliance “Agile” conference, the Better Software Conference, the SQE Agile Development Practices conference, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft ALM Forum, Scrum Alliance User Groups in South Africa, China, Vietnam and more. He has managed tracks for the Agile conference between 2008 and 2015 and was the conference chair for Agile 2012 and Agile 2014.

Mitch has served on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance (2011-2012) and the Scrum Alliance (2010-2011, 2014).

Read more about Mitch, including customer testimonials, on Mitch's LinkedIn profile page.