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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

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.
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    Wed Jun 05, 2024

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    15:00 EDT

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    1 hour each day

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    Live Online + Self-Paced

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    C$1,050

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Mark Levison

CST®, CSP®‑SM, CSP®‑PO, A‑CSM®, CSM®, CSPO®

Agile Pain Relief Consulting

Have you ever found yourself thinking:

  • My team keeps taking multiple sprints to deliver a working feature. How can I get them to be more effective without resorting to bribery or threats? Oh, and don't even get me started on quality issues.
  • Our stakeholders want everything, all at once. Even worse, when we ask clarifying questions, they just don't answer. Since cattle prods are frowned on, what can I do?
  • Some team members are expressing dissatisfaction with Scrum, and frequently skip Retrospectives claiming they're boring and ineffective. How can I make them attend?
  • Is there any way to convince stubborn executives and stakeholders to support adopting Scrum? Asking for a friend.

If any of these sound familiar, we've got your back and will help you find the fix.

Any accredited Scrum Trainer can help you get a certificate that you can frame for your wall.

But do they help you know how to work through the hard parts of Scrum?

Doing Scrum in real life isn't easy. We equip with you the tools and support to make the difficult achievable, so you can do Scrum well.

REGISTER NOW

Using 20+ years of experience teaching Scrum and the science of learning, we infuse our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training program with humor and wit to make the experience fun and engaging. Plus, we back up our claims with hard evidence, so you can trust that you're getting the real deal.

This ISN'T the same as other Advanced Certified ScrumMaster classes.

Not by a long shot. Some notable differences that should matter to you:

  • You won't sit around for two long days listening to boring PowerPoint and lectures that you'll forget after you leave. This is an immersive, self-paced learning experience, so you have time to actually practice what you learn and then get follow-up support as needed. Instead of cheap, fast-food learning that leaves you hungry soon after, it’s a relaxed-paced, fine dining, nutritional experience for your ScrumMaster mind that leaves you full AND sends you home with the recipes so you can recreate it on your own. (Did we take that metaphor too far? Fair enough, but you get the point.)
  • Our experience. I've been doing/coaching/teaching Scrum since 2001 — longer than most people have known that it even exists. My co-trainers, Bernie and Anil, add their extensive experience to the mix, and you get access and support from all three of us. Why listen to one person's opinion, when you can benefit from a hearty stew of collective expertise and experience to find something that hits the spot for you? (Okay, we'll quit with the food analogies.)
  • Why rely on opinions at all? Seems risky. We share our real life experiences, but we also back up what we say with published research and evidence. If you're comparing to other workshops, see if they offer anything like that!
  • Sure, we still include all the same stuff that other A-CSM workshops include for certification, but we'd die if we had to slog through that over and over again, so we make sure it’s at least fun and interesting, for all involved.

Agile Pain Relief Consulting - Scrum and Agile Training

Move beyond being a ScrumMaster who is just trying to figure out how to go through the motions and hopefully be effective. Invest in a deeper understanding by learning and practicing new skills and tools that will help you confidently sell scrum to management, work with stakeholders to resolve impediments, and coach the product owner to create quality products.

  • Self-paced team challenges where your co-participants become your accountability partners. Easier to stay on track and motivated!
  • Hands-on practice and useful help. You don't need any more boring theory. You need something that you can sink your teeth into and see immediate results. Learn on-the-job application of key Scrum concepts and practical solutions for difficult, real-life scenarios that you can apply the next day.

REGISTER NOW for our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster program, and quickly see the differences that you can make!

FAQ

What is the cancellation policy?

Agile Pain Relief Consulting support staff is happy to assist you!
We understand that things can change, to cancel or substitute your registration for a future date please contact us via email at [email protected] or call us at 877-248-8277. Please note! Cancellation is possible up to 5 days before the start of a course with a full refund excluding a 4% transaction fee. Cancellation requests received within 5 full business days before 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.

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.

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

Who Should Attend?

Participants in our advanced level programs have come from these backgrounds:

  • ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches & other Change Agents
  • Certified Scrum Professionals looking to renew their certification
  • Team Leads, Tech Leads & Development Managers
  • Project & Program Managers

Prerequisites

Anyone is welcome to start this journey, however, to receive your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster certification you will need:

  • A current Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certification from the Scrum Alliance.
  • At least 12 months of experience as a ScrumMaster within the last 5 years.
  • To attend at least four instructor-led Virtual Classrooms (you can always attend more!)
  • To complete all the online modules, quizzes, and assignments.
  • To have a positive attitude and desire to make a real impact with your team.

 

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