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Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster

Taught by: Dhaval Panchal
Reach the top level of scrum master certification provided by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers who have the experience and insights to help you reach your goals, whether you want to scale scrum across an organization, launch new scrum teams, or take your career to new heights. A two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership is included with your successful completion of this course.
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19 - 20 September, 2024 |
  9:00 AM CDT |
 8 hrs/day
$1,450

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Online


We lead Scaling, CAL, and Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here


Professional Mastery

Master the challenges that go beyond Scrum and dive into practicalities to have a deep impact on your organization and your career.

The CSP-SM is the pinnacle course for experts wishing to develop mastery. This course builds upon entry-level CSM and advanced-level A-CSM knowledge. The focus is on the next-level skills that budding guide-level coaches need.

Through CSP-SM, you will stand out in your industry, demonstrate commitment to your craft, and be valued as a highly sought-after and skilled professional.

A Better Way

Do you wonder why the same impediments keep popping up? Are you puzzled by the way your organization behaves? Then this course is for you. We will use case studies, scenarios, puzzles, and simulations to explore the dynamics of implementing Scrum in real-world organizations.

You will learn to use our systems thinking agile coaching toolkit that we have successfully used in large-scale agile transformations to accelerate high performance in agile teams. In this course, you will learn to use novel techniques and develop a personal toolkit for professional Scrum Mastery.

Your Pathway to Agile Coaching

Open the pathways to becoming a guide-level Certified Team Coach®, Certified Enterprise Coach®.

You will gain practical insights to transform your organization. This course has the necessary toolkit that every competent Agile coach needs. But more importantly, you will develop the Agile coaching and leadership mindset to serve your personal and organizational growth.

This immersive course is an intensive deep dive that will challenge your long-held assumptions and equip you to maximize your impact. You will be prepared to tackle the most challenging situations because the insights you gain are practical and aligned with your values as a Scrum Master.

Learn together, grow together

We recommend a group of A-CSMs to join this course together, so your community of practice can use the Systems Thinking coaching toolkit to diagnose deep-rooted challenges in your organization.


Our curriculum will give you hands-on experience with

This is the only course that integrated Systems Thinking techniques to grow your skills in navigating organizational complexities.

  • Accurately analyze challenging team situations
  • Coach for improvement in team performance
  • Engage senior management in making organizational change
  • Integrate lean thinking with agile practices
  • Overcome resistance to change
  • Learn best practices for scaling scrum
  • Learn patterns and anti-patterns for tackling team and organization challenges
  • Model systems to hold dialogue and discover leverage

The Online experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

  • We host our virtual training on Zoom
  • We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
  • Certification fees are included
  • A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
  • Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
  • Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

Course Instructor

Dhaval Panchal is an experienced Executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up. He is one of the first to bring Systems & Complexity thinking tools and techniques for transforming teams, and organizations.

Dhaval is the founder of Evolve Agility that provides Agile training and coaching services to enable his clients to amplify the scale and speed of Agile transformations. He has led large scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains. He is also member elected Scrum Alliance Board of Director for 2024-2026 term.

 


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What participants say?


“We went above and beyond those expectations and dove deeply into a discussion of organizational philosophy that helped to really motivate what I learned and provide me with a solid understanding to Evangelize within my company. “ - James Fort, Program Manager at Amazon Alexa

“Dhaval is a perceptive thinker with an endless supply of ideas for ways to tackle tough problems. His knowledge of lean thinking is not simple text-book recitation but is genuinely in-depth. I think of him as the "Indiana Jones" of Agile, ready to cut-and-slash his way through whatever challenges he's presented with.” - Douglas Jones, Senior Analyst at Shelter Insurance

“He personified what he was instructing the class to become. His class truly experiences the agile process first-hand.” - Mark Bondonese, Software Development Manager


We lead Scaling, CAL, and Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here


Registration policies

Transfers

  • You can transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.

Refunds

  • Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund.
  • Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course, date receive a 70% refund.

No show policy

  • Your fees will forfeit in case of a no-show.

Coaching Congruently

Amplify your professional integrity as a coach and develop personal credibility for influencing people and organizational systems

  • Growth mindset
  • Setting the stage for coaching relationships
  • The arc of the coaching relationship
  • Strategies to increase cross-functionality
  • Starting Scrum teams effectively
  • Coaching the Product Owner, Managers, and the developers

Growing Teaminess

Sustaining healthy team dynamics towards higher-performance

  • Team dialogue through systems modeling
  • Models for evaluating team performance
  • Patterns & anti-patterns for facilitating team events
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • Creating a culture of safety and learning

Scaling Scrum

Supporting multi-team product development

  • Launching multiple Scrum teams
  • Enabling collaboration between multiple teams
  • Patterns and anti-patterns for scaling the Product Owner
  • Effective Product Backlog management techniques in scaled settings

Organization Development

Influencing organization systems to increase adaptability

  • Concept to cash: Value stream mapping
  • Practical application of lean principles
  • Creating the conditions for growth
  • Patterns and anti-patterns for business agility

This course is open to anyone who wants to learn how great Scrum Masters and Agile coaches lead their organizations to excel beyond expectations.

To receive your Certified Scrum Practitioner® – Scrum Master certification, you need to:

  1. Hold an active Advanced-Certified Scrum Master℠ (A-CSM) certification with Scrum Alliance.
  2. Complete full course learning objectives
  3. Validate at least 24 months of work experience within the past five years that you demonstrate by updating your experience on your Scrum Alliance profile.

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