Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Are you ready to elevate your ScrumMaster skills beyond the fundamentals? This intensive Advanced Certified ScrumMaster course is designed for experienced practitioners who want to master the facilitation, coaching, and organizational leadership skills that separate exceptional ScrumMasters from the rest. Through hands-on workshops, real-world case studies, and evidence-based techniques, you'll develop the advanced capabilities needed to drive meaningful team transformation, lead complex organizational change, and facilitate high-performing self-managing teams. Whether you're scaling agile practices across your organization, navigating complex team dynamics, or seeking to become a more effective servant leader, this course provides the practical tools and strategic mindset to excel in today's demanding agile landscape.

Here's what the course covers:

Module 1: Lean, Agile, and ScrumMastery

Deepen your understanding of agile principles and the ScrumMaster role

• Agile Alignment Mastery - Demonstrate how Scrum aligns with the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and understand the historical evolution of agile practices
• Beyond Scrum Expertise - Explore the value of other Lean/agile development approaches and understand how they complement Scrum in different contexts
•  ScrumMaster Excellence - Identify and develop the personality traits that distinguish exceptional ScrumMasters and create your personal development roadmap
• Empirical Process Mastery - Evaluate situations where transparency, inspection, and adaptation break down and learn to restore effective empirical practices

Module 2: ScrumMaster Core Competencies

Master the essential skills of facilitation, coaching, and training

• Advanced Facilitation Mastery - Identify indicators of divergent and convergent thinking in groups and master facilitative listening techniques for more effective meetings and events
• Perspective Integration - Navigate the challenges of integrating multiple viewpoints and demonstrate alternatives to traditional open discussion formats
• Strategic Facilitation - Design and facilitate collaborative events while knowing when not to act as the facilitator, and develop strategies to overcome communication obstacles
• Communication Excellence - Create working agreements that foster clear communication and exceptional teamwork across your Scrum Teams
• Coaching Stance Development - Master the elements of effective coaching stance and apply appropriate coaching techniques for different intervention scenarios
• Intervention Analysis - Analyze coaching interventions to identify improvements and effectively explain Scrum benefits to business stakeholders

Module 3: Service to the Scrum Team

Enable high-performing, self-managing teams through expert guidance

• Self-Management Excellence - Understand the attributes of effective self-managing teams and apply techniques to improve team autonomy and decision-making capabilities
• Team Dynamics Mastery - Distinguish between teams and working groups, and guide teams through multi-stage formation and development models
• Definition of Done Leadership - Facilitate the creation and improvement of strong Definitions of Done, including for non-software products
• Development Practices Impact - Explain how development practices impact the team's ability to deliver valuable Increments and understand their benefits in multi-team environments

Module 4: Service to the Product Owner

Strengthen product ownership and backlog management capabilities

• Product Vision Alignment - Understand the relationship between product vision and Product Goals, and facilitate the creation and refinement of meaningful Product Goals with teams and stakeholders
• Backlog Excellence - Create Product Backlogs that effectively support Product Goal achievement and practice advanced approaches to Product Backlog refinement

Module 5: Service to the Organization

Drive organizational transformation and scaling excellence

• Impediment Resolution Mastery - Practice resolving root causes of organizational impediments and understand the organizational impacts of adopting current Scrum practices
• Scaling Strategy - Recognize different approaches to scaling Scrum while understanding when not to scale, and master techniques for visualizing, managing, and reducing dependencies
• Team Structure Optimization - Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of feature teams versus component teams to optimize organizational structure
• Organizational Change Leadership - Understand the nature of complex systems and apply proven approaches for catalyzing meaningful organizational transformation

Module 6: ScrumMastery

Develop as a true leader and achieve personal mastery

• Personal Excellence - Analyze your fulfillment of Scrum values and create improvement strategies for your personal development journey
• Conflict Navigation - Recognize when constructive interactions become destructive conflict and develop alternative response patterns to your default conflict management style
• Leadership Attributes - Express and demonstrate the attributes of effective leadership while embodying the servant leadership principles that define exceptional ScrumMasters