Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®)

You’ve learned the basics about Scrum and now you’re ready to take your Scrum mastery to the next level and demonstrate your experience in coaching, facilitation, servant leadership, and continuous improvement.

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®) course provides a deep dive into being a ScrumMaster in the real world and an industry-recognized certification that proves your dedication.

Take the next step and stand out from the crowd all while maintaining membership in an organization that supports your growth through resources, events, and education.

What You Will Learn

The course provides a deep dive into maximizing the effectiveness of your teams and organizations. Core course concepts include:

• Advanced concepts in coaching, facilitation, conflict management, continous improvement, and servant leadership
• A deeper understanding of the Scrum Master roles and concepts
• Facilitate dialog between the Product Owner, team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives
• Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, and low motivation
• Help your company adopt Scrum and scale Agile and Scrum practices beyond a single team
• Remove impediments that prevent long-term, deep adoption of Scrum and Agile practices
• Increase developer engagement to encourage greater accountability
• Understanding and honing your coaching stance
• Getting hands-on with techniques and concepts such as Kanban flow, Impact Feedback, Observational Analysis, Dynamic Conflict Models, DeBono’s Thinking Hats, Delegation Poker, Retrospective and Continuous Improvement techniques, Big Room Planning, and more…

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for anyone interested in removing impediments, continuous improvement, creating flow, coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and servant leadership. This includes ScrumMaster, Agile Coaches, Change Agents, Project Managers, Program Managers, and Leaders.

W hat's In It For You

• Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace of ScrumMasters
• Open your career options by completing the prerequisite for Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
• Earn an advanced certificate that may increase your salary potential, the average annual ScrumMaster salary is $118,353 according to ZipRecruiter
• Claim 16 Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
• Claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs)
• Attend exclusive CSP® events with other leaders in Scrum and Agile
• Establish a gateway and milestone toward becoming CST®, CEC®, or CTC®

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have an active A-CSM certification as long as they:

1. Hold a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance. (certification can be expired)
2. Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of ScrumMaster within the past five years.

Students can still attend our A-CSM course even without these requirements and later complete the CSM and/or work experience to claim their certification. Note once you claim your A-CSM, it will also renew your existing Scrum Alliance certifications.

About the Trainer

Richard Cheng is an Agile trainer with a deep background in Product Ownership. Richard creates fun immersive training courses that engage the students in a creative and effective way.

Richard is the former Lead of Agile at Excella and former Chief Product Owner at NextUp Solutions. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, given keynote talks around the world, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified LeSS Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). Richard is a founder and on the executive committee of the Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams (ADAPT), an Agile government task force.

• Webinar - A Deeper Dive Into the Scrum Master Role with Richard Cheng
• Podcast Interview - Getting Your First Scrum Master Job with Richard Cheng

Cancellation Policy

Students submitting cancellation requests 10 business days or more prior to the start of the course are entitled to a full refund. Students submitting cancellation requests less than 10 business days prior to the start of the course will be offered a credit toward a future course of equivalent value, or a refund less a processing fee of $100. Should the organizer cancel the course for any reason, each registered student will be issued a full refund.