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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Dan Rawsthorne
3Back Scrum Consulting & Training
Learn your way: fully self-paced coursework paired with 4 hours of structured, LO-focused, instructor-led time. Enjoy the flexibility to start anytime and complete the course around your schedule.
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 16 hours |
 Start Oct 14, 2026 UTC
$750
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Wednesday, October 14 - Thursday, October 15 | 12:00 PM - 4:00 AM UTC
Max number of students: 20

Note: This is a self-paced course that includes 4 hours of structured, LO-focused, instructor-led time. You may register and begin the course at any time; the start date and time shown on this listing do not represent a required course start time. You have 3 months from your registration date to complete the self-paced course materials and 4 hours of instructor-led time. There are no set daily start or end times.

 

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3BACK'S ADVANCED CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER® TRAINING

HERE'S WHAT WE DO!
The A-CSM® course is a very intense course, and our goal is to maximize our student outcomes in the 16 hours we have together.​

12 of those 16 hours are guided learning, where you will be working, reading, completing exercises, discussions, and so on. We guide you through 13 learning modules with great materials, discussions, and exercises. All of the Learning Objectives will be verified in 12 Contact hours while you are working through assignments that are reviewed. We facilitate this for you by review, by verifying you've completed each module before moving to the next one, and by having our admin available to you for questions.

The live instructor-led portion includes four structured hours facilitated by a Certified Scrum Trainer®. These sessions follow a defined agenda aligned to the course learning objectives. Students apply course concepts to realistic work scenarios, discuss implementation challenges, and demonstrate understanding through instructor-led discussion, scenario review, and learning-objective validation. The session is trainer-driven and structured around the required learning objectives.

We believe, and our reviews validate, that this structure provides a near-optimal learning experience for our Students.

LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE!
This on-demand, online course can be completed in as little as 2 weeks or you have up to 3 months - you decide your pace! Enjoy the freedom of getting certified when it’s convenient for you (see our policy page for details).

LEARN BY DOING!
Engaging Scrum training from a leading industry expert with years of practical experience.​

TRAIN WITH THE BEST!
Dan and Doug have developed this On-Demand A-CSM course just for you. They have been training and coaching product development teams for 20 years. They have written numerous books on Scrum; you can review their published works on Amazon. They have been doing this since the Scrum Alliance® was first incepted. Combined they have trained over 20,000 students in the concepts of agility and Scrum. Review bios for Dan and Doug.

GET CERTIFIED!
Earn your credentials from 3Back, a recognized Education Provider of the Scrum Alliance – the first and most widely recognized international Scrum certification organization.​

STAY SHARP!
Competitive job market? No problem! Learn increasingly popular skills that employers are looking for to increase your marketability and stand out from the crowd.

GET FREE STUFF!
Digital materials, 16 PDUs, 2 Year membership to Scrum Alliance, and much more!

MORE ABOUT THE COURSE
As a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), you’ve been introduced to Scrum values, practices, and applications. You now understand how to facilitate a Scrum team's development, teamwork and improvement processes through the use of Scrum.

 

The next step in your journey is to obtain an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®) credential from Scrum Alliance®. To obtain your A-CSM you need to take an A-CSM class, have at least one year of experience as a Scrum Master within the past five years, and hold a Scrum Alliance issued CSM® certiifcation (for details see here).

3Back's Exclusive Companion Book

A Great Scrum Team is good at playing both the production and improvement games. The Scrum Mastering II book and companion course, will help you guide your team to become a Great Team that is proficient at both games. For anyone who is new to the world of Scrum -- its foundations, its principles, its nuances -- there’s a lot to digest. You will discover that Scrum is lightweight, useful, and difficult to master. Once mastered, Scrum becomes an intuitive extension of how you approach work.

To help you master Scrum, our books are broken down into two groups. The Scrum Handbooks which describe the models of Single-Team Scrum and Multi-Team Scrum - what it is. And the Scrum Guidebooks, which describes guidance for implementation - how to apply. Both book groups will help you frame Scrum Effectively so that you can maximize your chances of success - especially in complex, ever-changing environments.

The Scrum Leadership Series is a core set of books and companion courses that, when combined with years of domain-driven experience, allow a person to be designated as a Recognized Scrum Leader.

3Back's A-CSM training

WHAT'S INCLUDED

A-CSM CERTIFICATION
By taking and completing the class, you will receive your Scrum Alliance A-CSM Certification.

SCRUM ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP
Two (2) year membership to the Scrum Alliance ($50 value).

PMP’S
16 Category B PDUs from PMI® upon completion of this course.

ACCREDITED TRAINING FROM THE EXPERTS
3Back trainers don’t just teach Scrum; they have a combined 46 years of working on and with Scrum teams. They are authors of the Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals, the Scrum Study Guide and the agile tool Get To Done®, as well as world-renowned conference speakers.

A FUN AND MEMORABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
3Back’s A-CSM course is not your usual online training. Our trainers use cutting edge adult learning practices, which not only make the class enjoyable, but are proven to increase retention and understanding.

ADDITIONAL

SCRUM RESOURCES

GET TO DONE® is both online software and cards on walls. We have worked hard to bring this unique tool to you so that you have full support for writing and managing complex backlogs. Stop regressing! Getting Scrum implemented right is hard, your software tool needs to support the right behaviors or groups often regress. As a 3Back public course participant, we encourage you to use the Get to Done® planning and implementation tool. This powerful tool will help to enable your team to excel with increased team visibility and accountability.

SCRUM DICTIONARY exists for one simple reason. Words matter. In the world of Agile frameworks, words matter even more. Scrum Dictionary removes the lexicon noise and delivers a clear, concise definition of Agile terms, complete with examples and related terminology, in a format that’s as user-friendly as they come.

SCRUM HANDBOOKS The Scrum Handbooks are a description of Scrum (both single-team and multi-team) that both unifies and extends older descriptions of Scrum, and is easier to relate to real world scenarios. It is the cleanest, most flexible and most agile version of Scrum there is…

ONSITE COURSES Interested in having a Certified Scrum course or other Credentialed course delivered to you and your team members? We can help! Take the next step in Scrum; request an Onsite Course.

VIEW OUR RESCHEDULING AND CANCELLATION POLICIES

3Back's A-CSM training

AGENDA

This course is built upon shared experience and exercises that provide concrete practice to build deeper understanding of and skill with the topics covered.

CHAPTER 1: SCRUM REFRESHER

  • Elevator Pitch
  • Roles
  • Events
  • Artifacts
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 2: HISTORY, VALUES, AND PRINCIPLES

  • The Three Scrum Pillars
  • Scrum Values
  • Lean Values and Principles
  • History of Software Agility pre-Manifesto
  • Manifesto for Agile Software Development
  • Twelve Principles of Agile Software Development
  • Description of eXtreme Programming (XP)
  • Description of the Kanban Method
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 3: GREAT SCRUM TEAMS

  • Defining ‘Great’
  • Self-Contained and Getting to “Done”
  • Self-Organized and WorkFlow
  • Value Driven
  • How a Team Becomes Great
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 4: BASIC FACILITATION TECHNIQUES

  • Facilitation Basics
  • Facilitating Open Discussions
  • More Formal Techniques
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 5: COACHING TECHNIQUES

  • Coaching Stances
  • Coaching Techniques
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 6: FACILITATING FORMAL MEETINGS

  • Complicated Decision-Making
  • Facilitating Formal Meetings
  • Summary
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 7: VISION AND PRODUCT BACKLOG

  • The ‘Formal Vision Statement’ Method
  • User Story Mapping
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 8: REFINING THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

  • Example Mapping
  • Strategies for Splitting Stories
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 9: DEFINITION OF “DONE”

  • Technical Debt, “Undone” work, and “Not Done” work
  • Creating a definition of “Done” for Software
  • A Definition of “Done” for a non-Software Product
  • Storyotyping
  • Having good “Doneness” Criteria
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 10: TEAM IMPEDIMENTS

  • What are Team Impediments?
  • Impediments to Production
  • Impediments to becoming a “Great Team”
  • Typical Impediments
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 11: ORGANIZATIONAL IMPEDIMENTS

  • What are Organizational Impediments?
  • Helping Scrum Teams Remove their Impediments
  • Organizational Culture Change
  • Final Words
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 12: SCALING

  • An Example of Growing an Organization
  • Scaling Scrum
  • Scaling is a Form of Organizational Change
  • Scaling Methods/Frameworks
  • Exercises

CHAPTER 13: INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION

  • Exercises

Most importantly, by receiving the A-CSM certification, you will improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace and keep your team on the right track.

 


PREREQUISITES FOR THE COURSE

12 months of professional experience as a Scrum Master during the last five years and a Scrum Alliance® issued Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) certification is required for this course.

3Back's A-CSM Training

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is for those with agile experience, and specifically for those that have their Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), from the Scrum Alliance.

If you don't have any agile experience or training, you should look for a Certified ScrumMaster training course here.

TESTIMONIALS

OUR STUDENTS SAY IT BEST

It was a wonderful experience and kept us engaged throughout. It was perfect.

 

K. CHANDWANI

I enjoyed the class and the interaction from the trainer with the class. One of the few trainings I really looked forward to coming back to the next day

 

D. BROWN

I have had many various training courses but this one was far the best I've received thus far. The course had the right amount of practicality to keep the whole class engaged.

 

H. HARQUETT

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