Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

You’re a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) who’s been introduced to the Scrum Values, practices, and applications. The next step in your Agile journey is to achieve your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM®) certification, and we’d be honored to take that journey with you.  

Our highly interactive class provides opportunities to learn and practice coaching and facilitation skills. Through discussion and activities, you’ll learn to:

  - Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Developers, customers, stakeholders, and executives

  - Respond confidently and use coaching skills when encountering common impediments facing organizations that want to do Scrum better 

  - Increase engagement by encouraging greater accountability, higher commitment, and buy-in at all levels of the organization

  - Go beyond the mechanics of Scrum and gain skills to facilitate, coach, and work through team dynamics

Our trainer has been a Certified Scrum Trainer® for over ten years and she incorporates her own agile and leadership experiences into the discussions and activities. Students are encouraged to share, ask questions, and practice what they’re learning so they can come away with new tools in their toolbox. 

The benefits of this class are many:

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
• Stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community
• Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional

REQUIREMENTS

  - Hold a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance. 

  - Attend this certified A-CSM educational workshop

  - Accept the A-CSM License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.

  - Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the accountability of Scrum Master (within the past five years).

NOTE: You may take the A-CSM course at any time after completing your CSM certification. You must also have at least 12 months of Scrum Master experience recorded in your Scrum Alliance profile before your A-CSM certification becomes valid.

Before you decide...

Here are some additional thoughts about partnering with Winnow Management for your Scrum certification needs. As you search for a training partner we know you have many options, so please allow us to explain how our experience and quality set us apart from others...

• As an early adopter, Winnow Management has certified over 20,000 Scrum Masters and Product Owners around the globe since 2006.  Here are a sampling of organizations that have trusted us with their training and coaching needs...

• All our trainers have many years of not only Agile and Scrum experience but also authentic business experience. We all have led organizations in Agile transformations and are therefore best equipped to explain Agile concepts and Scrum practices within organizational contexts, answering your questions in a highly knowledgeable and practical manner.

• We aren’t just trainers: we are also coaches and consultants. This allows us to bring true-to-life stories that exemplify concepts and practices we cover during class.

• You will leave our training sessions with not only everything required for certification but also with practical techniques you can use right away. Bring your questions!

• We’re here to help you on your journey beyond the class experience. If you run into any challenges down the road after class and would appreciate our opinion, let us know!

We look forward to working together!