Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

As a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), you’ve been introduced to Scrum values, practices, and applications. You now have experienced also some successes and faced certain challenges working with Scrum at work. You probably also have felt the needs of advancing your skills and learning more practices to better support you teams, and your organization.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. Our advanced offering is ideal for a Certified ScrumMaster who has one or more years of work experience in that role.

This course is for:

• Certified ScrumMasters (CSM) who are looking to advance their agile coaching skills
• ScrumMasters who have Scrum experience for over one year
• ScrumMasters who understand real challenges working with Scrum
• People in supporting roles who want to better support their teams
• Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster workshop requires previous Scrum knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified ScrumMaster certification (CSM) and with practice prior to the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop.

What are the benefits of an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification?

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

Course Content:

• Coaching Concepts
  • Coaching stances
  • Key coaching skills and their application
  • Tactics of coaching at the individual, Scrum Team and organization level
  • Agile coaching
• Agile Facilitation
  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
  • Decision making
• A deeper dive into Lean, Agile, Scrum and Kanban
  • Flow efficiency
  • Further enhancement of Scrum
  • Kanban in a nutshell for organization improvement
• Services to developers
  • Self-Organization and Team Dynamics
  • Key attributes of effective teams
  • Coaching for high performing teams
  • Agile engineering practices
• Services to Product Owner
  • The services around Product Vision and Strategy
  • The mindset and tools for a fantastic product
  • Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
  • Product Backlog Refinement tactics
  • The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team
• Services to Organization
  • Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
  • Leadership team coaching
  • Agile scaling approaches and principles
  • Introducing new ideas
  • Tactics for organizational improvements
• Personal Development
  • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
  • Pivotal conversation
  • The art of giving feedback
  • How to work with conflicts
  • ScrumMaster as Servant Leader

Trainer:

Evelyn Tian
Evelyn Tian, is one of the few in the global Scrum community who holds high level coaching and training qualifications. She is: Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach (CTC) and Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership Educator, Scrum Alliance Certified Path to CSP Educator.