Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) Training

Anyone is welcome to take this course, however to receive your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM™) you need to:

• Have a current Certified ScrumMaster™ Certification (CSM™)
• Complete the 2 day Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM)
• Have at least 12 months of experience within the last 5 years that you demonstrate by updating the experience on your Scrum Alliance Profile.

Additionally, although it is not mandatory, students who have completed a foundational Agile course have found it very helpful when completing this course.

• Explain Agile and Lean Values and Principles, so that you can better appreciate Scrum
• Understand Agile Facilitation, so that you can better support your team
• Understand Agile Coaching, so that you can coach your Team, Product Owner and Organization
• Explore self-organization, so that you can support your Development Team in becoming Self Organized
• Explore team dynamics, so that you can help your team work together better
• Explore Definition of Done, so that you facilitate your team creating one

Section 1: Lean, Agile, and Scrum

Agile and Lean values, principles, and worldview

• Leveraging other Agile frameworks, and how they related to Scrum
• Practical experience rectifying common pitfalls

Empirical process control

• Function of inspect-and-adapt in each meeting
• Triage situations when transparency, inspection, and adaption need improvement
• See the linkage between the mechanics of Scrum and the underlying theory of Empirical Process Control

Section 2: Agile Facilitation and Coaching

Basic facilitation

• Overcoming challenges of integrating multiples frames of reference
• Understanding when not to act as the facilitator, and let a group self-organize
• Planning collaborative meetings
• Demonstrate facilitation of a meeting, opening
• Integrating different perspectives
• Coming to a group decision

Coaching fundamentals

• Understanding the Scrum Master’s many “stances”
• Gain a basic toolkit of coaching techniques

Section 3: Service to the Team

Identify the common issues the undermine Self-Organization

• Definition of Done
• Value of Engineering Practices
• Coaching the Product Owner

Section 4: Service to the Organization

• Resolving Impediments
• Scaling Scrum
• Organizational Change

Section 5: Scrum Mastery

• Personal Development
• Servant Leadership