Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Virtual Classroom Live December 09, 2024

Price: $995

This course runs for a duration of 2 days.

The class will run daily from 8:00 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST.

Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.

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Instructor: Anu Smalley

Description

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) is an in-depth two-day immersion into the world of the ScrumMaster role. The class explores Agile Facilitation and Agile Coaching and how the ScrumMaster uses these skills to support the team, the Product Owner and the Organization. The class is full of real-world examples from the attendees' experiences and coaches attendees through practical tools and techniques that can be implemented immediately at your workplace. The class is a deep dive into your role as a ScrumMaster and the hands-on activities and exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the next level of Scrum firsthand.

Please note, there is no exam for the A-CSM certification. Please visit the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification page for more information, as certification requirements periodically change.

Objectives

Explain Agile and Lean values and principles, so that your team can better appreciate Scrum.
Facilitate dialogue between the Product Owner, team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives.
Coach your Scrum team, product owners, and organization to improve their way of working, extending the impact of Scrum throughout the organization.
Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people.
Help your company adopt Scrum and support executives committed to Agile values.
Cause the removal of impediments that prevent long-term, deep adoption of Scrum and Agile practices by all parts of the business.
Facilitate your Scrum Team creating their own Definition of Done
Increase developer engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in.
Know how to Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.

Audience

Individuals who have been in the ScrumMaster role for at least 12 months
IT Leadership (Managers/Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs)
Project Managers

For additional dates and another variation of this class see: Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Training

NOTE: classes/events are being delivered in partnership with Cprime Learning as Cprime Learning holds the REA agreement with Scrum Alliance®.

Course Overview

Part 1 – Lean, Agile, and Scrum

Show how Scrum is aligned with the Agile Manifesto
Know the history of Scrum and Agile
Understand the value of other agile approaches
Analyze the personality traits of a Scrum Master
Know when transparency inspection and adaptation are not working

Part 2 – Facilitation

Know how to recognize divergent and convergent thinking
Understand the challenges of integrating multiple perspectives
Use facilitative listening
Use alternatives to open discussion
Know when not to be a facilitator
Design a facilitated event
Create a working agreement

Part 3 – Coaching and Training

Understand the elements of a coaching stance
Use coaching techniques
Identify improvements to coaching interventions
Be able to explain scrum and its benefits to a stakeholder

Part 4 – Service to the Scrum Team

Describe the qualities of a self-managing team
Use techniques to enable a team to improve its own effectiveness
Know different models for group development
Facilitate the creation of a Definition of Done
Explain development practices and how they are beneficial

Part 5 – Service to the Product Owner

Describe Product vision and Product Goals.
Know how to create a Product Goal with the Scrum Team and stakeholders.
Create and refine a Product Backlog that supports achieving a Product Goal.

Part 6 – Service to the Organization

Understand the organizational impediments that can affect your scrum team
Practice how to resolve organizational impediments

Part 7 – Scaling Scrum

Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
Techniques for visualizing, and reducing dependencies.
Benefits of feature teams versus component teams.

Part 8 – Organizational Change

Understanding complex systems.
Initiating organizational change.

Part 9 – Scrum Mastery

How you as a scrum master fulfill the Scrum values
Recognize types of conflict
Patterns for responding to conflict
Effective leadership

Prerequisites

Please visit the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification page to view full details about this certification. Students who take this course must:

Already hold a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with Scrum Alliance
Complete all pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by the instructor
Validate at least 12 months of Scrum Master work experience within the past five years

Please note: This course has an Attendance and Virtual Camera Requirement

Attendance is required throughout the duration of this course. Instructors will verify each student's attendance and participation to ensure course completion.
Webcam usage is required by all students

Course Comments

NOTE: classes/events as being delivered in partnership with Cprime Learning as Cprime Learning holds the REA agreement with Scrum Alliance®.

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