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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster
With exercises and assignments built for a great online or offline experience, you will stay engaged and grow your ScrumMaster toolkit while preparing to earn your A-CSM certification.
This course requires active participation and attention. Whether you join in person or live online, two 8-hour days are broken up with breaks and breakout discussion sessions.
Advanced ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance A-CSM Certified) gives you a practical set of tools, feedback on your communication and facilitation skills and techniques for guiding and evolving your Agile teams. You will be practicing a host of advanced personal and group facilitation skills and exercises that will reinvigorate your leadership approach and take your team’s performance to the next level.
- Deal with common agile problems
- Dive into team and relationship dynamics
- Learn how to keep things fresh for your teams
- Help your teams understand how to deal with different people & motivations
- Walk away with a ready-to-use toolkit of coaching games, exercises and tools
To earn an Advanced CSM, you first must have an active CSM® certification with Scrum Alliance®, as well as at least one-year work experience specific to the role of ScrumMaster. For more details on Scrum Alliance requirements, visit the Scrum Alliance website.
Professional Benefits
- Earn 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs
- Merit recognition as a A-CSM on the Scrum Alliance Website
- Extension of ScrumMaster certification for 2 years
Upcoming Classes
What you'll learn
In the A-CSM training, we address real-world scenarios in a highly interactive format. Going beyond theory, we share personal stories and provide practical, useful tools.
This course applies a unique blend of proven agile coaching techniques, applied improvisation and other experiential techniques to improve your skills in mentoring, teaching and facilitating in a coach’s many stances while remaining flexible, and confident.
Watch a video on A-CSM Skills below:
It was a good experience with people from different domains. Good to connect with people and understand the experience.
ACSM Trainee
It was a good next step in working with agile teams. Nice higher level activities and outlook. Very happy that they were able to conduct the training live via Zoom and still keep students engaged and active.
ACSM Trainee
I gained a deeper understanding of scrum as well as tools to help me be a better scrum master. Bob did a great job and I would definitely take a course with him in the future! He kept the class engaged and was very knowledgeable.
ACSM Trainee
Who Should Attend
- Scrum Masters
- Team Leads
- Development Managers
- Delivery Managers
- Project Managers
- Agile Coaches
SAMPLE AGENDA
Learning Objectives
- State of Lean & Agile
- Facilitation: Done Well and with Agility
- Coaching Individuals: Nurturing Personal Agility
- Coaching Teams: Nurturing Group Agility
- Assessing the Team
- Coaching the Agile Organization: Beyond the Team
- Continuous Improvement
- Scaling Scrum
- Developing Yourself: Honing your ScrumMastering Skills
- Exercises and Games for Local & Remote teams
- Interactive Facilitation Techniques
We'll Cover
- Process Improvement
- Driving Change
- Active Listening
- Self-Awareness
- Building Agreement
- Giving Feedback
- Effective External communication with stakeholders
- Facilitating Meetings and Ceremonies that stick
You'll Learn To
- Facilitate dialogue between the Product Owner, team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives.
- 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.
- Remove impediments that prevent long-term, deep adoption of Scrum and Agile practices by all parts of the business.
- Explain the value of Scrum and Agile processes to skeptics.
- Increase developer engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in.
- Extend the impact of Scrum throughout the organization.
- Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.
LitheSpeed Training Experience
Two 8-hour online training days are fun and exciting as you learn with fellow professionals from around the world.
Some answers to online training FAQs from our students:
- We host our virtual training on Zoom with interactive components on Mural
- We take breaks almost hourly
- No special tech skills are required, though basic familiarity with computers is a must
- We understand you may have family at home in this unique time; disruptions are expected and OK!
- Our maximum student:instructor ratio for the best online experience is 25:1. Most trainings are smaller than this, and in most trainings we have a second technical host supporting our students
- Certification fees are included in the tuition