Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™

Discover advanced scrum master techniques and problem-solving while renewing your membership with Scrum Alliance. Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® is delivered by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers whose coverage and exploration of advanced facilitation, coaching, and teaching are unmatched.

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) class is a two-day learning experience for Certified ScrumMasters who already have a year’s experience and need to take the next step in learning, scaling, and dealing with resistance, in order to become true experts. The A-CSM program is designed to build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced skills for the implementation of Scrum and Agile techniques within your company and teams. 

Training Topics:

• Agile and Scrum
• The ScrumMaster
• Facilitating Team Conversations
• Coaching Approach
• Team Dynamics
• Structured Team Coaching
• Removing Impediments
• Conflict Resolution
• Structured Team Coaching
• Definition of Done
• Engineering Practices
• The Product Vision
• Product Backlog and Refinement
• Scrum and the Organization
• Scaling Scrum
• Self‐developing as a ScrumMaster

Requirements: 

In order to obtain the A-CSM certification, you will need to, you will need to 1) attend the 2-day A-CSM training 2) complete the online pre-course preparation homework 3) hold a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certificate and 4) demonstrate at least one years work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (from within the past five years). 

Our book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agile Coaching (will be provided) is required reading for this course.