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   Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Learn the experiential insights of how to become a GREAT Scrum Master from a Trainer who holds all 3 Scrum Alliance Guide Level Certifications: CST, CEC & CTC. This is NOT a Training, it is Activity, Case Study, Group Discussions, Hands-on Simulation

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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®

All Advanced CSM courses are taught by Trainers approved by the Scrum Alliance. Taking an Advanced CSM course, meeting the learning objectives, and accepting the license agreement designates you as an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster. Please review your trainer's course description below to determine which learning objectives this course satisfies.

Learnovative

This Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop is conducted by Learnovative (www.learnovative.com).

            Our VISION: Make Learning SPECIAL

 Simple, Practical, Effective, Collaborative, Innovative, Adaptive, Long-lasting  

              We are rated as #1 in Google Review by our Participants

                  

                                   Read our Google Reviews HERE

Who is a ScrumMaster?

A ScrumMaster is one of the three accountabilities in a Scrum Team. As a ScrumMaster, you will enable your Scrum Team to increase their productivity, flexibility, creativity, and effectiveness through various means including: Training, Coaching, Mentoring, Facilitation techniques/skills. You will also work as a True Leader in helping your Scrum Team, Product Owner and Organization to “improve their ability to improve”.

What is a Advanced-ScrumMaster Certification?

The Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM®) is the next step in your Agile journey to achieve a broader level of understanding of Scrum Master Accountabilities.  A-CSM is very popular and highly valuable certification for those who wants to build their career to be long-lasting career in Agile world. This is a 2 days classroom/Live virtual training program filled with activities, group discussions, case studies, interactions and fun filled learning. A-CSM will help you to move one more step closer to your Scrum Alliance Guide Level certifications: CTC, CEC and CST.

What are the benefits of doing A-CSM?

  • You will be part of a smaller group (<2000 in India) compared to large group of CSM certified group
  • It improves your job opportunities due to the advanced skills you acquire through A-CSM
  • It helps you to build your career towards becoming an Agile Coach
  • Helps you to grow faster in the career ladder 
  • It helps to work in a Large Scale Scrum environment confidently
  • Differentiate yourself in the global marketplace
  • Show advanced value to your organization as a highly skilled Agile professional
  • Your CSM certification will be automatically renewed for next 2 years

For more information about the A-CSM, please Read This Article

ScrumMaster Career Path:

You might be wondering what’s the career path for the Scrum Master. Here is the article that clearly helps you understand various opportunities for ScrumMasters in their career growth.

About Learnovative:

Learnovative is a leading Agile and Scrum Training and Consulting organization based out of Hyderabad, India. Learnovative is 10 years old Organization with rich experience of Agile and Scrum Training and consulting areas. You can check the details of LEARNOVATIVE in the below video:

Know your Trainer:

Vijay Bandaru is the Founder and Principal Trainer and Coach at Learnovative (www.learnovative.com). Vijay has 24 years of experience in various roles in the software Development Services and Product Organizations. He started his career as a programmer in 1997 and performed various roles including: Technical Lead, Project Manager, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Manager. Vijay also has more than a decade of Training and Coaching experience.

  • Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) certified Trainer
  • Trained more than 15000 people in 6 countries
  • 4.9 Average Google Review feedback out of 5 (5000+ Google reviews)
  • Average NPS (Net Promoter Score) is above 90
  • Has rich experience in physical and also live virtual training environments
  • Experienced in large Scale Agile Transformation
  • Certified Team, Leadership and Enterprise coach
  • Received “Best Trainer” award multiple times
  • Volunteer, Speaker and Organizer for various Agile and Scrum conferences
  • Published various articles related to Agile and Scrum
  • Created “WONDER” Coaching model

Quick glance of our Live Virtual workshop

All our Live Virtual workshops are highly interactive, engaging and practice based. Take a look at the below video to have a quick understanding about our live virtual workshop delivery.

Our Live Virtual workshop Approach

We usually run all our Live Virtual workshops using Zoom platform which is very easy to understand, learn and use for our participants. Our workshops are based on Brain science models and without any PowerPoint presentations. We focus on Demonstration, Practical hands-on, activities, brainstorming methods in our workshops. Every 15 to 20 minutes, there will be some learning activity which engages the participants and help them to enhance their learning experience. Trainer uses iPad to draw and write to teach the concepts which makes the learning more fun and interactive. We also use various collaborative learning tools to run group activities during the workshop including: Google slides, Google Sheets, Quizzes, Polls, Mentimeter, Trello etc. We run the workshop using the Scrum Framework simulation so that it helps our Participants to practically understand how a Scrum Project can be implemented end-to-end.

Why you have to choose Learnovative?

You will be able to do the below after the 2 Days of CSM Training

  • You will be able to go for your next level certification CSP-SM (Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster)
  • Facilitate your Scrum Events more effectively using the techniques you learn in the workshop
  • Train your Teams and Organization through real-time scenarios
  • Access to Scrum Master toolkit that helps for your career growth
  • Able to coach your team members and teams
  • You can help your Product Owner with more deeper techniques and practices
  • Attend ScrumMaster interview with more confidence
  • Help your Organization for the Agile Transformation

Picture from our Live Virtual Workshop:

Video testimonial from one of the Participants attended my A-CSM Training:

Registration Fee includes the following:

  • 2 Years Scrum Alliance Membership
  • 16 SEUs to renew your CSM certification
  • 16 PDUs to use for your PMP renewal (only for those who are PMP certified)
  • Training material (Workshop version and a complete filled version)
  • Class drawings in PDF format
  • ScrumMaster toolkit includes:
    • Interview questions
    • Practical scenarios
    • Case studies
    • PDF version of Agile books
  • Access to our You tube channel
  • Access to Telegram group
  • Access to our Linked in User group (4500+ active practitioners)
  • Future career guidance and interview support

Prerequisites:

  • To participate in the A-CSM® event, you must already hold the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) credential with the Scrum Alliance
  • To qualify for the A-CSM® designation, you must attend 2-days Trainer led Training, and also demonstrate 12 months of collective experience using agile methods

Dates:

1-2 Jun 2024

Starting At:

09:00 IST for 8.0 hours

Language:

English

Venue:

ZOOM

Price:

28490 + 18% GST if you register by 2024-06-01
Regular Rate 32000+18% GST , Discounted rate 28490+18%GST after 2024-06-01

Notes:

Contact For More Information & Registration:

Email: [email protected]

Phone & WhatsApp: Srinivas –  +91-99499 94949

Discounts & Referral Benefits:

  • If you attend your second certification training with us, you will get 20% discount on our list price
  • If you refer your friends/colleagues to our training, you will get Amazon gift voucher as a referral discount (Only after the person’s registration and the workshop completion)

Refund Policy:

  • You get 100% refund OR you can shift your registration to other available dates if you inform 5 days prior to the workshop.
  • You get 60% refund if you cancel your registration within 48 hours prior to the workshop. 
  • You will not get any refund if you do not attend the workshop. 
  • If the GST amount is already paid, then it won't be refunded. 

Guarantee Policy:

We value your satisfaction unconditionally. If you are not satisfied, and happy with our training, we are not either. We will work with you to make it right, and if it does not work, we are happy to refund your money without any conditions.

Course Content:

Our Training (classroom or live virtual) are based on brain based learning approach and techniques. We understand “knowledge is precious” so we create it with responsibility. We use limited class size with personal attention, interactive learning, activity based understanding of concepts, simulations and group discussion with knowledge sharing. So overall, it will be a fun filled, thought provoking learning experience for you. Below will be brief agenda of the topics that you will understand in the A-CSM (Advanced Certified Scrum Master) workshop.

Agile, Scrum and Lean

  • History of Scrum and Agile
  • Recap of Agile Values and Principles
  • Characteristics of a good ScrumMaster
  • Other Agile practices
  • Engineering Practices

Agile Facilitation

  • What is Facilitation?
  • Facilitation Techniques for Decision Making
  • Facilitative Listening Skills
  • Facilitating Diverging and Converging thinking
  • Facilitation hands-on practices

Agile Coaching

  • What it is coaching?
  • What is NOT coaching?
  • Coaching competencies
  • Coaching Stance
  • Active Listening
  • Powerful Questions
  • GROW model
  • WONDER Model

Service To Product Owner

  • Facilitating Creation/Refinement of Product Vision
  • Facilitating the team from Vision to Product Backlog creation
  • Facilitating a Product Backlog Refinement
  • Coaching Product Owner

Service to Scrum Team

  • Coaching the team for Self-Organization
  • Teams vs Groups
  • Coaching Teams for higher performance
  • Team formation phases
  • Coaching for stronger DoD
  • Coaching on Engineering Practices

Service to Organisation

  • How to scale Scrum beyond one team?
  • Large scale meeting formats
  • Resolving Organizational Impediments
  • Root cause analysis of Impediments
  • How to improve organisational performance in delivering the work

Scrum Mastery

  • Servant Leadership
  • Conflict Management
  • Your Personal development towards Scrum Mastery
    • Where do you stand today?
    • What are your values and strengths are?

What are the action items for you going forward?

You will create your own "Scrum Master Toolkit" by the end of the Training.

  • Product Development people: CSM helps you understand how to deliver Products in iterative and incremental way to create value to your customers.
  • Agile Coaches: CSM will deepen your understanding of Scrum.
  • Team leads/Project Leads: CSM helps you in redefining your role in terms of enabling your team and make them self-organized and cross-functional.
  • Release Managers: CSM helps you to understand what changes that will be required in your role in order to support Product releases early and often.
  • Delivery Managers: CSM helps you to understand how iterative and incremental way of Product Delivery and it opens doors for your to transform yourself to a Servant Leader role.
  • Start-up Owners: CSM helps you understand the value driven product development, how to eliminate waste through iterative and incremental delivery. You can understand how you can deliver twice the work in half the time as told by Jeff Sutherland in his book.
  • Entrepreneurs: CSM is a perfect match for your to understand how you need to transform your organization to make it more agile and customer centric and also make your employees more self-managed.
  • Agile team members: CSM will help you to understand some good technical practices to explore in terms of improving quality, optimize the collaboration and communication within your team.
  • Project Managers / Program Managers/Portfolio Managers: CSM lets you understand the difference of your current role and what you to unlearn and relearn in order to transform yourself into a Scrum Master role.
  • Tech Lead/Architects/DBAs: CSM helps you understand how support teams with special skills will be embedded into Scrum Teams and how you will provide your support within Scrum environment.
  • Business Analysts: This is a good opportunity for you to understand Scrum and how you can help a Scrum Team. You may also get clarity on how you can transform into a Scrum Master eventually (if your goal is to become a Scrum Master)
  • PMO Team members: CSM will help you to understand how your processes and tools can be aligned to promote more transparency, improves collaboration.
  • IT Leadership (Managers, Directors, AVP/VP, CIO, CTO): CSM helps you in terms of shaping the leader in you to become more of leading instead of micromanaging.
  • People who are non-IT (Manufacturing/Infra/Healthcare etc): Through CSM course you will be able to understand how your work can be done effectively using Scrum with frequent feedback, regular customer interactions and improve overall effectiveness of the work you do.
  • Anyone interested in learning about the benefits of Scrum: For you, this is a great opportunity to understand the Scrum framework and compare with your current way of working and validate the benefits of Scrum.