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.

Charlotte, NC - Advanced-ScrumMaster Course (A-CSM)

Our approach to this course is unique, in at least two ways: (a) our approach to helping you achieve the A-CSM (see below), and (b) having the Agile Release Planning Workshop as an optional 8 hours. 

We want you to have significantly better results from Scrum, in terms of more fun, more Velocity (productivity) and more Business Value.  

We use many ideas to help you move to the next level. We use interaction, Q&A, exercises, improv, table discussions and other techniques to get you involved and to help increase your skills. 

Joe Little will lead this course. He has co-taught eight times with Jeff Sutherland. Joe is an experienced Agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, and he has worked with other great Scrum trainers. He has been a CST for 14+ years and has an MBA — which is fairly unique among trainers.

To earn the A-CSM with us you must successfully complete 16 hours.  We also offer the option of the Agile Release Planning workshop (an additional 8 hours). 

Attendees strongly recommend the Agile Release Planning workshop. The workshop covers Agile Release Planning, Release Plan Refactoring (a.k.a. Product Backlog grooming or Product Backlog refinement), and the shift from initial planning into starting the first Sprint. These topics are covered in the course, briefly. The big difference is that you work in a team (table) and you practice Agile Release Planning with real work (a real project or product). (Only the A-CSM course is included in the price quoted here.)

Participants Will Learn:

Our main goal is that you become more effective, and can then help your team, your organization and your customers be more successful with Scrum.

The Learning Objectives for the A-CSM mention seven categories:

1. Lean, Agile and Scrum
2. Scrum Master Core Competencies 
3. Service to the Scrum Team 
4. Service to the Product Owner 
5. Service to the Organization
6. Scrum Mastery

 

You may read the Learning Objectives here. These will be our main areas, but certainly not the only areas.

In this course, we typically mix in XP and Lean ideas. Having worked with Jeff Sutherland, I mix in many of his ideas and stories. Having a business background and an MBA, I am oriented more than others toward the Product Owner and toward business issues (eg, business agility). We want you to have a full business success, not just a technical success.

 

Additional Information:

• The course will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST for most of the first two days.   On Wednesday we go from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST.
• To take the course you must have eraned CSM certification.
• You must have at least three months of experience with Scrum before the course starts. And at least 3 months since you earned your CSM certification.
• You will receive a copy of our book on Agile Release Planning.

Course Material:

Participants will receive a “book,” which is a copy of the slide deck. (We have many discussions and exercises outside the slide deck.)  

In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) a second book by Ken Schwaber or by Jeff Sutherland. You may also wish to obtain the “first” Scrum book, “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Schwaber and Beedle.

After class, you will be given a free copy of Joe’s book on Agile Release Planning and a copy of all the drawings Joe does in class. Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course that you cannot get from books.  

Dates:	29-30 May 2024
Starting At:	08:30 EDT for 8.0 hours
Location:	Charlotte, NC, United States of America
Language:	English
Venue:	5960 Fairview Rd. 5960 Fairview Rd. Charlotte, NC, United States of America 28210
Price:	US $1300 per person if you register by 2024-05-28 US $1,400 per person after 2024-05-28
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Joe Little for more information.
Notes:	There is a 10 percent discount for any group of three or more. Alternately, there is an 8% discount for members of local Agile or PMI or SPIN groups. We offer Early Bird pricing to encourage you to sign up early, but Early Bird pricing can end at ANY time. If you need us to hold Early Bird pricing for you for a few days (e.g., to get approval), please contact us and we can probably do that. If you have any questions, please click “more information” or contact our office at 704-376-8881. In-House Courses: If you think you need an in-house course, please contact us — we do these frequently!

• Assessing a Scrum Team
• The Learning Objectives in these categories:
  • Lean, Agile, and Scrum
  • Scrum Master Core Competencies
  • Service to the Scrum Team
  • Service to the Product Owner
  • Service to the Organization
  • Scrum Mastery
     
• One or two exercises
• Agile Release Planning and related skills

This course is for people in a Scrum Master role, however that may be called in your company or on your Team. 

Other people may take the course, with benefit.  But achieving the A-CSM certification may be tricky.

Our evaluation of you will not be based on how well your current team is doing.  We know it can be hard to get a Team to do Scrum fully.

The course is commonly used by people who want to become an Agile Coach.  Or sometimes just a better ScrumMaster.

We think the return on investment from this course is tremendous.   

The course includes many interactive exercises and small-group discussions. These will prepare you to move the team up significantly right after the course. Being practical and useful are key values we will emphasize in the course.

 

Other benefits: 

• 16 PDUs toward PMI requirements
• Renewal of all prior Scrum Alliance certifications
• A free copy of our book: “Agile Release Planning”
• A free copy of our book: "A Scrum Introduction"
• A copy of the drawings Joe Little does during the course