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.

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We lead CAS-S1, CAL and other Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here

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Advance beyond the basics

Increase your influence to impact real change in your organization. You get to experience best practices for collaboration. Our course is designed for group interactions and supports different adult learning styles.

You will explore how to have challenging conversations, uncover and resolve the root causes of organizational challenges, and engage at the organizational level to scale beyond a single team. You will increase your confidence to influence your team and leadership constructively.

This course builds upon entry-level CSM knowledge. The focus is on the next-level skills that agile professionals need. Through A-CSM, you will stand out in your industry and show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly skilled Agile professional.

Own don’t rent

Scrum Master plays a crucial role in the growth of the team and organizational agility. Scrum is easy to understand but hard to do.

Learning to apply practical Scrum Master skills takes more than theoretical knowledge. This course builds upon your fundamental understanding of Scrum and, through practical skills development exercises, sets you on the path to becoming the best Scrum Master you can be. Through hands-on exercises, real-world case studies, and systems thinking puzzles, you will own your insights to transform your world of work.

Influence defeats power

Scrum Masters, through their service, enable higher performance for teams.

This course will help you sharpen your skills to expand your influence, overcome organizational resistance, improve teaminess, and improve at coaching. We strongly believe that influential Scrum Masters are persuasive and bring people together.

Learn together, grow together

We recommend a group of Scrum Masters to join this course together, so your community of practice can develop shared strategies to tip the balance to becoming a product-led organization.

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Our curriculum will give you hands-on experience with

This is the only course that integrated Systems Thinking techniques to grow your skills in navigating organizational complexities.

• Identify opportunities and gaps in your agile organization
• Developing a deeper understanding of systemic challenges with the adoption of Scrum
• Coaching teams to higher-performance
• Conflict resolution techniques
• Facilitation techniques to improve decision making
• Effective product management techniques to coach your Product Owner
• Scaling beyond single-team Scrum
• Influencing executives to cause the removal of impediments
• Develop a personal plan for improvement to be effective in your role

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The Online experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
• Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
• Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

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Course Instructor

Dhaval Panchal is an experienced Executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up. He is one of the first to bring Systems & Complexity thinking tools and techniques for transforming teams, and organizations.

Dhaval is now the founder of Evolve Agility that provides Agile training and coaching services to enable his clients to amplify the scale and speed of Agile transformations. He has led large scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains.

 

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What participants say?

“We went above and beyond those expectations and dove deeply into a discussion of organizational philosophy that helped to really motivate what I learned and provide me with a solid understanding to Evangelize within my company. “ - James Fort, Program Manager at Amazon Alexa

“Dhaval is a perceptive thinker with an endless supply of ideas for ways to tackle tough problems. His knowledge of lean thinking is not simple text-book recitation but is genuinely in-depth. I think of him as the "Indiana Jones" of Agile, ready to cut-and-slash his way through whatever challenges he's presented with.” - Douglas Jones, Senior Analyst at Shelter Insurance

“He personified what he was instructing the class to become. His class truly experiences the agile process first-hand.” - Mark Bondonese, Software Development Manager

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We lead CAS-S1, CAL and other Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here

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Dates:	18-19 Jul 2024
Starting At:	09:00 CDT for 8.0 hours
Language:	English
Venue:	Virtual Online
Price:	$995
Discounts:	Discounted seats available. Contact Dhaval Panchal for more information.
Notes:	Registration policies Transfers You can transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge. Refunds Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund. Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course, date receive a 70% refund. No show policy Your fees will forfeit in case of a no-show.

Scrum Master Core Competencies

Refresh on the fundamentals of Scrum, and how it relates to your real-world experience.

• Essence of agile
• Scrum Refresh
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Improving the effectiveness of Scrum events
• Self-evaluation and personal growth plan

Leading Collaboration

Improving team performance towards self-management

• Scrum Master stances
• Conflict management techniques
• Facilitate effective decision making
• Coaching breakthrough excellence
• Self-Managing team canvas

Advancing Product Owner skills

Serving Product Owners to manage product development in scaled settings

• Concept to cash cycle and organization design implications
• Agile strategies for product development
• Story maps and product development roadmap
• Product/Portfolio Kanban

Growing Organizational Agility

Increasing the organization’s capability to adopt and grow agile

• Recognizing and causing the removal of impediments
• System of tightening feedback loops
• Systems thinking techniques, root cause analysis
• Improving organizational productivity and responsiveness
• Scaling Scrum (patterns & anti-patterns)

This course is open to anyone who wants to go beyond Scrum basics and develop advanced-level Scrum Master skills.

However, to receive your Advanced-Certified ScrumMaster® certification, you need to:

1. Hold an active Certified Scrum Master® (CSM) certification with ScrumAlliance.
2. Complete full Advanced-Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM)
3. Validate at least 12 months of work experience within the past five years that you demonstrate by updating your experience on your Scrum Alliance profile.