Duration
3 days
Course Description
As a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), you’ve been introduced to Scrum values, practices, and applications. You now understand how to provide a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers. Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey. Incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement. To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. Our advanced offering is ideal for a Certified ScrumMaster who has one or more years of work experience in that role.
Through the A-CSM course, 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
- Leverage your learning to gain recognition and status as the local Agile expert in your company
Most importantly, by receiving the A-CSM certification, you will improve your implementation of Scrum in the workplace and keep your team on the right track.
Who is this course for
The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster workshop requires previous Scrum knowledge and experience.
Participants should be passionate in advancing as a ScrumMaster and an Agile coach, and therefore be willing to challenge their own thinking and approaches within this course.
This is NOT a session for those who are new to Agile and Scrum.
All attendees must have the Certified ScrumMaster certification (CSM) and with practice prior to the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop.
Course Outline
Coaching Concepts
- Coaching Stances
- Key coaching skills and their application
- Tactics of coaching at the individual, Scrum Team and organization level
- Agile coaching
Agile Facilitation
- Divergent and Convergent Thinking
- Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
- Decision making
A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum
- Value and principles to leverage as a ScrumMaster
- Practices and tools to help improve
Services to Development Team
- Self-Organization and Team Dynamics
- Key attributes of effective teams
- Coaching for high performing teams
- DoD
- Agile engineering practices
Services to Product Owner
- The services around Product Vision and Strategy
- The mindset and tools for a fantastic product
- Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
- Product Backlog Refinement tactics
- The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team
Services to Organization
- Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
- Leadership team coaching
- Agile scaling approaches and principles
- Introducing new ideas
- Tactics and tools for organizational change
Personal Development
- Coaching practices for personal growth actions
- Pivotal conversation
- ScrumMaster as Servant Leader
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.