Advanced Certified Scrum Master® (A-CSM) Training

The Advanced Certified Scrum Master course covers the following: 

• Lean, Agile and Scrum
  • Scrum and its Relationship to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
  • Traits of an Excellent Scrum Master
  • Other Lean/Agile Development Approaches
  • Optimising Your Scrum
• Facilitation
  • Listening Techniques
  • Facilitating Collaborative Events
  • Creating Working Agreements for Effective Communication
• Coaching
  • The GROW Model
  • Active Listening
  • Powerful Questions
  • Practice Coaching Interventions
• Explaining Scrum and Its Benefits to a Business Stakeholder
• Service to the Scrum team
  • Fostering Self-Management
  • Understanding How Teams Develop
  • Creating a Strong Definition of Done
  • Agile Development Techniques and Technical Debt
• Service to the Product Owner
  • Creating a Product Vision and Goal
  • Techniques for Creating the Initial Product Backlog
  • Product Backlog Refinement
• Service to the Organisation
  • Working with Organisational Impediments
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Scaling Scrum
  • Organisational Change
• Scrum Mastery
  • Your Personal Development as a Scrum Master
  • Facilitating Conflict Resolution
  • The Scrum Master as a Leader

To receive your A-CSM certification, you must take the course, complete a range of follow-up activities, and show you have at least one year of experience as a Scrum Master or similar role

The course is designed for experienced Agile practitioners who already understand Agile, Scrum and the Scrum Master role.

While any experienced Scrum Masters are welcome at the workshop and will benefit from attending it, attaining the A-CSM certification requires:

1. Holding an active Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification.
2. Completing the A-CSM course and post-course activities.
3. Demonstrating at least 12 months of experience working as a Scrum Master or similar role. You can do this by listing your experience in your Scrum Alliance profile (the details will not be shared with the public).

You can become an A-CSM by:

1. Being an active CSM.
2. Taking an active part in the A-CSM course.
3. Completing the pre and post-course work (see section below).
4. Having at least 12 months of experience as a Scrum Master or equivalent.

Once you have satisfied these requirements, you can download your certificate.

We cover a lot of material in the A-CSM workshop. There are a few learning objectives for A-CSM which cannot be directly covered in the workshop itself. Before the course, a list of articles to read and videos to view will be provided. After the course, you will be asked to prepare three experience reports and send them to the instructor for feedback:

1. Facilitate or improve creating your team’s Definition of Done. Illustrate your approach and what happened in the form of an experience report.
2. Create experience reports on two collaborative events that you have facilitated. These can be Scrum events, a Scrum activity or something related to your work as a Scrum Master (e.g. an Open Space or World Café meeting).
3. Write an experience report demonstrating how you practised leadership as a Scrum Master. Make sure to reflect on and reference the course material on leadership. This can be based on experience before or after the course. It should be submitted to the instructor for review.

There is also a small amount of homework during the course between the second and third days.

If you attend the Advanced Certified Scrum Master training course and complete the pre- and post-course activities, you will benefit from the following:

• An immersive online learning experience facilitated by our Certified Scrum Trainer and Path to CSP Educator, Simon Roberts.
• Registration for the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Certification.
• Comprehensive follow-up materials (patterns, ebooks, canvasses, articles).
• A free follow-up coaching/mentoring call with the trainer.
• Access to the ScrumCenter Network, where you get free online access to ScrumCenter coaches.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) members can claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) after attending the course.

Taught over three days, our live-online A-CSM course is interactive, engaging and fun. It is completely instructor-led, and it’s designed using training from the back-of-the-room techniques. As a result, it leverages the science behind how the human brain learns. The course is:

• Immersive.
• Instructor-led.
• Taught at a sustainable pace.

The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has a wealth of experience supporting large, medium and small companies to adopt agile into their organisation through consulting, coaching and training.

Simon is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Path to CSP Educator, an Agile Coaching Skills Educator, an ORSC® Trained Coach, a Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and a Changewise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He has trained thousands of students over many years.

For the online version of this course, you will need a laptop or desktop computer (no chromebooks). Access through a tablet or phone is not sufficient. We recommend that you use a personal laptop or PC as work laptops may not give full access or provide full functionality, which is required for the course.

Your computer must have a camera and microphone (built-in cameras and microphones are OK).

The course uses Zoom and a web browser (Chrome or Firefox recommended). Please make sure your Zoom client is up to date.

You do not need a computer for the in-person version of this course.