Overview
Are you ready to build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills to coach your team to increase engagement and encourage greater accountability, commitment & buy-in?
The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster qualification is the next step in the Scrum Alliance's Scrum Master Track. It's an advanced course for Scrum Masters who have completed and hold Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification and have at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role within the past five years.
Our highly interactive two-day course and personal assessment will support you in building on the foundational knowledge you discovered during your CSM course and since in the workplace including enhancing your implementation skills further and applying Agile techniques within your organisation and teams. This course is led by one of our world-class Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainers® (CST®) who combine their real-world experience with practical tools, real-life examples, lively discussion and interactive exercises to help you learn and embed key takeaways from the course.
Our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster course is an industry recognised certification - A-CSM, which is awarded by the Scrum Alliance. On completion of the A-CSM programme you will be you eligible to work towards the Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster® certification.
Prerequisites
- Hold Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
- Have at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years).
Delegates will learn how to
By the end of this course you will be able 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 organisation.
- Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.
- Leverage your learning to gain recognition and status as the local Agile expert in your company.
Outline
- Lean, Agile and Scrum Agile
- Coaching Service to the Organisation
- ScrumMastery
- Service to the Product Owner
- Service to the Development Team
- Agile Facilitation
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