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Agility Course

A-CSM

Advanced Certified SrumMaster Training

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CAL E, O & T | Dec 20,21,22

A-CSM Course Introduction

Enhance your Scrum Master skills to the next level by getting your advanced certification as a Scrum Master. Scrum Alliances Advanced Scrum Master certification introduces you to new tools, communication and facilitation skills and techniques for guiding your team and organization in an evolving business and organizational landscape. Focus of the A-CSM course is not only to help you advance your certification level, but also help you to hone your skills in the “softer” aspects of leadership, like effective facilitation and communication amongst multiple teams and stakeholders.

  • Deeper learning of the ScrumMaster role
  • Common Scrum and agile problems at the team and organizational level
  • Improving team and organizational relationship dynamics
  • Understand and leverage the motivations of individuals and teams to get better in Scrum

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Learning Expectations

Deeper and maturity of understanding of Scrum and Agile from the point of view of a ScrumMaster, along with critical skills such as

  • Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives
  • Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people
  • Increase engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in
  • Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team
  • Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills
  • Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
  • Stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community
  • Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional
  • Key coaching skills and their application at personal and Scrum Team level
  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking and decision making
  • Navigating and facilitating through Groan Zone of decision making · Deeper understanding of the value, principles, and practices of Lean, Agile and Scrum
  • Self-Organization and team Dynamics and key attributes of effective teams
  • Coaching for high performing teams
  • Defining and delivering to the Definition of Done
  • Agile engineering practices
  • Product Vision and Strategy
  • Product Backlog Refinement strategy
  • Collaboration and product backlog enhancement with Development Team
  • Personal growth actions for a ScrumMaster
  • Scrum Master as Servant Leader

Professional Benefits

  • Earn 16 PMI PDUs
  • Earn 16 Scrum Alliance SEUs
  • Complete the prerequisite to earn the Certified Scrum Master Certification
  • A-CSM badge and recognition on the Scrum Alliance webpage
  • Upgrade your skill set to the demands of the market
  • 2 years of membership to Scrum Alliance (this is covered by Agility Technology)

Course Overview

Lean, Agile and Scrum

  • Scrum values and Agile Manifesto
  • Historical development of Scrum and Agile
  • Lean and Agile development approaches
  • Traits of a good Scrum Master
  • Empirical Process

Scrum Master Core Competencies

  • Divergent and Convergent team thinking
  • Facilitation techniques
  • Open discussions techniques for teams
  • Facilitation skills for a Scrum Master
  • Working Agreements
  • Coaching skills and stances for a Scrum Master

Service to the Development Team

  • Self-Organization and challenges and resolutions that teams face
  • Team dynamics Difference between working group and a team Attributes of effective teams Enhance team performance
  • Definition of Done creation for technical and non-technical products
  • Development Practices that teams can adopt to become more effective

Service to Product Owner

  • Creation and refinement of Product Owner
  • Moving from product vision to product backlog

Resolving Impediments

  • Identifying impediments and root cause analysis

Scaling Scrum

  • Focus on LeSS and S@S scaling solutions
  • Why organization decide to scale
  • Managing and visualizing dependencies

Scrum Mastery

  • Analyzing and fulfilling Scrum values
  • Individual driving factors
  • Servant leadership
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Prerequisites

The prerequisite to earn an Advanced CSM, is that you  must have an active CSM® certification with Scrum Alliance®, as well as at least one-year work experience specific to the role of ScrumMaster. For more details on Scrum Alliance requirements, visit the  following link website.

Steps to attain A-CSM Certification

  • Step 1:Hold a CSM® from Scrum Alliance (depending on your track.) You may not substitute a certification from a different track (i.e., using a CSM® for an A-CSPO course.)
  • Step 2: Attend a minimum 16-hour A-CSM. You may find in-person, live online, and/or mentoring courses by visiting our Course Search
  • Step 3: Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by your approved educator to complete the learning objectives.
  • Step 4: Accept the A-CSM License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.
  • Step 5: Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years.) This can be met before or after attending the course. Work experience is entered and validated on your Scrum Alliance account.
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