Course Detail
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COURSE CODE
AA-002
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DURATION
2 Days
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ATTENDEES
5 to 18

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
Unlock Advanced Techniques with the A-CSM Certification
You're now an experienced Scrum practitioner so let the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) course equip you with essential skills beyond the basics of Scrum.
The Advanced Certified Scrum Master course is an interactive two-day training course, which gives you guidance on communication, coaching and facilitation skills. You will be practicing a myriad of advanced personal, one-to-one and group exercises and will walk away with techniques to reinvigorate your leadership approach and take your team’s performance to the next level.
Course Objectives:
This course will enable delegates to:
- Deal with common agile problems
- Evolve their Agile teams
- Dive into team and relationship dynamics
- Learn how to keep things fresh for teams
- Coach teams and organisations in the agile mindset
- Help teams understand how to deal with different people and motivations
- Walk away with a ready-to-use toolkit of coaching and facilitation games, exercises and tools
- Understand how to employ Scrum in real world circumstances such as remote Scrum teams with people in different locations, fixed price contracts and third party supplier relationships
- Help your team or organisation to transition to a more Lean and Agile way of working using Scrum
- Understand how to combine the use of Scrum with other Lean and Agile approaches such as Kanban, eXtreme Programming (XP) and Agile Project Management (AgilePM).
Topics covered on this course include:
- Nurturing personal agility
- Increasing engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in
- Facilitating dialogue between the Product Owner, team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives
Coaching individuals
- Nurturing group agility
- Exercises and games for local and remote teams
- Understanding intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
- Continuous improvement
- Additional techniques
Coaching Teams
- Understanding the role of mentoring, coaching and facilitation
- Facilitating well and with Agility
- Interactive Facilitation Techniques
Advanced Facilitation
- Nurturing and coaching an agile mindset
- Challenges and removing impediments
- Communities of Practice
Coaching the Agile Organisation beyond the Team
Prerequisites:
The course can be taken by anyone with a basic Scrum certification. There is no examination. However, to earn Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification, you first must have an active Certified ScrumMaster® certification with Scrum Alliance, as well as at least one-year work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master.
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