Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® - Scrum Alliance

This highly interactive course will deepen your existing skills while enriching your understanding of Scrum and Agile, equipping you to work more effectively with development teams, product owners and your wider organisation.

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Description

Our interactive Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ training includes thought-provoking exercises and discussion followed by applied learning at your work and written reflection. You’ll learn fundamental facilitation and coaching techniques, as well as a range of Agile and Lean values and principles with a focus on team dynamics.

We use brain friendly, science based, accelerated learning techniques to help you really learn and increase your knowledge retention.

A one-to-one coaching session is included as part of the course – a valuable opportunity to reflect and challenge yourself to become an even better ScrumMaster. Further coaching support is available if you want to explore this powerful tool for professional and personal development.

Why this course?

• Deepen your knowledge of the ScrumMaster accountabilities within Scrum - the most popular Agile framework and continue your agile training journey
• Become a Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Scrum Master
• Gain the best Advanced Scrum Master certification and the most recognised and in demand certification from employers and recruiters
• Take a significant step in your agile journey to Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM) and agile coaching certification of Certified Team or Enterprise Coach

What you'll come away with

After validation with your coach you’ll come away as a A-CSM™. You’ll have grown in confidence and knowledge and be able to coach, motivate and facilitate teams and individuals more effectively.

You’ll be able to:

• Coach teams, product owners and stakeholders effectively
• Use a range of techniques to improve team performance
• Facilitate teams, using different facilitation models
• Organise collaborative meetings
• Identify, analyse and resolve impediments
• Deal with conflict more effectively
• Demonstrate a coaching stance
• Explain Scrum to your organisation
• Foster your own self-organisation using specific techniques
• Share your understanding and examples of Empirical Process Control
• Facilitate the creation of a Vision and Product Backlog
• Facilitate the creation of a definition of Done
• Describe a wide range of Agile and Lean concepts and understand their context
• Understand team development models
• Describe a number of engineering practices and how they affect a team’s ability to deliver a potentially shippable product increment
• Compare and contrast different scaling options
• Understand Servant Leadership
• Become more self-aware of yourself as a ScrumMaster

What the course includes

• High quality instruction from our Certified Scrum Trainers and Certified Agile Coaches with many years experience of training Scrum and very importantly implementing Scrum in the real world
• One coaching session to reflect on your practice worth £125
• Course materials and for virtual courses access to the BeLiminal Learning Management System and on-line content created during the course
• Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ certification on successful completion
• 2 years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance worth $100
• Membership of our BeLiminal alumni community where you can receive help and support from the BeLiminal coaches and fellow alumni
• Access to exclusive resources
• Loyalty discount for future courses
• Loyalty discount for personal/life coaching
• 14 Category B Professional Development Units (PDUs) can be claimed for this course
• 18 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours and CPD certificate
• 16 Scrum Education Units (SEU's)
• For in-person/classroom-based courses on our public schedule, refreshments before and during the course, including lunch

Why choose BeLiminal?

Our training has a depth and a power that inspires and changes you. Our trainers are some of the most experienced in the world and have rich insights into the changing world of work and a passion for transforming teams and organisations. They are able to bring your training alive by revealing its true power – helping you unleash your own potential as well as the potential of those you work with.

In addition you benefit from: -

• Delivery of a virtual course that has been designed from the ground up for virtual delivery using best practice tried and tested techniques to provide an engaging and compelling virtual experience
• Reduced class size for virtual courses to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
• Shorter training days which are vitally important when training in a virtual manner that enhance your learning experience and increase your knowledge retention
• Highly respected Scrum Trainers and Coaches with decades of experience delivering high-quality Scrum training and implementing and coaching Scrum in the real world – 5/5 star rating (from Google Reviews)
• Course Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 72 (above 70 is classified as “world class”)

What topics are covered?

• Agile and Lean Values, Principles, and Worldview
• Empirical Process Control
• Basic Facilitation
• Coaching Fundamentals
• Self Organisation
• Team Dynamics
• Definition of Done
• Value of Engineering Practices
• Going from Vision to Ready
• Coaching the Product Owner
• Resolving Impediments
• Scaling Scrum
• Organisational Change
• Developing Yourself

This course is for ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches with at least a years experience in the role. You must have Agile experience as the course will build on your experiences in order to deepen your understanding of Agile and yourself.

• You will already be a Certified ScrumMaster®(CSM®)
• At least 1 years experience working as a ScrumMaster or Agile Coach

Advanced Scrum Master leading to Certified Scrum Professional which in turn can lead to Certified Team Coach and Certified Enterprise Coach. The career path is that of your journey of Agile Coaching.