Advanced Certified ScrumMaster

Course description:

Through the A-CSM, you’ll learn to:

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

Benefits:

• 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

What you get:

• Recognition by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified ScrumMaster after passing the certification criteria
• A two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, a $100 value
• Fully paid exam fees
• A 50-page course workbook
• PMPs: This course counts for 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs).
• SEUs: This course qualifies as 16 Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) towards Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Content:

Lean, Agile, Scrum

• Preparation work Debrief
• Empirical Process Control

Importance of Facilitation

• Diverge and Converge
• Decision making
• Effective meetings

Agile Coaching

• Why coaching?
• Tools and techniques

Team dynamics and self-organisation

• Optimizing team-work
• Alignment

Craftsmanship

Coaching the Product Owner

Organizational Improvement

• Resolving Impediments
• Systematic organizational learning
• Scaling

Scrum Mastery

Requirements:

Hold a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years).

Instructor bio:

Geir Amsjø

Geir was the first Norwegian Certified Scrum Trainer and has worked full time with agile and Scrum since 2004. He has up to now certified more than 3000 CSMs and CSPOs. Geir has been devoted to agile since early 2000. Back then, while working as a consultant on Software Process Improvement (SPI) and University teacher, he arranged the first agile seminars and courses in Norway.
Geir has been working with software development since late 1980’s in many different roles. He is now a part of the Norwegian investment and consultancy company Lean Venture, and works as a coach guiding companies in their struggle to become agile. The experience range from small to large companies, software to electronics and a lot of different domains. Geir always use a strong combination of teaching and coaching skills in order to give the course participants best possible value for their money.