Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)

The 'Advanced Certified ScrumMaster' training is delivered 'Live Online' in partnership with Adapt WithStyle.

Registrations for this A-CSM course close one week prior to the course starting to allow time to complete required pre-work.

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) course is about broadening your toolkit and deepening your skills to more effectively improve one or more Scrum Teams – especially in ambiguous and difficult situations.

A-CSM takes you beyond understanding Scrum to learn the skills necessary to be an effective Scrum Master or team-oriented Agile Coach. It equips you with specific techniques for teaching, facilitating, coaching, structured impediment resolution and much more.

During the A-CSM you will expand the stances that you work across, add techniques to your facilitation, teaching, coaching, impediment resolution, conflict management and organisational change toolkits. Learn how to accelerate team development and address limitations related to technical practices, scaling approaches and hybrid working.

The A-CSM is a exercise-based learning experience focused on skills acquisition to help you to take your leadership of Agile capability building to the next level. It builds on your learning and experience since you completed your CSM course.

For Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches, A-CSM training orients you with the breadth and depth of skills that you will need to successfully take a team beyond the basics toward high performance.

Come away with a clearer picture as to where you and your team(s) are at and what you can do straight away to improve where it matters.

Inclusions

• 2 days or 4 half days of highly interactive training.
• Active A-CSM certification with Scrum Alliance* for an initial 2 year term.

* for participants who meet the training participation requirements and complete the few pages of coursework in a manner that demonstrates sound understanding and sufficient relevant experience.

• Scrum Master Skills Toolkit – Understand what all Scrum Master stances look like in practice.
• Improving Scrum Implementation – Deal with ineffective Agile and Scrum adoption.
• Teaching Stakeholders – Teach stakeholders with varied frames of reference about Agile.

• Facilitation Skills – Gain facilitation techniques and know when to use them.
• Team Development – Identify what is required for your team to develop to high performance.
• Navigating Conflict – More resourcefully navigate conflict.
• Impediment Resolution – Analyse the cause of an impediment and prepare a persuasive request for resolving it.

• Product Goal Definition – Be able to facilitate the collaborative definition of an impact-focused Product Goal.
• Splitting Techniques – Teach your team to split stories/PBIs whilst still adding value.
• Coaching Skills – Practice coaching using powerful questions.
• Strengthening Done – Identify how to strengthen your team’s Definition of Done toward releasable.
• Agile Development Practices – Assess where your team can benefit from Agile development practices.

• Organisational Change Frameworks – Learn complexity-based approaches to organisational change.
• Scaling Patterns – Discuss the decisions involved in scaling up Agile to multiple teams.
• Your Journey to Scrum Mastery – Explore what the future holds for you as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.

Click the "REGISTER" button to complete your registration.

If you are registering for a live online training course, you will be taken to Eventbrite to continue your registration. Prices will be in Australian dollars, and you can use a credit card. If you want to arrange invoicing for the online course in New Zealand dollars, please contact us prior to registering.

The A-CSM certification involves 4 steps:

1. Online learning prior to the training,

2. 2 days or 4 half days of highly interactive training,

3. Submitting a few pages of coursework that demonstrates sound understanding and sufficient relevant experience, and

4. Logging 12+ months of relevant experience with Scrum Alliance.

There is no formal test or exam involved in earning A-CSM certification other than completing all coursework and exercises during the course in a way that demonstrates sound understanding of concepts and sufficient relevant experience.

Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Iteration Managers & Delivery Managers.

An CSM accreditation (this can be in-active), and 12+ months of work experience as a Scrum Master or similar*.

* If you have a little less than 12 months of experience, we are happy for you to bring this important learning experience forward. As per the prerequisites defined by Scrum Alliance, A-CSM certification cannot however be awarded without a prior CSM certification.

Rowan Bunning is a globally recognised educator and consultant in Agile management. He has over 27 years of experience in software intensive project delivery and product development.

In 2008, Rowan founded Adapt WithStyle (formerly Scrum WithStyle) to bring world-class Agile training and independent consulting to south-east Asia. As a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) with not-for-profit Scrum Alliance, Rowan has delivered over 530 certification courses including the full three level Path to Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP®) for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

Rowan holds a WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from the Singapore Institute for Adult Learning (IAL).

Rowan has played project management roles in the U.K. and Australia. This includes taking a high-profile online business to launch, and safely introducing frequent change to critical infrastructure processing AUD $250 billion worth of financial transactions daily.

Rowan is passionate about developing leaders skilled at developing teams and simplifying their organisations to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.