Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
- Location: Live Online
- Duration: 3 days
- Certification Fee Included
- Level: Advanced
- Trainer-led
- 16SEUs / 18CPD
Advance your career with our highly interactive ACSM® course. Build on your Scrum foundations and expand your influence by mastering practical, advanced techniques that help you work more effectively with agile teams, Product Owners and your wider organisation.
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to:
- Coach and motivate teams, Product Owners and stakeholders using a confident coaching stance
- Facilitate high-value collaboration with varied models for meetings, decision-making and conflict resolution
- Improve team performance by applying advanced techniques, removing impediments and understanding team development
- Strengthen agile delivery through deeper knowledge of Scrum, Agile/Lean concepts, empirical process control and key engineering practices
- Support product success by facilitating the creation of vision, product backlogs and clear definitions of Done
- Grow as a Scrum Master with increased self-awareness, servant leadership skills and the ability to guide scaling discussions
- Grow further with a free one to one coaching session
Why Beliminal?
Our expert trainers bring deep insight into the changing world of work and a passion for helping people and organisations grow.
Using accelerated learning techniques, our courses make learning more engaging, effective, and long-lasting.
Designed specifically for virtual delivery, our online courses use proven best practices to create an interactive and compelling learning experience.
Our course also offers:
- Satisfaction Guarantee
- Shorter days enhance your learning experience and increase your knowledge retention
- Smaller class size to ensure our attendees have the highest quality learning experience possible
- Free post course coaching session to reflect on your practice
- Free 'AI for Scrum Masters - Scrum Alliance Microcredential' on-demand course
- Training quality, validated by our 69 Net Promoter Score
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Need help deciding?
Schedule a 15 mins call with one of our Certified Scrum Trainers before the course. Iron out any questions or concerns you might have.
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.
Course topics
- 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
Why this course?
Deepen your knowledge of the Scrum Master accountabilities within Scrum – the most popular Agile framework and continue your agile training journey
Become a Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
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® – ScrumMaster (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 Scrum Master
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 free coaching session to reflect on your practice worth £250
Course materials and, for virtual courses, access to the Beliminal Learning Management System and online 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 issued by the CPD Standards Office
16 Scrum Education Units (SEU’s)
What about exams and certifications?
There are no exams for this course and on successful completion of the full programme you will be granted your Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification.
Who is this course suitable for?
This course is for Scrum Masters 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.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
You will already be a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) and have at least 1 years experience working as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
How should I prepare for this course?
Attendees should re-familiarise themselves with the Scrum Guide and conduct the pre-course reading.
