Advanced Certified Scrum Master® Workshop (A-CSM®) – Evelyn Tian - Richardson, Dallas

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM™)

Note: Strictly Limited to 8 aspiring participants ONLY !! This is NOT a session for those who are new to Agile and Scrum.  All attendees must have the Certified ScrumMaster certification (CSM) and with a minimum of one year practice prior to the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop.

All Advanced CSM courses are taught by Educators approved by the Scrum Alliance. Taking an Advanced CSM course, meeting the 7 learning objectives, and accepting the license agreement designates you as an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster.Please review your trainer's course description below to determine which learning objectives this course satisfies.

Path to CSP: To become a Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster™ (CSP-SM), you must satisfy following eligibility criteria: 

• Be a current holder of an active Advanced Certified ScrumMasterTM (A-CSMTM) credential.
• Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering
• Have a minimum of 24 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (from within the past five years).

Host: Evelyn Tian (Certified Scrum Trainer)

Course Overview:

This is a highly interactive course where students are encouraged to ask questions and be engaged in the class activities to cement their learning. The course objectives are enhanced by real world experiences shared by the instructor. The instructor shares Scrum rules and various opinions so that students can best understand how this will impact them and which techniques are flexible and which ones can’t be changed in order to obtain the benefits of Scrum.

The engaging tutor-led  Advanced Certified Scrum Master Course (A-CSM):

Course Objectives: 

Coacing Concepts

• Coaching Stances
• Key coaching skills and their application at personal and Scrum Team level
• Agile coaching

Agile Facilitation

• Divergent and Convergent Thinking
• Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
• Decision making

A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum

• Value, principles and practices to leverage as a ScrumMaster 

Services to Development Team

• Self-Organization and team Dynamics
• Key attributes of effective teams
• Coaching for high performaning teams
• DoD
• Agile engineering practices

Services to Product Owner

• The services around Product Vision and Strategy
• Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
• Product Backlog Refinment tactics
• The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team

Services to Organization

• Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
• Agile scaling approaches and principles
• Introducing new ideas 
• Tactics and tools for orgnization change

Personal Development

• Coaching practices for personal growth actions
• Povital conversation
• Scrum Master as Servant Leader

Additional Course Information: http://aleph-technologies.com/scrum-alliance-certification/

Cancellation Policy:

In order for us to provide the most experienced instructors and a superior classroom environment, we must ask you to adhere to our cancellation policy. If it is necessary to cancel or reschedule this registration, please notify us immediately. Our cancellation policy is as follows:

• 11 or more business days prior to class, 100% refund of tuition.
• 1-10 business days prior to class, no refund, but may reschedule another class within one year of date of cancelled class.
• First day of class, no refund of tuition, retake policy may apply.