Advanced Certified Scrum Master

Event Description

What is A-CSM?

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (CSP-SM) is one of the top most certificates in the IT industry. It’s a certificate program awarded to Scrum Masters with atleast one year of experience as a Scrum Master.

Who is a ScrumMaster?

A ScrumMaster is a development facilitator who is responsible for enabling Scrum teams to maximize their effectiveness by addressing systemic issues and dysfunctions in the team. The ScrumMaster has four primary focus areas: System Design, Development Practices, coaching Product Owner and coaching Development Team. This workshop is a role-specific workshop to learn about the role of ScrumMaster. Here from Apeksha on who is a Scrum Master.

Who is an Advanced Certified Scrum Master?

Advanced Scrum Master is the one who facilitates better dialogue between Product Owner, Development Team, Customers, Stakeholders, and executives. Advanced Scrum Master also responds confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, and unavailability of key people. He/She scale Scrum & Agile beyond a single team.

What's the career path for Scrum Masters?

Every organization crafts its own path for Scrum Masters. However, the general path is as below:

How are the workshops run?

The workshop us run using Scrum with a digital board as shown below(from a recent CSM workshop). We use Zoom as video conferencing tools and teams will use breakout rooms for team excercises. The workshop would consist of real life cases and experience sharing from the instructor.

About the trainer:

Apeksha Patel is the first woman CST in India and is the first Accredited Kanban Trainer. She is a practicing Coach and works as part of a Scrum team. She practices a wide variety of coaching frameworks like ORSC, NLP and Leadership Gift. She has been in the industry for over 17 years in both service and product companies as a DevOps expert. You will get a flavor of both the coaching and development world.

Course Material:

1. You will get digital copy of the workbook and all the content created during two days.

2. Access your course material anytime on the go through Leapitch App.

Access your course content, addtional eLearning courses, Quizzes, videos and webinar recordings on the Leanpitch mobile app. Download the app here.

3. Get FREE membership to Agility Thinking and Product Thinking Community

Agility Thinking community conducts weekly webinars and monthly meetups on various topics like organizational design, transformation, coaching, agile, scrum, kanban and more. Join community here.

Product Thinking Community conducts weekly webinars and monthly meetups on topics of Product Management, Product Design, User Research, UX design and more. Join the community here

3. Access to 4 crash courses every month to enable continuous learning to help you lead transformation. The following recordings are available now:

REDUCEing barriers for change

Overcoming Immunity to Change

Agile Estimation using Story Points

Inquiry using NLP Meta models

Managing Conflcits

JIRA for Scrum Teams

JIRA Project Administration

Visit https://leanpitch.com/onlinecourses for upcoming schedule of crash courses.

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What do you get out of the course?

After you complete the course, you’ll know

Why do Organizations need ScrumMasters?

What are the skills a ScrumMaster should have?

How to help Organizations design a process that helps them build right products?

How to facilitate Organizational change?

How to help Product Owner to convert vision into incremental pieces of delivery?

How to help Development teams address the issues that affect their effectiveness?

On successful completion of the course, you’ll receive

Advanced Certified Scrum Master Certification the fee is covered in the course fee.

Scrum Alliance membership for 2 years.

Digital material of eveything discussed during the workshop.

Pre-course Preparation

We want you to make most of the time you spend with our trainers and other participants. Learning maximizes with the perspective of others. So we expect you to go through online articles and videos to prepare for the workshop. The online material includes:

Go through the pre-workshop material for A-CSM workshop on Leanpitch Dashboard.

Take an assessment validate your learning from CSM

Submit writeup on your experience report as a Scrum Master

Work on pre-workshop case studies

Learning during the course:

The workshop is designed to help participants gain experience as Scrum Master. The topics covered in the workshop are based on the focus areas of the ScrumMaster. You will be learning the role of Scrum Master through role-plays and by doing. The whole course is split into 4 Sprints with each Sprint focusing on the following topics:

Sprint 1: What is Lean, Agile and Scrum?

Lean Thinking

What are the Lean principles?

What are Lean Thinking principles?

How to identify value in Value stream?

What are the types of wastes in Lean?

Kanban Method

What is Kanban and what it is not?

Where Kanban is applicable?

How and why to limit work in progress?

Agile and Scrum

How are Scrum and Scrum events empirical?

Where is Scrum useful and why?

How are Agile values and principles mapped to Scrum?

Sprint 2: Scrum Master Competencies

Facilitation

What are the different types of Facilitation?

How to identify Boundaries in Coaching and maintain neutrality?

Modes of thinking (Lateral, Convergent and Divergent Thinking)

How to facilitate Scrum events?

What are the different types of facilitation techniques that can be employed?

Coaching

Agile coaching competencies framework

How to be mindful and bring self-awareness in Coaching?

Learn The Five C’s and Effective Communication as an interpersonal skill

An essential element to a coaching relationship - Coaching Contract. How to create an effective coaching contract.

Training

How to train the Organization in the adoption of Scrum?

Sprint 3: Coaching the Development Team

Self-Organization

How to build self-organizing teams

What are the challenges in Self-Organization?

How to overcome the challenges in self-organization?

Team Dynamics

How does Relationship coaching impact team performance?

Difference between workgroups and teams

How to bring change by understanding the team’s immunity to change and helping them Transform?

How to Design a Team and Coaches Alliance?

Definition of Done

How to come up with an agreement to create DoD?

What are the different techniques that facilitate the creation of DoD?

Engineering Practices:

How engineering practices can help the team deliver potentially releasable increments?

How Engineering practices can help when there are more than one scrum teams?

Sprint 4: Coaching the Product Owner and the Organization

Coaching Product Owner

How to Facilitate Product Envisioning (between Product Owner and Team)?

Decoding the Product Vision into Backlog

How to split and create effective and meaningful Product Backlog Items?

What are the ways to have an impactful product backlog refinement?

Learn techniques to prioritize product backlog?

How does the presence of PO during retrospectives impact the product development?

Coaching Organization

What are some of the Organizational impediments and how to deal with them?

What approaches would facilitate the identification and resolving of impediments?

To scale or NOT to scale – The why, when and how?

Scaling Scrum Case Studies

How does Systems Coaching impact team productivity?

Event Venue

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