Advanced
Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)®

We'll re-establish a baseline of what Scrum IS and isn't.

Set a foundation on Scrum aligned to the 2020 revision of the Scrum Guide, and what those updates mean.

Refresh out understanding of the different elements that make up the framework itself.

What does "self-managing" mean for individuals and teams?

Review of the differences between "working groups" and teams, as well as what makes a Team a "Real Team"

Understand what the journey from "individuals working together" to "individuals and interactions as a team" looks like, and how the Scrum Master facilitates that.

What is "coaching" as a Scrum Master who is supporting the Team and Organization.

What "stances" can a Scrum Master coach from?

How can active listening be applied along with exploration through powerful questions help other uncover their own insights and take action.

Apply these through a simulation of a common workplace scenario.

Review and assess why a Product Vision and Product Goals are essential for helping members of the team and their stakeholders to have productive interactions.

Review how Story Mapping is a collaborative technique to uncover Product Goals and help a Product Backlog emerge.

Explore and assess how Product Backlogs emerge from a Vision and Goals through a simulation of a non-software project.

Review and assess our present understanding of how the DoD applies to our team's quality.

Review some examples of applying different DoD's and discuss what opportunities we have to improve our team's efforts of making a quality product, sustainably.

Formulate an approach for how a meeting to address our DoD and/or technical debt would look like. Including what coaching stance(s) and facilitation techniques we'd apply.

Assess the issue of Impediments the team encounters.

Review several different approaches to researching the causes behind what impedes a team's self-improvement and improving the product it creates.

Apply some of these approaches to a selection real-life instances of impediments commonly encountered by teams and formulate and example of how the Scrum Master would help the team pursue addressing the impediment from within the Team.

Review different Change Management approaches and how these apply as the nature of the Product grows (or scales) 

Overview of different approaches to applying multiple Scrum Teams to creating a product, and what happens to Product OwnerSHIP as well as other functional area that may be present in an organization.

Review the current environment a student operates in as a Scrum Master and how this modules material can be applied back to their work today.

We'll wrap up the course with an appreciative review of the ground we've covered and discuss "What's next?"

Review of the Agile Manifesto and what led up to it, and the influences of Lean, TPS

Overview of the Kanban Method

Overview of Extreme Programming (XP) practices and principles 

Assess how we're currently doing in our professional practice and what could be better.

Understand what facilitation is in general as well as in context to the Scrum Team.

Learn about several facilitations techniques and applying them (Liberating Structures, etc.)

Assess any facilitation techniques the student has used in the past and formulate ideas how to improve them.​

Review "the process" of facilitation through an examination of what a goes into preparing, facilitating and achieving a meetings objectives/goals with actions and outcomes that tie back to the purpose for the meeting.

Prepare for and run through a simulation of an example team event involving (a) stakeholder(s) and members of the team.

Review and assess how a Product Backlog can be decomposed and examples of Backlog Items the team can create increments of Product through Example Mapping (with a brief overview of  Behavior-Driven Development)

Overview of different strategies for how to decompose backlog items via horizontal and vertical slicing approaches..

A continuation of the non-software project simulation from the previous module, applying this modules learnings to the backlog items and Product Goals.

Dispel the myth that Product Backlog Items are just a list of "User Stories".

Who captures, defines, orders, and estimates any work.

What is the "value" of a backlog item?

Who is responsible for managing all that stuff?

Continue the last modules conversation expanding to the realm of impediments a team navigates that are systemic (or organizational) in nature or sourced from.

Review and assess the impact of poor or absent Product Ownership, and other organizational dysfunctions.

Learn about Conflict Management and how to leverage constructive conflict while trying to keep destructive conflict from derailing the Teams process and decision-making.

Review different forms of "Scrum but" that commonly occur due to organizational dysfunctions.

Apply this modules insights to a students current organizational impediments and create a plan to improve your Scrum MasterING to help work on eliminating at least 1 impediment.

The capstone exercise to the course.

The student will review their present day mode and demonstration of Scrum and the Scrum Values, as a Scrum Master.

Create a plan for several personal improvements that student in good faith will set for themselves to improve their own application of Scrum MasterING.