Advanced Certified Scrum Master
Advanced Certified
Scrum Master®
Level up your skills as a
Scrum Master and distinguish
yourself in the global marketplace.
Join us to learn how to make scrum
work in the real world !
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Cohort Based Learning
Four-hour cohort sessions each week for 4 weeks to engage and learn advanced topics from the trainer and each other and try out what you learned in your organization between the sessions
Focus on Team Success
You will be part of a scrum team that has to overcome real life challenges in facilitation, coaching, organizational impediments and more
Advanced Scrum Mastery
Beyond the basics, this course will share 50+ tools and techniques to practice these in your organization and get live feedback from the trainer and your cohort
Do you relate to these in your organization?
- Customer demands are growing. How do I coach my product owner to keep up?
- Teams take multiple sprints to deliver a working feature. How do I coach them to become effective?
- Decisions on product features are not made quickly enough. How can I help my stakeholders?
- Many team members complain that scrum is not working for them. What alternatives can I present?
- Teams are growing. How do I scale the work across different locations?
- Attendees of scrum events are distracted or snoozing. How do I breathe energy and enthusiasm in these events?
- Teams are struggling with good engineering practices. I am not technical. How do I assist?
- Some features delight customers and some don’t. What are we missing?
Go beyond being the heartbeat of an effective team to helping many teams, coaching your product owner and being a beacon of change in your organization. Unlike other advanced courses where you learn the same material in 2-3 days, we have slowed things down to learn new material and be coached for an extended period on how to build a sustainable improvement process in your organization. Being part of a cohort means that you will provide support and accountability to each other to learn, earn your certificate and achieve scrum mastery
What You Will Get From This Course?
Become part of a cohort to provide accountability to each other and journey where you begin teaching scrum to executives, become better at facilitation and coaching, be able to make a decision to scale or not, coach your product owner and create a roadmap for effecting change in your organization
- A clear roadmap to help you chart your course in your organization
- Challenges and feedback from the instructor weekly
- 16 Scrum Education Units from Scrum Alliance
- Scrum Mastery to teach, coach and facilitate teams, product owners and organizations
- Real life case studies of successful scrum implementations
- Monthly coaching calls after the course where we can work together to tackle difficult challenges at work
Virtual Training That Is Fun, Interactive And Engaging
" I would highly recommend attending it because of the ease of acquiring new skills and the level of detail being studied "
Ulrich Z
" The instructor was resourceful and had very direct approach to the material, it felt like hanging out with my friends but every word was opening a new dominion of knowledge."
Mark L
"Anil is an excellent trainer. He ensures that you understand the concepts as well as gives you live examples which makes it worth while. I believe I am good at agile, specifically the scrum framework and these are the trainings that I received from Anil. He also helps you in getting more info and replies to your personal queries.."
Vikas Y.
Certified Scrum Trainer With Over 30 Years Of Industry Experience
Anil’s career had an explosive start in the early 1990s, he worked on a messaging product that sent messages across the world in 3 seconds with a team that aligned with the Values and Principles of Agile. The product won the best Open Systems Award in 1994. From the beginning of his career, he has been tinkering with code, infrastructure, product development and consulting in various industries.
His deep expertise in financial services and startups in developing business models have resulted in multiplying revenue and avoiding risk. He recently led a cloud transformation program for 250 application teams that saved one of the world’s largest bank over $25 million. His deep Agile, DevOps and leadership experience have guided multiple organizations achieve high throughput, market focus, productivity, and quality in building products. He has a deep interest in instructional design and is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room Trainer.
He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance and a Certified DevOps Trainer with DevOps Institute and is well regarded in the industry as an Agile, Executive and Technical Coach. He has helped several organizations successfully implement continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery and SRE practices. He is currently guiding the product marketing and development of a telemetry dashboard for Atlassian products.
What You Will Learn From This Course?
Scrum Master Core Competencies
Facilitation, Coaching and Training
Resolving Impediments
Value of engineering practices, finding practical solutions to make teams more productive, creating cohesion regardless of the number of people working in your team resulting in better conversations.
Servant Leadership
Demonstrate attributes of a servant leader to serve your team and organization to be effective.
Organizational Change
Become a change agent in your organization by providing agile coaching
Self-Organization
Brings collaboration and experimentation front and center. Learn team dynamics, take one step closer to personal development as a scrum master. Help team grow and find success together.
Coaching the product owner
Coach the product owner to translate the vision to the product goal and effectively refine the product backlog.
Scaling Scrum & Agile
Approaches to scale scrum and techniques for visualizing, managing, and reducing dependencies between teams.
The A-CSM® Certification Is Designed For…
- Scrum Master seeking to improve their craft and advance their journey to become a coach (CTC or CEC) and trainer (CST).
- Agile coaches seeking to bring about organizational change and helping scrum teams improve their effectiveness.
Frequent Asked Questions
FAQ
What is the cancellation policy?
Concepts & Beyond support staff is happy to assist you!
We understand that things can change, to cancel or substitute your registration for future date please contact us via email info@conceptsandbeyond.com or call us at 201-374-0893. Please note! Cancellation is possible up to 5 days before the start of a course with full refund excluding 4% transaction fee. Cancellation request received within 5 full business days prior to the course, will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. No credits or refunds will be available for participants who fail to attend after the class starts.
How long does it take for me to complete the program?
The cohort-based program is part of a team-based training where you will be taken through a scrum master journey from teaching scrum to stakeholders to creating a roadmap that suits your organization. The learner will attend 4 hour every week completing the certification in 4 to 6 weeks. The 4 sessions will include live training
How soon can I start the program after I sign up
As soon as you join you will be invited to join our learning academy to start the pre-work and the dates for the cohort sessions will be as per your registration page.
I do not have work experience working as a scrum master. Can I still take this program?
The 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master or Product Owner can be met at any time once you’ve attended an A-CSM or A-CSPO course. The work experience must be within the past five years.