Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™

Are you ready to build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills to coach your team to increase engagement and encourage greater accountability, commitment & buy-in?

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster qualification is the next step in the Scrum Alliance's Scrum Master Track. It's an advanced course for Scrum Masters who have completed and hold Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification and have at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role within the past five years.

Our highly interactive two-day course and personal assessment will support you in building on the foundational knowledge you discovered during your CSM course and since in the workplace including enhancing your implementation skills further and applying Agile techniques within your organisation and teams. This course is led by one of our world-class Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainers® (CST®) who combine their real-world experience with practical tools, real-life examples, lively discussion and interactive exercises to help you learn and embed key takeaways from the course.

Our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster course is an industry recognised certification - A-CSM, which is awarded by the Scrum Alliance. On completion of the A-CSM programme you will be you eligible to work towards the Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster® certification.

Why choose this course?

• You will improve your confidence in leading a scrum team and we offer excellent post-course support to ensure any questions or queries you have when back in the real world, are answered promptly.
• The course is deigned to be a step by step, easy to follow process so you understand the specific actions you can take the following day to turn the learning into results.
• You will be equipped to facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives. Able to Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team
• You will respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people
• Your team will have increased engagement encouraging greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in
• The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster qualification is a fantastic next step qualification in the tech world and beyond helping to distinguish yourself in the global marketplace.
• We pride ourselves in ensuring that your trainer has hands on experience in the real world so that you’re not simply learning from an instructor, but from someone who understands how to apply the theory successfully.

What attendees have said:

"Excellent course, discussions with peers and plenty of experience and theory to reflect and research"

"It was exactly what i needed to get me back on track as a scrum master"

"Loved it! Peter's style is excellent. His non-linear approach allows lots of learning and sharing yet we still covered all content!"

"Very knowledgeable trainer who delivered the course in an engaging and interesting manner. A good pace that covered a lot of material in two days."

"Good balance of theory and experience sharing from the room. Group exercises worked well to use the theory immediately."

"Brilliant, great tools / techniques. Glad it wasn't another 'let's focus on the scrum process' course."

FAQs

COVID-19

On Tuesday 10th March 2020, Scrum Alliance announced it would allow the remote delivery of A-CSM training for a limited time. While Scrum Alliance permit remote delivery, Radtac is planning to to facilitate many of our scheduled training via our Live-Online virtual classroom. We are continually reviewing this decision based on advice from the local authorities in the region of delivery to ensure the safety of our clients. team and partners. For further information please see our policy here. We understand in-person interactive collaborative training experiences are preferred by many of our clients, we want to ensure that during challenging times different approaches are available to support our clients.

What is a Live-Online course?

Live-Online courses are those delivered via our virtual (online) classroom. You will collaborate and interact with your course tutor and participants in real-time via video conferencing and our our digital workspace. You can read more about our Live-Online courses, tools and watch a short video on what to expect here. For public scheduled Live-Online courses you should for look for the dates with a location set as Live-Online <city>. The city is used to highlight the timezone the class will be set in but can be joined by anyone who can be present during the duration of the course.

How do I reserve my place on a public course?

Simply click on the blue button on this page titled ‘Book Course’ to reserve you place today. This is a very popular course, spaces fill quickly and it is recommended that you book your course as soon as practicable. We always ensure our pricing is competitive and offers real value for money.

How do I book a number of employees for private a course?

If you would like one of our qualified trainers to host to your organisation, simply click the button on this page titled ‘Onsite Enquiry', fill in your details and we will be in touch within 24hrs. We can then personalise the program to fit your specific needs, tailored to your specific business outcomes and budget.

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• Scrum Alliance Certifications: What's Your Journey?

Topics covered are:

• Lean, Agile and Scrum
• Agile Coaching
• Service to the Organisation
• ScrumMastery
• Service to the Product Owner
• Service to the Development Team
• Agile Facilitation

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Facilitate dialogue between the Product Owner, team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives.
• Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people.
• Help your company adopt Scrum and support executives committed to Agile values.
• Remove impediments that prevent long-term, deep adoption of Scrum and Agile practices by all parts of the business.
• Explain the value of Scrum and Agile processes to skeptics.
• Increase developer engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in.
• Extend the impact of Scrum throughout the organisation.
• Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.
• Leverage your learning to gain recognition and status as the local Agile expert in your company.

This course is aimed at any existing Certified ScrumMaster® who wishes to further and enhance their skills. It will help anyone who is on the lifelong journey of incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into their world of work.

• Hold Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
• Have at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years).

Any pre-course preparation will be provided after registration.

To earn an Advanced CSM (A-CSM), you first must have an active CSM® certification with Scrum Alliance®. With your CSM, you must successfully achieve and be validated by our Scrum Alliance Path to CSP Educator, all the A-CSM™ learning objectives defined. You must successfully complete all Educator-designed components of an approved educational offering, in addition to demonstrating at least one-year work experience specific to the role of ScrumMaster.

Two-days of high quality instruction from our Scrum Alliance Certified Path to CSP Educators.
Also included are:

• ScrumMaster self assessment
• Course presentation slides and all materials.
• Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification on successful completion of the programme
• Two years membership to the Scrum Alliance
• Radtac Community membership including face-to-face and virtual networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, access to industry experts, special offers and invitations to special events

We use Zoom video conferencing to host our live online courses via a virtual classroom. We recommend that before registering participants run a zoom test meeting and check system requirements to ensure they are able to connect. Participants will also use our digital workspace, Mural and our Agile Tools Mobile app for collaboration with the class and completing exercises for the duration of the course. You’ll find links below to test and explain requirements for each of these tools.

Zoom requirements

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux

Zoom test meeting

https://zoom.us/test

Mural requirements (if relevant)

https://support.mural.co/en/articles/2113688-technical-requirements-to-run-mural

Miro requirements (if relevant)

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017731553-System-requirements

Agile Tools Mobile App

https://www.radtac.com/resources/agile-tools-mobile-app/

On registration full information will be provided via joining instructions to each partcipant with instructions on how to acess the virtual classroom and additional tools.

Still unsure? Talk to our team of friendly learning advisors, they are here to assist before, during and after your class if you have any questions.