Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) 

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Learning objectives:

• Lean, Agile and Scrum: History of Scrum and Agile, Expression of Values and Principles of the Agile Manifesto in Scrum, Other Lean / Agile Fundamentals, Empirical Process Control

• Agile Facilitation: All this and similar thinking, frames of reference, decision making, listening techniques, when the ScrumMaster should be a facilitator and when not 

• Agile coaching: coaching methods and techniques

• Helping the Development Team: fostering self-organization, solving challenges, understanding team dynamics, team formation and development models, what makes an Agile team effective 

• Helping the Product Owner: creating a solid Description of Completion and defining the Product Vision, understanding technical practices, moving from the Vision to the Worklist, coaching the Product Owner 

• Support for the Organization: solving obstacles, fighting dependencies between teams, changing the scope (scale), when scale is needed and when not, implementation of organizational changes 

• ScrumMastery: personal development based on Scrum values, understanding personal actions and reactions to conflict, ScrumMaster as servant leader

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​Through the A-CSM, you’ll learn to

• Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives

• Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people

• Increase engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in

• Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team