Advanced Certified ScrumMaster(A-CSM) Training
You Can Take Your Team to the Next Level
Learn How to Make Scrum Work in the Real World
Have you ever found yourself thinking:
- My team keeps taking multiple sprints to deliver a working feature. How can I get them to be more effective without resorting to bribery or threats? Oh, and don’t even get me started on quality issues.
- Our stakeholders want everything, all at once. Even worse, when we ask clarifying questions, they just don’t answer. Since cattle prods are frowned on, what can I do?
- Some team members are expressing dissatisfaction with Scrum, and frequently skip Retrospectives claiming they’re boring and ineffective. How can I make them attend?
- Is there any way to convince stubborn executives and stakeholders to support adopting Scrum? Asking for a friend.
If any of these sound familiar, we’ve got your back and will help you find the fix.
Any accredited Scrum Trainer can help you get a certificate that you can frame for your wall. But do they help you know how to work through the hard parts of Scrum?
Doing Scrum in real life isn’t easy. We equip with you the tools and support to make the difficult achievable, so you can do Scrum well.
Using 20+ years of experience teaching Scrum and the science of learning, we infuse our Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training program with humor and wit to make the experience fun and engaging. Plus, we back up our claims with hard evidence, so you can trust that you’re getting the real deal.
This ISN’T the same as other Advanced Certified ScrumMaster classes.
Not by a long shot. Some notable differences that should matter to you:
- You won’t sit around for two long days listening to boring PowerPoint and lectures that you’ll forget after you leave. This is an immersive learning experience, spread over several weeks so you have time to actually practice what you learn and then get follow-up support as needed. Instead of cheap, fast-food learning that leaves you hungry soon after, it’s a relaxed-paced, fine dining, nutritional experience for your ScrumMaster mind that leaves you full AND sends you home with the recipes so you can recreate it on your own. (Did we take that metaphor too far? Fair enough, but you get the point.)
- The course material is designed to help you start the improvement with your real team, right now. Since we have regular coaching calls, when you get stuck you’re not left on your own.
- Our experience. I’ve been doing/coaching/teaching Scrum since 2001 – longer than most people have known that it even exists. My co-trainers, Bernie and Anil, add their extensive experience to the mix, and you get access and support from all three of us. Why listen to one person’s opinion, when you can benefit from a hearty stew of collective expertise and experience to find something that hits the spot for you? (Okay, we’ll quit with the food analogies.)
- Why rely on opinions at all? Seems risky. We share our real life experiences, but we also back up what we say with published research and evidence. If you’re comparing to other workshops, see if they offer anything like that!
- Sure, we still include all the same stuff that other A-CSM workshops include for certification, but we’d die if we had to slog through that over and over again, so we make sure it’s at least fun and interesting, for all involved.
Move beyond being a ScrumMaster who is just trying to figure out how to go through the motions and hopefully be effective. Invest in a deeper understanding by learning and practicing new skills and tools that will help you confidently sell scrum to management, work with stakeholders to resolve impediments, and coach the product owner to create quality products.
- Live training with self-paced team challenges where your co-participants become your accountability partners. Easier to stay on track and motivated!
- Self-paced program allows us to deliver far more material than a traditional in-person workshop since we’re not constrained by two days of learning time.
- We host regular coaching calls, so challenging problems can be worked through live with your peer group.
- Our active forum is a safe place to ask follow up questions and clarify workshop material.
- Long after you have earned the certification, you will have access to the forum and the course materials.
- Hands-on practice and useful help. You don’t need any more boring theory. You need something that you can sink your teeth into and see immediate results. Learn on-the-job application of key Scrum concepts and practical solutions for difficult, real-life scenarios that you can apply the next day.
