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Program overview
Online
On-site
Hybrid
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) is the second level of the Scrum Master track. It is designed for practising Scrum Masters with at least one year of real-world experience who want to deepen their facilitation, coaching, and leadership skills. The course builds directly on the CSM foundation and focuses on practical application in complex organisational environments.
Duration:
2 Days
Level:
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1500+ users onboarded
Who will Benefit from this Training?
Training Objectives
Build a high-performing, job-ready tech team.
Personalise your team’s upskilling roadmap and design a befitting, hands-on training program with Uptut
Key training modules
Comprehensive, hands-on modules designed to take you from basics to advanced concepts
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- Scrum Master Stances and Mindset
- The five stances of an effective Scrum Master: coach, facilitator, teacher, mentor, impediment remover
- Moving from a task manager to a servant leader
- Self-assessment of current Scrum Master effectiveness
- Growth mindset and continuous improvement for practitioners
- Advanced Facilitation
- Principles of professional facilitation in an Agile context
- Designing and running effective Sprint ceremonies
- Techniques for distributed and hybrid team facilitation
- Managing conflict and dysfunctional team dynamics
- Liberating Structures and other participatory methods
- Running high-impact retrospectives using varied formats
- Coaching Skills for Scrum Masters
- Coaching vs. mentoring vs. consulting: when to use each
- Active listening, powerful questioning, and deep inquiry
- Coaching the Product Owner on backlog health and stakeholder management
- Coaching Developers on self-management and technical practices
- Coaching leaders and managers on Agile leadership behaviours
- Handling resistance to change
- Increasing Team Engagement
- Psychological safety: what it is and how to build it
- Motivational frameworks: intrinsic motivation, autonomy, mastery, purpose
- Identifying and addressing team dysfunctions (five dysfunctions model)
- Building trust and accountability on Scrum teams
- Feedback models and creating a culture of continuous feedback
- Responding to Organisational Impediments
- Systems thinking and its application in Agile environments
- Identifying root causes of recurring impediments
- Influencing without authority: working with management and executives
- Navigating organisational politics and change resistance
- Creating visualisations to expose systemic issues (impediment boards, systems maps)
- Scaling Beyond a Single Team
- Introduction to multi-team coordination patterns
- Communities of Practice and Scrum of Scrums
- Dependency management across teams
- Overview of scaling frameworks: SAFe, LeSS, Nexus
- The Scrum Master's role in a scaled Agile context
- Leadership Attributes of an Effective Scrum Master
- Agile leadership models and how they apply to the Scrum Master role
- Leading organisational transformation from the Scrum Master position
- Building your personal Scrum Master development plan
- The path from A-CSM to CSP-SM and beyond
Hands-on Experience with Tools
Training Delivery Format
Flexible, comprehensive training designed to fit your schedule and learning preferences
Opt-in Certifications
AWS, Scrum.org, DASA & more
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100% Live
on-site/online training
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Hands-on
Labs and capstone projects
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Lifetime Access
to training material and sessions
Skill-Gap Assessment
Analysing skill gap and assessing business requirements to craft a unique program
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Personalisation
Customising curriculum and projects to prepare your team for challenges within your industry
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Implementation
Supplementing training with consulting support to ensure implementation in real projects
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Why this course
- Recognised credential: Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) credential from Scrum Alliance, valid for two years.
- Practical skills: Ability to facilitate complex team conversations and multi-stakeholder sessions.
- Practical skills: Practical coaching techniques to develop self-managing, high-performing teams.
- Practical skills: Skills to address systemic impediments at the team and organisational level.
- Organisational value: Readiness to operate in scaled Agile environments across multiple teams.
- Career progression: Foundation to progress to the Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM).
Training objectives
- Facilitate productive dialogue and difficult conversations across teams and stakeholders
- Apply coaching techniques to support individual and team growth
- Respond confidently to organisational impediments and systemic challenges
- Increase team engagement, psychological safety, and self-management
- Use techniques to scale Scrum practices across multiple teams
- Demonstrate the characteristics of a servant leader in an Agile context
- Distinguish between coaching, mentoring, facilitating, and teaching as stances
- Design and facilitate retrospectives that produce meaningful change
Who will benefit
- Scrum Masters
- Project Managers
- Agile Coaches
- Team Leads
- Delivery Managers
- Scrum team members
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Frequently Asked Questions
2. Will my team get any practical experience with this training?
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With our focus on experiential learning, we have made the training as hands-on as possible with assignments, quizzes and capstone projects, and a lab where trainees will learn by doing tasks live.
3. What is your mode of delivery - online or on-site?
We conduct both online and on-site training sessions. You can choose any according to the convenience of your team.
4. Will trainees get certified?
Yes, all trainees will get certificates issued by Uptut under the guidance of industry experts.
5. What do we do if we need further support after the training?
We have an incredible team of mentors that are available for consultations in case your team needs further assistance. Our experienced team of mentors is ready to guide your team and resolve their queries to utilize the training in the best possible way. Just book a consultation to get support.