Instructor: Anu Smalley

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®)

Part 1 – Lean, Agile, and Scrum

  • Show how Scrum is aligned with the Agile Manifesto
  • Know the history of Scrum and Agile
  • Understand the value of other agile approaches
  • Analyze the personality traits of a ScrumMaster
  • Know when transparency inspection and adaptation are not working

Part 2 – Facilitation

  • Know how to recognize divergent and convergent thinking
  • Understand the challenges of integrating multiple perspectives
  • Use facilitative listening
  • Use alternatives to open discussion
  • Know when not to be a facilitator
  • Design a facilitated event
  • Create a working agreement

Part 3 – Coaching and Training

  • Understand the elements of a coaching stance
  • Use coaching techniques
  • Identify improvements to coaching interventions
  • Be able to explain Scrum and its benefits to a stakeholder

Part 4 – Service to the Scrum Team

  • Describe the qualities of a self-managing team
  • Use techniques to enable a team to improve its own effectiveness
  • Know different models for group development
  • Facilitate the creation of a Definition of Done
  • Explain development practices and how they are beneficial

Part 5 – Service to the Product Owner

  • Describe Product vision and Product Goals.
  • Know how to create a Product Goal with the Scrum Team and stakeholders.
  • Create and refine a Product Backlog that supports achieving a Product Goal.

Part 6 – Service to the Organization

  • Understand the organizational impediments that can affect your Scrum team
  • Practice how to resolve organizational impediments

Part 7 – Scaling Scrum

  • Recognize at least two approaches to scaling Scrum.
  • Techniques for visualizing, and reducing dependencies.
  • Benefits of feature teams versus component teams.

Part 8 – Organizational Change

  • Understanding complex systems.
  • Initiating organizational change.

Part 9 – Scrum Mastery

  • How you as a ScrumMaster fulfill the Scrum values
  • Recognize types of conflict
  • Patterns for responding to conflict
  • Effective leadership

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

Part 1: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an Iterative and Incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 2: The Scrum Team

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Single Product Owners
  • Product Owners own the Product Backlog
  • Delivering an Increment
  • Benefits of a cross-functional and self-managing Scrum Team

Part 3: Scrum Events and Activities

  • Benefits of Timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement
  • Inspecting and Adapting events
  • When to cancel a sprint
  • Daily Scrum is not a status meeting

Part 4: Scrum Artifacts and Commitments

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals,Sprint Goals, Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done
  • Multiple Teams working on one Product Backlog

Part 5: Scrum Master Core Competencies

  • Facilitation
  • Facilitating decision making
  • Teaching
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring

Part 6: Service to Scrum Team, Product Owner and Organization

  • How does a Scrum Master serve the Scrum Team
  • Explaining Technical Debt
  • Understanding development practices to improve quality and reduce technical debt
  • Supporting the Product Owner
  • Organizational impediments that affect Scrum Teams
  • Techniques for resolving impediments
  • Why are there no Project managers in Scrum?

Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • Product Owner in different organizations
  • Demonstrate progress on goals to Stakeholders
  • Gathering insights
  • Product Owner Interaction with Scrum teams
  • Product Ownership of multiple teams
  • Owning the Product backlog 
  • Collaborating with the Scrum team

Part 2: Goal Setting and Planning

  • Defining Value
  • Product Visions and Product Goals
  • Creating a Sprint Goal
  • Product Planning and Release Planning
  • Identifying small valuable increments

Part 3: Understanding Customers and Users

  • Product Discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Conflicting customer needs
  • Defining Product Outcomes
  • Connecting developers to users

Part 4: Validating Product Assumptions

  • Validating Product assumptions in Scrum
  • Approaches to validate assumptions

Part 5: Working the Product Backlog

  • Outcome vs Output
  • Maximizing outcomes
  • Product economics
  • Describing and measuring value
  • Creating Product Backlogs, Product Goals, and Product Backlog Items
  • Refining a Product Backlog

Part 6: Scrum Theory

  • Empiricism and the three empirical pillars
  • Benefits of an iterative and incremental approach
  • The Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum alignment to the Agile Manifesto

Part 7: Scrum Teams 

  • The responsibilities of the Scrum Team
  • The responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master
  • Working with stakeholders
  • Working with multiple teams

Part 8: Scrum events and activities

  • Benefits of timeboxing
  • Purpose of a Sprint
  • Define and perform Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Product Backlog Refinement

Part 9: Artifacts and commitments 

  • Purpose of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • The commitments of Product Goals, Sprint Goals, and Definition of Done
  • Product Backlog emergence
  • Attributes of a Product Backlog
  • Sprint and Increment relationship
  • Evolution of a Definition of Done

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPO®)

Part 1: Product Owner Core Competencies

  • The importance of the product ownership
  • The mindset and Actions of a Product Owner
  • Interacting with Stakeholders
  • Product Owners as facilitators
  • Facilitation techniques
  • Facilitation of conversations with Stakeholders
  • Understanding the risk of technical debt
  • Understanding the importance of development practices
  • Recognize approaches to scaling scrum
  • Visualizing and reducing dependencies
  • Benefits of Feature Teams

Part 2: Advanced Goal setting and planning

  • Operationalizing Product Strategy
  • Approaches to define product strategy
  • Product Planning
  • Visualizing and communication Strategy, ideas, and features

Part 3: Empathizing with Customers and Users

  • Connecting Developers with Customers
  • Customer product discovery techniques

Part 4: Advanced Product Assumption Validation

  • Recognize cognitive biases
  • Improving your Sprint Review
  • Defining Hypotheses
  • Planning how to test hypotheses
  • Validating assumptions in Scrum

Part 5: Product Backlog Management

  • Techniques for measuring value
  • Techniques for ordering Product Backlogs
  • Getting enough Product Backlog items ready
  • Improving Product Backlog Refinement