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Advanced Certified
ScrumMaster®
(A-CSM) 

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Take your Scrum Master competencies to the next level and stand out from the crowd.

Join the 2% of CSMs holding the A-CSM designation, showcasing your validated industry experience & expertise.

  • Monthly Alumni Mentoring

  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee*

  • Free Retake

  • Access to Alumni Network of 1000+

  • 3000+ satisfied alumni. See our Testimonials

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Our Next Training

Format

Live Online

Three 5-hour Sessions

Class + Cohort Work

Fully Interactive

Small Class Size

Certificate

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Taghi Paksima
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Why do it with us?

  • Money back satisfaction guarantee

  • 15 hours of instructor-led, live interactive training

  • Three 5-hour sessions 

  • Hands-on with a lot of practical team exercises

  • Free monthly alumni mentoring sessions 

  • Free Retake

  • 3000+ satisfied alumni

  • Real-life case studies, examples, and practical tips

  • Trainer with over two decades of industry experience and 10+ years of hands-on coaching and training experience from the trenches

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What you'll learn

  • How to facilitate dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and
    executives to achieve better results

  • Increase flow of value using Lean principles 

  • Scaling Scrum: Learn how to scale agile and Scrum practices across teams

  • Catalyse organisational change

  • Scrum Master as coach

  • Team dynamics and self-organisation

  • Scrum Master as a true leader

  • Real-life scenarios

  • Support Product Owner to create product vision, manage and prioritise the product backlog

What you'll earn

  • A-CSM certificate upon successful completion of the training and meeting requirements

  • 15 SEUs

  • Two years of membership with Scrum Alliance

  • Automatic renewal of your CSM/CSPO certificates upon certification

  • Access to AgileUplift's monthly Alumni Mentoring Sessions

  • Access to AgileUplift alumni network

  • Downloadable training materials

  • Certificate of completion 

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Benefits
​Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM)
Training Overview

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM) training aims to take your Scrum mastery and leadership competencies to the next level, well beyond your foundational CSM certification. While CSM is a knowledge-based certification, A-CSM provides a mix of knowledge- and competency-based validation of your skills and experience. 

 

Training format:

The training is a cohort-based class and consists of three 5-hour sessions. In addition participants are expected to spend around 2 hours on post-training assignments, which will be done in small groups of peers. For a detailed schedule please check the training listing below.

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Training sessions are fully interactive, instructor-led (no recorded videos), live online. This delivery format offers learners fast, condensed lessons combined with on-the-job application of key Scrum concepts and real solutions for difficult scenarios for immediate business impact.

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Here is why you may want to consider taking the A-CSM certification:

  • You’ll gain enhanced Scrum implementation techniques and skills that go beyond the basics,

expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, team dynamics, and more.

  • You’ll stand out in your industry with an advanced certification from the globally recognized and sought-after Scrum Alliance.

  • You’ll showcase validated experience (not just knowledge) and demonstrate established value to your (potential) employer as an experienced agile professional.


You will learn how to:

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

executives to achieve better results

  • Learn how to scale agile and Scrum practices across teams

  • Respond confidently when encountering challenges in your organization through advanced Scrum

knowledge and validated experience

  • Practice coaching and facilitation skills

  • Increase your leadership and self-awareness competencies

  • Increase employee engagement while encouraging greater accountability and commitment from Scrum

Team members

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Training and certification prerequisites:

To attend the A-CSM training you need to have foundational understanding of Scrum and Scrum Master role, ideally through a CSM (Certified ScrumMaster®) certification.

However, to be eligible for A-CSM certification you will in addition need to :
 
  1. Successfully complete the A-CSM training including the pre-training work and the guided post-training assignments (about 2 hours).
  2. ​Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years). The required experience could be from before or after the training.​
 
See below for more info about prerequisites.
What We Will Cover

Facilitation

How to facilitate collaborative events, divergent/convergent thinking, how to facilitate dialogue between stakeholders and scrum team members, facilitative listening techniques for  effective meetings

Coaching

Scrum Master as coach, coaching fundamentals, practice coaching techniques for interventions

Team Dynamics

Building effective self-organising teams, team formation and development, complex adaptive systems

Coaching the Product Owner

How to support your product owner to define a product vision and product goal, tips and techniques for initiating and setting up a product backlog, techniques for product backlog refinement

Organisational Change

Explore approaches for catalysing organisational change

Leadership & Self Development

Managing vs leading, attributes of effective leadership, Scrum Master as servant leader, developing self as the instrument of change, patterns for responding to conflicts

Scaling Scrum

 Core principles and practices of adopting Scrum and Agile in a multi-team scaled product development environment, different approaches to scaling, managing dependencies

Training Contents
Upcoming A-CSM Trainings
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Testimonials
Testimonials

"Thanks for the excellent training Taghi. I loved the way you shared the notes, the way you used Miro was a revelation. Your doodling skills are superlative!
I have also incorporated a lot of learning in my job. I am seeing the benefits. Certification was one aspect to the training, but Taghi, you have helped me shift my focus from being a Manager to being a Scrum Master!!
Thank you for making me a better servant leader!"

Anusha Murthy, 

Engineering Manager at BlockFi

Sehin Amanuel 
Product Owner at
Insurance Technologies
Florida, USA
Taghi Paksima, CST, Scrum Master
About the Trainer

Taghi is an Enterprise & Leadership Agility Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. He has been in software/IT industry for over 20 years and has served different roles in Agile environments since 2008. He brings a mixture of leadership, technical, and agile experience gathered through working with fortune 100 organisations down to start-ups. He takes joy and pride in helping companies, product and leadership teams explore better, leaner and more agile versions of themselves. In particular, he supports companies with Agile transformation, organisational change, leadership development, scaling and de-scaling, and value stream optimisation. Taghi speaks at public events promoting a holistic approach to product development involving a strong focus on people, the human aspect of work.

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Some of the companies he has supported: Microsoft, Siemens, Bosch, Infineon Technologies, DocuWare, Siemens Mobility, T-Systems

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He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Scrum Alliance, Certified Leadership Agility Coach with ChangeWise, Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) with Scaled Agile Inc,  Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP) with Lean Kanban University and  Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) with International Consortium for Agile.

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Taghi is the founder of AgileUplift. He is also the founder of Agile Munich, an independent public community of practice with over 3000 members.

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Scholarships & Discounts  


We offer certain scholarships and discounts for the following groups: out of job/unemployed, women in tech, university students, alumni of AgileUplift trainings, and candidates from certain geographies. Contact us at info@agileuplift.com to check if you qualify.

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Prerequisites

To attend the A-CSM training you need to have foundational understanding of Scrum and Scrum Master role, ideally through a CSM (Certified ScrumMaster®) certification.

However, to be eligible for A-CSM certification you will in addition need to :
 
  1. Successfully complete the A-CSM training including the training pre-work and the guided cohort/individual assignments.
  2. ​Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years). This experience can be prior or after your A-CSM course.
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If by the end of the A-CSM training you do not still meet the experience requirement, your certification will be deferred until you can validate the 12 months of experience.  
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There is no exam for A-CSM certification.
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We are confident about the value and quality of our trainings and we want you to feel confident too. Over 3000 participants have already experienced that quality with an average rating of 9/10.

If you are not satisfied with your A-CSM training you can request a refund latest by the end of the first session (first 5 hours) of the training, provided that you have actively participated throughout the first training session and have completed pre-training assignments. Refund will exclude any payment processing, bank transfer charges, or certification fees.

Money-back satisfaction guarantee is only applicable to Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) trainings and only if you have booked your training directly with AgileUplift through this website.
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