Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (CSP-SM)
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Summary of Grow-Lean Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master
The Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master, aka the CSP-SM, is the final path on the Scrum Master Path to CSP. You leave with actionable steps to improve your workplace. Additionally,by completing this session you are positioned for guide level certifications and allowed to deliver the Scrum Foundations Session (part of Beta program).
Overview
Complete the Scrum Alliance’s ScrumMaster Path to Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
- You leave with practical techniques to address your work challenges.
- You are positioned for journey to guide level certifications including the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Team Coach (CTC) and Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC). These certifications are highly respected in the agile community and at present, less than a 1,000 people world wide have reached the guide level.
- If you are in North America you can enroll in the Beta Program to deliver the Scrum Foundations class in your company.
You will...
- Experience a blend of exercises, real-world case studies, engaging games, short videos and more.
- Oscillate between theory and application to illustrate the wide gulf between what is possible in truly agile teams and organizations and the way that they often perform in today’s business environments.
- Leave ready to take your team to the next level through pragmatic tips and stories of transformation from the instructor’s two decades of consulting experience, as well as learning from often equally experienced fellow students.
Why choose our training? Because you get...
- Deep discussion and learning.
- A 100% live collaborative session.
- Meaningful answers to questions.
- Case studies and real-life examples.
Plus, you will laugh! We provide edutainment so that you have energy that drives retention.
There are no hidden cost or expenses. Everything is covered including the certification fees. You get practice quizzes to use before and after class as well as 1-on-1 mentoring with your trainer.
As an added bonus you can take the class again for free within 120 days. You can also take advantage of additional discount off of a different session (like CSPO).
Upcoming Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (CSP-SM) Sessions
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What You Learn...
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Lean Thinking
Explore the lean principles that underpin key aspects of agile methods to apply them to a variety of real-world situations ranging from product design and portfolio management to team structures and organizational change management.
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Advanced Agile Facilitation
Experience a range of different facilitation techniques that can be used to foster effective individual, team and stakeholder interactions, addressing common issues like power dynamics and role disparities. -
Advanced Agile Coaching
Investigate how organizational development, professional coaching and personality modeling techniques can be blended to amplify your coaching effectiveness. - Team Dynamics & Effectiveness
Drive self-management of team and organization, practicing techniques for dealing with difficult situations. - Starting New Agile Teams
Craft measurable goals, integrate new team members and launch with everyone on the same page. - Software Craftsmanship
Learn about advanced agile engineering techniques and ways to introduce and promote them within your teams. - Coaching the Developers
Find out how to connect team members beyond the basic transactional level, creating closer connections and higher trust. - Coaching the Product Owner
Use techniques like value stream and customer journey mapping to align Product Owners and teams against tangible goals and manage risky product assumptions. - Organizational Development
Learn how to visualize a complex adaptive system like your organization and run defensible experiments to improve it. - Scaling
Learn how to scale pragmatically with a proper balance of forward planning and adaptive approaches. - Scrum Mastery
Plot your next step as a ScrumMaster with input from the instructor and your peers!
...What You Earn
By taking the session you earn the chance to become a Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master (CSP-SM) as long as already have the A-CSM Certification and are able to validate at least 24 months in the role of Scrum Master over the last five years.
The CSP-SM will differentiate you, but more importantly the deep learning will allow you to apply advanced techniques in the work place, and if you are looking, interview with confidence.
Go Beyond Scrum
As an advanced class we go beyond Scrum and cover how to grow with practices from other agile frameworks:
- XP and DevOps: Engineering practices to continuously deliver quality.
- SAFe®, LeSS® Scrum@Scale®: Disciplined Agile®: Align multiple teams on one endeavor.
- Kanban: Limit WIP, increase focus and create flow.
- Lean: Apply the mindset from the mother of agile.
- Lean Startup®: Apply build-measure-learn loops to pivot the business case and improve outcomes.
Don't stop at Scrum. Come to this session and learn how to apply ideas from a variety of frameworks.
Practice Quizzes?
Yes, practice quizzes.
You might remember taking your CSM Exam. Although there is no exam for the A-CSM or CSP-SM you can still get significant benefit from our quizzes as the review the CSM material and go beyond, covering advanced topics.
- The practice quizzes are active learning that increases retention.
- They apply what cognitive science calls retrieval practice.
- Retrieval practice makes learning challenging which helps you remember the material.
If you have time prior to the session use them as a refresher. Or perhaps, during the session you notice some weak spots and review the quizzes post class to fill in the knowledge gaps.
Immersive classroom exercises...
We use technologies including Miro, Mural, Google Slides, Google Jam Boards and others to create an interactive training experience.
You use these technologies in breakout rooms with class peers, learning Scrum and Agile hands on.
Why Choose Grow-Lean...
- Small group of elite, experienced trainers.
- Fair pricing, high quality.
- Caring customer support before and after your training.
- Delivery focused, not sales focused. You get what you paid for.
- Everything is included. Don't get surprised by hidden fees!
- Free retake within 120 days for any session at same or lower price.
- Our trainers are actual practitioners. Don't trust talking heads!
- Training material and approaches vetted by experts.