Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
Elevate Your Impact as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach
There are almost one million Certified ScrumMasters, but fewer than 11,000 people have the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® title. In just two-days you can join this elite group of specialist practitioners
- Move beyond the basics to lead with confidence and influence.
- Develop advanced coaching and facilitation skills to guide your team through resistance and conflict.
- Motivate teams and adapt under pressure.
What You'll Be Able to Do
Navigate organizational politics and hidden agendas that can derail progress.
Apply facilitation techniques to handle conflict and lead productive discussions.
Adapt Scrum principles to fit real-world challenges across different teams and company cultures.
Why Take Advanced Certified ScrumMaster?
As agile adoption grows, skilled Scrum Masters are in higher demand. The A-CSM certification builds on your foundational Certified ScrumMaster® knowledge to help you coach at a higher level. You’ll gain practical techniques to resolve team friction and improve collaboration.
If you’re ready to move from facilitation to true leadership, the A-CSM gives you the tools to make that leap.
Seth Webster
I recently attended Mountain Goat Software's Advanced Certified Scrum Master 2 day course. Much to my delight it was facilitated by Brian Milner. Brian is such a skilled and engaging facilitator. The content was logically sequenced and paced well for increased comprehension along with application of new learnings and skills. The best part for me personally was connecting with so many like minded Scrum Masters whose main goals here were to increase their abilities to best serve their teams. The conversations and relationships I made were fantastic and I cannot wait to start making even more of difference with my teams. Thank you Mike, Brian and Mountain Goat Software for yet another enriching learning journey.
Rishi Kapur
Amazing class! Great course content but my favorite part was how engaging and valuable the workshops were. Brian did such an excellent job facilitating and making sure everyone was able to have productive conversations. I wish we had another day just to keep sitting around talking!
Daniel Hunt
Brian's A-CSM class was a perfect combination of recap, new materials, and discussions with other professionals.
Daniel Mundra
This class was a relevant step in learning more about being a better scrum master and the journey in front of the scrum master. I would recommend this class to anyone that is trying to learn more about SCRUM. The instructor was very knowledgeable, understanding, and quick to respond to questions. He had complete control of the class but also encouraged spontaneity. The classmates were all eager to learn and had a wealth of knowledge being from different backgrounds and it seemed like every exercise the team I was with all participated and worked for excellence in the exercises.
David E. Harms
A Unique, Interactive Learning Experience
Team Home is a collaboration platform that we designed for our courses. It is optimized for live, online training. Participants benefit by collaborating in ways beyond what is possible with generic whiteboard software such as Mural or Miro. Instructors can observe activity across all rooms, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of exercise debriefs.
Access Our Resources, Planning Poker® and AI Toolkit
Expanded access to MGS Essentials, included with your trainining, is your toolkit for doing agile better, with resources that help you and your team move faster, plan smarter, and deliver more value.
Access live events, video lectures, and a powerful set of tools including online Planning Poker®, the Elements of Agile assessment and AI tools for coaching, story splitting and backlog item generation.
Upcoming Public Training
Course Includes:
Certification Credits
On completion of the prerecorded videos, live sessions, and proof of a CSM certification and 12 months relevant experience, you will be registered with the Scrum Alliance as an Advanced-Certified ScrumMaster Additionally, if you currently hold a certification with the Scrum Alliance, attending this course will automatically advance your previous certification expiration date to the new certification expiration date.
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Pre-pay for 10+ passes and you can assign seats directly to team members, or let them self-select the courses that suit their training needs and schedule.
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Course Outline
Agile and Scrum
A deep dive into the development of agile, different agile frameworks, and recognizing violations.
The Scrum Master Role
Understand the differentiating traits that will make you a stand-out Scrum Master
Facilitation
Learn advanced facilitation techniques. Understand how to navigate team member dynamics and guide teams through productive discussions. This module alone can transform the communication of any agile team.
Coaching
You’ll understand the difference between being a consultant and a coach. See how and when to intervene and deal effectively with conflict.
High-Performing Teams
Discover practices that take a team from good to great. See how to form an effective team, master development practices, and serve product owners, Story Mapping & Impact Mapping are covered as well as backlog refinement.
Agile Organizations
Know how to serve the organization with your team, how to execute root cause analysis, scale scrum, and understand complex systems.
Scrum Mastery
You also have a chance to do some private, individual evaluation. You'll identify your strengths and the areas you need to develop to be an invaluable Scrum Master.
Your Instructor
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Brian Milner
Starting out as a developer, Brian worked up through management layers, then transitioned to Scrum Master, then Coach and now Certified Scrum Trainer. His practical experience in both waterfall and agile organizations helps him clarify what works and what doesn’t, plus he has many years’ experience helping teams transition to agile.
Read more...Brian also brings more than 20 years of software development experience to his classes. People remark on his ability to answer even tough questions with ease, enthusiasm, and insight.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-Educator, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-CM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator.
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- We’ll get back to you within a day.
- Answer your training questions and discuss any custom needs.
- Recommend the best agile training path for your teams and goals.
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