Advanced Scrum Master (ASM)

Price and registration

The costs are CHF 1,750 excl. VAT. In ad­di­tion, ear­ly book­ers re­ceive a 5% dis­count. Reg­is­tra­tion takes place via the ap­pro­pri­ate train­ing date of your choice. The course link or but­ton will then take you to the reg­is­tra­tion page.

ASM in-house training

If you are in­ter­est­ed in in-house train­ing, please con­tact us at academy@​flowsphere.​ch. We will make you an of­fer immediately!

ASM Learning goals

• Ap­ply ad­vanced fa­cil­i­ta­tion skills and coach­ing tech­niques to ef­fec­tive­ly and re­peat­ed­ly man­age con­flict and fa­cil­i­tate shared de­ci­sion making.
• Use SAFe’s eight flow ac­cel­er­a­tors, in­clud­ing mea­sur­ing, op­ti­miz­ing, ac­cel­er­at­ing team and ART flow, and fa­cil­i­tate over­com­ing blockages.
• Im­ple­ment fun­da­men­tal prac­tices de­signed to pro­mote self-di­rec­tion, or­ga­ni­za­tion, and col­lab­o­ra­tion when lead­ing high-per­form­ing teams.
• Iden­ti­fy the path to ap­ply­ing what you have learned through case study-based real-world sce­nar­ios and prac­ti­cal application.

ASM Content

Dur­ing the Ad­vanced Scrum Mas­ter (ASM) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion paths, par­tic­i­pants com­plete the fol­low­ing mod­ules, in­clud­ing the Learn­ing Lab.

ASM cer­ti­fi­ca­tion path

• A. Ad­vanced Fa­cil­i­ta­tor course (6 h)
  1. Con­flict and Collaboration
  Is a fa­cil­i­tat­ed half-day ses­sion fo­cus­ing on tech­niques to help lead­ers man­age con­flicts that arise dur­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive de­ci­sion-mak­ing processes.
• B. 3 SAFe® Skills (3 h)
  1. Ac­cel­er­at­ing Team Flow
  2. Mea­sur­ing ART
  3. Team Flow and Cul­ti­vat­ing high per­form­ing Teams
  In­cludes three one-hour self-paced e‑learning SAFe® Skill ses­sions with the goal of learn­ing flow met­rics, iden­ti­fy­ing and ap­ply­ing flow ac­cel­er­a­tors to en­able high-per­form­ing teams.
• C. Learn­ing Lab (4 h)
  Is a half-day, small-group ses­sion where learn­ers com­plete case study-based sce­nar­ios to re­in­force what they have learned through real-world ap­pli­ca­tion. In ad­di­tion, the lab also serves as an as­sess­ment of the learn­er to pass the exam and re­ceive the certificate.

What else do you get?

If you par­tic­i­pate, you will receive:

• Elec­tron­ic and, if re­quest­ed, print­ed work documents
• Au­tho­riza­tion to take the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam
• Con­fir­ma­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion upon request

Target audience, who will benefit from it?

This course is aimed at the fol­low­ing tar­get audience:

• Ex­pe­ri­enced Scrum Masters
• Team lead­ers, project man­agers and oth­ers who have tak­en on the role of Ag­ile Team Fa­cil­i­ta­tor in a SAFe or En­ter­prise Ag­ile context
• En­gi­neer­ing and de­vel­op­ment man­agers re­spon­si­ble for ag­ile ex­e­cu­tion and coach­ing teams, in­clud­ing Team of Teams
• Ag­ile trainers
• Ag­ile pro­gram managers
• Po­ten­tial re­lease train engineers

Prerequisites

All are wel­come to at­tend the course, but one or more of the fol­low­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tions is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed if you plan to take the SAFe® Ad­vanced Scrum Mas­ter (ASM) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam:

• SAFe Scrum Mas­ter (SSM) Certification
• Cer­ti­fied Scrum­Mas­ter (CSM) Certification
• Pro­fes­sion­al Scrum Mas­ter (PSM) Certification

SAFe Certification

• 1 Ad­vanced Role Cer­tifi­cate as
  − Ad­vanced Scrum Master
• 1 SAFe Mi­cro-cre­den­tial for
  − Con­flict and Collaboration
• 3 SAFe Skills for
  − Ac­cel­er­at­ing Team Flow
  − Mea­sur­ing ART and Team Flow
  − Cul­ti­vat­ing high per­form­ing Teams
• 1 year mem­ber­ship as Ad­vanced Scrum Master
• Ac­cess to a va­ri­ety of learn­ing re­sources to sup­port you as a cer­ti­fied leader dur­ing your SAFe journey.