Optimize Your Scrum Master Practices with the Advanced Scrum Master Certification Path

Take the next step in your learning and career by progressing to Advanced Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, you utilize agile practices and tactical skills to support agile teams in delivering value every day. The Advanced Scrum Master certification path amplifies the impact, offering advanced strategies, practices and agile methodologies that drive results and help the Agile Release Train (ART) and organization to achieve success. 

Complete this modular and blended learning path to earn a renewable Advanced Scrum Master certification. You’ll learn how to address conflict, optimize flow, and cultivate a high performing team. Engage with short, focused instructor-led sessions that improve your coaching and facilitation skills, make your way through SAFe Skills at your own pace, and leverage the Learning Lab for peer-to-peer support that encourages a ‘learn and apply’ cycle to support continuous improvement. 

Topics: Advanced Scrum Master Certification Path

1. Advanced Facilitator: Conflict and Collaboration

2. Identify common sources of conflict

3. Develop conflict resolution strategies for real-life challenges

4. Use the conflict analysis and strategy design framework to analyze conflicts and apply concepts to resolve them

5. Plan to apply these strategies in your work context

If you’re looking for the next step in your learning and career as a Scrum Master, Advanced Scrum Master is a powerful level-up.

This renewable certification supports Scrum Masters, Team Coaches, and other agile team members in building a high-performing team that drives results for the Agile Release Train (ART) and the organization, emphasizing skills-based expertise rather than a knowledge-based assessment. 

 

Advanced Scrum Master includes:

 

• A SAFe Micro-credential, focusing on techniques that help facilitators navigate conflicts that arise in collaborative decision-making
• Three SAFe Skills, building mastery over flow metrics, identifying and applying flow accelerators, and cultivating high-performing enterprise teams
• A four-hour Learning Lab, allowing learners to complete case-study-based scenarios in small groups, to consolidate what they have learned through real-world application 

 

Throughout the learning path, learners will complete various activities to practice and apply knowledge, and the Learning Lab will cumulatively assess all skills gained. Those who complete all required elements will be eligible for the Advanced Scrum Master certification

 

Although this course may display a date range of a couple of weeks, these dates reflect the two trainer-led sessions of this course. Learners will also have self-paced learning to complete as part of the course. Please view the class registration page for exact details on the class sessions.

What’s included:

• Course materials
• Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
• Access to SAFe® Collaborate, a visual online workspace
• One-year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform for first-timers
• Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
• SAFe certification exam

 

• A SAFe Micro-credential, focusing on techniques that help facilitators navigate conflicts that arise in collaborative decision-making
• Three SAFe Skills, building mastery over flow metrics, identifying and applying flow accelerators, and cultivating high-performing enterprise teams
• A four-hour Learning Lab, allowing learners to complete case-study-based scenarios in small groups, to consolidate what they have learned through real-world application 

Throughout the learning path, learners will complete various activities to practice and apply knowledge, and the Learning Lab will cumulatively assess all skills gained. Those who complete all required elements will be eligible for the Advanced Scrum Master certification

1. Scrum Masters/Team Coaches
2. Product Owners
3. Release Train Engineers

 

• Advanced Facilitator: Conflict and Collaboration

  Self-paced learning (2 hours)

  Facilitated workshop (4 hours)

 

• SAFe Skills (self-paced)

  Measuring Team and ART Flow (1 hour)

  Accelerating Team Flow (1 hour)

  Cultivating High-Performing Teams (1 hour)

 

•  4-hour Learning Lab

• Validated career performance and advancement: Earn one SAFe Micro-credential, three SAFe Skills, and an Advanced Scrum Master certification.

• Timely and effective learning: Deepen and update existing SAFe practices with learning relevant to the day-to-day needs of the organization.

• An adaptable, self-paced learning experience: Progress at your own pace with a flexible online learning format applying modular and blended learning.

• Curated, hands-on practice: Designed to move beyond theoretical knowledge, emphasizing actionable skills and practical application.

• A supportive environment: Apply your previous learnings in the Learning Lab, with expert guidance and facilitated peer-to-peer engagement.