Go Beyond the Basics: Expand into Coaching and Facilitation. Our A-CSM class will take you to the next level in your career, helping you distinguish yourself as a highly trained Agile professional. You will gain techniques and skills that go beyond the mechanics of Scrum, expanding specifically into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics. Be prepared for in-depth work that gives you the confidence to handle resistance, lack of motivation, and unavailability of key people.
Through the A-CSM®, you'll learn to:
- Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Scrum Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives
- Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, or low motivation
- Increase engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in
- Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team
- Expand your skills into interaction, facilitation, and coaching dynamics
- Gain the techniques necessary to stand out in the global marketplace
Benefits
- Enhanced Skills: Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills
- Global Recognition: Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace as a specialist
- Community Status: Stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community
- Career Value: Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional
Requirements for Certification
To earn your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification, you must meet the following criteria:
- Active Certification: Hold a current Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
- Course Attendance: Successfully complete the A-CSM educational offering, including all educator-designed components and pre- or post-course work.
- Experience: Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum Master (within the past five years).
- Agreement: Accept the A-CSM License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile.
Note: You may take the A-CSM course at any time after completing your CSM certification; however, you must have at least 12 months of Scrum Master experience logged into your Scrum Alliance profile before you are eligible to receive your A-CSM certification.
Your Instructor
Lance Dacy has been a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®) since 2015, an agile coach since 2008, and a product leader since 2011, guiding teams through successful Scrum implementations at organizations from Fortune 20 enterprises to early-stage startups.
He holds a Master’s in Data Science from SMU, a rare combination that gives him the applied AI expertise to teach Product Owners to use modern tools as force multipliers rather than replacements.
Lance founded the DFW Scrum User Group, coaches agile leaders nationwide, and helps managers build cross-functional, self-organizing teams that deliver value at modern speed.
Lance also leads Big Agile's dedicated AI for Product Managers workshop, where he goes deeper into prompt engineering, AI tool selection, and product strategy in AI-augmented organizations.