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This two-day course prepares current Scrum Masters for their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a SAFe®implementation.

The course covers facilitation of cross-team interactions in support of the program execution and relentless improvement. It enhances the Scrum paradigm with an introduction to scalable engineering and DevOps practices; the application of Kanban to facilitate the flow of value; and supporting interactions with architects, product management, and other critical stakeholders in the larger program and enterprise contexts.

Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

Audience

The following individuals will benefit from this course:

  • Existing Scrum Masters
  • Team leaders, project managers, and others who have assumed the role of an Agile team facilitator in a SAFe or enterprise Agile context
  • Engineering and development managers who will be responsible for Agile execution and for coaching teams and teams of teams
  • Agile coaches
  • Agile program managers and prospective Release Train Engineers

SAFe® Certification 

  • SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) certification
  • SAFe Certification Kit

What You Get

The class registration includes:

  • Attendee workbooks
  • Online course feedback survey
  • Eligibility to take the SAFe Advanced Scrum Master exam with certification exam administration and scoring
  • SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) attendance certificate upon request

Bring this training class to your company onsite location

Learning Objectives

After this course, you should be able to:

  • Apply SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching in the multi-team environment
  • Build a high-performing team and foster relentless improvement at the team and program levels
  • Address Agile and Scrum anti-patterns
  • Support the adoption of engineering practices, DevOps, and Agile architecture
  • Apply Kanban and flow to optimize the team’s work
  • Facilitate program planning, execution, and delivery of end-to-end systems value
  • Support learning through participation in Communities of Practice and innovation cycles

Pre-requisites

Attendees of the SAFe SASM course are strongly suggested to have one of the following certificates: SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or Professional Scrum Master (PSM).

Annual Renewal

Renewals are from the date of certification.

    • Renewal fee: $100
    • Renewal requirement: 10 continuing education/outreach hours

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

Attendees may be eligible to apply for 16 PDUs toward continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP or PMI-ACP certifications

Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

Attendees may be eligible to apply SEUs under category C, toward earning or renewing their CSP through Scrum Alliance

Instructor(s)

Bijay has over 20 years' experience in project and program management in Agile, Waterfall and hybrid environments. He has trained, mentored and coached teams and leadership in enterprise transformation. He has also led in software development methodologies and best practices for multiple software delivery teams as manager, facilitator, trainer and coach. He has authored 5 books in software development methodologies, and was awarded the Crosby Medal by the American Society for Quality for his book Design for Trustworthy Software. He has also authored a chapter in Springer Handbook of Automation. He has taught management at California State University, Chico and Concordia University St. Paul. He is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4), and also has CSM, PMP, Balanced Scorecard, and Data Science Certifications. 

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