A-CSD Training

Advanced Certified Scrum Developer® - Agile Engineering Practices

The Advanced Certified Scrum Developer – Agile Engineering Practices class is a 2 day immersive training and learning experience that covers the engineering skills needed to successfully produce a production ready product increment at the end of each and every Sprint. Over 70% of this class involves hands-on coding through sample exercises in Java, C#, or JavaScript.

Upon completion of the class, students that meet the minimum eligibility requirements will attain the A-CSD certification.

Who Should Attend

The class is appropriate for developers that already have a Certified Scrum Developer certification and have at least 1 year of work experience on a Scrum team. The A-CSD class is considered an advanced certification level class that dives into Agile architecture, design principles, advanced TDD, code smells, CI/CD and managing technical debt. Note that developers need to also have at least 1 years of programming experience and an understanding of Object Oriented Design. Over 70% of this class involves hands-on coding exercises and attendees are required to bring laptops equipped with their favorite ide such as visual studio, visual studio code, or eclipse.

Course Outline

The class is presented in a highly interactive and collaborative format with elements of coding exercises, videos, and classroom discussion interwoven throughout.

The class is 2 days and is offered live virtually.

Topics Include:

Agile Architecture
Test Automation Strategy
Advanced Test Driven Development
Advanced Mocking
Refactoring Patterns
Pair Programming and Ensemble Programming
Code Smells and Anti-patterns
Branching Strategies
Build Pipelines, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Managing Technical Debt
Technical Coaching

Certification Credits

Upon completion of this class, students

Attain the Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) designation if they already hold a CSD and have at least 1 year of Scrum experience
Earn 14 Project Management Institute Professional Development Units (PDUs) and
Earn 14 Scrum Alliance Scrum Educational Units (SEUs)

Money Back Guarantee

Your satisfaction is guaranteed! We are confident that you will be fully satisfied with this class and you will be well prepared to pass the certification exam. If the class is not meeting your expectations, just let us know by the end of day 1 and we will give you a full refund.

Flexible Cancellation Policy

Cancellation requests received at least 2 calendar days before the start of a class receive a full 100% refund. All other cancellation requests receive a full credit for a future class.
Should the organizer cancel the class for any reason, a full 100% refund will be issued.
All cancellation requests must be made via email to info@kaizenko.com

What Our Students Are Saying

“Every new hire developer should be required to take this class.”

Brett Heinz

“It was a highly engaging class focused on practical skills to make you a better Scrum Team Member”

Leigh Griffin

“The hands-on coding exercises were very practical”

CSD Student

“Throughout my whole career I thought I was in a Scrum environment, and following best practices as a member of the dev team. Through this training I have learned that there are improvements to be made and I am confident that I can implement that changes with the tools I’ve learned in this CSD course.”

Allena A.

“Instructor explains concepts via step by step coding exercises and explaining why we do it this way.”

CSD Participant

TDD via practical examples

“I liked learning TDD via practical examples with an explanation of “Why” at each stage of the exercises.”

CSD Student

“Fadi did a good job trying to balance the skills sets of the attendees.”

CSD Participant

“I appreciate the step by step approach to coding. The content of the course was also excellent and clear, and there are a number of things I feel comfortable implementing in my work in the next 3 months.”

Private CSD course participant