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.

Participants that take the Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) – Team Member Practices and the Agile Engineering Practices also attain the A-CSD certification.

Who Should Attend

The class is appropriate for developers that already have a Certified Scrum Developer certification – Team Member Practices, and have at least 1 year of work experience on a Scrum team. The A-CSD class dives into Agile architecture, design principles, TDD, refactoring, and test automation. 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:

Scrum Fundamentals
Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing
Design Principles
Test Driven Development
Refactoring
Pair Programming
Mocking
Build Pipelines, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Test Automation Strategy
Team Collaboration and Team Dynamics

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

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

CSD Participant

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

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

TDD via practical examples

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

CSD Student

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

Brett Heinz

“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.

“The hands-on coding exercises were very practical”

CSD Student

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

Leigh Griffin