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Foundational and Advanced Certifications - Path to Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP®)

Kaizenko offers Scrum classes leading to Scrum Alliance® foundational and advanced certifications. The Scrum Alliance’s progressive course model offers a staged, two-year journey that allows participants to choose an educational track between ScrumMaster, Product Owner or Developer. The model combines progressive in class training with work experience to help participants improve core Scrum knowledge, build skill sets, and acquire the necessary tools to evolve as Agile practitioners, from Scrum foundations to advanced practice to Certified Scrum Professional. 

For those just starting on their Agile journey, the Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) class is a good place to start. The CSM is a foundational class suitable for all team members including developers, analysts, engineers, designers, project managers, product managers, and functional managers. The CSM covers Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of Scrum, the intricacies of the Scrum framework, Scrum roles and responsibilities, and the keys to a successful Scrum implementation. 

From there, Product Owners and business analysts can take classes on the Scrum Product Owner track (CSPO® to CSP®-PO), programmers can take classes on the Scrum Developer track (CSD® to CSP®-D) and ScrumMasters and coaches can take classes on the  ScrumMaster track (CSM to CSP®-SM). More details about each certification below:

Foundational Certifications

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Certified ScrumMaster®: The CSM covers Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of Scrum, the intricacies of the Scrum framework, Scrum roles and responsibilities, and the keys to a successful Scrum implementation. No prerequisites. Suitable for all team members and managers.

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Certified Scrum Product Owner®: The CSPO covers the Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of the Product Owner role, developing a roadmap and release plan, building and managing product backlogs, and working with customers and stakeholders.. No prerequisites, though a CSM is recommended. Suitable for Product Owners and business analysts.

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Certified Scrum Developer®: The CSD covers the fundamentals of Agile engineering practices and the skills needed to design and build reliable, robust and verifiable systems including Test Driven Development, collective code ownership, automated builds and tests, continuous integration and deployment as well as managing technical debt. CSM is a co-requisite. Suitable for programmers with 2+yrs of coding experience.


Scrum Master Advanced and Professional Certifications

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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster: The A-CSM goes beyond the fundamentals of Scrum and provides a deeper understanding of the ScrumMaster role, servant leadership and self-organization; the ScrumMaster’s responsibilities in servicing the Product Owner, the Development team and the organization; as well as advanced facilitation and coaching techniques. Requires CSM + 1 year of experience. Suitable for ScrumMasters and coaches.

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Certified Scrum Professional® – ScrumMaster: CSP-SM dives deeper into advanced Lean thinking, team dynamics and effectiveness, conflict resolution, organizational development, and scaling Scrum. Requires A-CSM + 1 year of experience. Suitable for ScrumMasters and coaches.


Product Owner Advanced and Professional Certifications

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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner: The A-CSPO goes beyond the fundamentals of Scrum and provides a deeper understanding of the Product Owner role, stakeholder management and facilitation, product discovery, product strategy, product roadmaps, release management, and advanced product backlog refinement techniques. Requires CSPO + 1 year of experience. Suitable for Product Owners and business analysts.

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Certified Scrum Professional® – Product Owner: CSP-PO dives deeper into funding and financing, economics of product development, advanced customer research and product discovery, roadmapping at scale, working with multiple Scrum teams, and product launches.  Requires A-CSPO + 1 year of experience. Suitable for Product Owners and business analysts.


Developer Advanced and Professional Certifications

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Advanced Certified Scrum Developer: A-CSD coming in 2020

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Certified Scrum Professional® – Developer: CSP-D coming in 2020

What Our Students Are Saying

“Course covers all principles early on which helps set a foundation for the deep dive sections. Activities are key!” 

Private class student

“Great course; highly recommended.”

Nithin Seshaori

“Adaptable, entertaining, thorough, with perfect examples. Awesome course. I highly recommend it to my teammates.” 

Private class participant

“The class demystified Scrum for us. Fadi patiently answered our questions and made us believe this is possible for us.”

Private Corporate Class

“Fadi was able to read the room and adjust the curriculum based on the needs of the class.”

CSM Student

“Fadi did an excellent job in helping me understand Scrum and get certified.”

Sarath

“Best live instructor ever experienced.”

CSM Student

“As someone new to Agile and Scrum, this made for a great, comprehensive introduction. I would recommend this course to everyone.”

Swatee Gupta

“This course gave me concrete examples that I can immediately apply to my company’s scrum process.”

D.B.

“Learning by practicing. Games, simulations and exercises. Concise and simple ways to explain the material.”

Larry

“Fadi was awesome. He kept us engaged and provided good context on the material.”

LB

“Instructor was a field expert with many years of experience, but also maintained great facilitation skills.”

Public class participant

“It was a great experience in collaboration and learning.”

Ron Zinski

“Highly recommended to anyone at any level of Scrum experience.” 

Michael MacEwen

“Great course with plenty of interactive activities to help develop a good foundation of Agile and Scrum.”

Private Corporate Class

“Fadi was excellent at answering questions on the fly. He’s very knowledgeable.”

Don Hackworth

“Fadi gave very thorough examples to ensure maximum comprehension – much appreciated.” 

Rachel Hoffman

“Instructor was very knowledgeable and you could tell he had experience in the field and in teaching.”

Kenneth Sunga

“The activities presented in the this course helped increase our Scrum knowledge in a fun and interactive manner.”

Hans K.

“I’m confident that I will pass the exam on the 1st attempt from what I learned during this course.”

CSM Student

“The course was informative and easy to follow.”

CSM Student

“Customized advise, real world examples and many hands-on exercises that really helped.”

CSPO Student

“The cradle to grave walk-through of a PO role was very helpful.”

CSPO Student

“Learned a lot! Enough where I see things I need to change at my company regarding our ‘Scrum’ process.”

Garrett Cooper

“Would gladly take another one of Fadi’s classes.”

Luisa Scipione

“Fadi has a wealth of knowledge and experience and does a great job addressing questions.”

Ivory Harris

“One of my concerns with certifications is they can be highly theoretical and difficult to apply in one’s personal work context. This CSM course avoids this trap by using Scrum to run the class itself, and giving students lots of practical experience with the Scrum events, artifacts and agile principles.”

John Higgins

“The CSM course offered me an insight into the power of persuasion and servant leadership a scrum master plays in teams.”

CSM Student

“The knowledge of the instructor was great. Not overly opinionated either which I liked.”

CSPO Student

“Excellent job of reviewing the content and engaging participants throughout the training.”

Michael MacEwen

“Fadi is extremely knowledgeable about Scrum and its challenges. He uses his amazing articulation and oratory skills to make complex topics seem easy to follow.”

Amit

“Best collaboration activities ever seen. Innate approach to submerging students inside scrum experience gave unique learning experience.”

CSM Student

“Enjoyed the structure of the class. Worked like a real world example.”

CSM Student

“Introduced to a different way about thinking about Scrum and teamwork. It put my previous experience in a different perspective.”

Gaurab Misra

“I really enjoyed this class. The time flew by as Fadi made the course interactive and fun. Fadi is extremely knowledgeable and I am very happy with my experience.”

Nicola Palmer

“Fadi was enthusiastic without being corny and really paused to allow the class to use the skills already gathered and answer questions. The class was dynamic, followed the principles of Scrum and put things into perspective.”

Public class participant

“I most liked the practical exercises and Fadi’s real-world experiences, stories, and examples beyond the covered material.”

Private class participant

“Fadi is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the material and he presented it very well.”

Private training participant

“Exercises and scenarios were memorable and helpful.” 

Private class student

“I have spent about 6 years on “Agile” teams with varying implementations. Very helpful to re-baseline what I thought I knew about Scrum.”

Ali Tobolsky

“Excellent strategy to teach content – many relevant examples – held attention and engagement.” 

Kelly Costello
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