Advancing Scrum Master Servant Leadership with SAFe.
As a practicing scrum master in a SAFe organization, you have the tactical skills to coach Agile teams to deliver business value. Build on that solid foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Take your leadership skills to the next level. The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course will give you the tools to improve your coaching and facilitation skills, avoid common missteps, and encourage relentless improvement. You’ll learn how to apply Lean, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe principles to improve team and business outcomes. You’ll up-level your facilitation skills for key Agile and SAFe events, whether they’re in person or across teams and time zones. And you’ll discover how communities of practice can support continuous improvement.
ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:
- How to apply SAFe principles to facilitate, enable, and coach in a multi-team environment
- How to adopt scalable engineering practices, Kanban, DevOps, and Agile architecture to optimize flow
- How to advance your facilitation skills for ART and team event planning, execution, and delivering end-to-end value
- How to build communities of practice to support high-performing teams and ART efficiency
- How to lead distributed teams effectively in remote environments
SAFe® ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS:
- What’s the next step in my learning as a SAFe Scrum Master?
- How can I improve my coaching and facilitation skills to support my team?
- What are common anti-patterns to avoid when encouraging relentless improvement at scale?
WHAT IS INCLUDED?
- Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
- Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
- One-year membership to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
- Team Event Facilitator Guides
- Online collaboration templates for all SAFe team events
- Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning
- Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
- SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification exam
Certification Details
We are accredited to Scaled Agile (SAFe®), one of the global accreditation body for Scaled Agile Certifications.
SASM (6.0) - SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master
When you are ready to take the exam, log into the SAFe Community Platform to access the exam.
When the exam timer ends, the exam will be submitted, regardless of the number of questions answered. A score will be calculated based on the number of questions answered. Unanswered questions will be automatically marked as incorrect. If you finish answering all questions before the exam timer ends, you can click the “Submit” button and your score will be calculated.
When you launch the exam, you will be required to review and accept the Candidate Agreement before starting the exam. Exams are timed and the timer will be visible throughout the exam.
Questions are structured in multiple choice or multiple response format. Questions will require either one answer or multiple. “Choose two” or a “Choose three” style multiple response questions indicate the number of answers required for the question. Multiple response questions require all correct answers to be selected as no partial credit is given.
Duration | 120 minutes |
Number of questions | 60 |
Passing score | 44/60 (73%) |
Competency level | Advanced; Expert, fully competent; can perform tasks with little assistance |
Question format | Multiple choice (one answer) or multiple select (2-3 answers) |
Delivery | Web-based, closed book, no outside assistance, timed |
Access | Community Platform upon completion of the course |
Languages offered | English |
Cost | First attempt included in the course registration fee if taken within 30 days of course completion. Each retake or attempt past the 30-day window is $50 |
Exploring the Scrum Master role (15%)
- Explore Scrum Master challenges in the Enterprise
- Explain the purpose and basic constructs of SAFe
- Establish Scrum Master connections in SAFe
Applying SAFe Principles (15%)
- #1 - Take an economic view
- #2 - Apply systems thinking
- #3 - Assume variability; preserve options
- #4 - Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
- #5 - Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
- #6 - Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
- #7 - Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
- #8 - Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- #9 - Decentralize decision-making
Exploring Agile and Scrum anti-patterns (13%)
- Explore anti-patterns associated with the Product Owner role
- Explain how Stories and tasks may lead to anti-patterns
- Identify context-specific anti-patterns in your environment
Facilitating program execution (15%)
- Synchronize development with the Agile Release Train
- Organize teams on the Train
- Plan the Program Increment
- Execute the Program Increment
- Release value on demand
- Prepare for the next PI Planning session
Improving flow with Kanban and XP (13%)
- Build your Kanban board
- Measure and optimize flow
- Build quality in
- Foster engineering craftsmanship
- Facilitate collaboration with Architects, System Team, and Operations
Building high-performing teams (17%)
- Foster collaboration on the team
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration
- Build trust with stakeholders
- Develop team skill set
- Create an Improvement Backlog
Improving program performance (12%)
- Explore the Inspect and Adapt process
- Apply problem-solving workshop
You can report and claim your PDUs on the PMI website directly by following the workflow below:
- Log into your PMI account
- Follow this link to the ‘Report PDUs’ page: https://ccrs.pmi.org/claim/index
- NOTE: In order to claim PDUs you must have a certification with PMI.
- Under ‘PDU Claim Code’ click “I have a claim code”
- Type in the relevant claim code from the below table.
Legend:
| Course Taken | Certification Awarded |
| Implementing SAFe | SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) |
| Leading SAFe | SAFe Agilist (SA) |
| SAFe for Teams | SAFe Practitioner (SP) |
| SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager | SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) |
| SAFe Release Train Engineer | Release Train Engineer (RTE) |
| Agile Product Management | SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM) |
| SAFe Scrum Master | SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) |
| SAFe Advanced Scrum Master | SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) |
| Lean Portfolio Management | SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) |
| SAFe DevOps | SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) |
| SAFe for Architects | SAFe Architect (ARCH) |
| Agile Software Engineering | SAFe Agile Software Engineer (ASE) |
| SAFe for Government | SAFe Government Practitioner (SGP) |
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