Certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

This two-day course prepares existing Scrum Masters to take a leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a SAFe® implementation and become SAFe® SASM Certified. The course covers the facilitation of cross-team interactions in support of 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. The course offers actionable tools for building high-performing teams and explores practical ways of addressing Agile and Scrum anti-patterns in the enterprise.

In this 2-day class you’ll learn:

• 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

Course Outline:

• The Scaled Agile Framework  (SAFe®), values, and Lean-Agile principles
• Agile and Scrum anti-patterns
• Program Increment planning, execution, and Inspect and Adapt workshops
• Quality engineering, Agile architecture, and DevOps practices
• Kanban for facilitating team and program flow of work
• Building high-performing teams
• Interaction with the system team, deployment, UX, architects, product owners, product management, and business owners
• Learning and Communities of Practice