Cultivate vital skills in agile product ownership through Scrum practices via the CSPO program, and elevate agile product ownership through advanced product discovery, strategy and roadmap, product prioritisation, stakeholder management and more via the Advanced CSPO program.

The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program contains two modules both ending with the unique separate certification.

Product owners have a unique and demanding role on agile teams.

A product owner decides what the team will create next to deliver more value to the customer. In The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program (CSPO® + A-CSPO® ) class, you’ll learn the framework, principles, and values that make scrum work, plus key skills and tools you need to be effective.

You will discover how to juggle multiple stakeholders’ needs, get hands-on practice creating a product vision, and learn new ways to get to know your customers so that you can choose the right next piece of value to bring to market for them.

What are the benefits of The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program?

By earning a Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:

• Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Product Owner’s role from the best minds in Scrum.
• Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge.
• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices.
• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement.

As a CSPO, you will be able to fulfil the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You will also have access to a 2-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Through this membership, you can join local user groups, and online social networks, and gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources. In addition, CSPOs can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials.

Who should take the course?

Anyone who enjoys (or wants to become more familiar with) the business side of projects can benefit from participating in The Ultimate Agile Product Ownership program (CSPO + A-CSPO).

CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence.

The training will be beneficial to:

• Product owners or product owner candidates;
• Product and portfolio managers;
• Business representatives;
• Business experts;
• Executives, managers, and support staff who are interested in improving product development through an in-depth hands-on workshop;
• Anyone curious about how to enhance products;

MODULE 1 – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) 27 – 28.04.2026

Course content: 

• Understanding Customers and Users
  • Why product discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Creating a shared understanding of customer needs
  • Prioritizing conflicting customers’ needs
  • Persona concepts and application
• Validating Product Assumptions
  • How to validate within Scrum Framework
  • Validation methods and selection
• Product Purpose and Strategy
  • Create and describe Product Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmap and Release planning
• Prioritization
  • Define and measure the value for products
  • Models and techniques for prioritizing product features
• Product Backlog and Product Goal
  • Product backlog and its characteristics
  • Product Backlog Item (PBI) and its characteristics
  • User Stories
  • Product Backlog Refinement – a powerful vehicle
    • when, why and how
    • Methods for slicing larger needs into smaller product backlog items
• Scrum Framework Introduction
  • Scrum framework overview
  • How to benefit from Scrum framework to build a fantastic product
  • Agile estimation and release planning
• Summary of Product Ownership
  • Core competencies of a product owner
  • Key benefits of Product Ownership
  • Differentiating outcome and output
  • Collaboration with stakeholders
  • Collaboration with developers
  • Working with multiple Scrum teams
• Next steps to be a great Product Owner

MODULE 2 – Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) 11 – 12.05.2026

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfil the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Now, to further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®.

All attendees of this module must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and some practice prior to this workshop.

Course content:

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corresponding strategy
• Empathizing Customers and Users
  • Perform customer research
  • Interview and tips for an insightful interview
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  • Cognitive biases and their impacts on product
  • Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
  • Compare different HDD approaches
  • Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
  • Develop HDD and design validation plans
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy
  • Developing product vision and strategies
  • Advanced road mapping and its development
  • Advanced product planning and forecasting
  • Release planning
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Model and measure the value for a product
  • Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
  • Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
  • Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Skills, capabilities, and practices of a Product Owner
  • A mindset of a Product Owner
    • Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
  • Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
  • Advanced stakeholder collaboration
    • Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
    • Stakeholder management techniques
    • Collaboration methods and decision-making with stakeholders
  • Advanced Development Team collaboration
    • Define technical debts
    • Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
    • Practice value maximization per sprint
  • Collaboration with multiple development
    • Recognize scaling manifestos
    • List scaling frameworks
    • Working with dependencies

• Next steps for product owners

As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”

Assessment method:
The achievement of learning outcomes is assessed on the basis of feedback-based practical exercises carried out during the training.

Graduation criteria:
A graduate of the training receives a certificate if he performs all the practical exercises given during the training.  Participants who have not achieved the learning outcomes will be issued a certificate of participation in the training upon request.

Õppekavarühm: 0413 Juhtimine ja haldus

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.

As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”

Who should take the course?

This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.

• Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
• Product management and portfolio management professionals
• Project management professionals
• Business stakeholders
• UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
• Product development team members
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.

Course Content

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corrsponding strategy
• Empathizing Customers and Users
  • Perform customer research
  • Interview and tips for insightful interview
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  • Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
  • Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
  • Compare different HDD approaches
  • Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
  • Develop HDD and design validation plans
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy
  • Developing product vision and strategies
  • Advanced roadmapping and its development
  • Advanced product planning and forecasting
  • Release planning
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Model and measure value for product
  • Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
  • Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
  • Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
  • Mindset of a Product Owner
    • Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
  • Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
  • Advanced stakeholder collaboration
    • Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
    • Stakeholder management techniques
    • Collaboration methods and decision making with stakeholders
  • Advanced Development Team collaboration
    • Define technical debts
    • Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
    • Practice value maximization per sprint
  • Collaboration with multiple development
    • Recognize scaling manifestos
    • List scaling frameworks
    • Working with dependencies
• Next steps for product owners

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.

As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”

Who should take the course?

This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.

• Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
• Product management and portfolio management professionals
• Project management professionals
• Business stakeholders
• UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
• Product development team members
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.

Course Content

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corrsponding strategy
• Empathizing Customers and Users
  • Perform customer research
  • Interview and tips for insightful interview
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  • Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
  • Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
  • Compare different HDD approaches
  • Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
  • Develop HDD and design validation plans
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy
  • Developing product vision and strategies
  • Advanced roadmapping and its development
  • Advanced product planning and forecasting
  • Release planning
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Model and measure value for product
  • Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
  • Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
  • Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
  • Mindset of a Product Owner
    • Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
  • Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
  • Advanced stakeholder collaboration
    • Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
    • Stakeholder management techniques
    • Collaboration methods and decision making with stakeholders
  • Advanced Development Team collaboration
    • Define technical debts
    • Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
    • Practice value maximization per sprint
  • Collaboration with multiple development
    • Recognize scaling manifestos
    • List scaling frameworks
    • Working with dependencies
• Next steps for product owners

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), you’ve been taught the Scrum terminology, ceremonies, and principles that enable you to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You’re focused on maximizing business value and prioritization, and understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders. One of your priorities should be your own success! Becoming Agile is a lifelong journey and incorporating Scrum values and Agile principles into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (A-CSPO™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. This advanced offering is ideal for a Certified Scrum Product Owner who already has one year of experience working as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.

As a Product Owner, you know there are rarely enough hours in the day to do what really matters — building really great products for your customers and end users. With our new role-specific educational program, you’ll learn specific tools and techniques so you can truly deliver the business value that matters. You’ll gain new skills and deepen your knowledge in these areas, and most importantly, you’ll learn how to say “yes” to your career by saying “no.”

Who should take the course?

This course if for Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO) who are looking for the next level of growth.

• Managers who want to help your organization build fantastic products
• Product management and portfolio management professionals
• Project management professionals
• Business stakeholders
• UX and CX practitioners, and business analysts
• Product development team members
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and agile coaches

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) workshop requires previous Scrum Product Owner knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with some practice prior to this workshop.

Course Content

• Product Essentials
  • Product basics
  • Product life cycle concept and corrsponding strategy
• Empathizing Customers and Users
  • Perform customer research
  • Interview and tips for insightful interview
• Advanced Product Assumption Validation
  • Cognitive biases and their impacts to product
  • Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD)
  • Compare different HDD approaches
  • Incorporating HdD into Scrum framework
  • Develop HDD and design validation plans
• Advanced Purpose and Strategy
  • Developing product vision and strategies
  • Advanced roadmapping and its development
  • Advanced product planning and forecasting
  • Release planning
• Advanced Product Backlog Management
  • Model and measure value for product
  • Advanced Product Backlog Ordering
  • Linking Product Backlog Ordering to product Strategy
  • Enhancement of slicing user story techniques
• Product Owner Core Competencies
  • Skills, capabilities and practices of a Product Owner
  • Mindset of a Product Owner
    • Maximizing outcome and minimizing output
  • Facilitation skills of a Product Owner
  • Advanced stakeholder collaboration
    • Identify stakeholders and key stakeholder groups
    • Stakeholder management techniques
    • Collaboration methods and decision making with stakeholders
  • Advanced Development Team collaboration
    • Define technical debts
    • Technical practices to help improve quality and ways of working
    • Practice value maximization per sprint
  • Collaboration with multiple development
    • Recognize scaling manifestos
    • List scaling frameworks
    • Working with dependencies
• Next steps for product owners

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

Product owners have a unique and demanding role on agile teams.

A product owner decides what the team will create next in order to deliver more value to the customer. In a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) class, you’ll learn the framework, principles, and values that make scrum work, plus key skills and tools you need to be effective.

You will discover how to juggle multiple stakeholders’ needs, get hands-on practice creating a product vision, and learn new ways to get to know your customers so that you can choose the right next piece of value to bring to market for them.

What are the benefits of a Scrum Product Owner certification?

• By earning a Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:
• Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Product Owner’s role from the best minds in Scrum
• Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge
• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices
• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement

As a CSPO, you will be able to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You will also have access to a 2-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Through this membership you can join local user groups, online social networks, gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources. In addition, CSPOs can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials.

Who should take the course?

Anyone who enjoys (or wants to become more familiar with) the business side of projects can benefit from earning a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) class. CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence.

The training will be beneficial to:

• Product owners or product owner candidates;
• Product and portfolio managers;
• Business representatives;
• Business experts;
• Executives, managers, support staff who are interested in improving product development through an in-depth hands-on workshop

Course Content

• Understanding Customers and Users
  • Why product discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Creating a shared understanding of customer needs
  • Prioritizing conflicting customers’ needs
  • Persona concepts and application
• Validating Product Assumptions
  • How to validate within Scrum Framework
  • Validation methods and selection
• Product Purpose and Strategy
  • Create and describe Product Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmap and Release planning
• Prioritization
  • Define and measure value for products
  • Models and techniques for prioritizing product features
• Product Backlog and Product Goal
  • Product backlog and its characteristics
  • Product Backlog Item (PBI) and its characteristics
  • User Stories
  • Product Backlog Refinement – a powerful vehicle
    • when, why and how
    • Methods for slicing larger needs into smaller product backlog items
• Scrum Framework Introduction
  • Scrum framework overview
  • How to benefit from Scrum framework to build a fantastic product
  • Agile estimation and release planning
• Summary of Product Ownership
  • Core competencies of a product owner
  • Key benefits of Product Ownership
  • Differentiating outcome and output
  • Collaboration with stakeholders
  • Collaboration with developers
  • Working with multiple Scrum teams
• Next steps to be a great Product Owner

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

Product owners have a unique and demanding role on agile teams.

A product owner decides what the team will create next in order to deliver more value to the customer. In a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) class, you’ll learn the framework, principles, and values that make scrum work, plus key skills and tools you need to be effective.

You will discover how to juggle multiple stakeholders’ needs, get hands-on practice creating a product vision, and learn new ways to get to know your customers so that you can choose the right next piece of value to bring to market for them.

What are the benefits of a Scrum Product Owner certification?

• By earning a Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:
• Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified Scrum Product Owner’s role from the best minds in Scrum
• Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge
• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices
• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement

As a CSPO, you will be able to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. You will also have access to a 2-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Through this membership you can join local user groups, online social networks, gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources. In addition, CSPOs can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials.

Who should take the course?

Anyone who enjoys (or wants to become more familiar with) the business side of projects can benefit from earning a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) class. CSPOs decide what the team will create, ordering the work to ensure that the most valuable, impactful products reach customers at a regular cadence.

The training will be beneficial to:

• Product owners or product owner candidates;
• Product and portfolio managers;
• Business representatives;
• Business experts;
• Executives, managers, support staff who are interested in improving product development through an in-depth hands-on workshop

Course Content

• Understanding Customers and Users
  • Why product discovery
  • Segmenting customers and users
  • Creating a shared understanding of customer needs
  • Prioritizing conflicting customers’ needs
  • Persona concepts and application
• Validating Product Assumptions
  • How to validate within Scrum Framework
  • Validation methods and selection
• Product Purpose and Strategy
  • Create and describe Product Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmap and Release planning
• Prioritization
  • Define and measure value for products
  • Models and techniques for prioritizing product features
• Product Backlog and Product Goal
  • Product backlog and its characteristics
  • Product Backlog Item (PBI) and its characteristics
  • User Stories
  • Product Backlog Refinement – a powerful vehicle
    • when, why and how
    • Methods for slicing larger needs into smaller product backlog items
• Scrum Framework Introduction
  • Scrum framework overview
  • How to benefit from Scrum framework to build a fantastic product
  • Agile estimation and release planning
• Summary of Product Ownership
  • Core competencies of a product owner
  • Key benefits of Product Ownership
  • Differentiating outcome and output
  • Collaboration with stakeholders
  • Collaboration with developers
  • Working with multiple Scrum teams
• Next steps to be a great Product Owner

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

Master the Scrum framework with the CSM program and acquire essential skills to excel as a ScrumMaster with the Advanced CSM program.

The ultimate ScrumMaster program contains two modules both ending with internationally recognized certifications – Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM).

 If you’re ready to grow more agile and interested in becoming an expert in Scrum, The Ultimate ScrumMaster® program (CSM® + A-CSM®) is designed for you. You’ll learn the Scrum framework and gain a full understanding of team accountabilities, events, and artifacts as well as how to guide your team to apply Scrum.

Considered the gold standard of certification, the Scrum Alliance CSM + A-CSM course is an interactive and engaging learning experience. Taught by our passionate trainers with rich hands-on experience from the coaching trenches, our class is an excellent learning opportunity to help students start and boost their learning journey towards Agile and Scrum.

Whether you want to serve as a ScrumMaster, are adopting Scrum, or just need the tools to be more agile, our The Ultimate ScrumMaster® program is the right place to start. You’ll gain a solid understanding of Scrum and learn practical ways to apply it to your team and throughout your organization.

Our workshops give you hands-on skills that you can immediately apply in the real world and expand your career opportunities. Once you complete the course, you will have everything you need and more, to take and pass the CSM exam.

Scrum is applicable across industries and potentially cross-functional teams, so in addition to product development professionals, marketers, data scientists, HR representatives, and other professionals looking for a better way to solve complex problems are encouraged to attend.

The training will be beneficial to:

• ScrumMasters or ScrumMaster candidates
• Developers, testers, analysts, designers, and all members of product development teams
• Managers, and support staff who want to understand Scrum framework and ScrumMaster role through an in-depth hands-on workshop
• Anybody who wants to build an in-depth introduction to Agile and Scrum.

MODULE 1 – Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) 06 – 07.03.2026

Course Content

• What exactly is Agile?
  • Agile value. principles and mindset
  • Relationship between Agile and Scrum

• Product Backlog
  • Product goal
  • Product backlog and its characteristics 
  • Product backlog item (PBI) and its characteristics 
  • User Story concept and writing exercises 
  • Product Backlog refinement: a powerful vehicle for interactive and incremental development 

• Scrum Framework Overview 
  • Three accountabilities in Scrum 
  • Great anatomy of great ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Scrum Team
  • Scrum events in a nutshell
    • Everything in a Sprint
    • Sprint Planning: set the goal for the sprint
    • Sprint backlog and its characteristics
    • Sprint goal
    • Daily Scrum to inspect and adapt
    • The Sprint Review: valuable feedback and collaboration with stakeholders
    • Sprint Retrospective for continuous improvements
  • Different scenarios during the sprint

• Increment and its characteristics
  • Definition of Done (DoD)

• Experience Scrum framework
  • Using Scrum framework to build our in-class product

• Agile estimation and release planning
• Working with multiple teams
• ScrumMaster’s competence
  • Services to Product Owner, Development Team and Organization 
  • Introduction to Agile facilitation and Agile coaching 

• Next steps to be a great ScrumMaster 

What are the benefits of a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) certification? 

By earning a Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:

• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors by adopting Agile practices
• Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge
• Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified ScrumMaster’s role from the best minds in Scrum
• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement

As a CSM, you will be able to excel at work as a ScrumMaster or a Scrum team member. Through the certification workshop, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the Scrum framework, including roles, activities, and artifacts, and experience Scrum framework during the workshop. 

With your CSM certification, you will also have access to a 2-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Through this membership, you can join local user groups, and online social networks, gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources. In addition, CSMs can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials. 

About the exam 

Upon completion of the CSM workshop, you can take the online exam at any time at any location convenient to you, as long as there is a good internet connection. Once you start the exam, you have 60 minutes to complete 50 questions which are multiple choice questions. You will know the result immediately, and you need to have more than 37 questions answered correctly. 

If for any reason you didn’t pass the exam, you are most invited to reach out to us to schedule an individual session or a re-take of the CSM workshop, free of charge. However, we have not had students who need to use this option yet. But it is always an option available if needed. There are two free attempts with the CSM workshop you take with us. 

MODULE 2 – Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) 18 – 19.03.2026

Course Content

Coaching Concepts

• Coaching stances
• Key coaching skills and their application
• Tactics of coaching at the individual, Scrum Team and organization level
• Agile coaching
  • Agile Facilitation
    • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
    • Facilitation techniques to navigate through the Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
    • Decision making
  • A deeper dive into Lean, Agile, Scrum and Kanban
    • Flow efficiency
    • Further enhancement of Scrum
    • Kanban in a nutshell for organization improvement
  • Services to developers
    • Self-Organization and Team Dynamics
    • Key attributes of effective teams
    • Coaching for high-performing teams
    • Agile engineering practices
  • Services to Product Owner
    • The services around Product Vision and Strategy
    • The mindset and tools for a fantastic product
    • Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
    • Product Backlog Refinement tactics
    • The collaboration and its enhancement with the Development Team
  • Services to Organization
    • Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
    • Leadership team coaching
    • Agile scaling approaches and principles
    • Introducing new ideas
    • Tactics for organizational improvements
  • Personal Development
    • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
    • Pivotal conversation
    • The art of giving feedback
    • How to work with conflicts
    • ScrumMaster as Servant Leader

What are the benefits of an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification?

By earning an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification you:

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills.
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace.
• Stand out in your industry as an advanced member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community.
• Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional.

Assessment method:
The achievement of learning outcomes is assessed on the basis of feedback-based practical exercises carried out during the training.

Graduation criteria:
A graduate of the training receives a certificate if he performs all the practical exercises given during the training.  Participants who have not achieved the learning outcomes will be issued a certificate of participation in the training upon request.

Õppekavarühm: 0613 Tarkvara ja rakenduste arendus ning analüüs.

Lecturer’s LinkedIn

As a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), you’ve been introduced to Scrum values, practices, and applications. You now have experienced also some successes and faced certain challenges working with Scrum at work. You probably also have felt the needs of advancing your skills and learning more practices to better support you teams, and your organization.

To further enhance your knowledge and skills, the next step is achieving an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™ (A-CSM™) certification from Scrum Alliance®. Our advanced offering is ideal for a Certified ScrumMaster who has one or more years of work experience in that role.

Who should take this course?

This course is for:

• Certified ScrumMasters (CSM) who are looking to advance their agile coaching skills
• ScrumMasters who have Scrum experience for over one year
• ScrumMasters who understand real challenges working with Scrum
• People in supporting roles who want to better support their teams
• Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach

The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster workshop requires previous Scrum knowledge and experience. All attendees must have the Certified ScrumMaster certification (CSM) and with practice prior to the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop.

What are the benefits of an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® certification?

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
• Stand out in your industry as an advanced member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community
• Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional

Course Content

• Coaching Concepts
  • Coaching stances
  • Key coaching skills and their application
  • Tactics of coaching at the individual, Scrum Team and organization level
  • Agile coaching
• Agile Facilitation
  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
  • Decision making
• A deeper dive into Lean, Agile, Scrum and Kanban
  • Flow efficiency
  • Further enhancement of Scrum
  • Kanban in a nutshell for organization improvement
• Services to developers
  • Self-Organization and Team Dynamics
  • Key attributes of effective teams
  • Coaching for high performing teams
  • Agile engineering practices
• Services to Product Owner
  • The services around Product Vision and Strategy
  • The mindset and tools for a fantastic product
  • Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
  • Product Backlog Refinement tactics
  • The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team
• Services to Organization
  • Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
  • Leadership team coaching
  • Agile scaling approaches and principles
  • Introducing new ideas
  • Tactics for organizational improvements
• Personal Development
  • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
  • Pivotal conversation
  • The art of giving feedback
  • How to work with conflicts
  • ScrumMaster as Servant Leader

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