Scrum Master to Agile Coach path

Each certification has been given a sequence number and below is a brief explanation of the path that explains each of the steps.

1. Certified Scrum Master (CSM): This is the first step to understand what is Scrum framework and Agile values and principles. You will get fundamentals of Scrum with Scrum Team, Scrum Events, Scrum Artifacts, Scrum Values etc. This enables you to be a Scrum Master and solve complex problems using Scrum with a single Scrum Team. Learnovative offers multiple weekend and weekday CSM workshops and you can find them in our calendar at: https://www.learnovative.com/training-calender

2. Experience with Scrum: Once you become a certified Scrum Master, your immediate next step is to start working as “Scrum Master” for at least 1.5 to 2 years. This experience helps you to understand practical implementation of Scrum and lets you gain knowledge on how to solve practical issues in implementing Scrum.

3. Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM): In A-CSM, you get knowledge of various other Agile frameworks, how to resolve conflicts, working with multi-team Scrum, practical coaching and facilitation hands-on experience. Learnovative offers multiple weekend and weekday A-CSM workshops and you can find them in our calendar at: https://www.learnovative.com/training-calender

4. Scaling Scrum certification: Once you get fundamentals of multi-team Scrum with A-CSM you take any scaling framework certification that helps you gain an in-depth understanding of how scaling Scrum works with hands-on case studies. You may choose SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or LeSS (LArge Scale Scrum) or S@S (Scrum at Scale.

5. Certified Scrum Professional – Scrum Master (CSP-SM): This helps you learn how Lead and Agile complement each other, advanced facilitation and coaching techniques, team dynamics, organizational development and advanced scaling approaches.

6. ICAgile Certified Practitioner – Agile Coaching Certification (ICP-ACC): This primarily focuses on understanding Agile coaching competencies at team level and organizational level coaching. Various agile coaching techniques will be taught with hands-on practice.

7. International Coaching Federation – Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC): This helps you understand professional coaching competencies and helps you get access to understand how a professional coach works to help their clients. You will get thorough knowledge on the coaching competencies because you have to practice a minimum 100 hours of coaching conversations before you get the certification. You will practice professional coaching models such as: GROW, WONDER, ADKAR in this practice.

8. Certified Team Coach (CTC): This is the major first step to become an enterprise Agile coach. Based on the knowledge and experience you gain in the last 7 steps, you will go through the CTC process. This is not just a few days or training. You will have to go through 2 stages of the application process where there will be plenty of subjective questions you have to answer based on your experience of Scrum master and agile coach experience. After validating your answers the Scrum Alliance will award the CTC certification.

9. Certified Agile Leadership – Essentials (CAL-E): This is a one day training in which you will get to know Agile LEadership fundamentals including types of leaderships, types of leaders and their characters, how they think, behave etc. The focus on agile leadership essentials helps you to grow confidently on the journey towards leading with agility and participating in agile transformation in an organization.

10. Certified Agile Leadership – for Teams (CAL-T): Agile teams need an alternative to the traditional old age leadership approaches. CAL for Teams demonstrates how to develop a safe-to-fail environment and create a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation to allow for empirical and continuous learning within your teams.

11. Certified Agile Leadership – for Organization (CAL-O): Executive level leaders (CxOs) are now required to shift the way that they think about their organizational culture and employees. They need to become real change agents. In CAL for Organizations, you will gain knowledge, skills, and techniques that will help leaders to work toward sustainable agility for their organizations. It helps you understand various organizational types, cultures and how you can help them to be agile organizations.

12. Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC): This is the ultimate agile coaching certification from the Scrum Alliance. This helps you become an enterprise agile coach who helps organizations in their agile transformation. With all the prior 11 steps you have accomplished will provide required support to become CEC. This is again not a training based certification. You have to go through two stages of application (similar to CTC) and then demonstrate your practical abilities and knowledge.