Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD)

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Advance your technical skills in Agile product development. Certified Scrum Developers (CSD) have demonstrated — through a combination of formal training and a technical skills assessment — that they have a working understanding of Scrum and Agile principles and have learned specialized Agile product development skills.

NextUp’s Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) training is a two-day course designed to level-up the skills of growth-oriented CSDs by immersing you in practice and practical application. The goal is to expose students to advanced tools and collaboration techniques needed to build great products in the iterative and incremental fashion that Scrum requires. Over 50% of the class involves hands-on coding through sample exercises and can be run in C#, Python, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript.

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Certification

To achieve the Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) credential, students must:

Hold a Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
Attend the two-day A-CSD course.
During the two-day training, students will undergo periodic verbal and written evaluation to confirm mastery of the material. Students will have the opportunity to work with the instructor throughout class to pass the evaluations. Upon successful completion of the class and evaluations, students will become Advanced Certified Scrum Developers.
Validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Scrum developer/team member within the past five years.

Who Should Attend

This class is ideal for developers who have completed the CSD course and wish to learn more advanced technical concepts.

What’s In It for You:

The average annual Agile developer salary is $122,367 according to ZipRecruiter.

Typical job titles include software engineer, application developer, senior web developer, and more.

Access resources designed to help you succeed long after the class is done.

Claim 16 Scrum Alliance Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

Claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs).

What You’ll Learn

Our A-CSD training will cover topics such as:

Review of Lean, Agile, & Scrum in software development
Advanced collaboration and team dynamics
Advanced architecture and design
Advanced refactoring
Advanced test-driven development
Continuous integration

Portions of the class involve hands-on coding through sample exercises and can be run in C#, Python, Java, and JavaScript / TypeScript. Upon completion of the class, developers will be able to:

Apply test-driven development to create testable, supportable, maintainable, and extendable code.
Automate integration tests at the business tier, the database tier, the web tier, as well as with third-party applications and web services.
Identify code smells and apply refactoring techniques.

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Also Included In This Course:

All course materials and certification fees

Two-year membership to the Scrum Alliance

Dedicated customer support and scheduling flexibility

Access to NextUp’s original content like blogs and webinars as well as trainer office hours