SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (5.1)

Advancing Scrum Master Servant Leadership with SAFe

Ready to take your leadership skills to the next level? The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course will give you the tools you need to improve your coaching and facilitation skills, avoid common missteps, and encourage relentless improvement. 

As a practicing scrum master in a SAFe® organization, you have the tactical skills to coach Agile teams in delivering business value. Build on that strong foundation in the SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course and discover how to facilitate success for Agile teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and the organization. 


You will learn how to apply Lean, Kanban, DevOps, and SAFe® principles to improve team and business outcomes. You will level-up your facilitation skills for key Agile and Scaled Agile Framework® events, whether they are in person or across teams and time zones. And You will discover how communities of practice can support continuous improvement.


Why Elabor8? 

Our SAFe® Practice Consultants (SPCs) have experience coaching and training across Government, Financial, Educational and Utility organisations. We take a pragmatic approach to agile adoption, understanding change is complex and challenging. Our Trainers also have broad knowledge across a range of Agile practices and frameworks which enables the delivery of balanced and complementary learnings. We're also able to provide implementation support post training.

Learning Objectives

  • 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

Topics covered

  • Exploring the Scrum Master Role in the SAFe Enterprise
  • Applying SAFe Principles
  • Exploring Agile and Scrum Anti-Patterns
  • Facilitating Program Execution
  • Improving Flow with Kanban and XP
  • Building High-Performing Teams
  • Improving Program Performance with Inspect and Adapt

You'll also receive

  • Trainers with real world SAFe® implementation experience
  • Course materials and remote learning tools
  • One year membership to SAFe® Studio
  • Project Management Institute (PMI): 15 PDU credits
  • Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification exam (exam cost is included in course registration fee);
    Please note that it is a requirement by Scaled Agile that participants must attend the full course in order to gain access and be eligible to sit the exam. You can read Scaled Agile's 'General exam FAQs' on the Scaled Agile website.