The Scrum Alliance has established comprehensive and strong requirements for teaching the A-CSM Class.  

• We have 16 hours of a student's time, 4 of which is face-to-face with an instructor; 
• There are 42 Learning Objectives (LOs) to verify at the appropriate Bloom's (original) Taxonomy Knowledge Level.

We have designed our course to satisfy these requirements and allow us to explore beyond.

 

Here's what we do:

• The A-CSM is a very intense course, and our goal is to maximize our student outcomes in the 16 hours we have together.
• 12 of those 16 hours are directed group learning, where you will be working with StudyBuddies doing reading, exercises, discussions, and so on. We guide you through 13 learning modules with great materials, discussions, and exercises. All of the Learning Objectives will be verified in 12 Contact hours while you are working with StudyBuddies. We facilitate this for you by helping you acquire StudyBuddies, by verifying you've completed each module before moving to the next one, and by having our admin available to you for questions.
• 4 of these 16 hours are Office Hours, where the Trainer does Coaching, Mentoring and Q&A based on the Students' questions. These questions can be about anything that is agile and scrum, and could even be about the materials you are working on. However, in practice, the vast majority of this time is spent talking about work problems or misperceptions about agile and scrum.

We believe, and our reviews validate, that this structure provides a near-optimal learning experience for our Students.