AI-EMPOWERED SAFe®
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
Become a SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
Elevate your Scrum Master impact by fostering high-performing teams that collaborate seamlessly within the Agile Release Train. This certification empowers you to improve flow, create high-performing teams, and build strong conflict management skills to ensure collective alignment.
Leverage the power of AI to eliminate administrative bottlenecks and focus on high-impact team facilitation. You will gain the advanced tools needed to optimize flow, resolve multi-team conflict, and support relentless improvement to enhance overall team performance.
Advanced Level
Recommended for experienced Scrum Masters, certified SSM
Exam
120 minutes
Passing Score
82% to pass
Certification
Accreditation upon passing exam
The Value of Your SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification
Earning a SAFe certification is a strategic investment in your professional future, signaling a mastery of Agile principles that is recognized globally. Beyond a simple credential, it represents a long-term achievement that validates your ability to support enterprise-scale transformations and execute complex solutions. By holding this certification, you demonstrate job-ready expertise and a commitment to continuous growth, unlocking advanced career paths and high-impact opportunities within the Agile landscape.
Benefits of Earning Your SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification
Achieving your certification unlocks exclusive access to additional resources to deepen your understanding of the SASM role, including insights into daily responsibilities and practices.
Career Development & Community
- Access to the SAFe community forums for career advancement, learning and mentorship opportunities, job boards, and more.
- Invitations to role-based networking circles.
- Exclusive webinars on emerging professional development and SAFe topics tailored to your role.
Continuous Learning
- Full access to the SAFe Framework articles.
- SAFe Skills Library for professional development in agile practices.
- Certification upgrade learning series.
- Continued learning through SAFe experts and partners.
SAFe Resources
- Value stream mapping and other selected workshops.
- On-demand access to all recorded keynotes, breakout sessions, and other content from SAFe Summits.
- SAFe assessments to measure and improve business agility and other core competencies.
Studio Toolkits & Applications
- Access to SAFe CoPilot AI assistant.
- Role-specific training videos and content.
- Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning.
Who Is This Certification For?
You can succeed as a SASM if you have a firm understanding of the Scrum Master role, SAFe principles, and team-level facilitation. This certification is for experienced Scrum Masters and team leaders facilitating success in multi-team environments. It is ideal for professionals looking to improve flow and build high-performing, collaborative teams that drive value through effective conflict management and technical depth.
Scrum Master
Scale your existing skills to focus on high-level flow, outcomes, and system improvement at the team level while creating a stepping stone toward advanced team-facilitation responsibilities.
Agile Coach
Integrate advanced Scrum Master disciplines into your coaching toolkit to drive team effectiveness and ensure these improvements deliver measurable value through better collaboration across the ART.
Engineering Manager
Gain a deeper technical dive into measuring flow and scalable engineering practices to reduce operational friction and improve decision-making within your teams.
Future Release Train Engineer
Build a strong foundation in multi-team facilitation and conflict resolution, gaining the essential supportive skills required to eventually progress into train-level roles.
#1 Framework for Scaling Agile
Trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide and recognized as the most considered and adopted framework globally, SAFe is the proven standard for business agility. It provides a configurable bridge to a new way of working, allowing you to scale effectively regardless of your organization’s size, industry, or complexity. Choose the framework that delivers demonstrated results.
Access a Global Standard
Join over 2 million trained professionals in the world’s largest agile community. SAFe training moves beyond theory with role-based simulations and a comprehensive library of collaboration templates used by top enterprises. You won’t just learn a methodology; you will master the specific tools and practices that define modern business agility.
Learn from Proven Consultants
SAFe training is exclusively delivered by certified SAFe Practice Consultants (SPCs)—change agents who have demonstrated real-world expertise in scaling agile. Unlike generic trainers, SPCs provide deep practical insights into how the framework succeeds in complex environments, ensuring your learning is directly applicable to your career.
Stand Out in the Market
In a competitive job market, SAFe certification validates your expertise in the world’s leading Framework for business agility. Earning your certification proves your value to employers, enhances your professional credibility, and opens doors to new career opportunities and higher earning potential.
What You Will Learn: Advance Team Value Flow
The AI-Empowered SASM course enhances team-level skills to focus on flow, outcomes, and high-performance across multiple teams. You will learn to facilitate collaborative environments that support successful ART execution.
Facilitate Cross-Team Collaboration
Support interactions between multiple teams and coordinate success within the Agile Release Train to ensure synchronized delivery and the removal of local impediments.
Optimize Flow
Apply advanced XP and Kanban frameworks to identify bottlenecks, improve team flow, and ensure the continuous delivery of high-quality systems value.
Manage Multi-Team Engagement
Build strong conflict management skills to navigate challenges across teams, ensuring a healthy, collaborative environment that sustains high performance and alignment.
Drive High-Performing Teams
Apply AI-empowered facilitation techniques and technical depth to build high-performing teams that improve team-level results and contribute to overall ART performance.
Languages Available
ENGLISH*All listed languages are available for this course.
However, the AI-Empowered SAFe update is currently available in select languages only.
Leverage AI to Amplify Results
Harness AI fundamentals and prompting techniques tailored for the SASM role to help generate role-specific templates and proven prompts for drafting initial acceptance criteria or splitting complex stories.
Utilize the SAFe CoPilot AI assistant to quickly reference Framework guidance and support your ability to provide data-backed recommendations for value stream optimization.
Use AI tools for high-impact work including analyzing retrospective themes across teams to identify ART-level bottlenecks and generating prompts for PI Planning.
Evaluate AI-generated strategic insights to ensure alignment with Lean-Agile principles, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for ethical and high-quality outcomes.
Certification Process Includes
- Perpetual access to the course workbook and Studio™ for additional preparation
- An unlimited practice test with question-level feedback and coaching report that acts as a simulation and study tool
- Customer support team for service requests
- A timed, multiple-choice exam with a coaching report
Certified Professionals Earn
- Industry-leading AI-Empowered SAFe certification, renewed yearly
- Digital badge with social media share capability to grow your network
- PMI PDUs, Scrum CEUs
Exam Guidelines
Domain
Topics
Evolving the Advanced Scrum Master role (11-13%)
- Understanding the Advanced Scrum Master Role
- Empowering teams with AI
Improving Flow (22-24%)
- Selecting the team method
- Visualizing team flow
- Measuring and accelerating team flow
- Using built-in quality to improve flow
Building high-performing teams (26-28%)
- Characteristics of high-performing teams
- Employing powerful questions
- Promoting cross-team collaboration
- Assessing team performance
Addressing conflict (18-20%)
- Identifying behaviors that improve conflict
- Identifying sources of conflict
- Apply interest-based problem solving
- Framing and reframing through conflict
- Using the conflict analysis and the strategy design framework
Improving ART performance (17-19%)
- Driving outcome-based team events
- Coaching the IP iteration
- Driving improvement with Inspect and Adapt
- Facilitating the problem-solving workshop
Resources for SAFe Advanced Scrum Masters
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