Certified Scrum Professional Developer · CSP-D®
Many teams practice Scrum events and still struggle with technical debt, rigid architecture, and slow delivery. CSP-D is where you stop just doing agile and start leading it — mentoring other developers, championing technical standards, and building the culture of technical excellence that spreads beyond your own keyboard.
$1,500 · Taught by Paul Moore, Certified Scrum Trainer & Technical Coach · Digital badge, 16 SEUs & a 2-year Scrum Alliance membership included
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Move from developer to technical leader by gaining the advanced skills to build high-performing, agile teams. The Certified Scrum Professional® - Developer course provides the expertise to guide software craftsmanship and drive continuous improvement.
Bringing a team? We also run private courses tailored to your organization. Contact us for more info →
The credential
CSP-D is the highest certification in the Scrum Alliance developer track. You'll need to already hold an A-CSD, active or expired, plus at least 24 months of experience as a scrum developer or team member within the last five years, to be eligible.
What you'll learn
Five areas that build on your A-CSD experience, aimed at developers ready to lead rather than just contribute — plus a closing focus on what it actually takes to grow as an agile leader.
Module 01
Push test-driven development further, letting good design emerge from the code rather than forcing it upfront.
Module 02
Apply continuous delivery practices across multiple teams sharing a codebase, not just within your own.
Module 03
Move from doing the work yourself to helping other developers on your team level up their own technical practice.
Module 04
Set and defend a technical bar for your team, and build the credibility to make that bar actually stick.
Module 05
Spread strong engineering practices beyond your own keyboard, across multiple Scrum teams in your organization.
Becoming an agile leader
The course closes on what it takes to develop yourself as an agile leader: facilitating shared understanding among stakeholders, guiding teams through continuous learning, and catalyzing the kind of high-performing technology organization that Scrum alone doesn't guarantee.
Hear from the trainers
A conversation between Rocket Nine founder Scott Dunn and Technical Coach Paul Moore on what agile technical practices actually change for a team.
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With all these practices, many of them drawn from Extreme Programming, I treat them as tools in my toolbox. I don't always need a hammer, I don't always need a screwdriver, but having those tools, when I can apply them in the right situation, they really are effective.
— Paul Moore, CSD Instructor
Who it's for
This training is the right choice for all team members involved in creating your software solutions — specifically, experienced developers ready to move from senior contributor to technical leader.
Ready to channel their technical skill into leadership, mentoring, and shaping a team's engineering standards.
Already the strongest technical contributor on the team and looking for the next stage — influence beyond your own code.
Responsible for a team's technical direction and wanting a real credential behind the leadership work you're already doing.
CSP-D is a required milestone if you're considering becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer down the road.
Prerequisite: you'll need an active or expired A-CSD, plus at least 24 months of experience as a scrum developer or team member within the last five years, to earn the CSP-D from this course.
Your seat
Four half-days, the highest certification in the developer track, and a standing invitation to keep working the practices with us.
The official Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional Developer credential — shareable the day you finish, and it renews your A-CSD automatically.
Professional membership included with your seat — community, resources, and member pricing for two full years.
Applicable to your Scrum Alliance and PMI certification renewals — one of each per hour of live training.
A premium subscription to Comparative Agility, the largest agile assessment and continuous-improvement platform, included with your certification.
Keep coming back. Bring the leadership challenges you're actually facing and work them through with Paul and other practitioners.
Your trainer
Certified Scrum Trainer & Technical Coach
Paul is an expert Agile Technical Coach dedicated to restoring the "engineering" in software engineering. With decades of hands-on experience in high-stakes development environments, he doesn't just teach theory — he focuses on the hard technical skills required to build maintainable, high-quality software. As a guide for thousands of developers worldwide, Paul bridges the gap between abstract Agile concepts and the daily reality of writing code, helping teams deliver value faster and with greater confidence.
Questions
Yes. Scrum Alliance requires an active or expired Advanced Certified Scrum Developer certification, plus at least 24 months of experience as a scrum developer or team member within the last five years, before you're eligible to earn the CSP-D.
A-CSD deepens your intermediate technical skills and is itself a prerequisite for this course. CSP-D is the highest level of the developer track — it shifts the focus from your own code to mentoring other developers, championing technical standards, and leading a culture of technical excellence across teams.
No written exam. As with CSD and A-CSD, Paul's course design uses a classroom-based evaluation — attend all four half-days, participate, and complete the hands-on work, and you'll receive your CSP-D credential.
CSP-D is the top of the Scrum Alliance developer track — there's no further certification level above it. For developers who want to keep going, it's also a required milestone on the path to becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer.
Every two years, by earning 40 Scrum Education Units and paying the renewal fee to Scrum Alliance — a higher SEU requirement than CSD or A-CSD, reflecting CSP-D's status as the developer track's top certification.
A two-year Scrum Alliance membership, 16 SEUs and 16 PDUs, and a free premium subscription to Comparative Agility, the largest agile assessment and continuous-improvement platform — on top of the hands-on leadership and technical practice from the course itself.
Yes — a private session lets Paul work directly with your senior developers on the mentoring and technical-leadership challenges specific to your teams. Email hello@rocketninesolutions.com and we'll put together a plan.
The developer track
Scrum Alliance built the developer track to reward time in the role, not just time in a classroom. You've already cleared the first two steps; this is the top of the track.
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The entry point. Required — active or expired — before you're eligible for A-CSD.
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Required — active or expired — plus 24 months of scrum developer experience, before you're eligible for CSP-D.
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This course. The highest certification in the Scrum Alliance developer track.
Looking for private options for these courses, or considering the path to becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer? Get in touch with us for more information: hello@rocketninesolutions.com.
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