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- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile 2009 Post Roundup
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- Agile Change or Adoption: Sense Your Current Culture
- Agile Bonuses - The Damage They Do
- Agile Change or Adoption: Define Small Organizational Changes
- Agile 2008 Post Roundup
- Agile Change or Adoption: Create a Vision
- Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective
- Agile Change or Adoption: the Steps to Go from “Why” to “How”
- Agile Change or Adoption: Turn Vision into Strategy
- Agile Gurus or Thought Leaders?
- Agile in a Tweet
- Agile Metrics
- Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
- Agile Change or Adoption Always Starts with Why
- Agile Tools for Job Search - An Evolving Post
- Agile Voices Finally
- Agile and Scrum Smells
- Agile Retrospectives
- Basic Explanation of the Different Parts of Agile Planning
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- “Because Our Competitors Are” is No Reason to Become an Agile Organization
- Beyond Scrum Blog Series
- Blind Estimation for Planning Poker
- Be Better with Better Data
- Bell Curves and Measuring Badly
- A Rebuttal of Groupthink
- Choosing a Scrum Sprint Length – Shorter Beats Longer
- Characteristics of Effective Scrum Teams
- Coaching Self Organizing Teams
- Scrum by Example – Feeling Pain from Your Daily Scrum?
- Scrum By Example - Waiting Too Long to Create Acceptance Criteria
- Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
- Scrum by Example – How to Deal with Bad User Stories as a ScrumMaster
- Daily Stand-up Variations
- Does Scrum Work? Hell Yes!!! Why
- Creativity for Agile Teams
- Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team?
- Collaboration, Over Work in Isolation
- Does Your Grocery Store Limit Work in Progress?
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity
- Early Feedback Reduces Anger and Frustration
- Don’t Inflict Scrum or Kanban on Teams
- Giving and Taking Design Criticism – with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- How Escape Rooms Teach About Teams
- How Hidden Complexity Tax Saps Organization Resilience
- GenAI and the Feature Factory: Automating Away Collaboration
- Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be
- Good Agendas Make Great Meetings
- Scrum by Example - How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team
- In Agile, Where Change is Valued, Why Is a Stable Team So Important?
- Influence: Science and Practice - other sources
- How to Be an Effective Manager in Scrum
- Influence – how and why does it work
- Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
- Is Your Scrum Team Good Enough?
- How to Get the C-Suite to Support Agile
- How to Cross-Skill and Grow T-shaped Team Members
- Is There a Best Day to Start and Finish a Sprint?
- It’s not Scrum if…
- Is there Value in the Noika Test
- The Jenga Effect: Why Clients Don't Make Good Product Owners
- Learning Scrum through Games
- Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
- JIRA is Not Agile
- Learning Best Approaches for your Brain Slide Deck
- Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity
- Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
- Meeting Ground Rules Updated
- Kanban Portfolio View
- Minimally Agile
- Misuse of Velocity in Agile Projects
- Minimalist Coding Style
- Misconceptions with Test Driven Development
- The Modern Guide to the Daily Scrum Meeting
- More Notes on Story Splitting
- Lifecycle of a User Story
- Multiple Returns from a Single Method
- Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
- Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic
- New People on Your Project
- Portfolio Management - Idle Teams
- Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews - It's a no Brainer
- Portfolio Management with Upstream and Downstream Teams
- Portfolio Management
- Recommended Books for Scrum Product Owners
- Product Owner Isn't Just a Business Analyst on Steroids
- Reinventing Existing Products – Big Bite vs Small Nibble Rewrites
- Red-Yellow-Green Status Reports and Other Models - How They Should and Shouldn’t Be Used
- Recommended Books for Scrum Masters
- Reviewing the Review Process for Agile 2009
- Scrum Alone is Not Enough
- Scrum Anti-Patterns – How We Hold Back Our Scrum Teams
- Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective
- Product Owners and the Art of Saying NO
- Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster
- Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint
- Scrum by Example - More Interruptions
- Scrum is Simple and Incomplete
- Scrum by Example – Scrum Anti-Patterns & Unplanned Work Disrupting the Sprint
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
- Scrum by Example - Product Backlog Refinement in Action
- Planning a Change in Career? Laid Off?
- Scrum Development Team – Who’s In It?
- Scrum by Example - Is Your Scrum Team a Victim of Scrummerfall?
- Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum
- What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?
- Scrum By Example – Learning How to Estimate
- Scrum Without Removing Impediments Isn’t Scrum
- Scrum by Example – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
- Scrum by Example - Impediments are Holding Back the Team
- Scrum by Example – Stop Digging New Holes
- Scrum By Example - The Team Collaborate on Acceptance Criteria
- Scrum by Example – Stuck Waiting for Other Teams
- Scrum By Example – Story Splitting Fun
- Scrum by Example – Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One on the Product Owner
- Scrum By Example – Technical Debt is Slowing the Team
- Scrum by Example – ScrumMaster for Three Teams? What are the Alternatives?
- Scrum By Example – The Team Gets Bottlenecked
- Scrum By Example – New People on the Team
- Scrum by Example - The Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
- Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
- Specialists Are Overrated
- Software Development is Not a Form of Construction
- Scrum By Example – The Team Learn How to Learn
- Simplicity
- Sprint Goals Provide Purpose
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
- TDD Randori Session
- TDD Randori Workshop
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- Test Driven Development is Not a Quality Assurance Technique
- Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing
- The Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- The Spotify Model of Scaling - Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
- Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation
- Tools, Tools, Tools
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- Impact Mapping – What It is, in Depth, with Examples
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
- Vision to User Stories - What is the Best Flow?
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
- Why AI Doesn't Replace Your ScrumMaster (and probably never will)
- Why Scrum Works??
- Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea
- Why Scrum Works?
- The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous
- Yahoo Bans Work from Home – an Alternative Perspective
- Working at a Distance is Hard
- Why are we so easily influenced? Weapons of Influence
Glossary Terms
- 10 Minute Build
- Agile
- Agile Business Intelligence
- Acceptance Criteria
- Agile Contracts
- Agile Architectural Patterns
- Agile Documentation
- Agile Architecture
- Agile Engineering Practices
- Agile Government
- Agile Hardware
- Agile Game Development
- Agile Mainframe Development
- Agile for Embedded Software
- Agile Architects
- Agile Sales and Marketing
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Agile Outside of Software
- Agile Schools
- Bottlenecks
- Approval Tests
- Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
- ARC Motivational Model
- Business Analyst in Scrum
- Case Studies
- Causal Loop Diagram
- Code Smells
- Collective Code Ownership
- Coaching
- Trunk Based Development
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Colocation
- Community of Practice
- Code Reviews
- Core Protocols
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Cycle Time
- Daily Scrum
- Cross-Skilling
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Decision Making Tools
- Dependencies
- Definition of Done
- Definition of Ready
- Developers
- Continuous Integration [CI]
- Diversity
- Distributed Teams
- Empathy Map
- Estimation
- Ensemble (formerly Mob) Programming
- Facilitation
- Failure Demand
- DevOps
- Fake Agile
- Extreme Programming
- Dot Voting
- Effective Teams
- Forecasting
- Feature Factory
- Feedback
- Interruptions
- Impediments
- Improvement Experiments
- Impact Mapping
- Failure Modes
- INVEST
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup Experiments
- Kanban
- Lean Startup
- Agile/Lean UX
- Legacy Code and Systems
- Liberating Structures
- Motivation
- Large Scale Scrum
- Morale
- Niko-Niko
- NoEstimates
- Multitasking
- Onboarding
- Minimum Viable Product [MVP]
- Part-time Team Members
- Metrics and Measurement
- Persona
- Organizational Structure
- Prioritization
- Personal README
- Product Backlog
- Pair Programming
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Product Owner Role
- Psychological Safety
- Portfolio Management
- Production Support
- Pull Requests
- Refactoring
- Roadmaps and Strategy
- Quality Assurance in Scrum
- Resource Utilization Trap
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Scaling and Large Teams
- SCARF Model
- Safety Check
- Scrum Team
- Scrum vs Kanban
- Scrum
- Scrummerfall
- Project vs. Product
- ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns
- Self-Organization
- Security in Scrum
- Self-Selecting Teams
- ScrumMaster Role
- Servant Leadership
- Spotify Model
- Sprint
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Length
- Sprint Burndown
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Retrospective
- Slack
- Sprint Goal
- Sprint Review
- Stable Teams
- Systems Thinking
- TDD vs BDD
- Swarming
- Story Mapping
- Team Formation Models
- Tech Debt Stories
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Team Launch
- Theory of Constraints
- Technical Debt
- Team Size
- Special Teams
- User Story Splitting
- Testing
- When to Use Scrum
- Vision
- Unit Testing
- Work Week
- Work in Progress
- Zoom Fatigue
- Zero Bugs
- Working Agreements
- User Story
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Explore what Scrum is and how to make it work for you in our Scrum Certification training. Hands-on learning will guide you to improve teamwork, deliver quick feedback, and achieve better products and results.
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About this course
Focuses on the role of the team and the ScrumMaster. Get the skills and practical experience necessary to improve teamwork, take the exam, and advance your career with a certification that is in high demand today. Often the best fit for anyone new to Scrum.
Learning and Benefits
Relatable Scenarios
Learn on-the-job applications of key Scrum concepts, skills, principles, along with practical solutions that you can apply the next day for difficult, real-life situations.
Respected Certification
Everything you need to earn your Scrum Alliance® ScrumMaster certification, including exam fee and membership, and so much more.
Practical Exercises
With focus on the challenges that real teams face, and tools to dig deeper. You don’t need more boring Scrum theory. You need something you can sink your teeth into to see immediate results.
Jargon-Free Learning
This workshop is not just for software development or people with a computer science degree. We’ve helped many non-software teams with Scrum.
Career Advancement
Use Scrum knowledge to standout at work, get paid more, and impress your customer, all without burning out.
Ongoing Support
Our active Scrum community forum is a safe place to ask questions. Long after you earn the Certified Scrum Master certification, you will have access to the forum, course materials, and additional valuable resources.