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- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile Change or Adoption Always Starts with Why
- Agile Change or Adoption: Create a Vision
- Agile Bonuses - The Damage They Do
- Agile Change or Adoption: Sense Your Current Culture
- Agile Change or Adoption: Define Small Organizational Changes
- Agile Change or Adoption: Turn Vision into Strategy
- Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
- Agile Change or Adoption: the Steps to Go from “Why” to “How”
- A Rebuttal of Groupthink
- Agile Gurus or Thought Leaders?
- Agile in a Tweet
- Agile Metrics
- Agile Retrospectives
- Agile Tools for Job Search - An Evolving Post
- Agile Voices Finally
- Agile and Scrum Smells
- AI Chatbots for Agile Coaches: Why They Fail
- AI Code Generation and the Tennis Kata
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- Be Better with Better Data
- Bell Curves and Measuring Badly
- “Because Our Competitors Are” is No Reason to Become an Agile Organization
- Basic Explanation of the Different Parts of Agile Planning
- Beyond Scrum Blog Series
- Blind Estimation for Planning Poker
- Characteristics of Effective Scrum Teams
- Choosing a Scrum Sprint Length – Shorter Beats Longer
- Coaching Self Organizing Teams
- Scrum By Example - Waiting Too Long to Create Acceptance Criteria
- Creativity for Agile Teams
- Collaboration, Over Work in Isolation
- Scrum by Example – Feeling Pain from Your Daily Scrum?
- Daily Stand-up Variations
- Scrum by Example – How to Deal with Bad User Stories as a ScrumMaster
- Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
- Does Scrum Work? Hell Yes!!! Why
- Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team?
- Does Your Grocery Store Limit Work in Progress?
- Don't Inflict Scrum or Kanban on Teams
- Scrum by Example – Don't Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity
- Drowning in an Oversized Product Backlog? Story Mapping Is Your Life Raft
- Early Feedback Reduces Anger and Frustration
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- GenAI and the Feature Factory: Automating Away Collaboration
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- GenAI vs Human Intelligence - a Reality Check
- Systems Thinking with GenAI: Solve Deep Team Problems
- Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be
- Giving and Taking Design Criticism – with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Good Agendas Make Great Meetings
- Hidden Complexity Tax: How It Kills Organizational Resilience
- How Escape Rooms Teach About Teams
- Scrum by Example - How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team
- How to Be an Effective Manager in Scrum
- How to Build a Powerful Team from Scratch
- How to Get the C-Suite to Support Agile
- How to Cross-Skill and Grow T-shaped Team Members
- Human-Powered AI - A Fun Way to Understand How GenAI Really Works
- In Agile, Where Change is Valued, Why Is a Stable Team So Important?
- Influence: Science and Practice - other sources
- Influence – how and why does it work
- Is Your Scrum Team Good Enough?
- Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
- Is the Scrum Guide Wrong About the Product Owner?
- Is There a Best Day to Start and Finish a Sprint?
- Is there Value in the Noika Test
- It’s not Scrum if…
- The Jenga Effect: Why Clients Don't Make Good Product Owners
- JIRA is Not Agile
- Learning Best Approaches for your Brain Slide Deck
- Learning Scrum through Games
- Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
- Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity
- Kanban Portfolio View
- Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
- Lifecycle of a User Story
- Meeting Ground Rules Updated
- Minimalist Coding Style
- Minimally Agile
- Misconceptions with Test Driven Development
- Misuse of Velocity in Agile Projects
- Mismeasurement Mess - IRCC Leads the Way
- More Notes on Story Splitting
- The Modern Guide to the Daily Scrum Meeting
- Multiple Returns from a Single Method
- Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
- New People on Your Project
- Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic
- Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews - It's a no Brainer
- Planning a Change in Career? Laid Off?
- Portfolio Management - Idle Teams
- Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management with Upstream and Downstream Teams
- Product Owners and the Art of Saying NO
- Product Owner Isn't Just a Business Analyst on Steroids
- Recommended Books for Scrum Product Owners
- Recommended Books for Scrum Developers
- Red-Yellow-Green Status Reports and Other Models - How They Should and Shouldn’t Be Used
- Recommended Books for Scrum Masters
- Reinventing Existing Products – Big Bite vs Small Nibble Rewrites
- Reviewing the Review Process for Agile 2009
- Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Alone is Not Enough
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
- Scrum by Example – Scrum Anti-Patterns & Unplanned Work Disrupting the Sprint
- Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint
- Scrum Development Team – Who’s In It?
- Scrum is Simple and Incomplete
- Scrum by Example - More Interruptions
- Product Backlog Refinement in Action (Scrum by Example)
- Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum
- Scrum by Example - Is Your Scrum Team a Victim of Scrummerfall?
- What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?
- Scrum Without Removing Impediments Isn't Scrum
- Scrum by Example – ScrumMaster for Three Teams? What are the Alternatives?
- Scrum by Example - Impediments are Holding Back the Team
- Scrum By Example – Learning How to Estimate
- Scrum By Example – New People on the Team
- Scrum by Example – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
- Scrum by Example – Stop Digging New Holes
- Scrum By Example – Story Splitting Fun
- Scrum by Example – Stuck Waiting for Other Teams
- Scrum By Example – Technical Debt is Slowing the Team
- Scrum by Example – Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One on the Product Owner
- Scrum By Example - The Team Collaborate on Acceptance Criteria
- Scrum By Example – The Team Gets Bottlenecked
- Scrum by Example - The Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
- Scrum By Example – The Team Learn How to Learn
- Simplicity
- Software Development is Not a Form of Construction
- Specialists Are Overrated
- Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
- Sprint Goals Provide Purpose: A Guide
- Sprint Planning from Hell
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- TDD Randori Session
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements
- TDD Randori Workshop
- Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing
- Test Driven Development is Not a Quality Assurance Technique
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- The Human Cost of GenAI
- The Real Cost of AI-Generated Code: It's Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
- The Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous
- The Spotify Model of Scaling - Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
- Impact Mapping – What It is, in Depth, with Examples
- Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation
- Tools, Tools, Tools
- Using GenAI to Code? Not So Fast
- Unpacking Interruptions- Why Your Team Struggles to Get Things Done
- Vision to User Stories - What is the Best Flow?
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- Why AI Doesn't Replace Your ScrumMaster (and probably never will)
- Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea
- Why Scrum Works?
- Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
- Why Scrum Works??
- Why are we so easily influenced? Weapons of Influence
- Will AI Make the Federal Government More Efficient or Just More Busy?
- Working at a Distance is Hard
- Yahoo Bans Work from Home – an Alternative Perspective
- Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
- AI-Generated Code Quality and the Challenges we all face
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- Agile Sales and Marketing
- Agile Outside of Software
- Agile Schools
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Approval Tests
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
- Blame Chet
- ARC Motivational Model
- Bottlenecks
- Trunk Based Development
- Business Analyst in Scrum
- Case Studies
- Causal Loop Diagram
- Coaching
- Code Reviews
- Code Smells
- Collective Code Ownership
- Colocation
- Community of Practice
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Continuous Integration [CI]
- Core Protocols
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- Cross-Skilling
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Cycle Time
- Daily Scrum
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- Definition of Done
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- Ensemble (formerly Mob) Programming
- Estimation
- Explainer Video MVP
- Extreme Programming
- Facilitation
- Failure Bow
- Failure Demand
- Failure Modes
- Feature Factory
- Fake Door MVP
- Fake Agile
- Feedback
- Forecasting
- Impact Mapping
- Impediments
- Interruptions
- Improvement Experiments
- INVEST
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Kanban
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup
- Lean Startup Experiments
- Agile/Lean UX
- Legacy Code and Systems
- Large Scale Scrum
- Liberating Structures
- Metrics and Measurement
- Minimum Viable Product [MVP]
- Morale
- Motivation
- Multitasking
- Niko-Niko
- NoEstimates
- Organizational Structure
- Onboarding
- Part-time Team Members
- Pair Programming
- Persona
- Personal README
- Portfolio Management
- Prioritization
- Product Backlog
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Product Owner Role
- Production Support
- Project vs. Product
- Psychological Safety
- Pull Requests
- Refactoring
- Resource Utilization Trap
- Quality Assurance in Scrum
- Roadmaps and Strategy
- Scaling and Large Teams
- Safety Check
- Scaled Agile Framework
- SCARF Model
- Scrum vs Kanban
- Scrum Team
- Scrum
- ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns
- ScrumMaster Role
- Scrummerfall
- Security in Scrum
- Self-Organization
- Servant Leadership
- Self-Selecting Teams
- Slack
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- Spotify Model
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- Sprint Backlog
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- Sprint Goal
- Sprint Length
- Sprint Retrospective
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Review
- Stable Teams
- Systems Thinking
- Story Mapping
- Swarming
- Team Formation Models
- TDD vs BDD
- Team Launch
- Team Size
- Tech Debt Stories
- Technical Debt
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Testing
- User Story
- Unit Testing
- Theory of Constraints
- User Story Splitting
- Vision
- When to Use Scrum
- Wizard of Oz MVP
- Work Week
- Zero Bugs
- Work in Progress
- Working Agreements
- Zoom Fatigue
- Last Responsible Moment
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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.