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- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile Change or Adoption Always Starts with Why
- Agile Bonuses - The Damage They Do
- Agile Change or Adoption: Create a Vision
- Agile Change or Adoption: Define Small Organizational Changes
- Agile Change or Adoption: the Steps to Go from “Why” to “How”
- Agile Change or Adoption: Turn Vision into Strategy
- Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
- Agile Change or Adoption: Sense Your Current Culture
- 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 Code Generation and the Tennis Kata
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- Be Better with Better Data
- “Because Our Competitors Are” is No Reason to Become an Agile Organization
- Beyond Scrum Blog Series
- Bell Curves and Measuring Badly
- Blind Estimation for Planning Poker
- Characteristics of Effective Scrum Teams
- Basic Explanation of the Different Parts of Agile Planning
- Coaching Self Organizing Teams
- Choosing a Scrum Sprint Length – Shorter Beats Longer
- Collaboration, Over Work in Isolation
- Scrum By Example - Waiting Too Long to Create Acceptance Criteria
- Creativity for Agile Teams
- 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
- Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team?
- Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
- Does Your Grocery Store Limit Work in Progress?
- Does Scrum Work? Hell Yes!!! Why
- 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
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- GenAI and the Feature Factory: Automating Away Collaboration
- Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- GenAI vs Human Intelligence - a Reality Check
- Giving and Taking Design Criticism – with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Good Agendas Make Great Meetings
- How Hidden Complexity Tax Saps Organization 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
- Influence: Science and Practice - other sources
- In Agile, Where Change is Valued, Why Is a Stable Team So Important?
- Influence – how and why does it work
- Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
- Is Your Scrum Team Good Enough?
- 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
- Kanban Portfolio View
- JIRA is Not Agile
- Learning Scrum through Games
- Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
- Learning Best Approaches for your Brain Slide Deck
- Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity
- Lifecycle of a User Story
- Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
- Minimalist Coding Style
- Meeting Ground Rules Updated
- Minimally Agile
- Misconceptions with Test Driven Development
- Mismeasurement Mess - IRCC Leads the Way
- Misuse of Velocity in Agile Projects
- Multiple Returns from a Single Method
- The Modern Guide to the Daily Scrum Meeting
- Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
- Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic
- More Notes on Story Splitting
- New People on Your Project
- Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews - It's a no Brainer
- Planning a Change in Career? Laid Off?
- Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management - Idle Teams
- Portfolio Management with Upstream and Downstream Teams
- Product Owner Isn't Just a Business Analyst on Steroids
- Recommended Books for Scrum Developers
- Product Owners and the Art of Saying NO
- Recommended Books for Scrum Product Owners
- 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
- Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Alone is Not Enough
- Reviewing the Review Process for Agile 2009
- Scrum Anti-Patterns – How We Hold Back Our Scrum Teams
- Scrum by Example – Scrum Anti-Patterns & Unplanned Work Disrupting the Sprint
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
- Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster
- Scrum Development Team – Who’s In It?
- Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint
- 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 – Story Splitting Fun
- Scrum by Example – Stuck Waiting for Other Teams
- Scrum By Example - The Team Collaborate on Acceptance Criteria
- 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 – Stop Digging New Holes
- 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
- Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
- Specialists Are Overrated
- Software Development is Not a Form of Construction
- Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Sprint Goals Provide Purpose: A Guide
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- TDD Randori Session
- TDD Randori Workshop
- Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements
- Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing
- Test Driven Development is Not a Quality Assurance Technique
- The Human Cost of GenAI
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- The Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- The Real Cost of AI-Generated Code: It's Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
- The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous
- The Spotify Model of Scaling - Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
- Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation
- Impact Mapping – What It is, in Depth, with Examples
- Tools, Tools, Tools
- Unpacking Interruptions- Why Your Team Struggles to Get Things Done
- Using GenAI to Code? Not So Fast
- Vision to User Stories - What is the Best Flow?
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- Why AI Doesn't Replace Your ScrumMaster (and probably never will)
- Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
- Why Scrum Works?
- Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea
- 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
- Sprint Planning from Hell
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- Agile Schools
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Approval Tests
- Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
- ARC Motivational Model
- Blame Chet
- Bottlenecks
- Business Analyst in Scrum
- Trunk Based Development
- Causal Loop Diagram
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- Code Smells
- Collective Code Ownership
- Colocation
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Community of Practice
- Core Protocols
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- Cross-Skilling
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Cycle Time
- Daily Scrum
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- Definition of Done
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- Failure Demand
- Failure Modes
- Fake Agile
- Effective Teams
- Feature Factory
- Feedback
- Impact Mapping
- Forecasting
- Improvement Experiments
- Interruptions
- Impediments
- INVEST
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Kanban
- Lean Startup
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup Experiments
- Agile/Lean UX
- Legacy Code and Systems
- Large Scale Scrum
- Liberating Structures
- Minimum Viable Product [MVP]
- Metrics and Measurement
- Morale
- Motivation
- Multitasking
- Niko-Niko
- NoEstimates
- Onboarding
- Organizational Structure
- 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
- Quality Assurance in Scrum
- Refactoring
- Roadmaps and Strategy
- Resource Utilization Trap
- Safety Check
- Scaled Agile Framework
- SCARF Model
- Scaling and Large Teams
- Scrum
- Scrum Team
- Scrum vs Kanban
- ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns
- ScrumMaster Role
- Scrummerfall
- Security in Scrum
- Self-Organization
- Servant Leadership
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- Special Teams
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- Sprint Backlog
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- Sprint Length
- Spotify Model
- Slack
- Sprint Goal
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- Stable Teams
- Story Mapping
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- Swarming
- TDD vs BDD
- Team Launch
- Team Size
- Team Formation Models
- Tech Debt Stories
- Technical Debt
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Testing
- Theory of Constraints
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- User Story
- User Story Splitting
- Vision
- Work in Progress
- When to Use Scrum
- Work Week
- Working Agreements
- Zero Bugs
- Zoom Fatigue
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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.