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Articles
- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile 2008 Post Roundup
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- Agile Bonuses - The Damage They Do
- Agile Change or Adoption Always Starts with Why
- 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 Gurus or Thought Leaders?
- Agile in a Tweet
- Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
- Agile Metrics
- Agile Retrospectives
- Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective
- Agile Voices Finally
- Agile and Scrum Smells
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- A Rebuttal of Groupthink
- Basic Explanation of the Different Parts of Agile Planning
- Be Better with Better Data
- Bell Curves and Measuring Badly
- “Because Our Competitors Are” is No Reason to Become an Agile Organization
- 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
- 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?
- Scrum by Example – How to Deal with Bad User Stories as a ScrumMaster
- Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria
- Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team?
- Does Scrum Work? Hell Yes!!! Why
- Does Your Grocery Store Limit Work in Progress?
- Daily Stand-up Variations
- Don’t Inflict Scrum or Kanban on Teams
- Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- Early Feedback Reduces Anger and Frustration
- Agile Change or Adoption: Turn Vision into Strategy
- Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be
- Agile Change or Adoption: Sense Your Current Culture
- Giving and Taking Design Criticism – with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Good Agendas Make Great Meetings
- How Escape Rooms Teach About Teams
- How Hidden Complexity Tax Saps Organization Resilience
- Agile Tools for Job Search - An Evolving Post
- GenAI and the Feature Factory: Automating Away Collaboration
- In Agile, Where Change is Valued, Why Is a Stable Team So Important?
- How to Get the C-Suite to Support Agile
- Influence: Science and Practice - other sources
- Influence – how and why does it work
- Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
- Is Your Scrum Team Good Enough?
- Is There a Best Day to Start and Finish a Sprint?
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- Is there Value in the Noika Test
- It’s not Scrum if…
- The Jenga Effect: Why Clients Don't Make Good Product Owners
- Scrum by Example - How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team
- Kanban Portfolio View
- 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
- How to Be an Effective Manager in Scrum
- Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
- Meeting Ground Rules Updated
- Minimalist Coding Style
- How to Cross-Skill and Grow T-shaped Team Members
- Minimally Agile
- Misuse of Velocity in Agile Projects
- The Modern Guide to the Daily Scrum Meeting
- More Notes on Story Splitting
- Multiple Returns from a Single Method
- Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
- New People on Your Project
- Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic
- JIRA is Not Agile
- Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews - It's a no Brainer
- Portfolio Management
- Planning a Change in Career? Laid Off?
- Portfolio Management - Idle Teams
- Portfolio Management with Upstream and Downstream Teams
- Product Owner Isn't Just a Business Analyst on Steroids
- Product Owners and the Art of Saying NO
- Recommended Books for Scrum Masters
- Recommended Books for Scrum Product Owners
- Red-Yellow-Green Status Reports and Other Models - How They Should and Shouldn’t Be Used
- 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 – How We Hold Back Our Scrum Teams
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
- Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster
- 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 – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum
- Scrum by Example - More Interruptions
- Scrum by Example - Product Backlog Refinement in Action
- 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 - The Team Collaborate on Acceptance Criteria
- Scrum By Example – Technical Debt is Slowing the Team
- Scrum By Example – The Team Gets Bottlenecked
- Scrum by Example – Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One on the Product Owner
- Scrum by Example - The Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
- Simplicity
- Software Development is Not a Form of Construction
- Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
- Specialists Are Overrated
- Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
- Sprint Goals Provide Purpose
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Lifecycle of a User Story
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- TDD Randori Session
- TDD Randori Workshop
- Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing
- Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements
- Test Driven Development is Not a Quality Assurance Technique
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- The Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- The Spotify Model of Scaling - Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
- The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous
- Impact Mapping – What It is, in Depth, with Examples
- Tools, Tools, Tools
- Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation
- Vision to User Stories - What is the Best Flow?
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- Misconceptions with Test Driven Development
- 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 Scrum Works?
- Scrum By Example – The Team Learn How to Learn
- Working at a Distance is Hard
- Yahoo Bans Work from Home – an Alternative Perspective
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
- Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
- Why are we so easily influenced? Weapons of Influence
Glossary Terms
- Agile
- Agile Architects
- Agile Architectural Patterns
- Agile Architecture
- Agile Business Intelligence
- Agile Contracts
- Agile Engineering Practices
- Agile Documentation
- Agile Game Development
- 10 Minute Build
- Agile Government
- Agile Hardware
- Agile Mainframe Development
- Agile Outside of Software
- Agile Sales and Marketing
- Agile Schools
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Approval Tests
- ARC Motivational Model
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
- Trunk Based Development
- Bottlenecks
- Business Analyst in Scrum
- Case Studies
- Causal Loop Diagram
- Coaching
- Code Reviews
- Collective Code Ownership
- Colocation
- Community of Practice
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Acceptance Criteria
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Core Protocols
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Cross-Skilling
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Cycle Time
- Code Smells
- Agile for Embedded Software
- Definition of Done
- Definition of Ready
- Dependencies
- Developers
- DevOps
- Distributed Teams
- Dot Voting
- Diversity
- Effective Teams
- Continuous Integration [CI]
- Ensemble (formerly Mob) Programming
- Extreme Programming
- Estimation
- Facilitation
- Failure Demand
- Failure Modes
- Fake Agile
- Feedback
- Feature Factory
- Impact Mapping
- Impediments
- Improvement Experiments
- Interruptions
- INVEST
- Daily Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup
- Forecasting
- Decision Making Tools
- Lean Startup Experiments
- Empathy Map
- Large Scale Scrum
- Liberating Structures
- Metrics and Measurement
- Minimum Viable Product [MVP]
- Motivation
- Morale
- Agile/Lean UX
- Niko-Niko
- NoEstimates
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Onboarding
- Legacy Code and Systems
- Part-time Team Members
- Multitasking
- Persona
- Pair Programming
- Organizational Structure
- Portfolio Management
- Personal README
- Product Backlog
- Production Support
- Project vs. Product
- Prioritization
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Quality Assurance in Scrum
- Refactoring
- Resource Utilization Trap
- Roadmaps and Strategy
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Scaling and Large Teams
- Psychological Safety
- SCARF Model
- Scrum
- Scrum Team
- Scrum vs Kanban
- ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns
- ScrumMaster Role
- Scrummerfall
- Security in Scrum
- Product Owner Role
- Self-Organization
- Servant Leadership
- Special Teams
- Spotify Model
- Sprint
- Slack
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Goal
- Safety Check
- Sprint Length
- Sprint Retrospective
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Review
- Stable Teams
- Story Mapping
- Pull Requests
- Sprint Burndown
- TDD vs BDD
- Self-Selecting Teams
- Team Formation Models
- Team Size
- Technical Debt
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Testing
- Theory of Constraints
- Team Launch
- Swarming
- User Story
- Systems Thinking
- Vision
- When to Use Scrum
- Work Week
- Work in Progress
- Working Agreements
- Zero Bugs
- Zoom Fatigue
- Unit Testing
- User Story Splitting
- Tech Debt Stories
Get Certified
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.