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Articles
- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective
- 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: Sense Your Current Culture
- Agile Change or Adoption: Turn Vision into Strategy
- Agile Change or Adoption: the Steps to Go from “Why” to “How”
- Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
- Agile Gurus or Thought Leaders?
- Agile Metrics
- Agile Retrospectives
- Agile in a Tweet
- Agile Tools for Job Search - An Evolving Post
- A Rebuttal of Groupthink
- Agile Voices Finally
- Agile and Scrum Smells
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity
- Don’t Inflict Scrum or Kanban on Teams
- Early Feedback Reduces Anger and Frustration
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- 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
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- 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 Cross-Skill and Grow T-shaped Team Members
- How to Get the C-Suite to Support Agile
- 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 Your Scrum Team Good Enough?
- Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
- Is There a Best Day to Start and Finish a Sprint?
- Is there Value in the Noika Test
- JIRA is Not Agile
- It’s not Scrum if…
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Anti-Patterns – How We Hold Back Our Scrum Teams
- Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Alone is Not Enough
- Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster
- 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 by Example - More Interruptions
- Scrum is Simple and Incomplete
- Scrum by Example - Product Backlog Refinement in Action
- Scrum by Example - Is Your Scrum Team a Victim of Scrummerfall?
- Scrum Without Removing Impediments Isn’t Scrum
- Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum
- What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?
- 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 – Technical User Stories or The Team Try to Pull a Fast One on the Product Owner
- 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 Learn How to Learn
- Scrum By Example – The Team Gets Bottlenecked
- Scrum by Example - The Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
- Simplicity
- Solve your Task Estimation problem in Scrum
- Software Development is Not a Form of Construction
- Specialists Are Overrated
- Sprint Goals Provide Purpose
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- TDD Randori Session
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- 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 Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- 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
- Tools, Tools, Tools
- Vision to User Stories - What is the Best Flow?
- Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
- Why Scrum Works??
- Why Scrum Works?
- Why are we so easily influenced? Weapons of Influence
- Working at a Distance is Hard
- Yahoo Bans Work from Home – an Alternative Perspective
Glossary Terms
- Acceptance Criteria
- 10 Minute Build
- Agile Architectural Patterns
- Agile
- Agile Architecture
- Agile Architects
- Agile Business Intelligence
- Agile Contracts
- Agile Documentation
- Agile Engineering Practices
- Agile for Embedded Software
- Agile Game Development
- Agile Government
- Agile Hardware
- Agile Mainframe Development
- Agile Outside of Software
- Agile Sales and Marketing
- Agile Schools
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Approval Tests
- ARC Motivational Model
- Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
- Bottlenecks
- Trunk Based Development
- Business Analyst in Scrum
- Case Studies
- Causal Loop Diagram
- Coaching
- Code Reviews
- Code Smells
- Collective Code Ownership
- Community of Practice
- Colocation
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Continuous Integration [CI]
- Core Protocols
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Cross-Skilling
- Cycle Time
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Daily Scrum
- Decision Making Tools
- Definition of Ready
- Definition of Done
- Dependencies
- Developers
- Distributed Teams
- DevOps
- Diversity
- Dot Voting
- Effective Teams
- Empathy Map
- Ensemble (formerly Mob) Programming
- Estimation
- Extreme Programming
- Facilitation
- Failure Demand
- Fake Agile
- Failure Modes
- Feedback
- Forecasting
- Impact Mapping
- Impediments
- Improvement Experiments
- Interruptions
- INVEST
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup
- Kanban
- 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
- Onboarding
- Organizational Structure
- Pair Programming
- Part-time Team Members
- Persona
- Personal README
- Portfolio Management
- Prioritization
- Product Backlog
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Product Owner Role
- Project vs. Product
- Production Support
- Psychological Safety
- Pull Requests
- Quality Assurance in Scrum
- Refactoring
- Resource Utilization Trap
- Roadmaps and Strategy
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Safety Check
- Scaling and Large Teams
- SCARF Model
- Scrum
- Scrum Team
- Scrum vs Kanban
- ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns
- ScrumMaster Role
- Scrummerfall
- Security in Scrum
- Self-Organization
- Servant Leadership
- Slack
- Special Teams
- Self-Selecting Teams
- Spotify Model
- Sprint
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Burndown
- Sprint Length
- Sprint Goal
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Retrospective
- Stable Teams
- Sprint Review
- Story Mapping
- Swarming
- TDD vs BDD
- Team Formation Models
- Team Launch
- Systems Thinking
- Team Size
- Tech Debt Stories
- Technical Debt
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Testing
- Theory of Constraints
- Unit Testing
- User Story Splitting
- User Story
- Vision
- When to Use Scrum
- Work Week
- Working Agreements
- Work in Progress
- 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.