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Articles
- $50 Million Phoenix Fix – Avoiding Disaster With Scrum
- Agile 2008 Post Roundup
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- Agile 2009 Post Roundup
- Agile Bonuses - The Damage They Do
- Agile Change or Adoption Always Starts with Why
- Agile Change or Adoption: Create a Vision
- Agile 2009 Roundup
- Agile Change or Adoption: Define Small Organizational Changes
- Agile Change or Adoption: Sense Your Current Culture
- 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 Gurus or Thought Leaders?
- Agile in a Tweet
- Agile Metrics
- Agile Retrospectives
- Agile Tools for Job Search - An Evolving Post
- A Rebuttal of Groupthink
- Agile Voices Finally
- Agile and Scrum Smells
- Basic Explanation of the Different Parts of Agile Planning
- Be Better with Better Data
- Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
- “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
- 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?
- Don’t Inflict Scrum or Kanban on Teams
- Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity
- Early Feedback Reduces Anger and Frustration
- Example Mapping: Your Secret Weapon for Effective Acceptance Criteria
- Forcing People Back to the Office
- Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be
- GenAI and the Feature Factory: Automating Away Collaboration
- 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
- 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
- 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 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?
- 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
- Kanban Portfolio View
- Learning Scrum through Games
- Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises
- Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity
- Lifecycle of a User Story
- Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
- 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
- Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership
- 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?
- Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic
- Multiple Returns from a Single Method
- Portfolio Management
- 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 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
- 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 Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
- Scrum Development Team – Who’s In It?
- Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster
- Scrum is Simple and Incomplete
- Scrum by Example – Scrum Anti-Patterns & Unplanned Work Disrupting the Sprint
- Scrum by Example – The Story of an Incomplete Sprint
- Scrum by Example - More Interruptions
- Scrum by Example - Product Backlog Refinement in Action
- 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 - 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 – The Team Gets Bottlenecked
- Scrum By Example – The Team Learn How to Learn
- 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
- Story Splitting – a Play – Spike Sherman
- Stable Teams Really Do Matter
- Taking Organizational Improvement Seriously - Case Study
- Story Slicing, How Small is Enough?
- Taking Organizational Improvement with Scrum Seriously
- TDD Randori Workshop
- TDD Randori Session
- Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements
- Test Driven Development vs Plain Old Unit Testing
- The Culture Game - Book Review
- Test Driven Development is Not a Quality Assurance Technique
- The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous
- The Sprint Backlog: A Truly Complete Guide with Examples
- 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
- What Are the Limits of the Scrum Framework?
- What United Can Teach Us About Building Systems
- 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
- Working at a Distance is Hard
- Yahoo Bans Work from Home – an Alternative Perspective
- When to stop holding retrospectives?
- Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
Glossary Terms
- Acceptance Criteria
- 10 Minute Build
- Agile Architects
- Agile
- Agile Architectural Patterns
- Agile Architecture
- Agile Business Intelligence
- Agile Contracts
- Agile Documentation
- Agile Engineering Practices
- Agile Game Development
- Agile for Embedded Software
- Agile Hardware
- Agile Government
- Agile Mainframe Development
- Agile Sales and Marketing
- Agile Outside of Software
- 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
- Colocation
- Community of Practice
- Complexity and the Cynefin Framework
- Continuous Delivery and Deployment
- Continuous Integration [CI]
- Core Protocols
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Cross-Skilling
- Cumulative Flow Diagram [CFD]
- Cycle Time
- Daily Scrum
- Decision Making Tools
- Definition of Done
- Distributed Teams
- DevOps
- Dependencies
- Developers
- Diversity
- Dot Voting
- Effective Teams
- Definition of Ready
- Empathy Map
- Ensemble (formerly Mob) Programming
- Estimation
- Extreme Programming
- Facilitation
- Failure Demand
- Failure Modes
- Fake Agile
- Feature Factory
- Feedback
- Forecasting
- Impact Mapping
- Impediments
- Improvement Experiments
- Interruptions
- INVEST
- Iterative and Incremental Development
- Kanban
- Lean Software Development
- Lean Startup
- Agile/Lean UX
- Lean Startup Experiments
- Legacy Code and Systems
- Large Scale Scrum
- Liberating Structures
- Metrics and Measurement
- Minimum Viable Product [MVP]
- 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
- 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
- Self-Selecting Teams
- Servant Leadership
- Slack
- Special Teams
- Spotify Model
- Sprint
- Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Burndown
- Sprint Length
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Goal
- Sprint Retrospective
- Sprint Review
- Stable Teams
- Story Mapping
- Swarming
- Systems Thinking
- TDD vs BDD
- Team Formation Models
- Team Size
- Tech Debt Stories
- Team Launch
- Technical Debt
- Test Driven Development [TDD]
- Testing
- Theory of Constraints
- Unit Testing
- User Story
- User Story Splitting
- When to Use Scrum
- Vision
- Work in Progress
- 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.