Professional Scrum Training Courses
Learn Scrum theory, roles, events, and artifacts through individual and group activities along with trainer instruction.
In this advanced class, experienced Scrum Masters learn to overcome challenges they face through immersive facilitated exercises.
Students learn how to maximize the value of products and systems through instruction and team-based exercises.
Mastering the Product Owner Stances course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value.
Learn Scrum by doing Scrum as a Scrum Team Member delivering products in a series of Sprints coupled with trainer instruction.
Hands-on workshop teaching managers and other leaders how to best support, guide, and coach their teams.
Teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work without changing Scrum, bringing greater transparency and flow.
Learn modern UX techniques and practices that effectively enable Scrum Teams to best work with customers and their feedback to deliver higher value.
For all members of the Development Team where they learn to create high quality software using the Scrum framework.
Designed for anyone involved in building products across multiple teams to learn how they can scale product delivery with Scrum.
Professional Scrum Competencies
Scrum.org has created these Professional Scrum™ Competencies to help guide an individual’s personal development as they learn Scrum.
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White Paper
Measuring Enterprise Agility
Is your organization really agile? How do you know? This whitepaper describes the foundation mindset, actions and behaviors of agile in four simple statements supported by 12 principles.
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Building Understanding Between Scrum Teams and Management with Liberating Structures
This case study looks at how Philips used Liberating Structures to improve communication across their group of teams.
White Paper
Scrum: A framework to reduce risk and deliver value sooner
An overview of the Scrum framework, for people new to Scrum and those who’d like to refresh their understanding. The aim of this white paper was to write in a practical, down-to-earth manner from the perspective of what the Scrum framework makes possible. This paper should be easy to read, clear up potential confusions and deepen your understanding.
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What Makes Scrum.org Different
Learn how Scrum.org is unique in the market as a mission based organization that provides consistent experiential training around the world.
Professional Scrum Certification Assessments
There are three levels of Scrum Master assessments to validate and certify your knowledge and understanding of Scrum and the Scrum Master role.
There are three levels of Product Owner assessments to validate and certify your knowledge and understanding of the Product Owner role.
The Professional Scrum Developer assessment validates and certifies you knowledge and understanding of the Development Team Member role in Scrum.
The Professional Agile Leadership assessment validates and certifies an understanding about how leaders can best support their teams in an agile environment.
The Scaled Professional Scrum assessment validates and certifies an understanding of scaling fundamentals to enable multiple Scrum Teams working together.
The Professional Scrum with Kanban assessment validates and certifies an understanding of how to use Scrum with Kanban to improve value creation and delivery.
The Professional Scrum™ with User Experience assessment validates a fundamental level of understanding of integrating modern UX practices into Scrum.
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John Coleman
The following are the changes that struck me the most in the 2020 Scrum Guide:
Scrum can and should be attempted for a variety of types of knowledge work - software terms except "developer" have been removed
The Development Team is dead, long live Developers - encouraging one team, even if developers commit to the Sprint Goal
Experimentation is explicitly mentioned
Scrum Team has 10 members or less
Product Backlog Refinement is encouraged
Sprint Goal found a proper home - its the commitment related to the Sprint Backlog and it's now included in the Sprint Backlog
Definition of Done found a proper home - it's the commitment to the increment
Scrum Values and empiricism is for the Scrum Team and people they interact with including stakeholders - stakeholders are mentioned twice as often in this version of the Scrum Guide
Accountabilities of Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers are emphasized, thus supporting the antithesis of Patrick Lencioni's five dysfunctions of a team.
Scrum Master is on the hook for the effectiveness of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team and the organization but is no longer referred to as a servant leader.
Product Owner is on the hook for maximizing value and articulating/communicating the (new) Product Goal to support that - the Product Goal is the commitment related to the Product Backlog
Developers are on the hook for delivering a usable done increment that supports the Sprint Goal.
Continual improvement is expected, some improvements might even go into the next Sprint Backlog, and implicitly other improvements are immediate.
Sprint Planning now has three topics - the why, the what, and the how
The Scrum Team is self-managing "meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how." Anyhow that term was defined by Richard Hackman, as described on the LeSS website.
Overall, I like it. What do you think?
Check out a discussion I had over a live stream with colleagues.
Nov 27, 2020
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Jochen (Joe) Krebs
We are celebrating a long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States that stretches to Black Friday and Cyber-Monday. Reason to celebrate and give thanks and share something special with the Scrum community.
Even though this Thanksgiving Special is only available within the United States, we ship our free posters from our entire Agile Poster Collection world-wide. For the first two posters, we even cover shipping & handling. Enter "1STORDER" during checkout and skip over the payment step. If you need extras or additional posters, we ship for $10 flat world-wide.
What's in the Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday Special?
2 Scrum 2020 Posters (24x36) glossy paper
2 Scrum Sheets (8.5x11) glossy sturdy paper
2 "Agile On" Stickers
One set is for you to keep and the other one for you to give away and say thanks to someone else.
Enter "THANKS" during check-out to receive free shipping of:
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Nov 26, 2020
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Jasper Alblas
Scrum Framework poster (2020 update) by Scrum Facilitators #ScrumGuide2020 #Scrum
Nov 25, 2020
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Joel Francia
La Guía Scrum 2020 introduce el concepto de Objetivo de Producto para mejorar la transparencia y el enfoque del Equipo Scrum a la vez que resalta la contribución al valor del producto a través del objetivo del Sprint. El éxito de un Sprint se puede ver como el logro del objetivo del Sprint, pero a su vez debe contribuir al objetivo del Producto. Por ello el empirismo y los tres pilares durante el Sprint ayudan mejorar el logro de la entrega de valor hacia un norte transparente para el producto. Este objetivo mejora la transparencia, dirección y foco para que la inspección pueda ser realizada de una manera más apropiada para evaluar el progreso dando como resultado una adaptación con mejor sentido. Antes el objetivo del producto estaba implícito y a veces era ignorado en la gestión del Product Backlog.
La nueva guía de Scrum agrega un compromiso para cada artefacto para aclarar el propósito de su uso dentro de Scrum. Esto además permite darles una identidad a dos componentes del marco que podían no ser entendidos en la naturaleza de su importancia. Hablamos del objetivo del Sprint y los Criterios de Terminado.
Para el Product Backog se ha agregado y aclarado que su compromiso es hacia el logro del objetivo del producto. Esto mejora el entendimiento de porque existe y que se debe lograr al implementarlo en incrementos de producto durante cada Sprint. Esta definición además tiene una importancia enorme en el uso de los tres pilares debido a que permite mayor claridad de la transparencia del objetivo, la dirección de la inspección y el motivo o razón de la adaptación. Este cambio también permite entender que el progreso se debe medir en función del objetivo del producto.
Nov 25, 2020
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