Resources

Download this datasheet to learn more about the Scaled Professional Scrum training.

This document provides an overview of the different Scrum.org training classes that are offered, by our more than 220 Professional Scrum Trainers around the world.

This document provides and overview of the different Scrum.org certification assessments that are available. These Professional Scrum assessments come with the industry recognized Professional Scrum certification for those who pass.  

Download this datasheet to learn more about the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) training class.

Download this datasheet to learn more about the Professional Scrum Foundations class.

An overview of documents and books to help understand the role of the Product Owner organized by assessment categories.

An overview of documents and books to help understand the role of the Software Delivery Team organized by assessment categories.

Suggested reading for anyone who is taking the Professional Scrum with User Experience assessment or just looking to learn more about Professional Scrum with User Experience.

An overview of documents and books to help understand Scrum, organized by assessment categories.

Suggested reading for anyone who is taking the Professional Scrum Master certification assessment or just looking to learn more about being a Scrum Master.

In July 2016, the Scrum Values were added to The Scrum Guide.  These values include Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, and Openness.

Listen to five of the most respected Scrum.org PSPO Trainers – Ralph Jocham, Mark Noneman, Erik Weber, Hiren Doshi, and Simon Reindl in our Scrum Pulse Lean Café on Product Ownership as they guide an enquiry through the mysteries of product ownership.

Today I changed my Twitter and LinkedIn profile. I removed Agile Coach and replaced it with Scrum Master. 100% Scrum Master.

Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, today announced that Kurt Bittner, a leading expert on Agile and iterative software development approaches, has joined the company as vice president of enterprise solutions. In this role, Kurt is responsible for enterprise-level professional software delivery initiatives.

I’ve been working in software for a long time, and for most of that time I’ve been trying to find better ways of delivering working software.

Scrum.org PSTs Louis-Philippe Carignan and Francois Desrosiers take a look at how it has now been 15 years since the Agile manifesto has come to life.

Scrum.org PST Barry Overeem discusses how on July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This year's theme was ‘the next iteration’.

On July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This years theme was 'the next iteration'.

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Scrum.org team member and PST, Steve Porter joins Daniel Gullo and Stephen Forte to discuss his thoughts on his experiences as a consultant, ISV, and now being part of Scrum.org.

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The editor of AppDeveloper Magazine takes a look at the latest announcement from Scrum.org and gives his thoughts on what it means to the development community. 

In this CIO Magazine article, they look at the journey to teaching Scrum and talk to Scrum.org CEO Dave West about how Professional Scrum Trainers make the move to start teaching Scrum.

The Agility Guide contains the definition of Evidence-Based Change, a publicly available framework for managing change to improve outcomes, reduce risk and optimize investment. Evidence-Based Change is developed and sustained by Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org.

According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex problems, and productively and creatively develop products of the highest possible value. It’s a tool organizations can use to increase their agility. This paper was written by Professional Scrum Trainer Barry Overeem.

In this paper, Professional Scrum Trainer Barry Overeem takes a look at how Business Intelligence (BI) projects can be seen as complex, where the amount of unknown requirements and technologies exceeds the known. Implementing Scrum with a BI-environment, with a focus on creating actionable insights, is therefore challenging. 

On July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This years theme was 'the next iteration'.

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Scrum.org CEO and Product Owner Dave West has come a long way from being a RUP Product Manager to where he is today.

In his final article of this 3 part series for AppDeveloper Magazine, Ken Schwaber discusses the levels of certification and justification for having multiple levels.

What really makes a transformation of your organization successful? Which elements should be in place? Which complicated framework for scaling agile should I choose?

Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, today announced in Atlanta at Agile 2016 that it now it now offers a comprehensive series of Professional Scrum Master certification assessments with fundamental, advanced and distinguished levels.

In this little blog I want to share a simple canvas that I use to kick-off agile adoption and answer the following questions:

SD Times reporter summarizes the Dave West's presentation "The Future of Scrum" from Agile 2016.  She writes about Dave's thoughts on Scrum, now that it is turning 21 and what has gotten us there.

Today we re-structure our Professional Scrum Master assessment (PSM) and certification products changing the focus of PSM II and introducing PSM III.

On July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This years theme was 'the next iteration'.

Professional Scrum Trainer, Cesario Ramos introduces Scrum onto a small-scale, 3-person team is relatively simple compared to introducing the benefits to a broader organization.

During the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe, Laurens and I facilitated a workshop on how to “Add Visual Flavor to Your Organization Transformation with Videoscribe.”

These days scaling Scrum is a hot topic. How can I use Scrum to deliver a big product with multiple teams? The most common approach I see at my customers is scaling Scrum by adding more Scrum teams with a Product Owner and Scrum Master per team.

In Scrum, Product Backlog refinement is an ongoing activity for a single team; however, it is not a mandatory event. As explained in the Nexus Guide, due to the added complexity of many teams working together on a single product, Refinement is an official and required event in the Nexus Framework. This paper was written by Professional Scrum Trainer Rob Maher and Scrum.org Product Owner for Enterprise Solutions, Patricia Kong.

Currently I'm writing a series of blog posts about the retrospective I facilitated during Scrum Day Europe. I'll describe the strength of Scrum, experienced frustrations, small improvements and also what should be the focus the upcoming years.

If you’ve learned Scrum and tried to implement it in any large organization you’ve likely run into a few issues. Getting dedicated people on your team is hard. Building cross-functional teams is really hard.

In this InformationWeek article about the Scrum Guide updates, Scrum.org CEO and Product Owner, Dave West is interviewed in this article about the Scrum Guide updates.

In this AppDeveloper Magazine article, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer Rich Visotcky provides a look at ways that he has successfully scaled retrospectives and tips on how you can do the same. 

In this InfoQ interview, Ken Schwaber discusses the changes to the Scrum Guide and why they are so important to software development and the impact of the changes.  

On July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This years theme was 'the next iteration'.

This week, co-creators of Scrum, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, released a new version of the Scrum Guide