CSM Resources
Congratulations on your completion of the Certified ScrumMaster course! This page provides some of the resources discussed in class for your ongoing use on your Scrum journey. ScrumMaster resources ScrumMaster Checklist! I also recommend the Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making I find The Oz Principle immensely valuable as a leader seeking individual and group accountability. I hope you do, too. The ScrumMaster is an agent of change in organizations. This is hard, really hard. While ...
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User Story Examples: Getting the Requirements Right
For Agile teams, the biggest area of friction for agile teams is agreement on what constitutes a story. Product managers and product owners try to write market requirements in the form of a story when many developers really want product specifications.It seems so simple. Product managers and product owner write user stories; developers break them into tasks and develop the feature. But the difficulty facing many agile teams today is what, exactly, is a user ...
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Portfolio Roadmap Example
Executives, sales people, and marketing leaders are often frustrated with the short-term focus in product management, particularly those using agile development methods. Leaders have no idea what is planned—if anything—beyond the next two-week sprint. And that’s why they ask for a roadmap. A portfolio roadmap has become the preferred way to show delivery plans over time. It’s not just a desired feature list by month; it’s bigger than that. It describes major blocks of work, ...
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Choosing an Online Certified Scrum Master Class
Choosing an online certified Scrum Master class has become more challenging with the proliferation of virtual trainers. This guide highlights the key considerations when making your choice.
Resources
FRAMEWORKS Frameworks for Agility Business Agility Frameworks for Leadership Framework for Career Evolution Frameworks for Cost Cutting Frameworks for Large-Scale Retrospectives Frameworks for Transformation Frameworks for Virtual Meetings Product The Profit Engine Framework Competitive Battlecards Frameworks for Product Owners Framework for Product Development Frameworks for Release Planning Product Roadmaps HOW TO... ...
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Certified ScrumMaster Online Edition
CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER LIVE ONLINE If you want to learn Scrum from the comfort of your own home — and have fun along the way — this is the course for you. As the world's only provider of online, on-demand advanced ScrumMaster training, we've learned what it takes to be effective in a virtual training environment. In this Scrum Alliance®-approved course, we put you at the ...
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Using Customer Segmentation and Term Renewal to Increase Profit
In the first post in our Recession-Proofing Your Profit series, I shared the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration, in which a product manager creates an offer to accelerate an annual term renewal with a limited duration renewal discount. In this post, I will expand on the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration to show how adding advanced customer segmentation based on product usage data can further increase profitability. Subsequent posts will cover the Multi-Term ...
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Accelerate Renewals to Prepare for Economic Headwinds
Use Term Renewal Acceleration to create sustainable profits. Current economic indicators are unfavorable due to a massive stock market correction, high inflation, and shock waves emanating from the war in Ukraine. These factors create economic uncertainty for product managers who must maintain sustainable profits. This blog series, Recession Proofing Your Profit, will share three specific strategies that product managers can employ to fulfill their responsibility of creating sustainable profits amid economic crises. Let's start by ...
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How I Used the Personal Retrospective to Become a Better Scrum Trainer
For the last four years, I’ve been taking the steps necessary to become a Certified Scrum Trainer. It wasn’t easy. And I couldn’t have done it without making the Personal Retrospective central to the process.
The Art & Science of Explaining Product Strategy
Why is explaining product strategy so difficult? You can overcome problems with clarity, excessive detail, and transparency by following these proven product strategy frameworks.