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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Certified ScrumMaster Online – Digitas
CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER LIVE ONLINE In these special courses arranged exclusively for Digitas, you will learn Scrum from the comfort of your own location — and have fun along the way! 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 center of the learning experience in two important ways: Our online learning format ...
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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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Webinar: SPC Journey – I’m an SPC and a Trainer
You’ve taken one or more SAFe classes, and now it is your turn to teach. Most SPCs will need to educate people and train various certified SAFe classes. Join us for the next episode in the “SPC Journey” series as we discuss how an SPC can excel in the classroom so that they can enable participants with the knowledge and understanding necessary to achieve greater business agility.
Webinar: What is a Profit Stream?
Profit is the net income resulting from revenue minus expenses. Profit is essential because, without profit, a business is unsustainable. The problem is that while there is lots of guidance on how to price regular goods and services, there is little guidance on how to design profitable software-enabled solutions - until now.
The Profit Implications of Your Value Exchange Model
Do you understand your value exchange model? The economic value of a software-enabled solution is the benefits a customer receives less their costs. How a customer exchanges money for this value represents a critical design decision for product leaders with substantial, long-term implications for their underlying technical and business architectures as well as the sustainability of their solution. Design choices made by business leaders about value exchange directly influence the profitability of the software-enabled solution’s business model.