About Scrum Training and Certification
Overview
Scrum Training and Certification
Benefits of Scrum Training and Certification
For Individuals
- Deliver value quickly through increments (or short sprints) which allows for quicker feedback loops.
- Enhance collaboration by fostering teamwork through shared values, clear roles, and mutual respect.
- Achieve higher productivity by helping teams to focus better, make effective decisions, and perform at their best.
- Enhance transparency by providing clear backlogs and establishing consistent sprint goals for better predictability.
- Efficiently use resources by focusing on high-value tasks, optimizing time and minimizing waste.
For Organizations
- Improve quality through regular inspections that identify issues early and ensure better outcomes.
- Integrate risk management into development by encouraging incremental delivery and regular stakeholder involvement.
- Improve customer satisfaction improves with Scrum, as prioritization and frequent feedback align products with customer expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives that refine processes with actionable experiments.
- Enhance flexibility through Scrum's iterative and incremental planning, which helps teams adapt to changing priorities.
Useful links
Useful links
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Official Scrum Guide
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Agile Business Consortium
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Blog: What is Scrum?
Documentation
Documentation
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Scrum Training and Certification levels
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FAQs
Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering and sustaining complex products through effective team collaboration. It allows people to address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.
Scrum is not a process, technique or definitive method. Rather, it is a framework within which various processes and techniques can be employed.
The framework consists of Scrum Teams and associated roles, events, artefacts and rules.
There are 3 key roles within Scrum: Product Owner, Development Team and Scrum Master.
Scrum Masters demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Scrum and their ability to apply it in real-world situations. They are responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide and do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
The Scrum Master helps those outside of the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.
The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management.
Approved training is available via APMG’s global network of Accredited Training Organizations (ATOs). Details can be found above. Only these organizations and registered partners/affiliates are authorized to deliver training services for the APMG/ABC certifications.
No, however attending an accredited training course is recommended.
Individuals also have the option of self-study to prepare for the examinations. APMG-International administer online exam sessions, allowing those who self study the opportunity to sit an online exam from the comfort of their own home or office.
Courses and exams are based on the latest edition of the official Scrum Guide and ABC's Agile Manifesto and Expanded Guidance. The Scrum Guide is available online, free of charge.
The ABC Agile Manifesto and Expanded Guidance will be made available through your ATO, or for public candidates, can be requested via APMG Customer Service by emailing - customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk.
The ABC/APMG Scrum Master exam is currently available in English, Italian, Chinese and Polish.
The ABC/APMG Scrum Product Owner exam is currently available in English and Italian.
The ABC/APMG Scrum Essentials exam is currently available in English.
The Scrum Guide and the Agile Manifesto have both been translated into a variety of languages. For full details, please visit the websites:
The ABC/APMG Scrum Master and Product Owner Training courses are usually delivered over 2 days.
The ABC/APMG Scrum Essentials Training courses are usually delivered over 1 day.
Please check the course duration with your training provider before booking.
The structure of the exams are:
- 50 multiple-choice questions
- 50 minutes
- Closed-book
- Pass mark: Scrum Master / Scrum Product Owner / Scrum Essentials - 30/50 (60%)