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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The cert recognizes candidates’ knowledge of agile principles and skill with agile techniques.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

One of the limits on your ability to scale will be the availability of skilled coaches. Remember, coaches are the people who help each team learn how to apply Agile ideas and practices.) If you’re taking a home-grown approach to your coaches, each team will need a dedicated team member to act as coach.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership).

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Why Your Agile Adoption Should Pay For Itself Within the First Program Increment

Net Objectives

This blog is written specifically written for those whose technology groups can readily be thought of as being composed of groups that are 40-75 in size, regardless of the current or anticipated level of SAFe adoption. . If you don't want to use SAFe, product management with some Lean-Agile coaching can be used instead. .

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. I personally didn’t expect this particular group of people to ever agree on anything substantive,” Alistair Cockburn said later.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Key Differences And Definition?—?Which Model Is Better?

Codegiant

ASD is highly suggested by teams who don’t have a clear picture of the end product and need to adapt constantly. Test-Driven Development ?—?TDD TDD encourages you to write automated code first and then develop just-enough code in order to pass the test later. Nevena Sofranic is the Founder of Omnes Group.

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