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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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150+ live online training courses opened for April and May

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Product Management in 90 Minutes , April 11. Spotlight on Data: Creating Smart Products Requires Collaboration, with Gretchen Anderson , April 15. Developing Your Coaching Skills , April 22. 60 Minutes to Better Product Metrics , May 9. Leadership Communication Skills for Managers , May 16.

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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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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. Less, with full-time coaching. Sales and product management, in particular, want accurate forecasting (often called “estimating”).

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