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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

Several Scrum master certs listed below can be found among the highest-ranking IT certs for cash pay premiums, according to the April 2024 Foote Report , including the Advanced Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner, which received an average pay premium equivalent to 10% of base salary, a 11% market increase over the past six months.

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

Codegiant

You observe how the market reacts to the software you create and then make iterations to improve it. The Agile methodology definition was introduced by 17 software developers gathered in Utah back in 2001. ASD is highly suggested by teams who don’t have a clear picture of the end product and need to adapt constantly.

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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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