As of today [2016], the Scrum Alliance identifies 322,157 people as Certified ScrumMasters (CSM). You can find 66,813 people identified as Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO), and a number of people have both certifications. Although the anemic number of Product Owners relative to ScrumMasters raises some questions, the more serious ...
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Champion: A person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else. Catalyst: A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change. Capacitor: A device used to store an electric charge. Coach: A tutor who gives private or specialized teaching. In our first article, we ...
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Agile Coaches (CSP-SM) are really busy people! There is no way one person can do all these activities on this list each week nor would it make sense to do so, but an effective Agile Coach would be working on most these jobs every six months or so. Rome was not ...
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“Yes… but what does an Agile Coach do all day?” If I had a quarter for ever time I was asked that question in Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course, I would have a lot of quarters. Thankfully, we have an excellent article from Bernd Schiffer (@bernrdschiffer) that lays out forty-two tasks ...
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A recent question in the Certified Scrum Professionals LinkedIn Group, described a common scenario that people have when dealing with distributed Scrum Teams. "ScrumMaster and Scrum coach are onshore (the client) while vendor teams are offshore. Is the client fooling itself?" The short answer to this question is, "Yes - ...
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