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Scrum
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It Depends on Common Sense
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2. Scrum.org's mission is to improve the profession of software
development so that we love our work and our customers love
working with us and trust our integrity.
Scrum.org is founded on Scrum knowledge and materials
developed, sustained, and enhanced by Scrum co-developers, Ken
Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Scrum.org was founded in 2009.
Scrum.org has headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts
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3. Source and Developer of Knowledge
• We maintain the consistency
and integrity of the Scrum
process.
• Scrum
• We maintain bodies of
• Scrum Practices
• Scrum
knowledge that are the basis
Enterprise of courseware, assessments
Practices
• II Developer and certifications.
Practices
• We license the knowledge to
bodies of knowledge
other organizations.
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4. Developer and Publisher of Courseware
1. We work with Program
Development Partnerstm to create
programs. The PDPtm develops
courseware and knowledge on how to
use Scrum in various domains or
work, such as risk management.
2. We work with Scrum trainers to
learn and use the Program
bodies of knowledge
Development Partnertm courseware
CourseWare
to help others learn how to build
products using Scrum.
3. We publish the PDPtm courseware.
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5. Assessor of Knowledge
1. Help individuals assess their
classes
knowledge of Scrum and how it is
used.
2. Help organizations find the best
training courses, coaching,
consulting, and topical Q&A sessions
to optimize their use of Scrum.
3. Help Scrum teams and organizations
learn how to optimize their Total
Cost of Ownership for systems and
assessments
CourseWare
bodies of knowledge
products built using Scrum.
4. Initiate innovative programs, such
as the Certified Scrum
DeveloperTM and Certified Scrum
ITM, to accelerate the
effectiveness of Scrum.
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1. An accepted body of knowledge about a subject or profession must
exist.
2. An assessment is a test that anyone can take to determine their
knowledge regarding the subject.
3. The body of knowledge and the assessment should be kept in synch to be
meaningful.
4. Assessments can be used by organizations to determine competence, or
used by individuals to improve their skills.
5. In stable bodies of knowledge where certification may be desired,
assessment development organizations with psychometric skills are
required to develop assessments from subject matter experts in the
profession and to then administer acceptable assessments.
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1. to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
2. to fix or determine the amount of (damages, a tax, a fine, etc.): The hurricane damage was
assessed at six million dollars.
3 to impose a tax or other charge on.
4 to estimate or judge the value, character, etc., of; evaluate: to assess one's efforts.
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7. Scrum 7
http://www.scrum.org/scrumguides
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Certified Scrum Level I Assessment
http://www.scrum.org
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Scrum Basics Assessment
http://www.scrum.org
• 81 questions for 81 points.
• Questions are about what Scrum is, not how to use it.
• Based on information in Scrum Guide.
• Performance against test and questions in test can be monitored.
• Discussions about low scoring questions can be initiated.
• People taking assessments can be given immediate feedback
regarding wrong answers.

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13. Scrum.org is helping create bodies of knowledge and 13
assessments of that knowledge.
Program Body of Knowledge Assessment Date
Scrum Basics Scrum Guide 10/09
I2 Developer .NET VS 04/10
I2 Developer Java 06/10
Using Scrum in Software
Scrum in Depth 02/10
development
Agile Testing 2011
Product Ownership 2010
Total Cost of Ownership 5/10
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Radar Chart for Software Development Competency Assessment"
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Scrum’s use in spreading in product companies and engineering
organizations. Many of them suffer from one or more of the
following:
1. Release schedules slipping
2. Stabilization at end of release taking longer and longer
3. Releases are taking longer and longer
4. Planning seems to take too long
5. Changes are hard to introduce mid-release
6. Quality is deteriorating
7. Death marches are hurting morale
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However,When they use Scrum, they run into ScrumButs. ScrumButs
are reasons why they can’t take full advantage of Scrum to solve
the problems and realize the benefits.
A ScrumBut has a particular syntax:(ScrumBut) (Reason)
(Workaround)
An example ScrumBut is:“We use Scrum, but (The Daily Scrum
meetings are too much overhead) (so we only have them once a
week, unless we need them more often)”
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Dysfunction - perhaps only 25% of all developers are
capable of creating a potentially shippable increment of
functionality within a Sprint. They don’t have:
1. The skills for acceptance test driven development, refactoring,
test driven development;
2. The followed practices of coding standards, coding reviews, and
design reviews; and,
3. The tooling for continuous builds with automated test harnesses
for unit, regression, and performance testing.
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19. To address this dysfunction, Scrum.org is introducing19
a Certified Scrum Developer program
• Teaches self-organizing, cross-functional teams of developers how
to build an increment of potentially shippable functionality on a
specific technology stack within a Sprint using modern engineering
practices;
• 5 day course followed by certification examination;
• First release will be for technology stack using .NET VSTS 2010;
and,
• Additional programs on other technology stacks due soon after.
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Questions?
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