Scrum Certification

Who is doing what? - Scrum Qualifications Overview

Skills to reach the Scrum Certification Level

Scrum Master/Product Owner:

For the title of the certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) a two days training is required, where the theoretical basics of the method get taught and where a connection is created to a practical application. For increasing the quality of the certification an exam is planned for 2010 at the end of the training.

Scrum Practitioner:

Who wants to be called a Scrum Practitioner needs to prove that he’s been working for at least one year in Scrum-projects and holds a certification of CSM respectively CSPO. Furthermore he needs to write a report on his experiences and judge those.

Scrum Trainer:

In order to be permitted as a Scrum Trainer the applicant has to turn in the following papers at the Scrum Alliance and needs to fulfill the following requests:

• A summary of the own experience with Scrum represented in a résumé
• A detailed description of the experience with giving trainings Own material for trainings
• References from at least two co-trainers he was doing a training with
• More papers that prove the quality of the applicant

Scrum Coach:

Worldwide there are only 20 Scrum Coaches (in Germany only two: Andrea Tomasini, agile42 and Christoph Matthis), because the expectations for a certification are very high. An applicant has to fulfill the following qualifications:

• Prove at least 1500 hours Scrum-Coaching/- Consulting the last 5 years
• name two customers that are able to describe his coaching skills and prove them
• an extensive description of the projects and companies he introduced Scrum to
• an interview for the analysis and verification of the described procedures