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Certifying is a form of endorsement. Then, let me paste a claim from "Scrum Alliance", one of the top institutions granting these McCertifications: "A Certifi

Certifying is a form of endorsement. Then, let me paste a claim from "Scrum Alliance", one of the top institutions granting these McCertifications: "A Certified ScrumMaster® helps project teams properly use Scrum, increasing the likelihood of the project's overall success. CSMs understand Scrum values, practices, and applications and provide a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers." How are you supposed to be "above and beyond" a project manager if the certification itself: - Has no training requirement - Has no experience requirement - Requires 16 hours, a ~30 question test over the Internet with a 66% passing score. As a result, you have someone who is supposedly capable of balancing a software engineering team requirements with stakeholders... after sixteen hours... Scrum has nice values but in practice, it is a get rich quick ponzi scheme. It is a telephone game that after person #100 is completely distorted from its original meaning.

nradov 10y ago
Scrum Alliance is a private organization and no one is required to give any particular weight to their endorsements. I haven't attended their CSM training myself but those who have say that it's useful for working on real development teams. All else being equal, a Scrum Master who has been through that training will usually do a better job than one who hasn't. As for balancing software engineering team requirements with stakeholders, you appear to have a complete misunderstanding of the Scrum methodology and the role of a Scrum Master. If you're going to argue against a straw man and get angry about a nonexistent problem then we can't help you.
- partycoder 10y ago
  I've worked multiple times with certified scrum professionals who had no background in computer science or software, and no relevant experience either, and it was awful. Really hard to talk about tasks and requirements with someone who doesn't understand.

nradov 10y ago

Scrum Alliance is a private organization and no one is required to give any particular weight to their endorsements. I haven't attended their CSM training myself but those who have say that it's useful for working on real development teams. All else being equal, a Scrum Master who has been through that training will usually do a better job than one who hasn't. As for balancing software engineering team requirements with stakeholders, you appear to have a complete misunderstanding of the Scrum methodology and the role of a Scrum Master. If you're going to argue against a straw man and get angry about a nonexistent problem then we can't help you.

partycoder 10y ago
I've worked multiple times with certified scrum professionals who had no background in computer science or software, and no relevant experience either, and it was awful. Really hard to talk about tasks and requirements with someone who doesn't understand.