I'm troubled by certification as well, although that is somewhat orthogonal to whether I value Ken's training... I personally took the training to improve mysel

I'm troubled by certification as well, although that is somewhat orthogonal to whether I value Ken's training... I personally took the training to improve myself. The "certification" didn't mean much to me one way or the other. In fact, I would tie it back to what I said above and suggets that the certificate is a product just as a the training is a product, but the certificate is not the training and the training is not the practice. If the training is one step removed from Scrum, the certificate is two steps removed from Scrum!