There’s been a lot of great posts around the ‘net since my last post on Certification. Some notable ones include Ron Jeffries, George Dinwiddie’s and Chet Hendrickson. In Chet’s post, he asks the following question: The CSD is not a panacea; it is one more arrow in our quiver. When you get done mocking it,…
Tag: Process
The Proverbial Train Has Left the Station.
Ron Jeffries has up a post titled Opportunity to Advance the Craft about the Certified Scrum Developer program. He says: Here’s the good news: the camel has his nose well inside the tent. Here are some reasons why: and Whether we like it or not, the words ‘certified’ and ‘developer’ are going to be adjacent…
Agile 2010 – Team Room Agile Selection Process
This evening we sent our stacked ranked list to our Theme producer for the Agile 2010 conference. Our stage, Team-Room Agile, was one of 5 stages in the Technical theme of the conference. According to our working document, we had a total of 330 submissions for a total of 55 slots. Our stage was the…
Developer Certification Isn’t About Hiring
In a recent post about Developer Certification, the author mentions hiring as the best way to find candidates, making developer certification about finding developers you can hire. And in many ways that makes sense – if you want the best, adjust your hiring process to find the best. But that’s not why the Certified Scrum…
Analyzing Our Words
Last night I was writing a message to the Scrum Development list when I saw something that struck me. The bottom of my screen showed me that I had received 33,227 messages since I first subscribed to it. I wondered, what have we said since March 27th, 2006 when I first joined? I then also…
Developer Certification (ala “Certified Scrum Developer”)
Earlier this week the Scrum Alliance accidently posted some documents related to the Certified Scrum Developer program being released this week. While the documents were apparently an earlier draft, and not the finished product, there were two important points that have been confirmed (or at least reinforced) – the existence of the Scrum Developer Certification…
Tools for Agility and Lean/Kanban Principles Presentations Now Available
This past weekend I gave two sessions at the South Florida Code Camp – Tools for Agility and Lean and Kanban Principles for Developers. Both presentations are now available on Slideshare at the above links. If you would like more information, or would like to have Cory help your organization adopt these practices and principles,…
Scrum Alliance Reflux
[Alternate Title: “If I have to talk about the Scrum Alliance any more, I’m going to vomit”] Yes, I want this to die. But Jesse Fewell has posted some thoughts around the Scrum Alliance that in fact what they are doing is right, and correct, and they should fix the leaks and stay the course….
..but if the Scrum Alliance Can’t Do It, Who Will?
Jesse Fewell has written a blog post called Scrum Is Dead. Long Live Scrum. His viewpoint is that the old Scrum is dead, and that it is morphing into something new. In the comments, Jesse asked the following question in response to my call for the Scrum Alliance to focus on the Software Community: Here’s…
They Could Have Been Contenders
There’s been a lot of talk in the agile community recently around Software Development Practices, or Engineering Practices, being in Scrum. Scrum, if you’ll remember, is brought up around the 3/3/3 – 3 Roles (ScrumMaster, Product Owner and “Otherâ€), 3 Artifacts (Burndown, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog) and 3 Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review)….