Scrum Master Certification — What Provider To Choose?
If you are thinking about becoming a Scrum Master or already working in this area for some time, it might be good to explore the certification opportunities.
It was a surprise to me, but there are certifications where you don’t need to have any prior experience to pass an exam. And it should be so, because an inexperienced Scrum Master can do so much harm to her team, that the mere thing she can do to prevent it is to get educated and certified first.
There are three major Scrum Master certification providers:
- Scrum.org — Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Scrum Alliance — Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Project Management Institute — Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)
Busy guys — refer to the short certifications comparison at the end of a post.
Scrum.Org Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification
Scrum.org emerged as an organization after the founders of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, sort of split up. They founded Scrum Alliance in 2001, but in 2009 Ken left the organization due to the deep disagreement with the board regarding assessments, certification, and a developer program and founded Scrum.org.
I passed a PSM I exam earlier this year, and, as our certification trainer told us, Scrum.org exam required quite a serious…
