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Professional Scrum Master Explore Agile and Scrum principles
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Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management Improve outcomes, capabilities and results
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Professional Scrum Master Fundamental, advanced & distinguished levels of Scrum Master knowledge in levels I, II & III
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Professional Scrum Developer Knowledge of practices and techniques that support building software with Scrum
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Scaled Professional Scrum Validate knowledge of scaling Scrum and the Nexus framework
Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills Evidence that you can help teams move forward toward their desired outcomes
Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills Understanding how to effectively manage a transparent Product Backlog focused on value
Professional Scrum with Kanban How Scrum Teams can use Kanban to improve flow and increase delivery of value
Professional Scrum with User Experience Integrate modern UX practices into Scrum to deliver greater value

Practice with Open Assessments

All Practice Tests See all available practice tests
Scrum Open Prepare for all certifications
Product Owner Open Prepare for PSPO
Software Developer Open Prepare for PSD
Nexus Open Prepare for SPS
Facilitation Skills Open Prepare for PSF Skills
Kanban Open Prepare for PSK
Agile Leadership Open Prepare for PAL
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Scrum Master A set of resources for Scrum Masters
Product Owner A set of resources for Product Owners
Software Developer A set of resources for software developers using Scrum
Agile Leader A set of resources for those leading agile teams

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Guides Guides provide definitive descriptions of ways of working
Webcasts Register for upcoming webcasts
Videos Watch to learn from Scrum experts
Case Studies See how others are using Scrum
Blog Read the latest articles from our trainer community and staff
Learning Series Walk through a series of content to learn about a specific topic
Podcasts Listen to Recordings from our community and beyond
Books By Ken Schwaber, Professional Scrum Trainers and Scrum.org
Blog Read the latest articles from our trainer community and staff
Forum Ask questions and share answers with the community
Meetups Hosted by Professional Scrum Trainers and our partners
Events Find events that we participate in globally
Become a Professional Scrum Trainer Learn how to be a Professional Scrum Trainer
Search Professional Scrum Certification Holders Verify certifications
Scaling Scrum with Nexus Builds upon Scrum’s foundation to scale beyond a single team
Guided Learning Solutions Grow skills with guided real-world activities and feedback
Scrum with Kanban Enhance and complement Scrum while improving flow
Evidence Based Management (EBM) Measure, manage and increase the value derived from product delivery
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| Barry Overeem

Agile Is Not Dead, It’s Evolving!

February 1, 2024
My thoughts on the recent ‘Agile is Death’ claims
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| Barry Overeem

Agile Is Dead! ☠️

January 24, 2024
My thoughts on the recent ‘Agile is Death’ claims
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| Barry Overeem

Zombie Scrum First Aid

December 18, 2023
Decorate your team space with this poster. It tells you exactly what you need to do when you are confronted with Zombie Scrum!
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| Barry Overeem

When is Something Actually “Valuable”?

October 24, 2023
Scrum is a framework to reduce risk, increase predictability, and deliver value to your stakeholders sooner. But what when is something actually valuable?
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Create A Low-Tech Metrics Dashboard To Track Outcomes

October 18, 2023
An experiment that encourages teams to select their own metrics
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| Barry Overeem

“I Don’t Care About Scrum, I Do Care About Empiricism”

September 1, 2023
Why I don’t care that much about the Scrum roles, events, and artifacts, and what I do care about instead.
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| Barry Overeem

What If Your Team Overrates Its Skills, Capabilities, And Performances?

August 25, 2023
Thoughts and ideas on how to prevent, resolve, or simply accept it
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Break the Rules!

August 21, 2023
Test which rules really matter and trigger a wave of change in your organization
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| Barry Overeem

Why ‘Sprint 0’ Isn’t A Good Idea

August 13, 2023
A personal experience and a tangible exercise to show why complexity requires ‘doing’ instead of ‘thinking’
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| Barry Overeem

Plan Your Sprint With Purpose-To-Practice

August 7, 2023
Use the Liberating Structure “Purpose-to-Practice” to create a plan for the Sprint, and revisit & update the P2P canvas during each Scrum event
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| Barry Overeem

Take Your Definition Of Done To The Next Level

August 2, 2023
How validating the value of the Scrum team’s work during the Sprint limits risk and increases predictability
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Observe What is Happening

July 27, 2023
Find a better balance between solving problems and enabling growth and autonomy
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Measure Lead And Cycle Time

July 16, 2023
How lead- and cycle time are incredibly helpful metrics to drive change where it matters
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| Barry Overeem

Give Scrum A Break!

July 2, 2023
Stuck in a boring, neverending, meaningless Scrum rhythm? Give Scrum a break, and rethink what approach suits your team the best!
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| Barry Overeem

How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

June 16, 2023
A personal experience of identifying the ideal Product Owner
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| Barry Overeem

The Struggle Of Organizational Overweight

June 4, 2023
10 Liberating Structures To Help Your Organization Lose Weight And Increase Agility
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| Barry Overeem

How Poor Facilitation Of The Scrum Events Can Cause Zombie Scrum

May 29, 2023
How poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum, and how to create more engaging, impactful, and meaningful Scrum events with Liberating Structures.
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Give The Stakeholder A Desk Close To The Scrum Team

May 20, 2023
How a simple experiment can have a huge impact!
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| Barry Overeem

How Scrum Teams And Management Can Work Together To Remove Impediments

May 4, 2023
A workshop that enables teams and management to clearly express essential needs to use Scrum more effectively
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Organize Scrum Master Impediment Gatherings

April 18, 2023
Bring Scrum Masters together and see where they can help and support each other
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| Barry Overeem

Use “What, So What, Now What” During The Sprint Retrospective

April 7, 2023
A simple format for the Sprint Retrospective to create a shared understanding with one of the foundational Liberating Structures
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Diagnose Scrum In Your Organization With Panarchy

March 28, 2023
Help Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and supporters understand how their system works, find leverage points, and trigger (big) change.
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| Barry Overeem

How To Lead Scrum Masters With Liberating Structures?

March 16, 2023
How Liberating Structures and servant leadership create an environment for Scrum Masters to find support, offer help, and draw inspiration
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| Barry Overeem

Learn How To Effectively Share Essential Needs With Management

March 2, 2023
A do-it-yourself workshop to have Scrum teams clearly express what they need from management, stakeholders, and the supporting organization with “What I Need From You”
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Limit The Maximum Length Of Your Product Backlog

January 16, 2023
Add a constraint to the length of the Product Backlog and see what happens next.
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Take The First Steps To Automate Integration & Deployment

December 29, 2022
Grow confidence, celebrate small successes, and build the muscle to get through the hard stuff.
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Dig Deeper Into Problems And Potential Solutions, Together

November 29, 2022
Use "Discovery & Action Dialogue" and learn how to ask questions that include different perspectives, and to identify specific and actionable solutions.
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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve (Scrum) Team Morale

November 15, 2022
Three simple Retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures “Conversation Cafe”, “Troika Consulting”, and “Discovery & Action Dialogue”.
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Support Scrum Teams To Express Clear Requests For Help

November 4, 2022
Encourage your Scrum team to establish more effective communication patterns that make a lasting impact with “What I Need From You”.
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| Barry Overeem

10 Options To Start With Scrum

October 30, 2022
How the various ways of getting into a swimming pool are similar to how teams and organizations start with Scrum.
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| Barry Overeem

Can Scrum Teams Use Scrum And Kanban, Simultaneously?

October 17, 2022
Reflections and findings triggered by an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti.
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| Barry Overeem

Spark Self-Organization In Groups With Open Space Technology

September 21, 2022
Within the Scrum community, Open Space Technology is a common practice. This post can be useful to make the most out of it! 
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| Barry Overeem

Use Proven Success Factors From The Past, To Improve Your Team In The Present

September 6, 2022
A do-it-yourself workshop that uses Appreciative Interviews to share success stories from the past, Ecocycle Planning to create transparency about the present, and 15% Solutions to identify improvements for the nearby future.
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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Use Formal and Informal Networks to Drive Change

August 31, 2022
Use the Liberating Structure "Social Network Webbing" to find people in your organization who are facing similar impediments and work together to remove them.
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| Barry Overeem

Inspect And Improve The Performance Of A Scrum Team With “Generative Relationships STAR”

August 17, 2022
In this blog post, we describe the purpose of Generative Relationships STAR, how it works, and when you could use it with your Scrum Team.
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| Barry Overeem

How To Skillfully Navigate Conflict In Your Scrum Team?

August 10, 2022
3 Do-it-yourself workshops to help your Scrum team improve (the lack of) task- and relationship conflict
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| Barry Overeem

Quick Tips To Improve The Autonomy Of Your Scrum Team

July 28, 2022
Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips
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| Barry Overeem

Make A Business Case For Continuous Delivery With Your Scrum Team

July 4, 2022
How much money and time can actually be saved by automating your deployment pipeline?
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| Barry Overeem

How To Refine Your Improvements Into Actionable Quick Tips?

June 28, 2022
Why refinement is an essential skill for Scrum teams to create small, specific, and realistic improvements.
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| Barry Overeem

How Product Backlog Refinement Can Prevent or Fix Zombie Scrum

June 19, 2022
Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips.
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| Barry Overeem

How To Make Product Discovery An Integral Part Of Your Scrum Team?

May 31, 2022
7 Do-it-yourself workshops and experiments to discover new valuable features through experiments, field testing, and research.
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| Barry Overeem

Programmer- or Product Developer? Why The Difference Matters!

May 20, 2022
In this blog post, I explain the difference between the attitude of a programmer and a product developer, why it matters, and some tips to make the shift.
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| Barry Overeem

Quickstart To Improve How Your Team Uses Sprint Goals

May 16, 2022
Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"
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| Barry Overeem

The 11th Essential Success Factor To Resolve Zombie Scrum

May 5, 2022
Practical ideas on how to improve Scrum, personally.
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| Barry Overeem

Quickstart To Improve Your Team's Psychological Safety

May 2, 2022
Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"
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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve Your Scrum Team's Morale

April 14, 2022
Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"
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| Barry Overeem

Mind The (Scrum) Gap!

April 5, 2022
How to support Scrum Teams to effectively bridge the gap between their current and desired state
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| Barry Overeem

Start A Stakeholder Treasure Hunt With Your Scrum Team

March 29, 2022
Try this experiment and go on a journey to find your real stakeholders!
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| Barry Overeem

The 6 Stances Of A Scrum Master

March 19, 2022
A detailed description of how the Scrum Master role embodies 6 stances, and why I don’t consider “servant leader” and “manager” valid stances anymore
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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve Team Morale

March 4, 2022
Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"
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