hi everyone this is karen for muffle your agile evangelist welcome back to my channel
in today's video it's gonna be really quick so we'll be talking about certification exams
you know so many people have been reaching out this week just getting i'm feeling
confused about what certification to take you know some people have been taking so
many different kind of certifications because they really don't have any clear direction on
what they should really be taking based on the need or what's required now i'm just going to
give a breakdown on the different certification bodies and my recommendation that's what we'll be
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what certification should you really be taking in this scrum master agile space
what do you need to get going now let's discuss the common certification bodies we have um the
common ones that people um go for you you you can get certified through scrum alliance you
can get certified through scrum.org there is also scrum inc so those are the common certification
accredited certification bodies that um are highly recommended now i see some people will take um csm
which is the certified chrome master certification and it is offered by scrum alliance i see that
same person would go through scrum.org and take psm one which is professional scrum master one
they will take this tool certification i don't think you really need to do all that you know
why because they all have the same value now what is the difference between these two certifications
um the scrum the csm one is offered by like i mentioned before it's offered by scrum alliance
meanwhile psm1 is offered by scrum.org so these are just two certification bodies
two competitors and that's how i need you to see they are just two competitors offering the same
product you know now which one does organizations prefer that's also the common question that a lot
of people have been asking you know um with chrome alliance youth for you to be able to take their
their csm certification you must take their two days mandatory class before you are eligible to
take their certification you cannot do self-study you know you cannot study on your own or
choose to go take your training somewhere else and then come to them and get certified you will not
be able to get their certification you must pay for their two days mandatory class and the
program is great don't get me wrong that two days mandatory um training program is it's it's great
yeah so you you take that training and then after the two days once you're done with the training
you you are eligible to give you a um a passcode to go use in order to sit for their certification
exams and once you're done with justification exams you you know you become a certified
scrub master not that you're a professional scrub master though you become a certified scrub master
and then you can continue like that on the ladder through scrum um through the scrum
alliance you can continue like that you know the next phase you have they are they are csm
they are acsm which is an advanced scrum master that's the next certification you can take
and that's education is mostly for um like people going in for senior scrum master role scrum master
two role scrum master three row you know yeah so that certification just give you a deeper
um understanding of um what you're supposed to know i subscribe master now with this um csm
certification through scrum alliance for you to keep your certification um license open you will
have to um renew the license every two years so every two years you will need to earn some credits
you will need to you know as you would need to be practicing or attend um seminars attend um
webinars and all of that keep your your learning alive you know add all of that as they call this
thing what do you do what do they call this thing some units you need to earn units in order to
keep your certification valid in after two years you would need to go get re-certified so i think
the cost for recertification is um i think it's a hundred dollars i believe so yeah don't quote me
but i believe that it's a hundred dollars to keep your certification going every two years you need
to re-certify so that is it for scrum alliance now let's talk about scrum dot org with chrome.org
the difference between the psn one which is offered by scrum.org and the csm which is over
by scrum alliance is that with psm1 offered by scrum.org you don't necessarily need to
take any mandatory class through them you don't need to you can do yourself
study you can choose to get trained from anywhere you know wherever you you choose or
wherever you you prefer you can get trained from anywhere and they will sit for their exams you can
study on your own through online whatever you're doing self-study and they roast it for the exams
uh i think the cost for that exams right now is 150 dollars if i'm not wrong you know it's been
a while that i start for any of these exams yeah so yeah you you can just go you can not
have the knowledge your theoretical knowledge and then you just go sit for the exams without
paying for any mandatory two clas two days class or any mandatory club whatever is two days or
three days you don't have to do all of that you gotta sit for their exams and then you pass and
with their own certification you don't need to keep renewing your license you don't need to keep
doing that once you've had that certification it doesn't expire it's it's for life so you can
choose to follow that path through scrum.org and keep climbing the ladder so after psm one i want
to go to zipper you can now take the psm2 and then you continue up what like that so
i need you to see both certification bodies as two competitors you know providing selling the
same product to you that's what they're doing they have their business strategies their branding and
all of that so now what does organizations prefer i know previously you know like a while back ago
what most organizations knew is the the csm and if you ask my opinion i would think it's because
of the way they've been doing their marketing and their branding that's why their name is out
a lot that's why on most job descriptions you'll see they're asking you for or minimum requirement
you must have a csm license and all of that i think it's because um the scrum alliance have
done a great job you know in marketing themselves and branding their product and all of that
that's why almost that's what most organizations know but it doesn't necessarily mean that chroma
liars is it's valuable or has more powerful than psm or or the psl it doesn't mean that csm is
powerful than the psn one it really doesn't mean that you know so that's what most organizations
usually ask on their job description if you go check you'll see that they ask for csm that
candidates must have a minimum of csm license and all of that and then another reason why i think um
organizations usually ask for csm is that they know that there is there is um the risk is low
for them to hire a wrong candidate because if you have csm you must have at least taken it to this
training it means that you must have some sort of knowledge on agile and scrum you see but with
scrum.org they are not sure because there is no mandatory training that you must take to get that
certification that's why sometimes they tend to shy away from it because they know that people
can go take this thing figure out something and take it without really having a coordinated
well-structured knowledge on agile and scrum to be able to deliver um as they hire you so that's why
sometimes you see most organizations they usually ask for csm again if the point is if you know
the point is for you to get the knowledge if you know that you have the knowledge
choose whichever certification body works for you but i need you to understand that no none of
them is more powerful than the order like that in terms of value they are of equal value the csm and
the psn one is of equal value so um i hope this video was helpful i hope it gave you some clear
direction on on which way to go you know regarding your certification and all of that so you feel
free to choose get that certification and then get going with your agile journey so for those
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