Certification for scrum developers?
Mr. Ronald E Jeffries is trying to drum up support for a certification process for agile developers, because, “Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, says publicly that perhaps only 25% of Scrum teams get the full benefit of Scrum.”
Now, the real point he’s trying to make here is that his bank balance is could do with a top-up. That’s my initial view. But that’s highly cynical.
- Ron (and others) believe that Scrum and other Agile practices only get their real value if the practitioners are fully trained and ‘know how to do it properly’.
- Those believers in certificates think that the only way to use a tool properly is to get a certificate saying so.
- Certification process will not be free.
- Developers mostly don’t care about whatever methodology is followed to give them things to do.
- Ron and his mates will be the certified teachers of the course, and therefore be certifiably lining their own pockets.
With these points in mind I cannot help feeling that this is just a growing trend from the Scrum Alliance to earn money from people who want to ‘do Scrum’.
We already know about their claims to the words ‘Scrum Group’ and the financial implications that has.
I suggest we break the bonds and free Scrum from the evil clutches of these money-oriented swindlers.
I mean, what’s next, Scrum Certification for Testers? Trademark on the word ‘Scrum’?
As Tobias Mayer says: I believe the idea of a “certified developer” has nothing to do with Scrum. Scrum is not a software methodology, not a prescribed way of working. It is broader than that. Scrum is a framework for “transforming the the world of work”. It is “…an iterative, incremental framework for developing any product or managing any work”. Creating a certified software developer certificate will push Scrum into a tight corner where it will not be able to grow to be all the things it is capable of being. I find that to be very sad.
Yes, let’s break the bonds. Someone start the ‘Free Scrum’ club please.l
