Certified Scrum Master

Reading list and useful links

Becoming a Certified Scrum Master is merely the start of a long, copious learning journey. We have gathered some books, articles, blogs, conferences and chat groups that we have come to appreciate over the years. Use them to continue your learning.

Best of luck with Scrum and transforming the world of work!

Books

Books that was mentioned in class or is worth the read

Succeeding with agile
Mike Cohn
Agile Retrospectives
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
Coaching agile teams
Lyssa Adkins
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel Pink
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patric Lencioni
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim

Blogs and articles

A selection of good blogs and articles

Det smidige hjørnet – www.scrummaster.no
Bloggen vår
The New New Product Development Game
Den opprinnelige artikkelen av Nonaka og Takeuchi
InfoQ
Masse gode artikler og intervjuer.
LeSS-modellen
Skalering av Scrum med mange Scrum teams og system tenking.
Henrik Knibergs blog
Om Spotify, Scrum og Kanban.
Video on Retrospectives
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!
«We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work»
Om viktigheten av å ha forståelse før man endrer regler.

(Un)Conferences

Agile Coach Camp Norway
Annual agile coach camp held at Vettre (approx 20 minutes outside Oslo) first weekend of January every year.
Scrum Gatherings
The Scrum Alliance has global gatherings twice a year; one in Europe and one in North America.
Agile Alliance
Agile Alliance has as series of events from technical practices to leadership.
Booster
Booster is an annual software conference for the entire team held in beautiful Bergen, Norway (in English).
Smidigkonferansen
Annual agile conference in Norway (in Norwegian). Talks from previous conferences: http://vimeo.com/smidig.
Smidig Digitalisering
Annual conference in Oslo, Norway (in Norwegian) about agile in public sector. https://vimeo.com/album/5211821

Groups and chats

Scrum Alliance: Transforming the world of work
Google group with lots of Scrum discussions
Scrum Masters on Facebook
Groups with good activity, some variation in quality

Maintaining your certification

Scrum Alliance: Maintain your certification
Information from Scrum Alliance on how to maintain your certification
Podcast: How to earn SEUs?
Podcast on how to earn SEUs

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