Our new Professional Certification Path for Lean-Agile Teams
Our new Lean-Agile Project Manager curriculum, as part of our Lean-Agile training initiative, is unique in the industry and has brought thousands of professionals into successful transitions and adoptions of Agile practices. Our certification program began with providing Scrum Certification:
Podcast: Professional Scrum Certification by Net Objectives
Net Objectives is not affiliated with the Scrum Alliance.
For a certification to have meaning it must have as its basis, and it must accurately communicate, that its holder has acquired the knowledge, skills, and understanding necessary to demonstrate competency in the area of certification. For the Professional Lean-Agile Project Manager Certificate by Net Objectives this would be:
- applying Scrum in the context of Lean principles
- understanding Scrum and how to apply Scrum methods immediately
- feeling confident in the role of Agile professional with expertise in Scrum
- earning meaningful certification based on clear criteria to confirm knowledge and skills learned
Further, Certification by Net Objectives is part of a Professional Development Roadmap that assists you in identifying your unique path toward gaining the necessary competencies to attain your goals.
When considering certification for your team, also make sure that the company you select is up to the challenge. Net Objectives is dedicated to your Agile success. We provide comprehensive training and coaching in the areas of Lean-Agile for Executives, Management, Transition, Lean-Agile for Your Team, Requirements Management, Lean-Agile Project Management, Story Writing and Acceptance Tests, and Lean-Agile Enterprise Release Planning , Sustainable Test-Driven Development, Agile Analysis and Design Patterns, and more. We are unique in our breadth of training opportunities for Agile professionals.
Why Our Certification Program Is Better
The Scrum Alliance teaches Scrum from the point of view of the team. Scrum's roots come from Lean-Thinking. Unfortunately, current Scrum Alliance offerings typically do not talk about the strong Lean foundations that Scrum builds on. In an interview with Agile Collab, Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum and iconic head of the Scrum Alliance) said -
"I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it. ... Scrum is a very simple framework within which the "game" of complex product development is played. Scrum exposes every inadequacy or dysfunction within an organization's product and system development practices. The intention of Scrum is to make them transparent so the organization can fix them. Unfortunately, many organizations change Scrum to accommodate the inadequacies or dysfunctions instead of solving them."
In analyzing where and why Scrum teams have failed to get the results desired, we have come to an inescapable conclusion - Scrum works readily in some contexts and not in others. This should not be a surprise. But the second conclusion is more profound - in many contexts in which Scrum does not work readily, Scrum has no power to improve the context in which it is in. In other words, the impediments that one must fix are often outside of the scope of what Scrum helps you do. These impediments are often not even seen or if they are, are often viewed as "just the way it is." In fact, I'd go so far as to say certain Scrum attitudes often makes things worse. I'll explain in a minute - after we look to see what it takes to develop software effectively and efficiently.
We believe to avoid this, Scrum Masters must be trained in certain Lean principles in order to see the cause of many of these impediments. Without this knowledge, these impediments will be difficult to remove Net Objectives' training includes basic Lean principles in order to make these impediments more visible as well as give insights in how to solve them. Net Objectives broke with the Scrum Alliance several years ago in order to be able to provide Scrum Training with integrated Lean-Thinking. In addition, our Scrum training is part of a complete curriculum path that includes the entire organization and is not only team centric.
People attending our Scrum training (Lean-Agile Project Manager, Advanced Lean-Agile Project Management for Scrum Masters, or Product Owner) receive the following benefits:
- Registration on our web-site for one year as a customer (a $195 value). This gives access to days worth of Lean, Agile, and Technical training
- A copy of the Net Objectives Pocket Guide to Scrum Teams
