So... you want to deepen your Agile knowledge, maybe pick up a certification or two. OK, will it be Kanban or Scrum? Go to the Nexus or @Scale up to Flight Levels? Do we need to make our Agile delivery more disciplined? Or model our Kanban maturity? Become a certified ICAgile coach, or get a SAFe SPC or LeSS Practitioner? What about training from the back of the room, liberating structures or Open Space technology?
What are all of these certifications anyway? How do they fit together? Which ones should I learn, and in which order?
As an Agile coach and trainer working with large and small efforts in government and commercial contexts, I have had the opportunity to experience a number of these Agile methods in practice. I have certifications from Scrum Alliance, Professional Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, and ICAgile, and have taken trainings in half a dozen others. In this talk I share with you how all of these standard’s bodies fit together and what the different certifications focus on. As an aspiring coach, this should help you understand and better plan your certification journey. As a businessperson wanting to see their organization improve, this should help you understand which certifications to recommend for internal staff members in their journey to become enterprise coaches.