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Posted By shaikh mahmood on 19 Jun 2016 04:40 PM
HI, I want to do a career change, and would like to learn about the Scrum on self paced basis without taking classes or training? Is that possible? Does Open certification help to get a job?

It's good that you're motivated to learn more about Scrum. However if you want to take it professionally, I would advice you to go take the training from an experience trainer.
Learning Scrum by the books is one thing, it is a good start but there is a risk of end up with some bad habits as Scrum is also widely misused.

I am very sorry to post this here.
But Scrum as such is not really the important thing. Scrum, as a framework with its roles, artifacts, events and rules is not really hard to learn.

What IS hard to learn, but absolutely essential, is an agile mindset!

If you don’t have this, you easily fall into the trap Chee-Hong mentions.
The agile mindset, you cannot get from just reading the guide, yet I am skeptical whether you can get it from one single two days’ training. Especially if you only attend with the certificate in mind.

Great points so far. My first experience with Scrum training was within a large corporation that gave us a three-day course bay an in-house, no-certifications, lacking experience "Agile Coach" manager. There were no references to the The Scrum Guide. Doing some research on my own, I discovered it. It took time for me to fully digest and understand The Scrum Framework, how and why its flexible simplicity was so beautiful and powerful. I also found many videos with Ken Schwaber and Keith Sutherland which helped. I hope to go through the classes and certification soon to solidify my knowledge. Side note: the company had no interest in my quoting/explaining of The Scrum Guide or sending me to training/certification.

My opinion: read, digest, watch, train, certify.

Hi Shaikh,

may I ask what field are you in now and what made you chose Scrum as your next career?

Michael