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Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E)

Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM)

Applying Professional Scrum (APS)

Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development (APS-SD)

Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills (PSPBM)

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)

Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU)

Professional Scrum Master and Product Owner (PSMPO)

Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus (SPS)

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills (PSFS)

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SAFe® Product Owner/ Product Manager (POPM)

SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM)

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Agile Fundamentals (ICP)

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Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF)

Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA)

Agility in HR (ICP-AHR)

Product Management (ICP-PDM)

Agile Project and Delivery Management (ICP-APM)

Agile Product Ownership (ICP-APO)

ICAgile Certified Delivery at Scale (ICP-DAS)

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Advanced-Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD)

Certified LeSS Basics (CLB)

Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP)

Technical Agility

Professional DevOps Foundations

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Extreme Programming Practitioner (XP)

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Kanban

Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)

Kanban System Design (KSD)

Kanban System Improvement (KSI)

TBR

TBR Practitioner (In-Person)

One-Day Classes

Agile Portfolio Management

Design Thinking

Product Thinking Practitioner

Value Stream Mapping

Dec 15th, 2017

Brief comparison of Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org program

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Brief comparison of Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org program

Scrum Alliance has below certification program

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Training mandatory and Exam has 35 questions to write in 90 days
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) – Only training and no exam
Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) – Only training and no exam
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) – No training, No exam and Only Money
Certified Agile Leaderships (CAL – I) – Only training and no exam

Scrum.org has below training program

Professional Scrum Foundation (PSF) – Student will get opportunity to write PSM – I as part of training
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – Student will get opportunity to write PSM – I as well as PSM – II
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) – Student will get opportunity to write PSPO – I and II
Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) – Student will get opportunity to write PSD – I
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) – Student will get opportunity to write SPS
Professional Agile Leaderships – Essential (PAL – E) – No certification for this program and only training

Difference Between Scrum Alliance and Scrum.Org

Below is basic comparison covering difference in approach for Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org. I have added only PSM vs CSM but rest all certifications are same.

Program Name	Professional Scrum Master (PSM)	Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certifying Authority	Scrum.org	Scrum Alliance
Training Provider	Professional Scrum Trainer (PST)	Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
Founded By	Ken Schwaber	Ken Schwaber
When	2009	2002
Mission	Improving the Profession of Software Delivery	Transforming the World of Work
Duration	2 days	2 days
Examination	80 Questions in 60 Mins	35 Questions. No time limit
Difficulty Level	High	Very Low
Training is Mandatory	No	Yes
Content	Maintained by Scrum.Org	Maintained by CSTs Individually
Source for Exam	Scrum Guide	Not Sure
Renewal	No	$100 every 2 years
Batch Size	No more than 30 students per class	More than 60 and sometime 100 (especially in India)
Acceptability	Very High	Very High
Valuable	Some organizations only hire PSM holders for Scrum Master role	Although it was introduced for Scrum Master but became Scrum Introduction class over the period
Next Level	There is PSM II training but you can write 3 level of assessment – PSM – I, II, III even after attending PSM	Since CSM became Introduction training so Scrum Alliance has launched Advance – CSM
Popularity	Popular	Popular

Scrum.org's Certification Programs

Scrum.org has kept certification and training separate. Training is not mandatory for any of certification. Scrum.org offers below certifications.

Professional Scrum Master – I, II, III (to test your maturity level)
Professional Scrum Product Owner – I, II (to test your maturity level)
Professional Scrum Developer – I (to test your maturity level)
Scaled Professional Scrum

Find Our Upcoming Trainings

Beginners	Intermediate	Advanced
Scrum Master (PSM) Training	Leading SAFe® 5.1 Training with SAFe® Agilist Certification	Implementing SAFe® 5.1 Training with SPC Certification
Product Owner (PSPO) Training	Certified Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) Training	Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) Training
Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK) Training	Advanced Scrum Master (PSM-II) Training	SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Training
Agile fundamentals Bootcamp (ICP) Training	Advanced Product Owner (PSPO-A) Training	SAFe® Agile Product Management (APM) Training

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