Scrum Alliance Scrum Master Certification Renewal

**woohoo** · 22 February 2014, 20:05

Originally posted by kal View Post

At the tail end of me being a permie my old employer sent me (along with the entire department) on a Scrum Master Course, cue a 2 day jolly followed by an exam (which was impossible to fail) and I became a fully certified 'Scrum Master', its now 2 years later and my certification has expired.

Those nice folks at the scrum alliance want $100 to renew my certification for another 2 years. I have never performed the Scrum Master role, although I have worked exclusively as a developer on Agile projects ever since. I am erring along the lines of not bothering as to me it seems purely like a money making exercise. They require no proof that I have indeed been performing a Scrum Master role since then. My other certifications (including Java 2 certified programmer which I got back in 2004) have no such time restriction.

What do others think, worth $100 for another 2 years or not bother as its a waste of money?

Well know one else has replied and I don't know anything about this at all, so I'm going to suggest you pay $100 for another 2 years. It comes out of your corp tax, so who cares.

**kal** · 23 February 2014, 01:02

Originally posted by woohoo View Post

Well know one else has replied and I don't know anything about this at all, so I'm going to suggest you pay $100 for another 2 years. It comes out of your corp tax, so who cares.

Thanks for throwing me the bone woohoo

, as NLUK would no doubt be at pains to inform me 80% of those $$$ come out of my pocket so I will keep my money in my pocket and not bother to renew as lets face it its a useless certification!

**SueEllen** · 23 February 2014, 09:48

Originally posted by kal View Post

Thanks for throwing me the bone woohoo

, as NLUK would no doubt be at pains to inform me 80% of those $$$ come out of my pocket so I will keep my money in my pocket and not bother to renew as lets face it its a useless certification!

As soon as you do that you know you will get a contract offer where you need it....

**Lockhouse** · 23 February 2014, 10:09

I keep mine up-to-date but if you don't need it, don't renew it. Less competition for me.

**kal** · 23 February 2014, 10:46

Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

As soon as you do that you know you will get a contract offer where you need it....

Ain't that the truth! $100 = 60 quid so its a drop in the ocean...

**kal** · 23 February 2014, 10:48

Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post

I keep mine up-to-date but if you don't need it, don't renew it. Less competition for me.

Are you a scrum master Lockhouse? If so its a no brainer, im an agile dev so while I have worked in scrum teams for a number of years I haven't done the SM role.

**bobspud** · 23 February 2014, 18:56

OT
For some unknown reason if I type the word imbecile into my iPhone it auto corrects it to I'm agile...

Make of that what you will

£100 for a cert to tell people you can run an agile project seems reasonable although I'm not sure id want to tell people that I organise chaos for a living

**SpontaneousOrder** · 23 February 2014, 19:30

The PSM one is better in my opinion - the level 1 test is actually very hard for anyone without real agile/scrum experience.
It's newer so less well known, but if a cert is to mean anything at all then I think PSM is more meaningful.

**northernladuk** · 23 February 2014, 19:47

Originally posted by kal View Post

Thanks for throwing me the bone woohoo

, as NLUK would no doubt be at pains to inform me 80% of those $$$ come out of my pocket so I will keep my money in my pocket and not bother to renew as lets face it its a useless certification!

I tend to point that out just where people want to buy expensive kit through the company and think it doesn't cost them anything. £100 to keep your certs up to date is a no brainer to me.

Scrum Alliance Scrum Master Certification Renewal