Hello Scrummasters
I'm looking into getting a ScrumMaster certification. Do you have any advice on the best way to do it? I see the three options listed below.

Please share your experience with any of these or any advice in general with costs, the exams or anything in general that was helpful to you as a newly certified SrumMaster. Thank you in advance!

1. Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) through srum com
2. Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) through ScrumAlliance
3. Scrum Master by Scrum Inc.™

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I see the CSM as the one mostly known and shown in job postings. You have to find a vendor that partners with Scrum Alliance and it is a 2 day course and at the end of the 2nd day you have an open book test in which usually everyone passes. You have to do continuing education every 2 years to keep the certification. The cert is on the easier side to obtain and maintain.

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I concur with the previous comments. I find the certifications to be mostly about profit. That said, I have a CSM but would go the PSM route if I had to do it again as completing the series can push you to learn more. The companies want the credentials, but they really want people who really understand Agile—good, bad, and ugly. Read and analyze the Scrum guide, Principles, Values, Manifesto, .. and things Scrum Masters do that are peripheral to Scrum and Agile. Don’t focus on memorization, seek to understand “why”. Tip, surprisingly there are several useful things on YouTube—some not so much.

A way to recall the 12 principles I created…
Customers change frequently, together in trust face-to-face. Progressing working software, by sustainable design for simple self organizing teams to reflect.
All 12 are in there.

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