Interested in becoming a Certified ScrumMaster? Explore your options of becoming a CSM today.

This is an explosive new post where I  (Michael Vizdos) in conjunction with some other Certified Scrum Trainers  – will RELEASE ALL our material into public domain (under creative commons) so that anyone can use what we have developed over the years.

Is this selfish of us doing this?

We will promise that you will not be able to “certify” new Scrum Masters (from the point of view of the Scrum Alliance, a non-profit organization).  

Does this matter?

If you *would* like “Certified” trainers to come in and help with your training roll-outs — we are available to do that.  In the end, we have realized that there is more of a need to get people exposed to the Certified Scrum Training materials that a few of us have been selling (the training services of) for many years.

Here is the plan.

Try to use this information in your organization.

If you need help, contact one of us who have basically open-sourced our full two-day CSM class.

Fair?

Inspect and Adapt.

Let’s see where it leads.

Ready?

Contact us for more information on how to get this information. Now!

Also.

Contact us with your success stories!

Thanks for believing in this.

Let’s see where it goes!

- Mike Vizdos (mvizdos@gmail.com)

6 Comments! to “Free Training from Mike Vizdos and Other CSTs”

1. Alan Dayley Says:
   May 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

   A very interesting post indeed!

   It is hard to create good training materials from scratch, especially for specific concepts that require near-immediate discussion.

   I have found that most trainers are quite liberal with their materials. I have yet to have a rejection when I have asked to use a slide or article in my training efforts. This seems to be the next step to spreading the information further.

   Thanks for taking the leap!

   Who else is doing this with their materials?

2. Elad Says:
   May 19th, 2009 at 1:30 am

   Hi,

   Even not a CST (yet).
   I have to admit that my training materials is also inspired by other materials i have seen and trainings i have attended.

   I also think that most of the CSM materials i have seen, have more commonalities than differences.

   So, kudos for raising the glove, and i am also willing to share my materials if anyone is interested.

   Elad.

3. Rodrigo Yoshima Says:
   May 19th, 2009 at 9:41 am

   Where are the materials for download?

4. Tobias Mayer Says:
   May 19th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

   How is this free training? I’m confused. Giving away material isn’t training, it’s giving away material. It’s very generous and everything, but it isn’t training.

   Are you planning to follow up by giving free training to those who use the material? Now that would be interesting

5. Deb Says:
   May 20th, 2009 at 3:12 am

   Mike, I don’t see a link to the materials. Should we email you for them? Thanks.
   deb

6. PB Says:
   May 27th, 2009 at 4:21 am

   Where are the materials for download?

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