Certified SCRUM Coach - CSCTM
Certified Scrum CoachTM credential leads the candidate to be a certified member of SCRUM Community to coach, mentor and train the SCRUM Team within the organizations. This certification confirms that the Certified SCRUM CoachTM understands the concepts, benefits, tools and techniques, roles and responsibilities, methods and professional values of SCRUM. This certification will give you respect and acknowledgement in the SCRUM community as an Certified SCRUM CoachTM and thereby encourages you to preach and coach individuals SCRUM Methodology within organization who apply the SCRUM Methodology within their organization and SCRUM projects.
Candidates who are SCRUM DeveloperTM or Certified SCRUM Master PractitionerTM or Certified SCRUM Product Owner PractitionerTM can apply as a Certified SCRUM CoachTM who understands the SCRUM methodology and it demonstrates your experience and expertise in the field of SCRUM. This certification will elevate your career even further by earning the credential of Certified SCRUM CoachTM.
SCRUM is becoming well known in all industries and is welcomed by management and project teams. SCRUM is the future. The process for this certification is simple. The interested participant has to apply for the credential of SCRUM coach and one of our Panel of Council Associates will be assigned to you for the process of certification. This credential needs a lot of hand holding through the process of certification. The Panel of Council Associates will have a round of discussion on tele-conferencing facility to understand and gage the knowledge and expertise of the participant. After the round 1 of interview, the Panel of Council Associates will give a topic for academia project, which the participant has to complete within the given time of 30 days.
The Panel of Council Associates will evaluate the Project and will give corrections if required. Once all the comments are taken care of, the Panel of Council Associates will give the recommendation to the board for allotment of the credential of Certified SCRUM CoachTM.
This certification:
- Helps you to understand the SCRUM Framework from bird’s eye view.
- Help to identify gaps in SCRUM projects.
- Will help to understand and recommend improvement areas to SCRUM team, SCRUM Master or SCRUM Product Owner
- Will guide an individual to understand how to train, coach and mentor the SCRUM teams.
- Will recommend certain tools and techniques that can be easily implemented in real life there-by making SCRUM an effective tool in managing projects and tracking progres
- SCRUM is an effective deliverable oriented project management methodology which is becoming well known in all industries and is welcomed by management and project teams
- SCRUM is the future
- This credential gives a benefit to individual to showcase his/her skills as a coach on SCRUM.
- The SCRUM Coach has to adhere to the SCRUM Rules and train the SCRUM team on the same.
- SCRUM Coach has to help the SCRUM team to take decisions in case of difficulties
- The SCRUM Coach is one who can effectively teach and coach all roles as defined in the SCRUM Guide
- Ideally, the SCRUM Coach will have actual past experience playing all three of the main roles(or very similar roles) somewhere in their background
- Utilizing broader experiences and adoption best practices, the SCRUM Coach helps the organization and (often multiple) SCRUM Teams adopt and progress towards good SCRUM in a feasible way
- A SCRUM Coach progresses an organization's SCRUM Maturity much faster and more efficiently than someone with more limited experiences or someone who is playing solely SCRUM Coach role
- Helps (often multiple) SCRUM Teams deliver higher quality, higher value software faster, by maximizing the benefits received from SCRUM.
This certification will enhance your credibility within your team, organization and also with your clients.
Answers to all your questions
The training on the credentials will answer all the questions and will clarify all the doubts of individuals below:
- 1.What are their roles and responsibilities as a SCRUM Coach the organization?
- 2.What value addition will be done by achieving this credential?
- 3.How to manage the SCRUM projects successfully?
- 4.What are the domains in which we should prepare ourselves?
- 5.How learning project management can improve our competency as project management
- 6.What will be the keen areas they we should be focusing upon while learning project managemen
- 7.Any recommendations based upon your experience that can add value to this project
- 8.What are the skills that I should possess other than project management skills to successfully handle my team?
- 9.How do I manage the cost of my project?
- 10.How do I manage the schedule of my project?
- 11.How do I identify risks and how do I tackle them?
And many other questions
This certification will enhance your credibility within your team, organization and also with your clients
| Work Experience | 3+ years |
|---|---|
| Training | Mandatory |
| Target Audience | Aspirants who wish to work as an SCRUM Coach
OR Someone who is working as an SCRUM Coach OR Someone who wish to gain knowledge, add value and get accreditation for their skills and talents as an SCRUM Coach |
| Credentials | CSCTM |
Requirement Criteria
Work Experience: In order to appear for this certification exam you need to have minimum 3 years of professional work experience in any domain and in any industry.
Training Requirement: You need to mandatorily attend the training from our Authorized Training Associates to appear for the CSCTM certification examination. You will be awarded with Associate ICCA Credits (AIC’s) through our Authorized Training Associates.
Who should apply for this credentials
- Anyone and everyone who intends to work as an SCRUM Coach
- Someone who is already working as an SCRUM Coach or someone who wish to work as an SCRUM Coach
Examination Pattern
The CSCTM Exam is based on the Body of Knowledge for SCRUM. The certification contains 60 multiple-choice questions to test the participant’s concepts from the Body of Knowledge for SCRUM. Each question has equal weightage. There is no negative marking for any question. Exam is been closely monitored and proctored by the Authorized Examination Associate been appointed by ICCA Council. You will have a choice to select your convenient Authorized Examination Associate as per your preferred location.
This credential has multiple stages: Stage 1 and Stage 2
Stage 1 – Interview Round
This stage needs a lot of hand holding through the process of certification. The Panel of Council Associates will have a round of discussion on tele-conferencing facility to understand and gage the knowledge and expertise of the participant.
Panel of Council Associates
Stage 2 – Project evaluation
After the round 1 of interview, the Panel of Council Associates will give a topic for academia project, which the participant has to complete within the given time of 30 days.
The Panel of Council Associates will evaluate the Project and will give corrections if required. Once all the comments are taken care of, the Panel of Council Associates will give the recommendation to the board for allotment of the credential of Certified SCRUM CoachTM.
Exam Details
| Duration | 1.5 hour or 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Question type | Multiple choice questions |
| Pattern of Exam | Objective based exam |
| Mode of Exam | Online or Paper based |
| Total questions in Exam | 60 |
| Passing marks | 36 |
| Passing percentage | 60% |
Result
The result is declared within maximum 15 working days from the date of exam. Upon successfully clearing the examination candidates can be honoured by the credentials CSCTM
Candidates are requested to use naming of credentials on their respective profiles and social networking media as per the guidelines mentioned in the SCRUM Body of Knowledge - Code of ethics.
| Result | Within 15 working days |
|---|---|
| Soft copy | Within 15 working days |
| Hard Copy | Within 30-45 working days |
| Credential Badge | Within 30-45 working days |
| Name in Candidate Registry | Within 45 working days |
Note : You will receive an email once we receive your Answer sheet. The soft copy and hard copy certificates will be issued after receipt of the Answer sheets as mentioned in the chart.
You can also apply for a Credential Badge with additional cost of 30 USD and we will deliver the same within 30-45 Days.
Your name will be added in the ICCA Skilled Associates Registry within 45 working days.
Exam Price
Exam Fees for Non-Associate : 800 USD
Individual Associate Fee : 50 USD
Exam Fees for Associates :600 USD
You SAVE by becoming Associate, 200 USD
For corporates, we offer bulk discounts. Please contact us at exams@iccacouncil.org
To become ICCA Council Associate, please click here.
Here is what you will miss out if you do not gain knowledge through this certification
Focus
To deliver the best of our skills and produce excellent work. We deliver valuable to the stakeholders sooner.
Courage
This gives us the courage to undertake greater challenges.
Respect
Respect towards our profession
Opportunities.
It will bring more opportunities in terms of job, compensation and exposure
Recognition
This is a well-known platform for certifications world-wide to demonstrate your skills and credentials
Differentiator
Stand out from crowd
Ethics
It will encourage you to trail ethical practices
Knowledge
It will broaden your perspective towards routine day to day assignments and will help you to foster your knowledge
Growth
It will help you grow in your career and organization monetary wise, knowledge wise and in terms of responsibilities
Contribute
It will encourage you to contribute to the society