I'm looking for good recommendations on books to read for SAFe 4.5 (Scaled Agile Framework) and Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations?
Dwayne BraunerSystems Engineering Senior Manager| PerspectaHaymarket, Va, United States
I'm looking for good recommendations on books to read for SAFe 4.5 (Scaled Agile Framework) and Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations? Saving Changes...
SAFe is best learned by taking a course, and for Scrum, I'd suggest attending a Scrum training course after downloading and reading the Scrum Guide from Scrum.org. However, for both, actual experience with coaching from a qualified agile coach would the best way to learn...
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Teresa Lyn HepplePM Consultant| ContentgrrlFlower Mound, Tx, United States
I earned my Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) with the help of Scrum Narrative and PSM Exam Guide: All-in-one Guide for Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) Certificate Assessment Preparation, by Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali and Samantha Mason.
On my PSM I exam, I scored 97.5 % after 16 hours of study. As an e-learning developer of 20 years, I was especially impressed with this book's exceptionally well written quiz questions and remedial advice (answer explanations) after each topic.
I took longer to complete the book than I expected, about 12 hours of reading, highlighting, quizzing, and reviewing answer explanations.
With so many real life scenarios, I can answer about any question about scrum, and safeguard the framework in my implementations for e-commerce, e-learning, and e-marketing.
The book advises familiarity with the actual Scrum Guide (free download from scrum.org), and taking its short Open Assessment (also free on scrum.org) until you score 100%. I spent about 4 hours taking copious notes on the Scrum Guide, and it took me about 6 tries to get 100% 4 times in a row on the open assessment.
I had planned to knock out my scrum master certification before I go for the broader PMI-ACP with help from Griffiths' exam prep guide and Fichtner's Agile Prepcast and Agile Exam Simulator. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
I do not have any book recommendations. TBH, for both, aside from the options laid out by Kiron, which are generally the beginning of one's immersions into either area, I find engagement in available communities coupled with real-life experience the most advantageous route. The communities can be LinkedIn, blogs, websites, podcasts, etc.
Is your goal the exam itself or general knowledge/learning? Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
The problem to take a book is that most of them are interpretations of the frameworks. Buth are frameworks then they not prescribe, the do not state "the how". For example, you wil not find one line, one page related you have to use User Stories with Scrum inside the Scrum Guide. So, my recommendation, is forget the books and go directly to frameworks documentation inside the original websites (form example the Scrum Guide, no others). I can say that becasue I used them from years including we are close to close the implementation of SAFe in my actual work place and I am in charge of that. Saving Changes...
