Scrum Institute Announces Corporate Membership with PMI Agile Alliance®

As of February 2026, we are glad to announce a signed partnership protocol between North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services and the International Scrum Institute.

North American Commerce Bank and the International Scrum Institute work closely together to meet the training and certification needs of North American Commerce Bank's highly talented and engaged professional units in various project management and business execution methodologies, particularly in Scrum and Six Sigma project development, delivery and productivity improvement frameworks.

What can you earn as a Scrum Master? We explore salary data and surveys from the United States and around the world, including related project-manager and coach roles, to help you understand your earning potential.

This guide compares salary ranges across industries, roles, and locations. Whether you are an experienced Scrum Master with a bachelor’s degree seeking competitive pay or a newcomer considering your career options, it explains the factors behind financial recognition in agile work.

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Despite the challenges we were facing together as humanity, we worked long and hard to make The Kanban Framework as helpful, practical, and informative as it should be...

A Very Quick Summary Of What You're Going To DISCOVER From The Kanban Framework:

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Hi there, and thank you for visiting our page. In this short letter, we explain 8 reasons why International Scrum Institute™ serves you far better than its competitors.

Before we get into the details, we want to thank you for your continued support and trust in International Scrum Institute™.

Without you, your engagement and your loyal support, International Scrum Institute™ could not be where it is today!

Here come 8 reasons you should know about why International Scrum Institute™ serves you far better than its competitors…

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Before we get into the details, I want to thank you for your continuous support and trust in International Scrum Institute™.

Today, I want to quickly brief you about:

How to get a 5-star job as a Scrum Master!

I have been interviewing many candidates for Scrum Master positions...

For our own projects at Scrum Institute and for our clients, we have been helping to build, improve, and scale Scrum teams.

Recently, I noticed a common trait that distinguishes high-performing Scrum Masters from mediocre ones.

Allocating resources, estimating team velocity, and calculating capacity in Scrum require careful planning and tracking. Like managing project orders (POs) in traditional project management, this work brings detailed decisions into a focused planning conversation.

As companies respond to changing markets, the Scrum Master’s role keeps evolving. Are you helping your team navigate that change, or are familiar habits holding you back? This guide explores the top 10 qualities of an exceptional Scrum Master, from mentorship and motivation to continuous improvement. Success takes more than managing a project: it means helping people work effectively with Scrum and, where useful, complementary practices such as Kanban and DevOps.

Hi there! Have you ever wondered why so few people succeed? Many work hard and constantly pursue opportunities, yet finish their careers with little to show for it. It is sad, but true.

Successful people pursue opportunities, too. Why, then, is success scarce while mediocrity is so common in professional life?

Hi there! I love that you’re here. One of my favorite things is helping a smart professional and lifelong learner like you become even more successful.

I practice this in my own career, and I love helping others do the same.

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Are you looking for PDUs (Professional Development Units) to earn or maintain a degree?

You shouldn’t. PDUs are a byproduct of the lock-in business model, which badly takes advantage of students. Here is why.

A Scrum facilitator helps a team collaborate, much as a coach helps a football team work together on its game plan. Facilitation is one stance a Scrum Master takes, not a separate accountability required by Scrum. The Scrum Master’s broader work is to help establish Scrum and improve the team’s effectiveness—not act as a captain who directs the Developers’ work.

You are moving from a world of fixed nouns to one of fluid verbs. In the coming years, solid things, such as cars and jackets, will keep becoming intangible services and processes. With technology built in, your car becomes a continuously updated service: benefits that adapt to your use and feedback, fierce competition and global innovation.

The word “meeting” can bring to mind a room full of people discussing serious issues: some bored and uninterested, some struggling to follow the discussion, and others aggressively trying to prove their point. Deadlines, limited time, competition, and the need to stay ahead call for a more focused way to coordinate work. In Scrum, the Daily Scrum gives Developers that opportunity.

Being a software tester involves far more than logging bugs and finding errors. In inspiring agile environments, testers work within development teams, much like working alongside the writers and producers on a movie set. They collaborate with everyone, from junior programmers to senior project leaders and inventors, to keep improving and building quality into products and services.

Are you good at business models? Of course you are. We all know how they work, don’t we?

After a lifetime as consumers and much of it as professionals, we tend to think we understand business models. We quickly judge whether an idea will work and readily advise companies on how to improve. But do we really have enough insight?

Our typical approach is to present organizational and moral benefits of Agile Scrum. We explain how agility would immediately strengthen our teams and improve interactions across our organization and with our clients. We describe how much better our companies would deliver customer-oriented products and services.

Is this really the correct approach? Is it better to highlight benefits of adopting Agile Scrum or the cost of not adopting?

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Over the last few weeks, we worked hard to bring you this revamp. If you are curious to know how International Scrum Institute™ uses Scrum, here are two simple facts that may also serve as benchmarks for your own agile delivery projects.

Dear reader, have you ever wondered: Should a Scrum Master be a team manager? This question might stir some discomfort, challenging the conventional belief that the two roles should be separate. But why have we always stood by the notion that a Scrum Master shouldn't wear the manager's hat?