Welcome! Congratulations on taking the first important step towards preparing for the Exam! This book is a quick Reference Guide created for the PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience) Examinations. The guide highlights all the important information present on :
1) The Scrum Guide Nov 2020)
2) The Book Lean Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden.
The Guide also contains Questions and Answers which will help you prepare for the PSU Exam (150 PSM Questions and 80 PSU Questions + Explanations). The PSU I certification assessment focuses primarily on validating that one has a fundamental level of understanding about how to integrate modern UX practices into Scrum and to work effectively within Scrum Teams.
1) Information and Content found on the Scrum Guide is repeated on this Reference guide.
2) This Reference guide is not a text book or a replacement to the Scrum Guide or to the Lean UX book. It's simply your workbook which has content (present on the Scrum guide and on the Lean UX Book) presented systematically to understand and memorize for the exam.
3) The Reference guide also has questions and answers which will help you prepare for the PSU exam.
4) Your feedback is much appreciated. Please feel free to email ScrumReferenceGuides@gmail.com in case of any questions.
5) % of the book is available for you to see before you buy it in the "Look Inside" Amazon Feature. This will help you understand exactly what you are buying.
The Scrum.org the PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience) is 60-minute time boxed assessments where you will answer 80 multiple choice questions (in English), similar to the Scrum Open Assessment. You get one attempt (upon payment of fee) and you decide when and where to the exam. There is no expiration date. You are not required to attend an assessment center and can take it from the comfort of your own home. If you do not pass the exam, you can retake the exam, however you would have to pay the fees again. Following are the steps for taking (and passing) the Scrum.org the PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience) assessment and obtaining the
1. If you are new to Scrum and have never been part of a Scrum team, taking a course is recommended. Attend a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Product Owner course and review these notes upon completion of the course.
2. Read the Scrum Guide and Lean UX book together with this Reference book. The Scrum Guide is extremely condensed and thus we have decomposed and categorized the most important information present on the Scrum Guide in this Reference Guide.
3. All the important information present in the SCRUM Guide is in this quick Reference Guide.
4. Read the Book Lean Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
5. Go through the questions and answers at the bottom of the book.
Bachelor’s in Information Technology, Master’s in Information Technology (Massachusetts USA) , Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Cisco Certified Network Administrator, Project Management Professional, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Developer and Scaled Professional Scrum.
Sidharth Bathia is an Author, Speaker and an Agile Coach. A Product Owner by profession, Sid has spent years working in a Scrum Environment, building Products. Sid has compiled the following reference guides (Books which highlight important information systematically) to help students prepare for the PSM, PSD, PSPO, SPS and PSD Exam.
PSM : Professional Scrum Master • ISBN: 978-1-7326579-0-8, PSM & PSPO Quick Reference Guide and Exam Questions • ISBN: 978-1-7326579-5-3, PSM & PSPO Exam Question Bank • ISBN: 978-1-7326579-9-1, PSM II Reference Guide and Exam Questions. • ISBN: 978-1-7345536-5-9, PSM II Questions Bank.
• ISBN: 978-1-7326579-7-7, Professional Scrum Developer Question Bank and Reference Guide 2019
PSK : Professional Scrum Kanban
• ISBN : 978-1-7326579-8-4, PSK: Professional Scrum Kanban Reference Guide and Exam Questions 2019
CSM : Certified ScrumMaster
• ISBN : 978-1-7326579-2-2 CSM Quick Reference Guide 2019
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