I just have an issue with the wording used here - in the question and responses. As a scrum master you would not be managing the project, or running it. The team runs the project in a self-directed way. The scrum master's role is to facilitate and coach.
This may seem like semantics, but I often find that our chosen terms shed light on our underlying tendencies - in this case they may indicate a tendency towards command and control vs. facilitating self-directed teams.
I do agree that reading on agile (not just scrum) is helpful. And having been a member of an agile team is incredibly useful in serving as a scrum master. CSM is like the PMP for classic project management (without the test) for agile - not an indicator of ability, but useful for finding jobs with acronym-myopic recruiters and hiring managers.
There are good consultants out there to help, and useful resources online (see the scrumdevelopment group on Yahoo). I suggest you use both liberally.
Becoming a CSM doesn't really qualify you for running a Scrum project either. Practice is the only preparation you can ever hope for.
The CSM class/cert is valuable still, though. At the very least, if you don't have a mentor/coach to lean on, you should read..
Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber)
Agile Estimation and Planning (Cohn)
User Stories Applied (Cohn)
and take the CSM course. You'll be moderately prepared to run a Scrum project.
The biggest thing you can take away from this is: you'll make mistakes if you're new to this. If you can learn some pitfalls and see what to avoid, then you can avoid the cost of making/learning from these mistakes.
You probably would benefit from becomming a certified scrum master (i recently became one myself).
The scrum master shouldn't 'manage the scrums' but instead be there to facilitate the team - help it remove impediments. The team is self organizing and pretty much manages itself.
If you need the official certification to feel good or to show to your management - go for it. However, you don't have to have the certification in order to apply the Scrum process in your team.
(In fact, requiring a certification to be able to run an agile process would be very anti-agile to me :-))
Of course, taking a course to understand better what are the Agile principles and how to use Scrum to apply them to your daily work is always good.
But nothing beats experience. Also note that every team project is unique and thus following a set of rules set out in an agile book may be a good point to start but you will need to adapt the processes to your scrum. Rember the whole point is to let ytour team do their work without adding unneeded processes (note some processes is required).
In my experience management still want metrics that SCRUM does not provide. Personally I humor them for the first couple of months but try and drop them as the scrum processes starts to show that we are making our targets and these metrics become more and more out of line.
Do not understand scrum master as some kind of manager role!
This is big mistake, but many companies understand it that way. Anyone can be Scrum master.
Sometimes every sprint can have different scrum master. BTW, this is very interesting, because everyone will realize what does it means to be scrum master.
The discussion about the Scrum Master role starts with the word Master. From my point of view we need to understand the difference between Scrum implementation/transition and taking care of Scrum in an environment where Scrum is already running.
Everybody can become a Scrum Master by attending a course. The certification is NOT an indication of experience or know how regarding agile processes.
A good Scrum Master will take care of the Scrum Flow in an Scrum Environment. He will coach the team and takes care that the team can work undisturbed. But this does not mean, that he can train and teach the team the PO and everybody else how to do Scrum...
To implement Scrum in an organisation or team it needs experiences on overall processes and strategic thinking.
If you have a look at the Scrum Alliance Website you will find the descriptions of the certifications, and what one have to know and prove before getting the certification.
There is much to learn for a "Certified Scrum Master" before he will be a Certified Scrum Coach
If Scrum fails not because of Scrum, but because people THINK they do Scrum ;-)
this is an interesting topic, and to some extent extremely undefined... the word "manage" is entailing potentially a whole world of things.
Everybody can "try" to do Scrum, the theory it is not difficult to grasp, what is hard is the practice. Scrum like other agile approaches is very much based on "People and Interactions" and in order to make them happen right, you will have to deeply understand the values, the relationships and the ownerships that the whole Scrum framework describe. That is the hard part, and is a part that requires a lot of practice, and experience to be effectively converted into daily practice.
This of course doesn't mean that you can "learn" yourself, on the contrary, often we hear that Scrum is "learning by doing... and failing" and so "fail often... and fail fast!". All Lean thinking principles, but it is much less trivial than it seems to get the point where it is time to assess results, identify failure, and set best practices for improvement. Being a Scrum Master means that one knows the framework and the relationship between the three main roles, which is way far from saying that he can implement Scrum. That step is in the Scrum Alliance signed buy the CSP (Certified Scrum Practitioner) accreditation, that requires a minimum of one year of practicing Scrum, to be allowed to submit the accreditation form. This is intentionally done because only with practice people will learn what the principle "that in theory are sounding clear" - and you will learn at a CSM Training - really mean, and moreover how to use them to maximize the productivity and efficiency of a Scrum Team.
When we talk about an organization, and we want to implement Scrum, the dimensions to consider, as well as the complexity, are some order of magnitude bigger, and way out of reach of a "simple" - no offence, we talk about mapping value streams, structures, accounting... - Scrum Master. To do something like that, either you take a lot of risk yourself, and you can afford to heavily affect the productivity of your company, or you need someone who has experience in helping companies to transact to agile and Scrum. This is what the CSC (Certified Scrum Coach) accreditation is all about.
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我只是对问题和答复中使用的措辞有疑问。 作为 Scrum Master，您不会管理项目，或运行项目。 团队以自我指导的方式运行该项目。 Scrum Master 的角色是促进和指导。
这可能看起来像语义，但我经常发现我们选择的术语揭示了我们的潜在倾向 - 在这种情况下，它们可能表明命令和控制的倾向与促进自我指导的团队的倾向。
我确实同意阅读有关敏捷（不仅仅是 Scrum）的内容是有帮助的。 成为敏捷团队的一员对于担任 Scrum Master 非常有用。 CSM 就像敏捷的经典项目管理（无需测试）的 PMP - 不是能力指标，但对于寻找缩写短视的招聘人员和招聘经理的工作很有用。
有优秀的顾问可以提供帮助，也有有用的在线资源（请参阅雅虎上的 scrumdevelopment 小组）。 我建议你自由地使用两者。
I just have an issue with the wording used here - in the question and responses. As a scrum master you would not be managing the project, or running it. The team runs the project in a self-directed way. The scrum master's role is to facilitate and coach.
This may seem like semantics, but I often find that our chosen terms shed light on our underlying tendencies - in this case they may indicate a tendency towards command and control vs. facilitating self-directed teams.
I do agree that reading on agile (not just scrum) is helpful. And having been a member of an agile team is incredibly useful in serving as a scrum master. CSM is like the PMP for classic project management (without the test) for agile - not an indicator of ability, but useful for finding jobs with acronym-myopic recruiters and hiring managers.
There are good consultants out there to help, and useful resources online (see the scrumdevelopment group on Yahoo). I suggest you use both liberally.
成为 CSM 并不真正使您有资格运行 Scrum 项目。 练习是你唯一可以指望的准备。
不过，CSM 课程/证书仍然很有价值。 至少，如果您没有可以依靠的导师/教练，您应该阅读..
并参加 CSM 课程。 您将为运行 Scrum 项目做好适当的准备。
你可以从中学到的最重要的一点是：如果你是新手，你就会犯错误。 如果您可以了解一些陷阱并了解要避免什么，那么您就可以避免犯这些错误/从这些错误中学习的成本。
Becoming a CSM doesn't really qualify you for running a Scrum project either. Practice is the only preparation you can ever hope for.
The CSM class/cert is valuable still, though. At the very least, if you don't have a mentor/coach to lean on, you should read..
and take the CSM course. You'll be moderately prepared to run a Scrum project.
The biggest thing you can take away from this is: you'll make mistakes if you're new to this. If you can learn some pitfalls and see what to avoid, then you can avoid the cost of making/learning from these mistakes.
成为一名经过认证的 Scrum Master 可能会让您受益匪浅（我自己最近也成为了一名认证 Scrum Master）。
Scrum Master 不应该“管理 Scrum”，而应该为团队提供便利——帮助团队消除障碍。 该团队是自我组织的，并且几乎可以自我管理。
You probably would benefit from becomming a certified scrum master (i recently became one myself).
The scrum master shouldn't 'manage the scrums' but instead be there to facilitate the team - help it remove impediments. The team is self organizing and pretty much manages itself.
如果您需要官方认证来感觉良好或向您的管理层展示 - 那就去吧。 但是，您不必拥有认证即可在团队中应用 Scrum 流程。
（事实上，要求获得认证才能运行敏捷流程对我来说是非常反敏捷的:-)）
当然，参加课程可以更好地理解什么是敏捷原则以及如何使用 Scrum 将它们应用于你每天的工作总是很好。
If you need the official certification to feel good or to show to your management - go for it. However, you don't have to have the certification in order to apply the Scrum process in your team.
(In fact, requiring a certification to be able to run an agile process would be very anti-agile to me :-))
Of course, taking a course to understand better what are the Agile principles and how to use Scrum to apply them to your daily work is always good.
必填： 否
推荐：是的。
但没有什么比经验更重要的了。
另请注意，每个团队项目都是独一无二的，因此遵循敏捷书籍中规定的一组规则可能是一个很好的起点，但您需要根据您的 Scrum 调整流程。 请记住，重点是让 ytour 团队在不添加不需要的流程的情况下完成他们的工作（注意某些流程是必需的）。
根据我的经验，管理层仍然需要 SCRUM 不提供的指标。 就我个人而言，我在前几个月会迁就他们，但当 Scrum 流程开始表明我们正在制定目标并且这些指标变得越来越不合时宜时，我会尝试放弃他们。
Required: No.
Recomended: Yes.
But nothing beats experience.
Also note that every team project is unique and thus following a set of rules set out in an agile book may be a good point to start but you will need to adapt the processes to your scrum. Rember the whole point is to let ytour team do their work without adding unneeded processes (note some processes is required).
In my experience management still want metrics that SCRUM does not provide. Personally I humor them for the first couple of months but try and drop them as the scrum processes starts to show that we are making our targets and these metrics become more and more out of line.
不要将 scrum master 理解为某种经理角色！
这是一个很大的错误，但很多公司都是这么理解的。 任何人都可以成为 Scrum Master。
有时每个冲刺可以有不同的 Scrum Master。 顺便说一句，这很有趣，因为每个人都会意识到成为 scrum master 意味着什么。
Do not understand scrum master as some kind of manager role!
This is big mistake, but many companies understand it that way. Anyone can be Scrum master.
Sometimes every sprint can have different scrum master. BTW, this is very interesting, because everyone will realize what does it means to be scrum master.
关于 Scrum Master 角色的讨论从 Master 这个词开始。 从我的角度来看，我们需要了解 Scrum 实施/转换与在 Scrum 已经运行的环境中处理 Scrum 之间的区别。
如果您查看 Scrum 联盟网站，您会找到认证的描述，以及获得认证之前必须了解和证明的内容。
对于一个“认证的 Scrum Master” 来说，在成为一名认证的 Scrum 教练之前，他需要学习很多东西。
如果 Scrum 失败不是因为 Scrum，而是因为人们认为他们在做 Scrum； -)
多罗
The discussion about the Scrum Master role starts with the word Master. From my point of view we need to understand the difference between Scrum implementation/transition and taking care of Scrum in an environment where Scrum is already running.
If you have a look at the Scrum Alliance Website you will find the descriptions of the certifications, and what one have to know and prove before getting the certification.
There is much to learn for a "Certified Scrum Master" before he will be a Certified Scrum Coach
If Scrum fails not because of Scrum, but because people THINK they do Scrum ;-)
Doro
这是一个有趣的话题，在某种程度上极其不确定……“管理”这个词可能包含整个世界的事物。
大家都可以“尝试”做Scrum，理论并不难掌握，难的是实践。 与其他敏捷方法一样，Scrum 在很大程度上基于“人与交互”，为了使它们正确发生，您必须深入理解整个 Scrum 框架所描述的价值观、关系和所有权。 这是困难的部分，是需要大量练习的部分，需要将经验有效地转化为日常实践。
这当然并不意味着你可以自己“学习”，相反，我们经常听说Scrum是“边做边学……然后失败”，因此“经常失败……并且快速失败！”。 所有精益思维原则，但它远没有看起来那么琐碎，需要评估结果、识别失败并制定改进的最佳实践。 成为一名Scrum Master意味着知道框架以及三个主要角色之间的关系，这远远不能说他可以实施Scrum。 这一步是在Scrum联盟签署购买CSP（Certified Scrum Practitioner）认证，即要求至少实践Scrum一年，才允许提交认证表格。 这是有意这样做的，因为只有通过实践，人们才能了解“理论上听起来很清楚”的原则（您将在 CSM 培训中学到）的真正含义，以及如何使用它们来最大限度地提高 Scrum 的生产力和效率团队。
当我们谈论一个组织，并且我们想要实施 Scrum 时，要考虑的维度以及复杂性都要大一些，并且远远超出“简单”的范围 - 无意冒犯，我们谈论映射价值流、结构、会计... - Scrum Master。 要做这样的事情，要么你自己承担很大的风险，并且你有能力严重影响公司的生产力，要么你需要有帮助公司转向敏捷和 Scrum 经验的人。 这就是 CSC（认证 Scrum 教练）认证的意义所在。
希望这个对你有帮助 ：-）
this is an interesting topic, and to some extent extremely undefined... the word "manage" is entailing potentially a whole world of things.
Everybody can "try" to do Scrum, the theory it is not difficult to grasp, what is hard is the practice. Scrum like other agile approaches is very much based on "People and Interactions" and in order to make them happen right, you will have to deeply understand the values, the relationships and the ownerships that the whole Scrum framework describe. That is the hard part, and is a part that requires a lot of practice, and experience to be effectively converted into daily practice.
This of course doesn't mean that you can "learn" yourself, on the contrary, often we hear that Scrum is "learning by doing... and failing" and so "fail often... and fail fast!". All Lean thinking principles, but it is much less trivial than it seems to get the point where it is time to assess results, identify failure, and set best practices for improvement. Being a Scrum Master means that one knows the framework and the relationship between the three main roles, which is way far from saying that he can implement Scrum. That step is in the Scrum Alliance signed buy the CSP (Certified Scrum Practitioner) accreditation, that requires a minimum of one year of practicing Scrum, to be allowed to submit the accreditation form. This is intentionally done because only with practice people will learn what the principle "that in theory are sounding clear" - and you will learn at a CSM Training - really mean, and moreover how to use them to maximize the productivity and efficiency of a Scrum Team.
When we talk about an organization, and we want to implement Scrum, the dimensions to consider, as well as the complexity, are some order of magnitude bigger, and way out of reach of a "simple" - no offence, we talk about mapping value streams, structures, accounting... - Scrum Master. To do something like that, either you take a lot of risk yourself, and you can afford to heavily affect the productivity of your company, or you need someone who has experience in helping companies to transact to agile and Scrum. This is what the CSC (Certified Scrum Coach) accreditation is all about.
Hope this helps a bit :-)