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A New Choice for Career Competitiveness: Why is CSM So Important for CEOs and PMs?
According to the latest data, 15,000 people hold the PMP certification, while only 1,600 have the CSM certification, equivalent to 9% of the PMP holders. However, many job seekers have found that there are few job vacancies that explicitly require CSM qualifications. You’ll find that the number of PMPs far exceeds that of CSMs. But this doesn’t mean that CSM lacks its inherent value. So, why should CEOs and PMs still pursue the CSM certification? Here are the reasons:
Why CEO Should Become CSM
1.Enhance Adaptability: Scrum enhances business agility, responding quickly to market changes.
2.Focus on Value Creation: Scrum directs the overall orientation more towards creating customer value.
3.Ensure Quality: Scrum’s DoD (Definition of Done) ensures the quality of the product at each stage.
4.Strengthen Leadership: Scrum values can ignite the leadership potential of CEOs.
5.More Precise Decision-Making: Scrum’s empiricism benefits CEOs in making better decisions.
6.Improve Communication Efficiency: A CEO’s understanding of Scrum effectively enhances communication with the team.
7.Build Trust: A CEO leading by example enhances trust from the team.
8.Encourage Self-management: A CEO’s understanding allows him/her to trust the team’s self-management more.
9.Respect and Recognition: Implementing Scrum makes the team feel their contributions are respected.
10.Successful Transformation: Support from the CEO greatly improves the success rate of Scrum in business transformations.
Why PM Should Learn CSM
1.Improve Leadership Style: Scrum promotes servant leadership. Project Managers can learn to guide instead of command, embodying values of respect and openness.
2.Enhance Product Value: Scrum focuses on customer value. Project Managers can learn how to better collaborate with POs to determine PG, ensuring that project outputs create the maximum value.
3.Expand Employment Opportunities: Project Managers with SM certification are often more sought-after by employers because they demonstrate a deep understanding of Scrum and agility, as well as their leadership skills.
4.Increase Project Transparency: By learning Scrum, Project Managers can better achieve project transparency, which aids in inspection and adaptation, crucial for reducing risks and ensuring the product’s utmost value.
5.Promote Self-management: Learning Scrum can help Project Managers understand how to establish and encourage self-managing DEVS, which can boost the efficiency and productivity of the entire team.
6.Learn to Adapt to Changes: The Scrum framework encourages teams to adapt to changes rather than following a fixed plan. Project Managers can learn how to leverage Scrum to respond to and benefit from these changes.
7.Adjustments and Improvements to Work: The SM course highlights the importance of inspecting and adapting work, which is key to continuous improvement and increasing the success rate of projects.
Conclusion
Where there’s a will, there’s a way; the greater the will, the greater the power.
CSM is a standard international certification.
However, after being crafted with care by Taiwan’s first CST, it will become the ultimate golden certification.
Your success is my achievement.
Let’s Scrum on!
