Upskill with quick, accessible, and highly relevant microcredential courses.
Whether you’re looking to train your workforce or boost your own resume, Scrum Alliance microcredential courses offer a fast and flexible way to build high-demand agile and scrum skills.
What is a Scrum Alliance microcredential?
A microcredential is a qualification that demonstrates your knowledge in an in-demand discipline or topic. These accessible courses are quick, focused explorations so that you walk away with in-demand agile skills without a significant time commitment.
Difference between a microcredential and a certification?
Lifelong: They do not expire
Highly focused on a topic or skill
Granted after you complete a course of 8 hours or less
May be delivered live online, in-person, or with on-demand interactive content
Compare that to Scrum Alliance certifications, which:
Expire after 2 years and require earning SEUs and paying a renewal fee in order to remain active
Are a broad exploration of a topic that often equips you with multiple new skills and approaches to leverage at work
Granted after you complete a multi-day course
Delivered live online or in person
Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
Focused expertise
gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
Flexible learning
Learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand and live learning formats
Cost-effective
Typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
Relevant
Topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
Expedient
Earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
Recognizable
Validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
Practical
Build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
Stackable
Combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
Who Should Take a Microcredential Course?
Scrum masters of all experience levels
People who have completed any of the following and are interested in continuing to grow their skills: Certified ScrumMaster®, Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®, Certified Scrum Professional® ScrumMaster
Product owners
Scrum team members
Agile team members
Agile coaches
Project managers
Product managers
Team managers
Delivery managers
1. AI for Scrum Masters
Learn how to engineer GenAI prompts, streamline workflows, and leverage AI for any team. In AI for Scrum Masters, discover how to welcome AI to your agile team while showcasing your knowledge with an in-demand microcredential.
Earn SEUs
About AI for Scrum Masters
This course is designed for scrum masters, project managers, product managers, and agile team members who are ready to work more efficiently by integrating AI into their teams.
Discover how to seamlessly add AI to your team. AI can function as an agile co-pilot, operating effortlessly alongside team members to increase productivity, save time, and differentiate you as an AI-capable professional.
Course modules:
Everyday AI Tools for Scrum Masters
Prompt Engineering: The Key to Effective Interactions
Customizing AI for Your Team
AI-Powered Strategic Planning
AI-Powered Communication and Collaboration
Data-Driven Team Management
Ethical AI in Scrum Practice
Learning Lab: Prompt Engineering for Scrum Masters
Learn all of the ways you can integrate AI to assist with managing timelines, predicting risks, identifying metrics for team performance, and much more.
2. AI for Product Owners
From strategic planning to backlog management, AI has the power to transform your product management responsibilities. Find out how to leverage AI to streamline everything you do and earn a microcredential to showcase your skills.
Earn SEUs
About AI for Product Owners
Learn how to use GenAI and AI-integrated tools to enhance everything you do, including strategic planning, decision-making, analyzing and refining use stories, lifecycle management, and audience insights. Set yourself apart as a product owner or product manager who knows how to seamlessly add artificial intelligence to your team as a co-pilot, making everything you and your team do easier, more efficient, and faster.
Course modules:
Everyday AI Tools for Product Owners
Prompt Engineering: The Key to Effective AI Interactions
Customizing AI for Your Team
AI for Product Requirements and Strategy
AI for User Story Creation and Refinement
AI for Agile Teams and Processes
AI-Powered Predictions and Insights
Ethical AI in Scrum Practice
Learning Lab: Prompt Engineering for Product Owners
3. Agile OKRs
Upskill teams to transform goals into game-changing results. The Agile OKRs course equips your teams to align day-to-day operations with top priorities.
Earn SEUs
About Agile OKRs
Create alignment and engagement around measurable, ambitious goals to advance strategic priorities and realize your vision.
In this course, you'll discover why objectives and key results are so effective and how they allow agile teams to measure progress toward goals while preserving their ability to pivot in unpredictable, changing environments.
Course modules:
Goal-Setting Fundamentals
Strategic Planning and Alignment
Objectives and Key Results
OKRs in Scrum and Antipatterns
Take this course as an individual to boost your resume and skill set. Or upskill your teams to use OKRs effectively for strategic planning.
4. Conflict Management Skills
Learn how to manage and resolve conflict to build trust, improve communication, and support high-performing teams. This course equips you with practical skills to turn workplace challenges into opportunities for collaboration and continuous growth.
Earn SEUs
About Conflict Management Skills
Delve deeply into conflict dynamics, conflict resolution, psychological safety, and team cohesion with this course. With the in-demand skills of conflict management, you'll be prepared to foster continuous growth in teams and for yourself personally.
Topics in this course:
Preparing to Tackle Conflict
Understanding Conflict Inside Out
De-escalating Team Tensions
Creating a Strategy to Master Conflict Management
Conflict triggers
Honing de-escalation techniques
Understanding the importance of psychological safety
You'll learn through practical exercises and story-based scenarios while having the opportunity to engage and share with your fellow students.
Not only will you be prepared to guide teams through conflicts after this class, you'll also be equipped to navigate personal conflicts that arise.
5. Lean Software Development
Integrate lean software development with agile engineering practices to amp up the efficiency and effectiveness of any development team or organization. Significantly reduce waste and maximize value.
Earn SEUs
Reducing waste, boosting efficiency
In this course, developers, teams, and technical leaders will learn how the principles of lean software development integrated with agile engineering practices can solve these problems:
Inefficiency and waste
Rigid planning and inflexibility
Delayed feedback and sluggish time to market
Insufficient customer involvement
Unsustainable workloads
Poor quality and high defect rates
Lack of empowerment and motivation among developers
Knowledge silos and communication barriers
Course modules:
The seven principles of lean software development
Wastes associated with traditional software development
Agile software engineering practices that could help eliminate wastes
How agile engineering practices support lean principles
While individual developers will walk away with lean development and advanced agile engineering skills, teams and enterprises will benefit from understanding how to leverage lean and agile to amp up efficiency, reduce waste, improve value delivery, create a culture of continuous improvement, and improve time to market.
6. BDD for Agile Teams
Build the product right and build the right product with behavior-driven development practices. In BDD for Agile Teams, you'll learn how to develop products with greater reliability and fewer bugs while also aligning products to customer and business needs.
About BDD for Agile Teams
Behavior-driven development is a set of practices that align perfectly with scrum and agile values. Unlock the benefits of this approach to discovery, collaboration, and test-first development so that you can make sure you're building the right products for users and customers.
Course modules:
Introduction to BDD
BDD discovery driven by examples
Facilitation of BDD discovery workshops
Formulation of executable specifications with Gherkin
Writing good scenarios
Organizing scenarios in feature files
Advanced Gherkin syntax for more readable scenarios
Integrating the BDD practices into an agile workflow
7. Agile in Sales
Master the agile skills to excel in today’s competitive sales landscape, whether you’re aiming to boost personal performance or lead a sales team to consistently exceed targets.
About Agile in Sales
Learn how to boost any sales team's agility so you can deliver value to customers faster, rapidly adapt strategies amid change, and stay ahead of the competition. You'll earn a microcredential to demonstrate your expertise.
You'll learn what agility in sales looks like, why it's crucial for success, and how to build or be a productive member of a highly effective agile sales team.
8. Agile for Marketing
Bring flexibility, speed, and customer-focused alignment to marketing. In Agile for Marketing, you'll learn how to apply agile principles to make work more iterative, collaborative, and data-driven.
Discover agile marketing
So much more than a methodology, an agile approach to marketing is a mindset that places your customers at the center of everything you do. It's a way of working that emphasizes collaboration, responsiveness to feedback, and adapting when things change.
Through the interactive content, real-world case studies, and practical exercises in this course, you will gain an understanding of agile principles, frameworks, and tools for marketers. You'll be ready to apply these tactics to supercharge your campaigns' relevancy, reach, and effectiveness.
