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Firstly, there's some feedback on the test from the gathering blog (http://gatheringblog.scrumalliance.org/), here: http://gatheringblog.scrumalliance.org/?p=69
Personally I found the test fairly good. I don't have much of a problem with "recollection" questions to a certain extent, as it proves you can remember something! There was a mix of these and the other types, and overall the balance was pretty good.
There were plenty of speeling mistaks and bits and bobs, though they of course are no big deal.
I was pleased to see questions aimed squarely at an understanding of the Agile Manifesto, even though it was a Scrum-specific test. On the other hand there was one question about "The Agile Manifesto, by Ken Schwaber" - I left some feedback that I was fairly sure it wasn't just Ken who wrote it ;)
There were a number of times that the "it depends" answer would pop up in my head. Personally though, I think that's because I've been doing Scrum for a while now, and have more experience in it then you would expect a newly-taught CSM candidate to have. Since a CSM certification is supposed to be mainly for new-to-Scrum (and maybe new to Agile) people, I'm not sure the "it depends" answer would occur to them, or at least the training they had just received would dominate their thinking.
Whether it will satisfy the rest of the Agile community's beef with the CSM certification? Well, given the myriad of opinions out there, probably not. But as a test to try and make sure the CSM certification means you did more than sit in a room for two days not learning anything it does a good job.
Fairly hand-wavy answer there, I hope it gives you some useful information of some kind :)
Cheers,
Simon
On 26 Oct 2008, at 08:06, peterstev wrote:
[Sorry if this is a duplicate -- I thought I posted this but it seems to
have disappeared without a trace]
Who took the Beta CSM Test in Stockholm? What did you think of the test?
Cheers,
Peter
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