If you want access to PDF files of the deck we used, contact Julia at Julia.Hill@LeanAgileTraining.com . (Note for public readers: You must also be a CSM/CSPO we trained.)
Read or finish reading the following:
Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber.
http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches
The Scrum Guide Scrum Guide
Again, the Scrum Guide is the main source for questions on the CSM Evaluation. Here is a page that talks about the CSM Evaluation. I believe it to be accurate. http://scrumcommunity.pbworks.com/CSMEvaluation I recommend that you not worry very much about the CSM Evaluation.
You are certainly welcome to read here (this wiki), at my blog Agile & Business (see http://agileconsortium.blogspot.com/), and at a special Yahoo group called AgileBusiness (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileBusiness). Please also contribute, even if only with questions.
We also particularly recommend:
ScrumDevelopment (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment)
LeanDevelopment (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leandevelopment)
The Agile20xx Conference (http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/)
The next ScrumGathering (next one in North America, probably in the US, will be around March 2011).
See Agile Info, here: http://leanagiletraining.com/AgileInfo/Agile%20Info.htm
There is a whole LOT of info on and "beneath" this page. It includes: books, articles, blogs, yahoo groups, "user groups", etc, etc.
Local Groups: You should join a "local" group. Or start a local group or an "industry" group.
You should be aware of:
Agile Ottawa - http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/
This group also has a Yahoo presence and a LinkedIn presence. And perhaps other ways of communicating.
There are also other agile groups in Ottawa.
This group also has a yahoo group, meetup and LinkedIn presence.
If you want to look at other groups, see:
http://scrumcommunity.pbworks.com/Local+Groups
Here are some other useful documents:
Generic Iteration Backlog2.xls
Agile 2010 Scrum excel spreadsheet:
ScrumExcelSpreadsheet20100124.xlsx
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