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The Scrum Master Certification Timeline outlines the journey from initial training to certification attainment and renewal. It typically begins with attending a certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) training course, which can range from a couple of days to a week in duration.

The Scrum Master certification timeline outlines the steps required to become certified as a Scrum Master. Typically, candidates first attend a Scrum Master training course, which may last one or two days. After completing the training, candidates can immediately take the certification exam. Once they pass the exam, they receive their Scrum Master certification. The entire process, from attending the training to receiving certification, can be completed within a few days to a couple of weeks, depending on the availability of training courses and exam schedules.

At the onset of a new project, our top priority is grasping the client’s needs and determining the necessary resources. Traditionally, clients furnish a document outlining all specifications, and our team endeavors to understand system requirements, resource capabilities, and the business context. However, clients often aren't engaged in this process. Consequently, when the requirement document is eventually submitted, market dynamics may have shifted, or the client's specifications may have changed. Moreover, since significant effort is invested in identifying requirements, accommodating extensive changes becomes challenging.

To avoid this entire hassle and make lives easier for everyone, AGILE was developed. It focussed very strongly on Customer interaction, so that customers feel accountable and hence provide early feedback, so that changes can be incorporated quickly. The basic philosophy of Agile is to embrace change, not resist it. And it also advocates embracing planning, not a plan. What it means is that within Iteration, the teams are allowed to tinker with an existing plan as per the priority of the customers, but no additional feature can be added to a given iteration.

Another reason why more and more companies starting looking the Agile way was the huge cost savings that resulted due to less bugs and less rework. Immediate feedback was followed by implementation, smoke testing and demo, parallel integration with existing code as well. What this meant was that there was less possibility of committing a big error, which earlier used to cost millions and negative feedback as well.

The most important difference that teams realized that Agile would make is that features can be prioritised (within iteration) according to customers’ requirements. This is a delightful technique which will make the customers happy and appreciate the efforts of the development team. According to their business needs, their requirements can be prioritised.

Also, a lot of team members never participate in discussions and suggest improvement in a traditional method, as they always work in silos. But Agile advocates a collaborative approach wherein everything is discussed among the team members and everyone is in a way accountable for all the tasks. This also helps build transparency and trust among team members, and everyone tries to help others as well.

So, the above mentioned factors were primarily responsible for many organizations switching to Agile Methodology of Project/Product management.