Scrum Developer Certified (SDC®)
$160
Price
180 days (6 months)
You're on a Scrum team and you've been making it work by watching how the experienced people operate. The framework was never explained to you. SDC is the credentialed answer.
Course Overview
SDC is the team-member cert in the SCRUMstudy family — designed for the people who are actually delivering inside Sprints. The course covers the ceremonies from the team-member view (what Sprint Planning is supposed to produce, why the Daily Standup isn't a status meeting, what the Retrospective is for), how to estimate work in story points, how to write User Stories that won't bounce back, and what 'Definition of Done' is supposed to hold the team accountable to. 180 days of LMS access, proctored online exam.
What You Will Learn
- How to participate in Sprint Planning without slowing the team down. How story-point estimation actually works (and why Planning Poker isn't a game). How to write a User Story that delivery can build from. What Definition of Done is supposed to be doing. How to handle changes, defects, and impediments inside a Sprint without breaking the Sprint goal. How Scrum's Quality, Change, and Risk aspects show up in your day-to-day work.
About the Course
- SDC is the credential that says you understand Scrum well enough to contribute on a Scrum team without learning on the job. Whether you're already inside a Sprint or about to join one, this is the cert that names the discipline.
How the Course Works
- Online and self-paced through the VMEdu LMS. You get 180 days of access from the day your enrollment activates, the full preparatory course, an e-copy of the body of knowledge, chapter tests, two full-length simulated exams, and the proctored certification exam itself. Mobile and desktop both work. If you're buying for a team or want help applying what you learn after the exam, an optional Trinity advisory engagement is available on request.
Individual Outcomes
- You'll be able to walk onto a Scrum team and contribute without a ramp-up. The credential is widely recognized, scales into SMC or SPOC if you move into a role later, and signals to hiring managers that you understand the framework — not just the vocabulary.
Who this Course is For
- You if you're on a Scrum team and want the framework to stop being a black box. You if you're joining a Scrum team and want to skip the ramp-up. You if you work with Scrum teams from a partner function and need the credential that proves you speak the language.
Organizational Outcomes
- If you're buying for a team: SDC closes the gap where new team members learn Scrum by absorption, which usually takes three or four sprints of drag. SDC trains everyone to the same standard before they hit the Sprint they're supposed to be productive in.
Why Choose this certification
- SDC is the fastest credentialed path from 'new to Scrum' to 'contributing on day one.' It also clears the path to SMC and SPOC — most hiring managers treat SDC as evidence the role-based cert will hold up.
Why choose Trinity
- Most people on Scrum teams pick up the framework through osmosis — they see the Standup, they hear the vocabulary, they figure out enough to not get called out. SDC is the credential that closes the gap between 'I'm getting by' and 'I actually understand what I'm doing.' Trinity carries it because the iterative, short-cycle work discipline at the center of SDC is the same discipline behind real industrial continuous-improvement programs — short feedback loops, clear ownership, no impediments that linger. Optional advisory engagement available after certification if you want help applying what you learned on your specific team.
Accreditation & Recognition
- Trinity is a SCRUMstudy / VMEdu Authorized Training Partner (V.A.T.P.). Trinity provides training and enrollment support using VMEdu's accredited course content and platform; credentials are issued by SCRUMstudy (a brand of VMEdu Inc.) upon meeting their requirements. Trinity does not issue credentials directly.