Last week the Scrum Alliance published the number [1]. We are now more than 60000 Certified ScrumMasters. This year around 22000 ScrumMasters have been to classes and got the certification (of attendance). That is a bit more than last year, but not a jump like the years before.
So the market starts to consolidate! Bad news for everybody, who wants to jump on the rolling wagon now as consultant or trainer. It gets much harder to get you share in it!
On the other side. No market dump. The market for Scrum stays stable and that means it is a relative increase. If we assume that the rest of the IT and consulting market declined in 2009.
[1] Source: Internal Email to the CSTs by Howard Sublett.
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