Interactive & highly impactful training approach: you'll both learn and retain knowledge
Practical tools & techniques you can apply immediately to improve your Agility
Gain deep insights we've learned the hard way: through decades of experience in the trenches
Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®)
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Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
Certified Agile Leadership I (CAL I)
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
The Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) course is an immersion into the ScrumMaster role with hands-on activities teaching how to build high-performing Agile teams and optimize your effectiveness using Scrum.
What you’ll learn:
Agile values & principles – how to 'Be Agile', not just 'Do Scrum'
The Scrum framework – how all the pieces fit together, and what’s missing
The Scrum roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team
The Responsibilities – and mindset - of the ScrumMaster
Techniques to effectively facilitate team meetings
How to collect and share actionable metrics
Ways to help your team manage a product backlog and their daily tasks
Leveraging user stories for better feature definition (requirements)
Techniques to have high-impact Retrospectives for process improvement
Tools for coaching a team to high performance
A framework for overcoming roadblocks on the path to Agility
Proven solutions to common obstacles in organizations on their Agile journey
Long-range product forecasting and estimating methods – the Lean-Agile way
Techniques for scaling agile practices to many teams
what our customers are saying:
“The class was absolutely fabulous. Brad was very knowledgeable. He is one of the best instructors I’ve met in my 30+ year career.”
“Awesome. Very engaging.”
“I have done Agile for years but still found lots of great new techniques & ideas. It also helped me revisit why I believe in Agile.”
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)
The Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) is an immersion into the Product Owner role with hands-on activities teaching how build products that customers love using Agile methods. CSPO will be prepare you to be the 'CEO of the Product.'
What you’ll learn:
Agile values & principles –how to 'Be Agile', not just 'Do Scrum'
The Scrum framework – how all the pieces fit together, and what’s missing
The Scrum roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team
Responsibilities – and authority - of the Product Owner
Several impactful ways to communicate your product vision
Tools to succinctly make the business case for your Product
Techniques to deeply understand your users and customers
Validated learning: how to discover the features customers actually need
Simple tools to build an effective Product Roadmap
A variety of models for sequencing (prioritizing) features and projects
Leveraging user stories for better feature definition (requirements)
Patterns for splitting large features into small user stories
Backlog refinement (grooming) techniques to optimize your backlog
Long-range estimating & forecasting methods – the Lean-Agile way
“This has been invaluable for me as a new Product Owner... I cannot imagine how much value Brad has just added to all of the companies represented at this class.”
“I still recall my agility training in Denver from several years ago. It was monumental for my career development, and I continue to be very grateful and fortunate for the opportunity.”
lead trainer: Brad Swanson, CST®, CEC, CAL Educator, Certified leadership agility® 360 coach
Since 1999, Agility 11 Founder Brad Swanson has been applying Agile practices to lead organizations to success. As a recognized expert in Lean & Agile delivery, Brad has been a trusted coach and consultant for executives and large organizations in Europe, Asia and North America, helping them to optimize their leadership practices, product management and development practices. He is also an experienced Agile Trainer, using highly interactive and engaging techniques to teach thousands of students how to successfully apply Agile principles and practices.
Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) and Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC) with expertise in Scrum, Lean, and Kanban, and an early adopter of eXtreme Programming (XP) in 1999. Brad is a former President of Agile Denver and co-founder of the Mile High Agile conference, the region’s largest Agile gathering. Brad is a speaker at international conferences including numerous Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Asia, Agile 2011-2014, Mile High Agile, Agile Development Conference East & West, Scrum Colombia Meetup, and PMI Mile Hi Symposium. He is passionate about building the “right product” — products that users love and achieve business results
Training Materials & Resources
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