Mountain Goat Software offers a variety of agile and Certified Scrum training courses. These classes are intended both for new and current agile teams and team members. Class participants benefit from our agile and Scrum classes by learning new ways of working and practical skills that can be immediately applied. All classes include an appropriate mix of lecture, small-group discussion and hands-on exercises.
Upcoming Public Agile and Scrum Classes
About Your Trainer…Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn personally teaches all Mountain Goat agile and Scrum classes. Mike is one of the most popular and well respected agile and Scrum trainers. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. He is a prolific author of magazine, journal and website articles and writes a popular blog on agile software development and Scrum.
Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and prior to becoming an agile consultant, he was the VP of Software Development at four companies where agile was critical to the success of the companies. Mike's hands-on experience makes his training relevant to the real world; agile and Scrum are not just theoretical to him. And his teaching style includes hands-on experiences for his participants.
To get a sense of Mike's training style, take a look at this video of a session he presented at Google. Finally, don't just take our word for it. See what past attendees have said about Mike's classes.
About Our Classes
Certified ScrumMaster
This two day course teaches the fundamental principles and practices of Scrum. In the ScrumMaster class, you will learn and experience how such a seemingly simple process as Scrum can profoundly improve how we develop software. You will gain hands-on experience with Scrum tools and activities such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning meeting, and burndown charts. You’ll learn how to use Scrum on projects of all sizes of projects, from a single collocated team to a large, highly distributed team. Upon completion of this course, you will be recognized by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified ScrumMaster.
Succeeding With Agile
Go beyond the basics and learn tips and techniques necessary to help an organization move beyond initial success to sustained agility. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike Cohn's Succeeding with Agile book, this course will show you how to get started and get good with agile or Scrum. This class qualifies for 15 PDUs.
Agile Estimating & Planning
Early myths around agile software development teams were “we’re agile, we don’t plan” and “it will be done when it’s done.” These were clearly inadequate answers for any business that needed to work with deadlines or meet objectives. This one-day agile training class corrects these myths by presenting estimating and planning processes ideally suited for agile software development.
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Certified Scrum Product Owner® training teaches product owners how to be successful in this new role. You learn how use the product backlog as a tool for success. Not only will you learn how Scrum teams work and the critical mindset shifts necessary for agile teams to succeed, you will also gain practical experience writing user stories for your product backlog, prioritizing the product backlog, and then planning both fixed-scope and fixed-date releases. After completing this class you will be acknowledged as a Certified Scrum Product Owner® by the Scrum Alliance.
Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements
User stories are one of the most widely applicable techniques to come out of the agile processes. They are also one of the most effective and have gained tremendous popularity as the ideal way of writing a product backlog, which is a lightweight form of an agile requirements document. In this class, you learn what makes a good user story, how to gather them in story-writing workshops, how to write user stories for difficult requirements, including non-functional requirements. You will leave this highly hands-on agile training class with all the knowledge and experience necessary to write user stories for your projects.
On-Site Training
Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? All courses are available for on-site delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at 1-888-61-Agile (24453) or e-mail him at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.