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Good coaches bring out the best in the teams they work with. An agile coach needs a broad set of skills. First and most importantly, a good agile coach is highly knowledgeable about agile, and ideally multiple agile frameworks. This means training and experience in any aspect of agile can be useful for an agile coach.
Core courses are fundamental to your effective use of agile.
These two courses cover the fundamental principles of Scrum. Both courses are suitable for all team members including Scrum Masters and product owners.
If you’re a Certified ScrumMaster® with 12 months of experience, take this next stage of training and deepen your facilitation and coaching skills as a ScrumMaster with this advanced certification.
This course will teach you how to excel as a product owner. You'll learn how to write user and job stories, prioritize a backlog, split backlog items, and develop a compelling product vision.
Recommended courses are a great way to expand your agile expertise.
Stand out from other Product Owners with this advanced certification Lifetime access to course materials and the only A-CSPO that uses our interactive software for breakout exercises. 12 months group coaching calls included after the course.
Overcome the challenge of writing user stories to join the ranks of high-performing agile teams, deliver the right products to market, and delight your customers.
This one-day deep-dive training shows teams how to make accurate, reliable, and realistic project plans.
These two courses cover the fundamental principles of Scrum. Both courses are suitable for all team members including Scrum Masters and product owners.
A two-day class taught by one of our Certified Scrum Trainers, the Certified ScrumMaster course covers the fundamental principles of Scrum as well as detail about the different roles, meetings, and artifacts. Despite the name, it's perfect for anyone who wants to understand Scrum, not only ScrumMasters.
Based on the content of our popular Certified ScrumMaster course, Working on a Scrum Team differs by being entirely configurable. Prior to the course, you will work with one of our instructors to identify the most important course content. If, for example, you want more time spent on estimating and less on the daily scrum, you can easily make this the course for you.
In this two-day course you'll dive deep into the advanced skills you need to be a valuable Scrum Master including coaching, facilitation, and the day-to-day techniques that build strong teams. This goes beyond foundational learning and gives you much more nuanced skills that you’ll come to rely on in real life.
It includes pre-workshop video lessons to complete before the live class. You'll then have two days of live, online lessons and group discussions as well as breakout group exercises and individual exercises. You will be expected to participate in all exercises, as well as be prepared to do research and present your thoughts and findings to the class.
With this course you can
Course Prerequisites
A deep dive into understanding the development of agile, different agile frameworks, and recognizing violations.
Know what traits are essential to be a truly great Scrum Master
This key module walks you through many advanced facilitation techniques that you can apply whenever you’re working with a team—from understanding what it means to facilitate and how to guide a team through successful discussions to knowing when not to facilitate. This module alone can help transform the communication of any agile team.
You’ll understand the difference between being a consultant and a coach, plus learn how to intervene as a coach, and deal effectively with conflict.
This module shows you how to implement practices that take a team from good to great. This includes how to form an effective team, development practices, how to serve product owners, Story Mapping & Impact Mapping as well as backlog refinement.
Know how to serve the organization with your team, how to execute root cause analysis, how to scale scrum and understand complex systems.
In this final module, you’ll have a chance to do some private, individual evaluation on how you are currently performing as a Scrum Master, including your strengths and the areas you’d like to continue developing.
Taught by one of our Certified Scrum Trainers, this two-day course is appropriate for new product owners, aspiring product owners, and analysts. Here, we fully equip participants with the knowledge and skills they need to excel.
The course begins with a Scrum overview, introducing the roles of a Scrum team and how products are developed using sprints.
Participants learn the responsibilities, characteristics, and different environments in which a product owner may work. They will practice five techniques for creating and communicating a clear, elevating goal that promotes team commitment and focus.
The product backlog is a central component of every product owner’s work. So they are equipped to write product backlog items for any product, course participants gain experience with user, job, and technical stories. We also cover story mapping, which can help engage stakeholders so that user needs are discovered early—avoiding the late surprises that can derail projects.
Product owners will go beyond knowing what to build, into ensuring features are developed in the optimal order, using the multiple prioritization techniques they’ll practice in this course.
Participants will learn how to produce accurate fixed-date and fixed-scope plans, enabling better decision-making throughout the organization.
Following the successful completion of this course, each participant will become a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner.
The agenda for this course has been carefully defined to comply with Scrum Alliance learning objectives required for certification, so sections cannot be removed or shortened. For a configurable version of this course, consider the Effective Product Owner course.
This two-day course is delivered live and online and is taught by experienced CST Brian Milner.
You’ll learn advanced skills to help you consistently deliver value and prove your commitment to the product owner role. It includes managing multiple initiatives and stakeholders, and knowing how to turn a vision into a plan that delivers the most value to the business.
Before the live workshop, you’ll receive study materials: pre-recorded video lessons to work through and complete before the live portion of the training. During the two days of live, online training, you’ll participate in class discussions and practical breakout exercises to demonstrate group work as well as individual work.
Once the class is completed and you have proven 12 months experience specific to the Product Owner Role, you will be an Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner.
If you’re a Certified Scrum Product Owner® with 12 months of experience, take this next stage of training to stand out in your industry with this advanced certification.
With this course you can
Course Prerequisities
You’ll discuss the product owner role and demonstrate an understanding of how different organizations may affect your approach to this role. You’ll also learn advanced techniques for working with stakeholders to gain information about their goals, and communicating progress towards those goals.
You’ll learn how to create a successful product vision, and how to break that down into Product Increments that are valuable to stakeholders. You’ll also be able to communicate a forecast for your vision and plan a product release.
You’ll understand how to navigate and segment the needs of customers and users (including what to do when those needs seem to conflict with each other). You’ll work on discovery techniques, including ways to connect the development team to customers and users so that the activities and needs of customers and users are clear, leading to successful product outcomes.
Learn different approaches to validate product assumptions based on cost and quality of learning.
In the advanced course, you build on your knowledge of the product backlog so you can translate backlog items into value for stakeholders. This means knowing which items bring the most value to different stakeholder groups, as well as managing and prioritizing items so that the team is always working to maximize outcome.
A great product begins with a great product backlog. User stories are by far the most common way of writing product backlog items, used by an increasing number of agile teams.
This course will help participants learn solutions to some of the most common problems with user stories and product backlogs. You will finish the course with known, proven techniques to overcome your current challenges, from spending too much time splitting stories to adding too much detail to managing the need for a requirements document.
During the course, participants will work on product ideas or features you provide. Or they can work on ones we’ve designed to maximize shared learning and bring out the subtle challenges teams can face. During the course, participants can also identify new products to work on throughout the day. This flexibility ensures they are always working on relevant ideas.
Participants will practice conducting a story-writing workshop and will learn how to create a story map to improve communication with stakeholders and to uncover user needs earlier—so last-minute requirements don’t derail a project.
The Better User Stories course goes beyond user stories to give participants practice writing job stories and technical stories, two exciting approaches that can immediately improve a team’s backlog-writing skills.
Knowing how much detail to include (and how early to add it) is a vital skill for agile team members to develop. Adding too much detail too early wastes precious time that could be used on higher priority features. Adding too little detail or adding it too late can jeopardize delivery. Through this course, participants learn simple questions to ask that will get them the right amount of detail every time.
Participants will learn how to split stories so that each can fit within an iteration. Our SPIDR story-splitting framework, taught in this class, will give participants a reliable, repeatable way to split any story.
After taking this course, teams will spend more time building features that deliver the most value to stakeholders each iteration.
This course is for anyone who needs to answer the question:
“How much can be delivered… by when?”
If you’re working on contract-development or high-visibility projects, it’s critical to tell bosses, clients, and customers what can be delivered—and when.
But this isn’t easy when:
This course shows you how to solve those problems.
You’ll learn proven estimating approaches in an easy-to-understand way so you can:
In just one day you can create accurate, agile plans for fixed scope, fixed date, and fixed everything projects.
This course is ideal for agile leaders at the team or group level including:
The course is intermediate. If you’re new to agile, you can still benefit from this course as long as you are familiar with iterations, product backlogs, velocity, and backlog items such as user stories.
Read the Course Outline below for more details.