Current Public Offerings
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Professional Scrum Courses (2-3 days or 14-20 Hours)
Professional Scrum Developer
- Intense, developer-focused course from the official home of Scrum. Offers one free attempt for certification as a Professional Scrum Developer
Presentations (1 hour)
- A Birds-Eye View of Agile
- Intro to agile for the curious minds
- Product Ownership vs Product Management: There Is A Difference
- Product Owners see things differently. Find out how.
- The Scrum Master: The Most Misunderstood Role
- Compares the Scrum Master to other traditional roles like a Project Manager
- Daily Scrum Checklist
- How to conduct a Daily Scrum that brings value, and why it’s not a status meeting
- How Agile Estimation Works
- Estimation in hours is usually wrong. How you can make it accurate
- Creating Psychological Safety on Agile Teams
- Explains why safety should be a prerequisite for agile teams.
- Emerging with ScrumButs
- A whole discussion on, “We use scrum, but..”. Why scrum elements may not be enough for emerging understanding
- Minimum Skills To Be On An Agile Team
- skill sets that all agile team members need to be cross-functional
- Intro to DevOps containers
- Explains why Docker containers are so powerful, and includes a “Play with Docker” exercise.
- Gamifying Your Teamspace
- Participants play several games with lessons related to agility
- Creating a Team that Learns Rapidly with Experimentation
- Explains the empirical process and why it’s better over a predictive approach
- Cloud Solution Throwdown!
- Gamifying conflict resolution – fun over shouting matches.
- What Is Self-Organization Anyway?
- Explains the 4 basic team structures, and has an exercise to compare each.
- Fostering An Agile Culture
- A management presentation on how to excel in an agile culture
- Transparency workshop: Board Creation
- Elements of agile boards, when to use manual and electronic boards, and committing to transparency
- Sustaining Agile Flow Using What You Know
- How to prevent a great agile implementation from dying in an organization
- How ATDD Fixed Your Agile Flow
- Management level class on Acceptance Test Driven Development
- A Bird’s-eye View of DevOps
- Dev-centric intro to the DevOps culture
- Automated Testing using Xray Test Management for Jira
- Explanation of a high-level view of a complete test-first environment using Jira with the XRay plug-in and Jenkins
- How To Write A Recipe For Automated Testing
- Designed for traditional Business Analysts to write clear user stories that can feed into an automated testing framework
Workshops (1.5 – 3 hours)
- So, You’re A Manager Of Agile Teams Members! Now what?
- Manager-level workshop of managers transitioning from their traditional role to Agile management, and how your influence becomes more important.
- Agile Team Sizing Workshop
- Product Owner class on team sizing, including techniques on budgeting and delivery.
- Agile Estimation Workshop
- Practicing techniques for comparative estimation, and how it is an effective planning tool
- Budgeting an Agile Product
- Assigning dollars to an agile effort, and how it differs from traditional estimation
- Explanation of Agile Frameworks
- Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Waterfall — which to choose?
- Self-organization workshop
- Dev-team focused workshop to become self-organizing and focus on delivery rather than role execution
- Facilitation Workshop
- Scrum master workshop on facilitation techniques, and how it differs from command/control
- Hiring Agility Using Interview Games
- Gamifying the HR interview process to find exceptional candidates.
- Intro to Docker
- Play with Docker for 2 hours. Learn about containerized environments, docker compose, and deploying
- Pick Your Throwdown!
- Fun conflict resolution game which combines fishbowl discussions and live voting
- Big Room Planning with Jira and Confluence
- Planning a scaled agile effort using Jira and Confluence
- Big Room Planning Workshop
- Planning a scaled agile effort using manual tooling
Classes (1 – 3 days, or 8 – 20 hours)
- Agile Foundations
- Intro to agility. Designed for those who are curious enough to see how far the rabbit hole goes (non-IT specific)
- Working with Agile Frameworks
- A chance to work with agile frameworks (scrum, Kanban, lean, waterfall) using non-IT based exercises
- Working on an Agile Dev Team
- Practice for incremental delivery on a self-organizing team (non-IT specific)
- Setting up a DevOps Software Delivery System
- Class that focuses on SOLID principles and containers for software delivery
- Test-driven Development Software Delivery
- Set up and work with an ATDD automated testing framework using Ruby-Cucumber or SpecFlow, Jira, and Jenkins
- Removing Old Software Components
- Get rid of that mainframe, or any old components, the agile way
- User Story Workshop
- A class for Business Analysts to writing user stories on an Agile team, which includes techniques for creating a taxonomy and terminology, separating the “what” from the “how” and setting up your work for automated acceptance testing
- How To Own A Killer Product
- Designing a product from ground zero using lean principles. Includes techniques to work with stakeholders, budgeting, eliminating unused features, and managing technical dept
- Leadership Through Facilitation
- Coaching techniques for scrum masters to coach individuals, groups, and organizations (no slides)