Blog: Agile & Business

Webinar: Intro to the CSPO Course (plus ARP workshop)

October 19, 2020

In this 30 minute webinar we will introduce our CSPO Course (Certified Scrum Product Owner course) and Agile Release Planning workshop. And answer your questions. We do the CSPO+ARP fairly regularly, about every two months. Both as a public course and as an in-house course.  We have been doing them online (virtually) and have done […]

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Webinar: Intro to the CSM Course (plus ARP workshop)

October 19, 2020

This short webinar will introduce our CSM Course (Certified ScrumMaster course) and Agile Release Planning workshop. And offer a good Q&A period. *** We do the CSM+ARP regularly, nearly every week.  Both as a public course and as an in-house course.  We have been doing them online (virtually) and now have one planned in-person in […]

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Webinar: Intro to the Team Level Up workshop

October 19, 2020

In this short (30 min) webinar, we will be discussing our new “Team Level Up workshop”. This is an in-house workshop to enable your Team to do two things: (a) level set on what agile-scrum is (typically we find a lot of holes, mis-understandings and disagreements) (b) agree on how to Level Up, as the […]

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Webinar: Intro to the Agile Release Planning workshop

October 19, 2020

Almost every week we give an 8 hour Agile Release Planning workshop. This short webinar is to introduce the Workshop and to give you an opportunity to ask questions about it. *** People who take the workshop say: “It should be required.”  “Essential” and “That’s where it all came together for me.”  Clients are very […]

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Webinar: Intro to the Scaling Workshop

October 19, 2020

We are giving a free webinar about our Scaling workshop, so you are aware and so you can ask questions. *** We have given the Scaling workshop many times.   Clients are very happy. The basic idea is to take a real situation (maybe situations, working side-by-side).  And we do the following: (1) Discuss scaling […]

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AC: Open Space on Managers & Agile

October 4, 2020

Agile Carolinas for October 2020 Meeting We want to have the following session. Topic: Managers & Agile Being consistent with Open Space, this is a fairly open topic. Here are some sessions that you might want (and you get to choose): How much should the Managers drive Agile adoption? Are Managers the last (cultural) frontier? […]

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ANN: COVID and Our Courses (October update)

October 4, 2020

Right now… We recently decided to try an in-person course.  More on that below. *** We are doing online (or virtual or remote) courses or workshops — except for one in-person course (see details below). Of course, we do not know when the online courses will end. For now, we are saying that all 2020 […]

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Webinar: Using the Impediment List

September 26, 2020

This is another in our $5 Webinar Series. Topic: Using the Impediment List We are excited about this webinar.  We have been a strong advocate for the Impediment List pattern for years.  We believe good usage of it can make a big difference. Impediment List is a key pattern in Jeff Sutherland’s and James Coplien’s […]

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How to start a Great Team

September 24, 2020

Do we want to have a great Team? I think we definitely want that.  To be fair, though, do we ask ourselves that question? I think not.  So, ask yourself that question, and resolve that you WANT to create a great team. OK, yes, you have to define what a great team is, to some […]

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Webinar: A Real Team + A better Sprint Planning Meeting

September 24, 2020

Above is the title of the webinar for today. Below is the slide deck.  It’s about 30 minutes on each topic, including discussion and questions. Webinar- Real Team + better SPM V2 And here is the video: Enjoy!

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