Category Archives: courses

Renewing Your Certification

Updated: August 31, 2023. Cut-to-the-chase: Your key takeaway may be: Re-Take the CSM or CSPO with Joe because simpler and “cheaper”. Explained in section 3 below. *** Should you renew your Scrum Alliance certification?  Yes! I think it helps, it increases your knowledge, it should enable you to do Agile better with your Team, and […]

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New “Refresher” course policy

We are introducing a new policy. For a very low fee, you can take ANY course again. Rules: It must be a course or workshop you have taken before (eg, per Scrum Alliance).  And that we give Any instructor.  You could have taken the original course with any instructor. You must have completed the original […]

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Webinar: Two Patterns for Managers in Agile

This is another in our Webinar Series. Date: May 27, 2021 (Thursday) Time: 2 pm EDT, 1 hour. Link: (to be added — where you can register) We will discuss two patterns for how managers should interact with Team. For senior managers: The Executive Action Team. Many people have had this idea.  Jeff Sutherland prefers […]

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Some tools for Agile

Here are 4 tools I have been using in my courses.  And recommend, for you to use with your Teams. Microsoft Teams I am about to start using Microsoft Teams. They have added break-out rooms.  I think they work well enough for me. Lots of integrations.  But they make it easy (fairly easy) to start […]

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Webinar: An Introduction to the Advanced CSM Course

We have a free webinar about our Advanced CSM course, to provide you information and to take your questions. *** We give this course every few months and have two courses schedule today (one to add). The A-CSM is part of the Path to CSP.  It helps you move one level higher as a CSM […]

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

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)

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

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

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

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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