I help teams and organizations better understand how to use Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe professionally through a broad portfolio of certified Scrum.org and SAFe training workshops available in person or remotely. Leaders reach out to me as the world’s only Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow/SPCT and a Sense and Respond CTP when they want a deep yet broad and objective training experience.
From Agile Training To Agility Strategy
Have you ever attended a training workshop where the trainer moves on when you were hoping to get real and discuss the nitty-gritty details of how to apply the principles and practices in your context? Or directed your question to the “Parking Lot” and conveniently never got to it? Whenever it happens to me (yes, I still attend training workshops! Continuous learning for the win), I get frustrated.
Because I personally like to discuss applying principles and practices in context. I like to tackle the nuances and challenge the applicability of the different techniques. I like it both as a student and a trainer. So obviously anything related to applying is fair game when I’m teaching.
But it goes further.
My interaction with an organization often starts with “We need training”. Once we have the “Why” conversation, we frequently pivot from running a training course to combining the learning with strategic exploration and guidance, doubling down on applying the topic in practice.
These days, vanilla information is virtually free. Just take a self-paced learning course, read a book, or chat with your favorite GenAI chatbot. (I believe this is also why fewer and fewer people are interested in paying money for pure learning.)
The unique value of a trainer-facilitated workshop is in the application conversations, especially when it’s an internal workshop where you can dive deep into the context under NDA. (This is also why I rarely teach public workshops these days.)
I’ve delivered in-house workshops in organizations such as P&G/Gillette, HP, Intel, CME Group, BNY Melon, GAP, and many others. I’d be happy to have a “why” conversation with you to learn why you’re interested in training and design the right experience for your intent and context.
As an SPCT, I deliver the entire SAFe training curriculum. I primarily focus on private workshops, often as part of a scaling journey or introducing new competencies/behaviors. I find that workshops oriented around a concrete outcome are energizing and productive. Here are the SAFe classes I deliver most often:
Here are the Scrum.org classes I deliver most often as a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST):
(I love delivering all of them, but if you’ll push me for an answer, my favorite will have to be the PSK – which I co-created and help market and grow)
Introducing Flow to Scrum Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK) is an interactive, activity-based training course that teaches experienced Scrum Masters and other Scrum practitioners how to improve their work by applying Kanban practices in the context of Professional Scrum. Through theory, case studies, and hands-on exercises, students will learn how Kanban practices can help Scrum …
Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM) is an interactive, activity-based course where students gain a strong understanding of Professional Scrum and the accountabilities of the Scrum Master. Through a combination of discussion and exercises, students develop a deep understanding of the underlying principles of Scrum and the Agile mindset while learning the practices applied by successful Scrum Teams. The …
About the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Ownership Workshop Scrum Product Ownership is an agile approach to Product Management. The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO) is a hands-on, activity-based course where people accountable for Product Ownership/Management learn about how to leverage empiricism and empowerment principles and associated techniques included in Scrum to be more effective in …
Measuring Value to Enable Improvement and Agility With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organizations need information and evidence that helps them adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities to deliver greater value and achieve true business agility. Yet often, organizations that use Agile product development techniques use traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set …
Professional Scrum MasterTM II (PSM II) course is a 2-day* advanced Scrum Master class designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development. The PSM II course is intended for Scrum Masters with at least one year of experience who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities as a Scrum Master. This course is one step …
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ – Advanced (PSPO-A) The Professional Scrum Product Owner™ – Advanced (PSPO-A) is a hands-on, activity-based course that focuses on helping experienced Product professionals such as Product Managers and Product Owners expand their ability to establish a vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value to their stakeholders. The course goes beyond …
Professional Agile Leadership Essentials™ (PAL-E) is a hands-on, activity based class in which managers and leaders of agile teams gain a strong understanding of how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to create the conditions for great agility. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) …
Overview In this hands-on, practical one-day course, we get our hands dirty through Product Discovery and Validation. We’ll explore a potential product, identify and validate/invalidate assumptions, and run experiments to test our hypotheses, increasing our chances of tackling the right problem with a fit-for-purpose solution. We aim to increase value creation by discovering what we …
Applying Professional Scrum™ (APS) is a hands-on, activity-based course in which students experience how Professional Scrum and the Scrum framework improve their ability to deliver value compared to traditional methods. Scrum provides a better way of working that highlights experimentation, incremental delivery of customer value, frequent feedback loops, and the fostering of strong team dynamics. …
Using Nexus to Scale Scrum Beyond a Single Scrum Team Even after achieving success with Scrum, teams are still limited by the amount of work they can do and the value they can create. They need to expand, or scale, to a group of Scrum Teams working together on the same product. When doing so, …
