Our Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Scrum Training combines the best of both live and online instruction into an interactive, highly engaging experience. It is designed to give you the skills and knowledge needed to reach your full potential as a successful Scrum practitioner.

Our advanced training classes are structured to maximize learning while offering time for deeper issues that are often overlooked in other training options.

• Live and engaging discussions and team exercises utilizing Zoom, Mural and Mentimeter.
• About three hours of recorded video to watch before the course, allowing for interactive and engaging live sessions, free of put-you-to-sleep lecture
• Short, concise quizzes after each video module to help you retain what you’ve learned.

At course completion, provided you complete the course pre-work and participate, you will have earned your Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified Scrum Master designation.

This course is ideal for those who have a foundational understanding of Scrum, and want to further develop their skills and knowledge. Whether you’re a Scrum Master looking to enhance your abilities, or a team member wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the Scrum framework, this course is for you.

Take your Scrum Mastery to the next level with our Advanced CSM course! Our program is designed for experienced professionals who have gathered at least 12 months of work experience as a Scrum Master within the last five years. To qualify, you must hold an active CSM certification from the Scrum Alliance.

• You must hold a CSM designation with the Scrum Alliance. Your CSM certification does not need to be active at the time you take the Advanced CSM course
• You must demonstrate 12 months of work experience as a Scrum Master within the last five years on your Scrum Alliance profile at scrumalliance.org

• Agile Coaching Growth Wheel

• Team Effectiveness Model

• Facilitation

• Agile Technical Practices

• Impact Mapping

• Feature Mapping

• Lean Portfolio Management

• Solution-Focused Coaching

• Change Models

• How to make Jira work for you
  

• Agile scaling frameworks
• Team Topologies
• Fearless Change

• Scrum Masters
• Agile Coaches

Für das OKR Seminar sind keine speziellen Kenntnisse vorausgesetzt. OKR ist ein Framework, das in jeder Branche und in Unternehmen jeglicher Größe eingesetzt werden kann.

Das Seminar richtet sich an alle, …

• die OKR anwenden,
• sich mit OKR intensiver beschäftigen,
• OKR im Unternehmen einführen wollen.

• Hintergrund – Warum OKR?
• Grundlagen zu OKR
• Das OKR-Framework und der OKR-Prozess

• … die OKR-Methode in der Praxis anzuwenden, um damit die Visionen und Strategie Ihres Unternehmens agil umzusetzen.
• … optimale qualitative Ziele (Objectives) und quantitativ messbare Schlüsselergebnisse (Key Results) zu erstellen.
• … als Führungskraft eine moderne Zielmanagementmethode anzuwenden, die für die heutige VUCA-Welt optimal geeignet ist.
• … durch klaren Fokus, Abstimmung und Commitment die Motivation und das Engagement in Ihrem Team zu erhöhen.

Für das OKR Seminar sind keine speziellen Kenntnisse vorausgesetzt. OKR ist ein Framework, das in jeder Branche und in Unternehmen jeglicher Größe eingesetzt werden kann.

Das Seminar richtet sich an alle, …

• die OKR anwenden,
• sich mit OKR intensiver beschäftigen,
• OKR im Unternehmen einführen wollen,
• als OKR Coach, Master bzw. Process Owner tätig sein wollen,
• die eine Zertifizierung zum OKR Coach, Master haben wollen.

Im Kurs– ein echter Mitmach-Workshop – stehen praktische Übungen im Vordergrund. Der Theorieanteil wird so gering wie möglich gehalten. Es geht darum, die OKR-Methode schnell und einfach zu verstehen – die Methode zu erleben und damit die Philosophie hinter OKR zu verinnerlichen. Zudem gehen wir auf die individuellen Situationen und Fragestellungen der Seminarteilnehmer:innen und deren Unternehmen ein.

Tag 1: Why OKR? – und – Praxis-Einstieg in OKR

Sie lernen den Hintergrund von OKR, was Ihnen konkret OKR bringt, erhalten einen guten Überblick über die OKR-Methode und erstellen erste  OKR-Sets.

Tag 2: Deep Dive in das OKR-Framework, die OKR-Meetings, Einführung von OKR, OKR in der Praxis und Best Practices

Lernen und Erleben pur! Lernen Sie von der enormen Praxiserfahrung der Seminarleiter!

Tag 3: Ein ganzer Tag Praxis-Anwendung und Erstellung von OKR-Sets

Erstellung von OKR-Sets anhand von Referenzunternehmen, Präsentation der Teilnehmenden und Feedback der Seminarleiter – sowie Verständnisfragen. Lernen pur!

• … die OKR-Methode in der Praxis anzuwenden, um damit die Visionen und Strategie Ihres Unternehmens agil umzusetzen.
• … optimale qualitative Ziele (Objectives) und quantitativ messbare Schlüsselergebnisse (Key Results) zu erstellen.
• … als Führungskraft eine moderne Zielmanagementmethode anzuwenden, die für die heutige VUCA-Welt optimal geeignet ist.
• … durch klaren Fokus, Abstimmung und Commitment die Motivation und das Engagement in Ihrem Team zu erhöhen.
• … routiniert den kompletten OKR-Zyklus zu durchlaufen und alle Meetings als Facilitator zu begleiten.

• Agile Coaching Growth Wheel

• Team Effectiveness Model

• Facilitation

• Agile Technical Practices

• Design Thinking

• Impact Mapping

• Feature Mapping

• Lean Portfolio Management

• Leadership vs. Management

• Solution-Focused Coaching

• Change Models

• Bonus: How to make Jira work for you!

Start of the Journey

Onsite day 1 & 2:
• 30 & 31 January 2023

Onsite day 3:
• 23 February 2023

Onsite day 4:
• 16 March 2023

• How to apply the test-first principle to align tests and requirements.
• How to detail, model, design, implement, verify, and validate stories in a SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Practices such as abstraction, encapsulation, and SOLID that build quality into code and design.
• Foundational Lean, Agile, and DevOps principles and practices.
• How to use the test infrastructure for automated testing.
• How to design from context for testability.

• How do I build a test-first, principle-based team environment and technical infrastructure?
• How do Agile teams use BDD to create a shared understanding?
• How do we build in quality throughout the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Exam prerequisite skills

• Understanding of SAFe for Teams
•  Background in engineering, development, managing development, or quality assurance

Exam requirements

The first step toward becoming an Certified SAFe® Agile Software Engineer is to attend the SAFe® 5 Agile Software Engineering course. This is a requirement, because attending the course provides access to all the study materials and the exam.

• How does an Agile team function inside of an ART?
• How do we as an Agile team plan and execute iterations and the PI?
• How do we work with other teams on the ART to effectively deliver value?

• Your role on the team and your team’s role on the ART.
• How to apply SAFe principles to scale Lean-Agile delivery.
• How to plan and execute iterations and PIs.
• How to continuously improve the ART.

Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will learn:

Module 1. using examples to clarify

• Why/when to do specification by example, and when not to do it
• How to formulate important questions with examples
• How to identify key examples

Module 2. getting to the right examples quickly

• • Facilitating specification workshops
  • Avoiding the most common mistakes in product backlog refinement
  • Turning examples into executable specifications

Module 3. given-when-then with style

• What makes a good specification/test
• Key patterns and practices when defining executable specifications
• How to capture complex requirements

Module 4. improving/refactoring specs

• Using Example mapping to facilitate discussions and identify questions
• How to spot common problems and fix them
• How to clean up legacy specifications/tests

Module 5. how to fit SBE into the process

• How this fits into Scrum/Kanban/…
• What teams that do this really well do differently from those that just waste time
• How to start changing the process in your company

TARGET AUDIENCE

The workshop is aimed at delivery team members (programmers, testers, business analysts and product owners) mostly working in iterative delivery, such as Scrum or Kanban. Prior experience in delivering software iteratively is useful when attending this workshop, but not required.

• Overview of Scrum – We will review the Scrum framework, expanding on all elements of the framework.
• The Product Backlog – We will explore what comprises a good Product Backlog, techniques for managing it, and what happens when it goes unattended.
• Stocking the Product Backlog – What elements make a good Product Backlog? We go deep with ways to build a great product backlog to ensure a successful project.
• Prioritizing the Product Backlog – We will look at steps that can be used to ensure a prioritized backlog.
• Product Owner Responsibilities & Traits – We will expand on what the role of the Product Owner is and elements of great Product Owners worldwide.
• Release Planning & Management – We explore estimation units and the various levels of planning used in agile projects.

The TechTalk Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Training provides you the best of our online Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner classes in an interactive, engaging online format.  

• The training classes are structured to maximize learning while offering time for deeper issues that are often overlooked in other training options.
• Live and engaging discussions and team exercises utilizing Zoom, Mural and Mentimeter.
• About three hours of recorded video to watch before the course, allowing for intactive and engaging live sessions, free of put-you-to-sleep lecture.
• Concise, three-to-seven question quizzes after each video module to help you retain what you’ve learned
• After attending the course you’ll get an electronic copy of the course slides, plus the outputs of all exercises, allowing you to refer to expanded learning materials for years to come.

• Foundations of Scrum and Agile – You will learn about the core of Agile and Scrum – principles and values – and how they guide and shape Scrum teams and agile organizations.
• Roles in Scrum – We will explore what it means to be a great Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developer on a Scrum team.
• User Stories – You will learn, and practice, what makes a good user story.
• Story Points & Estimation – You’ll learn what a story point is, plus we’ll look at two estimation methods, affinity estimation & planning poker.
• The Product Backlog – We will explore what comprises a good Product Backlog, techniques for managing it and what happens when it goes unattended.
• Sprinting – Dive deep into the components of a well assembled Sprint Backlog, what it really means to be done, abnormal terminations and how to decide on Sprint length.
• Release Planning – We will explore how to build a release plan and estimate when the work will be delivered.
• Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise – We will look at how companies have successfully scaled Scrum to work in the enterprise.

The TechTalk Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Training provides you the best of our online Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner classes in an interactive, engaging online format.

• The training classes are structured to maximize learning while offering time for deeper issues that are often overlooked in other training options.
• Live and engaging discussions and team exercises utilizing Zoom, Mural and Mentimeter.
• About three hours of recorded video to watch before the course, allowing for interactive and engaging live sessions, free of put-you-to-sleep lecture.
• Concise, three-to-seven question quizzes after each video module to help you retain what you’ve learned.
• After attending the course you’ll get an electronic copy of the course slides, plus the outputs of all exercises, allowing you to refer to expanded learning materials for years to come.

At course completion, you will be prepared to take the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master exam. Upon passing, you’ll be a Scrum Alliance CSM.

• Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
• Becoming a Lean-Agile Leader
• Establishing Team and Technical Agility
• Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery
• Exploring Lean Portfolio Management
• Leading the Change
• Practicing SAFe

All are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended for those who intend to take the SAFe® 5 Agilist (SA) certification exam:

• 5+ years’ experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product, or project management
• Experience in Scrum

Completion of this course gives you access to the exam and all related study materials as part of your Learning Plan in the SAFe Community Platform.

Attendees must attend both days of the course in order to be eligible for the exam.

CEO´s, Program or Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Team Leads, Release Train Engineers, Business Analysts, Agile Coaches, CIO´s, Portfolio Managers, Consultants, Engineers, Program Managers, Change Agents, Solution or Systems Architect

• Overview of Scrum – We will review the Scrum framework, expanding on all elements of the framework.
• The Product Backlog – We will explore what comprises a good Product Backlog, techniques for managing it, and what happens when it goes unattended.
• Stocking the Product Backlog – What elements make a good Product Backlog? We go deep with ways to build a great product backlog to ensure a successful project.
• Prioritizing the Product Backlog – We will look at steps that can be used to ensure a prioritized backlog.
• Product Owner Responsibilities & Traits – We will expand on what the role of the Product Owner is and elements of great Product Owners worldwide.
• Release Planning & Management – We explore estimation units and the various levels of planning used in agile projects.

• This course will provide you the tools, techniques and most importantly, the understanding needed to be an effective Scrum Product Owner.
• Students will learn tried & true methods for building, managing and prioritizing the Product Backlog and ways to build a product roadmap for release planning.
• Successful participants will be listed as Certified Scrum Product Owners on the Scrum Alliance website.

• Foundations of Scrum and Agile – You will learn about the core of Agile and Scrum – principles and values – and how they guide and shape Scrum teams and agile organizations.
• Roles in Scrum – We will explore what it means to be a great Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developer on a Scrum team.
• User Stories – You will learn, and practice, what makes a good user story.
• Story Points & Estimation – You’ll learn what a story point is, plus we’ll look at two estimation methods, affinity estimation & planning poker.
• The Product Backlog – We will explore what comprises a good Product Backlog, techniques for managing it and what happens when it goes unattended.
• Sprinting – Dive deep into the components of a well assembled Sprint Backlog, what it really means to be done, abnormal terminations and how to decide on Sprint length.
• Release Planning – We will explore how to build a release plan and estimate when the work will be delivered.
• Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise – We will look at how companies have successfully scaled Scrum to work in the enterprise.

The course is aimed, primarily, at developers and testers working close to the code, but is also useful for technical leaders in an organisation to understand the approach in more detail.

This course is also very applicable to Product Owners, giving them a framework for analysis, prioritisation and specification that facilitates Continuous Delivery.

To perform the role of a Lean Portfolio Manager, attendees should be able to:

• Describe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
• Connect the portfolio to enterprise strategy
• Establish the Portfolio Vision
• Implement Lean Budgeting and Guardrails
• Establish flow with the Portfolio Kanban
• Support operational excellence with an Agile Program Management Office (PMO) and Communities of Practice (CoPs)
• Coordinate Value Streams
• Measure LPM performance
• Build a plan for LPM implementation

All are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience.

However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended:

• Familiarity with Agile concepts and principles
• Attended Leading SAFe or SAFe PO/PM course
• Experience working in a SAFe environment

• Introducing Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
• Establishing Strategy and Investment Funding
• Applying Agile Portfolio Operations
• Applying Lean Governance
• Implementing the LPM function

CEO´s, Program or Project Managers, Release Train Engineers, Business Owners, Solution Managers, Agile Coaches, SAFe Program Consultants,  Portfolio Managers, CTO´s, Consultants, Directors, Product Managers, Program Managers, Enterprise Architects, RTE´s

Completion of this course gives you access to the exam and all related study materials as part of your Learning Plan in the SAFe Community Platform.

The course is aimed at both testers who do automation and developers with an interest in automated testing. In my experience you get the best results from your test automation efforts if people in both roles collaborate together. The programming language used will be mainly Java with a small amount of Python.

Since this is an online course:

• We will take advantage of being able to split it up into three shorter modules spread a week apart.
• It’s less disruption of your daily schedule, and gives you time between modules to try out what you’ve learnt, and come back with questions.
• There will be homework assignments and supplementary materials available to browse between meetings.

The course is in a workshop format that varies between presenting theory and hands-on activities. As applying theory is the best way to learn, participants will play a very active role in the course.

The course is best suited for influencers in the workplace who have the desire to shape the environment within their organization e.g. Managers, directors, leaders who want to create environments where people succeed.

Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will learn:

• how to extend specifications with examples to create a single source of truth for testing and development
• how to avoid functional gaps and inconsistencies in specifications and tests
• how to run specification workshops to facilitate collaboration
• good practices for designing specifications with examples and acceptance tests for agile teams
• how to create a living documentation system to facilitate change and improve your process long-term
• how other teams, from small web startups to large distributed teams in investment banks, apply specification by example in their contexts

The workshop is aimed at testers, business analysts and developers and based on Gojko Adzic’s books Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap.

• Overview of Scrum – We will review the Scrum framework, expanding on all elements of the framework.
• The Product Backlog – We will explore what comprises a good Product Backlog, techniques for managing it, and what happens when it goes unattended.
• Stocking the Product Backlog – What elements make a good Product Backlog? We go deep with ways to build a great product backlog to ensure a successful project.
• Prioritizing the Product Backlog – We will look at steps that can be used to ensure a prioritized backlog.
• Product Owner Responsibilities & Traits – We will expand on what the role of the Product Owner is and elements of great Product Owners worldwide.
• Release Planning & Management – We explore estimation units and the various levels of planning used in agile projects.

The TechTalk Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Training provides you the best of our online Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner classes in an interactive, engaging online format.

• The training classes are structured to maximize learning while offering time for deeper issues that are often overlooked in other training options.
• Live and engaging discussions and team exercises utilizing Zoom, Mural and Mentimeter.
• About three hours of recorded video to watch before the course, allowing for intactive and engaging live sessions, free of put-you-to-sleep lecture.
• Concise, three-to-seven question quizzes after each video module to help you retain what you’ve learned
• After attending the course you’ll get an electronic copy of the course slides, plus the outputs of all exercises, allowing you to refer to expanded learning materials for years to come.