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Training

Certified ScrumMaster Training (CSM)

 

 

Why Agile Training

Today’s markets are demanding, new technologies are enabling innovative product development at a quickening pace. Established companies are faced with numerous competitors who spring up seemingly from nowhere with the capability to bring new products to market faster than ever. Many organizations are finding themselves in a calcified position, unable to move and respond to even simple market needs. Compounding the problem are talent shortages, as they watch their best people systematically get lured away. Often companies are left with calcified processes, skill gaps and unfulfilled product demands. Basic agile thought has become widely recognized as a critical ingredient for continued competitive success and opens a path away from calcification.

Why 3Back Applied Training

For those doing product development they must be able to apply the concepts learned, in the context of their company's specific product development needs, now. At 3Back our practice and focuses on applied agile training. As you read about our training you will see that we constantly move from theory, to a motivation of why, and then to an applied context. We have found that an applied context brings the greatest understanding and improvement to team velocity.  A featured example of our training is Applied Agile, in this course you shawdow a real "well formed team" that is working in an agile manner.

Quick Course List

Training Benefits

  • We maintain an appropriate instructor to student ratio
  • Our Instructors have expertise based on doing it as well as training it
  • Our Instructors are not slide turning scripted material readers
  • Our content is designed to challenge and provoke thought
  • We examine real case studies and discuss what your case might be
  • Our session have open question and answer formats
  • We setup small group discussion and digestion of lessons learned
  • Our training can be customized to fit your needs 
    • (We offer many 1, 2, 3 and 4 day formats available)
  • We offer confidential discussions about your products/projects
    • (Ask for Confidential Assessments)

Who Would Benefit

Our training is aimed at people, teams and organizations who find themselves facing tough product development challenges: Example roles are Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Product Champion, Analyst, Business Analyst, System Analyst, Designer, Graphics Interface Designer, Interface Designer, Webmaster, System administrator, Sys Admin, Developers, architect, manager of product development, director of product development, QA, tester, quality analyst, whole teams, team.

 

Seminars

Seminars Details

We offer seminars and executive briefings on agile software development.
•    Introduction to Scrum
•    Leading the Change to Agile in a Lean Six Sigma Organization
•    Agile Use Cases
•    Introduction to Agile Thinking
•    and more...

These are content filled seminars and are the pedigrees of the same high quality seminars we deliver at conferences nationwide.

Formats
•    Excutive Briefing
•    Lunch&Learns
•    Introductory
•    Key Notes
•    Select User Groups

Delivery Mechanisms

If this is delivered presented to a large audience (50+) then it would be classic presentation with light Q&A encouraged throughout.

 

Our preference is to break this up into small group discussions (5-7 at a table) and then shift back to larger group summary. This format allows participants to personalize the information presented with a stronger feeling of value. One presenter can orchestrate this well only for groups less than 45. 

 

Ideal, would be to add a co-presenter for delivery. Then we would demonstrate agile behaviors through an interactive dialog and we could handle a larger number of people with small group discussion break out  and large group summary (60-70 folks with small group discussions and large group sumamry).

 

Groups larger than 70+ would be done via a lively interactive dialog with the  two presenters and light Q&A from the audience.