Austin Agile Training
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Real World Agile Team Workshop Our TOP Selling Agile/Scrum course! This intensive hands-on workshop helps a cross-functional team who is new or even experienced with Agile learn Real World practical ‘HOW To’ methods that will significantly improve their Agile adoption. This course is a must-have if you are considering Agile adoption on a new project OR want to improve your current practices… |
Servant LeadershipWorking to empower and serve the people you lead is the main concept behind Servant Leadership. Challenging them to go farther, reach higher, innovate and have fun doing it requires leadership skills that are beyond the traditional “Command and Control” style of management. You will learn the most critical skills needed for leading by serving first… |
Agile for Project ManagersThis workshop walks through the entire Agile project lifecycle with special emphasis on Agile Program and Release Planning, Estimating and Setup. We cover techniques for initiating, planning, estimating, velocity tracking, measuring business value, and best practices for execution. We do a deep dive into the role and skills needed to transition from traditional Project Management to Agile … |
Facilitating Group CollaborationDid you know that many judge your effectiveness and leadership skills by how well you run your meetings? The key to a successful group session is having an effective facilitator who can organize the meeting, control it and skillfully guide the team towards achieving their goal for the session. Learn how to cut this major source of waste by effectively managing group dysfunctions and delivering results from your group session … |
Effective/Agile Requirements GatheringThis is NOT your traditional requirements gathering class! We walk you through a practical four step process (Visioning, Brainstorming, Breakdown, Deep Dive) for gathering requirements using visual Agile modeling techniques. We cover very effective elicitation techniques for identifying, breaking down epics, prioritizing, and sizing requirements. You will learn real world techniques you can apply tomorrow on your own projects! |
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Overview of Agile for Product OwnersThis course addresses the business-side questions related to Agile such as: What is the business value of using Agile? Why should I collaborate with IT this new way? Who is the Product Owner and what does my new role entail? What is the time commitment expected from me? What new skills will I need to gain? We will cover these questions in addition to many more about the new role of the Business team on Agile projects… |
Communication Skills for LeadersHave you ever wondered how you can effectively influence people without being directive? Have you struggled to resolve group or individual one-on-one conflict? This workshop will help address these challenges in addition to many more. We walk through the 4 team maturity stages and discuss real world communication techniques you can use. We practice setting clear ‘Completion Criteria‘ and Conditions of Satisfaction… |
Executive Overview of Agile and LeanThis is our intensive executive/management overview course that introduces the main concepts and drivers behind Agile, Lean and Scrum to a leadership team. We provide a strategic roadmap for how to successfully transform an organization to lean high performing teams. We will discuss how to transform your culture, leadership style, collaboration environment, reward and measurement systems, vendor contracts, hiring practices in addition to others… |
Cross Functional Service TeamsThrough our many coaching engagements, we’ve discovered over and over again the enormous impact caused by having silo teams that have excessive hand-offs and don’t work well together on the bottom-line for an organization’s performance. Silo teams become task oriented, have no end to end visibility of the value stream and no connection or even realization of the actual customer. Through this workshop we will introduce the concepts of Service Teams and Communities of Practice CoP … |
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Agile TestingLearn how to strategize, plan, design and execute tests in an Agile environment. This course will particularly address the challenges and strategies for testing in short development iterations, writing user acceptance tests upfront and moving from a waterfall method of testing to a more Agile/Iterative testing strategy. Key topics also include test automation. |
ScrumMaster CertificationThis 2 Day course will help you understand the What and Why behind Scrum and targets folks interested in becoming Certified ScrumMasters. Participants who complete the course successfully will be designated a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), the first step on the road to Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) by the ScrumAlliance. |
If you’re looking for a specific course that is not listed here, please contact us and let us know what you have in mind. We can customize something to fit your needs.
