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SUMMARY:[Conference] Global Scrum Gathering - Denver
DESCRIPTION:This is obviously not our event\, but Jake will be attending.  Let him know if you are going so you can meet up and certainly let ALWAYS let him know if you see him there (EVEN if he is talking to others – just walk up and say “you told me to jump in and say hi if I see you”!).   Additionally\, if you have any questions about the conference or how things work\, etc. Just let him know in slack! Glad to answer whatever we can! \nYou can find more information on the Scrum Alliance – Scrum Gathering Denver Conference Page.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/conference-global-scrum-gathering-denver/
LOCATION:Denver\, CO\, Denver\, CO\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:People are telling me I’m doing agile wrong – am I?
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat exactly are the “rules” when it comes to agile or scrum? What happens when you must break a rule – like when your boss makes you a Scrum Master and a Product Owner? Is that allowed? Will the Scrum Police come for you? The short answer is\, they will not\, unless you post what you are doing on Twitter (don’t do that). There are many of these types of challenges within agile\, scrum\, kanban and other approaches (what if you don’t have a product owner or scrum master\, what if you have a person on two teams\, what if … insert your issue here ____). What else might you do that results in someone to telling you “You are doing agile wrong!”? \nThis session will explore many of these issues and options to address these challenges. We will also dig into what people mean when they tell you are doing agile wrong. Generally\, if you simply ignore all aspects of agile\, perhaps you are not doing agile wrong\, you are simply not doing agile at all. That said\, it is important to look at why you are breaking a so-called rule and look at how you are trying to improve. We also need to consider if you understand the value behind the ‘rule’ and are achieving it in another way. Throughout the session we will be challenging the folks who talk about some kind of “perfect” agile AND we will be pushing back on the notion that we can just do whatever we want and call it agile. Expect this session to bring some hard-nosed compassion and exploration!
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/people-are-telling-me-im-doing-agile-wrong-am-i/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:What Am I Supposed To Do With This “Coaching?”
DESCRIPTION:Coaching can be a powerful tool for learning\, growing\, and improving. But why does so much coaching fail to land? When someone gives you unsolicited\, unexpected\, and (possibly) unhelpful “coaching\,” how do you respond? This session explores your options for making the most of these challenging situations.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/what-am-i-supposed-to-do-with-this-coaching/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Letting your Teams Select the Framework they Use - Rules of the Road
DESCRIPTION:What happens or could\, when you let your team select the framework they use? We will look at what it might mean to “select the framework” as well as what the phrase “they use” means. What are factors to consider to decide if you should allow this (assuming you have a choice) and what they teams should do before they make a choice. What kinds of rules of the road are there both of the decide to allow it and to help the teams decide on a framework. We will also dig into perhaps the most important aspect of this idea\, how can we replace the term “select” with a better term?
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/letting-your-teams-select-the-framework-they-use-rules-of-the-road/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Certified ScrumMaster® [CSM] Training (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Learn the core elements of Scrum and the ScrumMaster role and how Scrum helps teams thrive so they can deliver for customers.\n\n\nCertified ScrumMaster® Training \nA ScrumMaster is someone who works to help the Scrum Team and the organization continuously improve. This work includes helping to remove organizational impediments that slow the team down\, or making the impediments transparent (everyone agrees they are okay going slower). They are not a project manager\, given they are not accountable for delivery of a project. Instead they are accountable to help everyone on the team improve and help create an environment and structure where they can thrive and deliver for customers. \nStudents will work on engaging exercises and a simulation (to keep things fun and interesting) throughout the class. These activities provide opportunities to think and experience Scrum concepts by working on them in small groups. Throughout the course\, we will dig into real life situations and tackle tough questions. Our approach is reality based\, and we expect students to push back and challenge concepts that don’t work in their organization. Expect to work in various groups and be engaged throughout the course. We never use slides – so if you planned for a nap\, this is the wrong class for you. \nWhat is Scrum?\nScrum is an agile framework used to get work done. Scrum works in a variety of situations\, but it thrives when either the work or the environment is complex and not as predicable as we would like. Scrum focuses on delivering incrementally in small chunks\, to allow us to learn more and adapt\, rather than just continuing to deliver things that are no longer needed or perhaps never were. \nScrum is based on the principles of inspection\, adaptation\, and transparency. These three principles are the foundation to being success in the face of complexity. Transparency allows people to see issues\, challenges\, and places that can be improved. Inspection and adaptation focus on continuous learning and improvement. Scrum consists of a number of events\, artifacts\, jobs to be done\, and practices. You can read more about Scrum in the Scrum Guide\, which is free to read or download. \nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously. We respect the investment of both time and money that you are making to advance your skills. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques. We also bring energy and fun to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. In this course\, you can expect: \n\nBrain-friendly training to dramatically increase learning and retention (instructors are Certified Training from the Back of the Room Trainers).\nOpportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations.\nIn-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture (we use zero slides)\, this class is NOT for you!\nInteractive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increasing safety and retention — laughing helps learning.\nChallenging work with others that focuses on your real organizational issues.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nWhat is agile and why does it matter: Learn how to discuss agile and scrum with others in your organization and explain why agile is useful and in what contexts.\nDiscuss how complexity and empiricism impact our business decisions and impact our success.\nAnalyze agile principles and values as well as lean principles to understand which are most valuable to you and consider how you could apply them in real life.\nLearn the differences between doing agile practices and being an agile organization.\nPractice using scrum with a simulation where you work as a small team (3-6 people) to create a product.\nLearn the ins-and-outs of scrum events (sprint\, sprint planning\, daily scrum\, sprint review\, sprint retrospective).\nLearn how scrum artifacts and supporting practices help you be successful as well as tips and tricks for doing them well (product backlog\, sprint backlog\, sprint goal\, product goal\, definition of done\, definition of ready\, product increment\, etc.).\nUnderstand what each of the three jobs (not titles) in scrum are\, how they work together\, what they are accountable for\, and what to avoid.\nExplore why scrum values mean little without focusing on the behaviors that support them.\nTrue leadership and servant leadership – what does it mean to lead?\nReality – we expect you to ask the tough questions. We expect you to bring up situations where scrum did not work for you.\nUncover the role of the ScrumMaster regarding impediments and how to first ask the team to solve issues then make the costs transparent!\nReview additional approaches such as facilitation and professional coaching to understand new ways to engage people and teams.\nDiscuss reality: We don’t tell you to “trust us” or include “agile is cool” as a reason to use agile. We EXPECT you to ask hard questions\, as long as you are open to digging into the answers. Scrum is NOT a silver-bullet\, nor is agile. They still require hard work.\n\nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nDetails\nCourse Length: 4 1/2 day sessions (2 full days total) 2-days + pre-work \nLevel: Introductory to Intermediate (ask about more in-depth versions) \nPrerequisites\n\nAn interest in learning and discovering new ideas\nFor the CSM Certification\, see the Certification Requirements section\n\nCourse Credit\n\n16 PMI PDUs\n16 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nQualified to take the CSM Exam (exam fee is included in the course fee)\n\nCertification Requirements\nThe course meets the learning objectives for the Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) Certification Training. This class is one of the requirements to receive the CSM certification from Scrum Alliance. To qualify\, you must: \n\nComplete the class prework.\nAttend and participate in the entire CSM class.\nComplete and pass the CSM exam after completing the class. We will submit your name to Scrum Alliance® after completing the class and you can create a profile and take the exam at that time. We cover everything you need to pass the exam in the course.\n\nCourse Facilitator\nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/certified-scrummaster-csm-training-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Live Virtual
CATEGORIES:Certified ScrumMaster,Courses
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SUMMARY:What is an Actual Impediment? People talk a lot about them\, but is "this" an impediment or not?
DESCRIPTION:Impediments are simply things that slow us down (or maybe even stop us) from moving forward and delivering value. Most people have a large list of impediments in their organization and for themselves. When we are working with organizations\, we typically start by focusing on goals and impediments. What are your goals and then what is holding you back. The challenge is\, that we often end up with just a list of “so called impediments” or “fake impediments” and they often prevent us from improving! They are listed as impediments\, yet\, when we start digging into them\, they become confusing and unclear. In this session\, we are going to have you generate some impediments\, look at some lists of impediments\, and work to categorize and analyze them with a series of steps. The goal of the session is to have a better way to assess impediments and to ensure you are focusing on the real issues!
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/what-is-an-actual-impediment-people-talk-a-lot-about-them-but-is-this-an-impediment-or-not/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Art\, Science and White Magic of Scrum Mastery
DESCRIPTION:For this week’s session\, we will have a special guest\, from our community. Elena Maksumova is going to be presenting this topic at the Global Scrum Gathering in Denver in June. \n  \nArt of Scrum Mastery is often misunderstood\, misinterpreted\, and oversimplified (e.g. to just being a facilitator\, “team admin”\, or “master over Scrum processes”\, etc.). As some of the elements may be helpful\, there is so much more to what a great Scrum Master actually does and more importantly doesn’t do. This session will uncover some of the attributes and competencies of a great Scrum Master beyond the Scrum Guide\, as well as some popular pitfalls to avoid. We will touch on the “Shu Ha Ri” model\, Scrum Master evolution\, and the key role of the Agile mindset in being successful as a Scrum Master. \nWe will be getting the 1st version of the session and she will have a chance to present to a smaller group (and she will be virtual here vs in person at SG). The official session will be a 45 minute session w slides\, I believe\, much like it would be at the conference. So we will kick it on and do an introduction\, etc. like the conference would.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/art-science-and-white-magic-of-scrum-mastery/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Effective Change: Avoiding the Pseudo-Sponsor Trap
DESCRIPTION:Effective sponsorship is critical for successful change. It’s not enough for a leader to authorize or initiate a change. They also need to see it through. Many sponsors fall into the trap of delegating sponsorship tasks to change agents who have the knowledge but not the authority to carry them out. This session explores why this happens\, what problems it causes\, and how sponsors and change agents can avoid this trap.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/effective-change-avoiding-pseudo-sponsor-trap/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Three Types of Pushback during Change
DESCRIPTION:Pushback is a ubiquitous response to change – so much so that effective change leaders expect it and don’t take it personally. Not all pushback is the same\, however. In this session\, we’ll explore three reasons that people might push back against a proposed or announced change\, how those reasons are typically expressed\, and what helpful responses to each of them are.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/three-types-of-pushback-during-change/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220407T140000
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SUMMARY:Getting Curious about Team Conflicts
DESCRIPTION:Conflict is a natural part of working together as a team. When conflict is not handled effectively\, however\, it pulls the team’s attention and energy away from the task at hand. Unfortunately\, we are prone to misdiagnosing the sources of conflict within a group\, and as a result\, we often apply the wrong solutions. We need to go beneath the surface to figure out what’s going on. But how do we avoid going too deep? This session presents a model and method for identifying the most likely means of addressing conflicts in ways that the team will actually accept.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/getting-curious-about-team-conflicts/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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SUMMARY:Flip Chart Club #4
DESCRIPTION:For this session\, we will start off providing you with a few minutes to practice what you have learned while covering some basics for others. For those that have been to a prior session\, we will be looking for you to show us some new icons/images that you have started to draw/practice drawing. If you missed prior sessions\, be on time and you will have a few minutes to catch up on some topics. \nWe will then focus on designing a new poster and then (ideally) creating at least a draft (one we don’t have and you don’t have). We will choose a poster from a concept one of you (attending) suggests or\, if you do not have suggestions\, we will provide a few suggestions for posters that we will need\, but have not created yet. In order to create the poster\, we will discuss the topic\, summarize it\, and then look at options to create the poster. What should be on the poster? When should we add items? What colors? What shapes? \nFor each session going forward\, including this one\, we will: design and ideally create a new poster based on the above; teach you some new concepts\, techniques\, or materials; teach you (we may teach you or one of you may teach others including us) at least 1 new icon/image; revisit any items you are having trouble with. \nRemember – Buy your supplies if you do not have them yet (see the link). Also\, be sure to join the #flipchartclub channel in slack.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/flip-chart-club-4/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jake Calabrese":MAILTO:info@helpingimprove.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220324T110000
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SUMMARY:Working with Command and Control
DESCRIPTION:The idea of ‘command and control’ is one that many have and still do experience. Despite that\, it is not always clear what it means because there are levels to it. There is a clear way-over-the-line type of control\, but often the line is less clear. In this session\, we will dig into the term and what it can mean by looking at what types of statements and behaviors people make when people believe they are ‘using command and control.’ We will explore reasons people may use it and also if it is working or not. Finally\, we will dig into what people have tried to change from command and control and what they might try. This will not be a session that is focusing on complaints about command and control\, rather\, we will be looking at it from both sides and trying to learn how we may approach things differently.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/working-with-command-and-control/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220316T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220316T120000
DTSTAMP:20260426T072633
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SUMMARY:Kanban - Scrum - Scrumban How do they Relate and What is Kanban... Really?
DESCRIPTION:The funny part here is that we have made it all much more complicated (or even chaotic) than it needs to be!  In this session\, we will break Scrum down into the basics elements that it is\, then look at what Kanban really is by looking at its history and principles. We will likely have you do a bit of pre-reading for this one!  We then compare kanban to scrum and event to scrumban – and ideally… you will leave having the clearest and simplest understanding of scrum and kanban that you have ever had – even if you fully understand them both!  Or. . . at least that is the goal! But you tell us. Please read the article on the history of kanban and lean in advance and think about what you think the common theme was in the earlier days of Toyoda and Toyota (bring that to the session!). It is not ‘required’ but will make it a bit easier to dive into the details if you do.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/what-is-kanban-really-and-how-does-it-relate-to-scrum/
CATEGORIES:Learning Lab
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jake Calabrese":MAILTO:info@helpingimprove.com
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84228438647?pwd=TkZHTWR3eHdTQkQ5Ym8zMDQ2MnFwUT09
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220316T170000
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SUMMARY:Agile Leadership: Leading Amazing Teams [LAT] - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Gain critical professional coaching tools\, techniques\, skills\, and ideas that help leaders enable high performing teams.\n\n\nAgile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams for Breakthrough Results\nLeaders today face shifting challenges when helping teams succeed in our complex world. With increasing speed\, change\, and unknowns\, leaders can’t rely on ‘knowing everything’ — there is too much happening. While many leaders realize this\, acting on it to create an environment where teams can thrive and deliver is not simple. Leaders need to bring new and deeper levels of skill and engagement to meet these challenges. \nHigh-performance is more than a catchphrase\, it is a state where teams are self-organizing to solve problems and deliver value to customers. Self-organizing and self-managing are not the same. The process of helping teams reach and maintain high-performance state varies from team to team and organization to organization\, however\, the foundational skills leaders need do not change. \nLeadership – leading to create real empowered high-performance teams. While we want teams to solve many of their own challenges\, leaders play a critical part in this process by helping teams continue to improve and develop. Great leaders engage with people and teams to address issues like conflict head-on\, helping teams find ways to gain from conflict and improve. They don’t have the luxury of telling teams “you are empowered” and walking away – they must do ‘just enough’ to help teams thrive. This requires leaders to have the awareness and protocols in place to know when they might be limiting the team. Agile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams brings critical tools\, techniques\, skills\, and ideas from professional coaching\, brain-based training\, neuroscience\, leadership\, change management\, and much more to help leaders succeed. \nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously and take your decision to spend time advancing your skills and improving yourself seriously. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques\, and bring energy and fun\, to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. \n\n Brain-based training to dramatically increase learning and retention (both instructors are Certified Training From the Back of the Room Trainers)\n Expect to be challenged and look at ways you need to change to help others improve\n Opportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations\n Advanced and cutting-edge skills and techniques to deal with the specific challenges you are facing\n In-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture\, this class is NOT for you!\n Interactive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increase safety and retention – laughing helps learning\n Two Instructors — This course is co-taught as a partnership by two instructors (Tricia Broderick and Jake Calabrese)\, providing additional depth and insight\, varied experiences and learning opportunities\, and real-time lessons around co-leadership\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nUnderstand the connection between leadership and coaching to achieve high performance\nExplain the value of agile coaching and leading with coaching in today’s world\nExplore and practice using a coaching framework to find your leadership stance\nLearn to assess the level of coaching a team requires and when to ask for help\nDemonstrate how to kick off a new team and provide them with a foundation for success\nApply multiple coaching tools and techniques\, in various situations\, to help individuals and teams create and maintain a high performing team\nDispel common Agile Leadership Myths to address real team challenges\nLearn about and practice shifting your mindset to approach leadership challenges from new perspectives that empower teams\nExplore your ability and capacity as a coach and leader and determine what areas you need to improve\nExplore challenges with organizational agility and multiple teams — and opportunities to address the challenges\nExperience new ideas to help teams embrace healthy conflict as normal\nDemonstrate Training from the Back of the Room\, Brain-based training techniques that you can use as a leader\, manager\, or coach to help your teams continuously improve\nApply practices & skills from the field of Professional Coaching and learn how they are critical to your success as a leader\nEstablish and refine a leadership backlog to apply when you return to work\n\nWho Should Attend\n\nAnyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization\nLeaders involved with helping teams succeed\, including leadership teams\, delivery teams\, Scrum teams\, agile teams\, etc.\nDirectors\, VPs\, managers\, development managers\, agile coaches\, executives\, aspiring leaders (with team experience)\n\nDetails\nLength: 3-days + pre-reading assignments that we will use during class \nLocation: Virtual\, via Zoom with Miro for interactive exercises \nLevel: Intermediate to Advanced \nPrerequisites\n\nAnyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization\nLeaders involved with helping teams succeed\, including leadership teams\, delivery teams\, Scrum teams\, agile teams\, etc.\nDirectors\, VPs\, managers\, development managers\, agile coaches\, executives\, aspiring leaders (with team experience)\n\nCourse Credit & Certifications\n\n27 PMI PDUs\n27 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)\nScrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership – Teams (CAL-T)\n\nCourse Facilitators \nLeading Amazing teams is co-trained by Jake Calabrese\, Helping Improve and Tricia Broderick\, Ignite Insight + Innovation. \nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences. \n \nTricia Broderick\nTricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Her transformational leadership at all levels of an organization\, ignites the growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. She is a highly-rated trainer\, coach\, facilitator and motivational keynote speaker. Beyond her extensive knowledge and skills\, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible. Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic\, vulnerable\, engaging and fun way. In 2020\, she founded Ignite Insight & Innovation.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/agile-leadership-leading-amazing-teams-lat-virtual-2/
CATEGORIES:Courses,Leading Amazing Teams
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T151343Z
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SUMMARY:Certified ScrumMaster® [CSM] Training - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Learn the core elements of Scrum and the ScrumMaster role and how Scrum helps teams thrive so they can deliver for customers.\n\n\nCertified ScrumMaster® Training\nA ScrumMaster is someone who works to help the Scrum Team and the organization continuously improve. This work includes helping to remove organizational impediments that slow the team down\, or making the impediments transparent (everyone agrees they are okay going slower). They are not a project manager\, given they are not accountable for delivery of a project. Instead they are accountable to help everyone on the team improve and help create an environment and structure where they can thrive and deliver for customers. \nStudents will work on engaging exercises and a simulation (to keep things fun and interesting) throughout the class. These activities provide opportunities to think and experience Scrum concepts by working on them in small groups. Throughout the course\, we will dig into real life situations and tackle tough questions. Our approach is reality based\, and we expect students to push back and challenge concepts that don’t work in their organization. Expect to work in various groups and be engaged throughout the course. We never use slides – so if you planned for a nap\, this is the wrong class for you. \nWhat is Scrum?\nScrum is an agile framework used to get work done. Scrum works in a variety of situations\, but it thrives when either the work or the environment is complex and not as predicable as we would like. Scrum focuses on delivering incrementally in small chunks\, to allow us to learn more and adapt\, rather than just continuing to deliver things that are no longer needed or perhaps never were. \nScrum is based on the principles of inspection\, adaptation\, and transparency. These three principles are the foundation to being success in the face of complexity. Transparency allows people to see issues\, challenges\, and places that can be improved. Inspection and adaptation focus on continuous learning and improvement. Scrum consists of a number of events\, artifacts\, jobs to be done\, and practices. You can read more about Scrum in the Scrum Guide\, which is free to read or download. \nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously. We respect the investment of both time and money that you are making to advance your skills. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques. We also bring energy and fun to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. In this course\, you can expect: \n\nBrain-friendly training to dramatically increase learning and retention (instructors are Certified Training from the Back of the Room Trainers).\nOpportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations.\nIn-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture (we use zero slides)\, this class is NOT for you!\nInteractive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increasing safety and retention — laughing helps learning.\nChallenging work with others that focuses on your real organizational issues.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nWhat is agile and why does it matter: Learn how to discuss agile and scrum with others in your organization and explain why agile is useful and in what contexts.\nDiscuss how complexity and empiricism impact our business decisions and impact our success.\nAnalyze agile principles and values as well as lean principles to understand which are most valuable to you and consider how you could apply them in real life.\nLearn the differences between doing agile practices and being an agile organization.\nPractice using scrum with a simulation where you work as a small team (3-6 people) to create a product.\nLearn the ins-and-outs of scrum events (sprint\, sprint planning\, daily scrum\, sprint review\, sprint retrospective).\nLearn how scrum artifacts and supporting practices help you be successful as well as tips and tricks for doing them well (product backlog\, sprint backlog\, sprint goal\, product goal\, definition of done\, definition of ready\, product increment\, etc.).\nUnderstand what each of the three jobs (not titles) in scrum are\, how they work together\, what they are accountable for\, and what to avoid.\nExplore why scrum values mean little without focusing on the behaviors that support them.\nTrue leadership and servant leadership – what does it mean to lead?\nReality – we expect you to ask the tough questions. We expect you to bring up situations where scrum did not work for you.\nUncover the role of the ScrumMaster regarding impediments and how to first ask the team to solve issues then make the costs transparent!\nReview additional approaches such as facilitation and professional coaching to understand new ways to engage people and teams.\nDiscuss reality: We don’t tell you to “trust us” or include “agile is cool” as a reason to use agile. We EXPECT you to ask hard questions\, as long as you are open to digging into the answers. Scrum is NOT a silver-bullet\, nor is agile. They still require hard work.\n\nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nDetails\nCourse Length: 4 1/2 day sessions (2 full days total) 2-days + pre-work \nLevel: Introductory to Intermediate (ask about more in-depth versions) \nPrerequisites\n\nAn interest in learning and discovering new ideas\nFor the CSM Certification\, see the Certification Requirements section\n\nCourse Credit\n\n16 PMI PDUs\n16 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nQualified to take the CSM Exam (exam fee is included in the course fee)\n\nCertification Requirements\nThe course meets the learning objectives for the Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) Certification Training. This class is one of the requirements to receive the CSM certification from Scrum Alliance. To qualify\, you must: \n\nComplete the class prework.\nAttend and participate in the entire CSM class.\nComplete and pass the CSM exam after completing the class. We will submit your name to Scrum Alliance® after completing the class and you can create a profile and take the exam at that time. We cover everything you need to pass the exam in the course.\n\nCourse Facilitator\nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/certified-scrummaster-csm-training-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Certified ScrumMaster,Courses
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220209T170000
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SUMMARY:Agile Facilitation - Advanced CSM Training [A-CSM]
DESCRIPTION:Looking for an interactive\, fun\, interesting course focused not just on answers but on how to engage others and tap into their knowledge?\n\n\nAgile Facilitation Training (with A-CSM) \nWe often hear the question\, “How do we help our teams improve?” when working in organizations. Facilitation skills play a crucial role in this process. They help in more subtle and lasting ways than using positional power to tell people what to do. One of the critical challenges is learning how to help bring people together to deliver value without taking ownership. Bringing people together goes beyond getting consensus. Getting to collaboration means tapping into the knowledge and wisdom of the entire team. \nAgile Facilitation (with A-CSM) helps ScrumMasters and other Agile leaders with the real day-to-day challenges of helping teams and organizations grow and improve. Throughout the course\, you will use hands-on\, engaging exercises to learn and expand your knowledge of how to: \n\nFacilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner\, team members\, customers\, stakeholders\, and executives.\nRespond confidently when encountering resistance to change\, lack of engagement\, low motivation\, and people’s unavailability.\nIncrease engagement to encourage greater accountability\, commitment\, and buy-in.\nHave valuable agile scaling conversations.\n\nThroughout this course\, you will work through exercises based on common agile and organizational challenges. You will have the opportunity to design and facilitate sessions\, assess and explore conflict models\, assess areas for your own personal development (which is critical for leaders)\, and experience a live professional coaching session to begin to understand the power of professional coaching for leaders and ScrumMasters. \n\n\nThis course is designed for anyone who\n\nWants to explore new approaches and concepts that help them improve as a leader\nIs interested in learning how to use facilitation techniques to increase team engagement\nUnderstands the basics of scrum and wants to look at root cause issues behind surface level challenges\nHas an interest in improving themselves so they are not – inadvertently – the impediment to progress\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nUnderstand how facilitation helps leaders achieve high-performance teams\nExplain the value of facilitation and all aspects involved in great facilitation\nExamine common facilitation challenges to improve your results\nDispel common servant leadership myths to avoid common leadership errors\nIdentify what drives you as a team leader\nDiscover what drives your team towards shared ownership\nDefine what it means to be a high-performance team\nPractice designing\, facilitating\, and evaluating several events using multiple facilitation tools and techniques\nExplore key scrum challenges and gain techniques to deal with topics such as conflict\, listening\, collaboration\, and decision making\nRecognize various scaling approaches and discuss when to scale\nObserve and evaluate the differences between coaching and other approaches\nEvaluate how engineering principles and practices can help teams collaborate and deliver value\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously and take your decision to spend time advancing your skills and improving yourself seriously. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques\, and bring energy and fun\, to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. \n\nBrain-based training to dramatically increase learning and retention (all instructors are Certified in Training From the Back of the Room training)\nExpect to be challenged and look at ways you need to change to help others improve\nOpportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations\nAdvanced and cutting-edge skills and techniques to deal with the specific challenges you are facing\nIn-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture\, this class is NOT for you!\nInteractive\, fun\, and experiential learning – increasing safety and retention – laughing helps learning\nAccess to an online community of course alumni to support your continued learning\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend\nThis course welcomes anyone who wants to level up their facilitation skills and techniques or is interested in bringing new approaches to their leadership style\, including: \n\nScrumMasters\, agile coaches\, product owners\, product managers\nFacilitators\, agile team members\nLeaders and others in the organization who are looking for ways to tap into more of their peoples’ knowledge\n\n\n\nA-CSM Certification Requirements\nThe course meets the learning objectives for the Scrum Alliance Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) Certification Training. This class is one of the requirements to receive the A-CSM certification. To qualify\, you must: \n\nHave an active Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification with the Scrum Alliance.\nComplete the class prework.\nAttend and participate in the entire A-CSM class.\nDocument at least 12 months of experience as a ScrumMaster on your Scrum Alliance Profile. Note: If you do not meet this requirement\, you can take the class and document the experience as you get it. You will not receive the certification until the documentation is complete.\n\nThe A-CSM is an advanced course on the path to certification as a Certified Scrum Professional. Read more about the A-CSM and Scrum Alliance Certification process or read all of the A-CSM Learning Objectives. \n\n\n\n\nDetails\nCourse Length: 2-days + pre-reading assignments \nLevel: Intermediate \nPre-Requisites to Qualify for A-CSM via Scrum Alliance\n\nHave an active CSM with the Scrum Alliance\n12 months experience as a ScrumMaster (or similar role)\n\nNote: Anyone may attend\, but you need the above items to receive the A-CSM. \nCourse Credit\n\n16 PMI PDUs\n16 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nQualified for to apply for the Scrum Alliance – Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) *see Pre-Requisites.\n\nCertifications\n\nScrum Alliance \n\n\n\nCourse Facilitators \n\n\n\nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/agile-facilitation-advanced-csm-training-a-csm/
CATEGORIES:Agile Facilitation Training with A-CSM,Courses
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SUMMARY:Certified ScrumMaster® [CSM] Training - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Learn the core elements of Scrum and the ScrumMaster role and how Scrum helps teams thrive so they can deliver for customers.\n\n\nCertified ScrumMaster® Training\nA ScrumMaster is someone who works to help the Scrum Team and the organization continuously improve. This work includes helping to remove organizational impediments that slow the team down\, or making the impediments transparent (everyone agrees they are okay going slower). They are not a project manager\, given they are not accountable for delivery of a project. Instead they are accountable to help everyone on the team improve and help create an environment and structure where they can thrive and deliver for customers. \nStudents will work on engaging exercises and a simulation (to keep things fun and interesting) throughout the class. These activities provide opportunities to think and experience Scrum concepts by working on them in small groups. Throughout the course\, we will dig into real life situations and tackle tough questions. Our approach is reality based\, and we expect students to push back and challenge concepts that don’t work in their organization. Expect to work in various groups and be engaged throughout the course. We never use slides – so if you planned for a nap\, this is the wrong class for you. \nWhat is Scrum?\nScrum is an agile framework used to get work done. Scrum works in a variety of situations\, but it thrives when either the work or the environment is complex and not as predicable as we would like. Scrum focuses on delivering incrementally in small chunks\, to allow us to learn more and adapt\, rather than just continuing to deliver things that are no longer needed or perhaps never were. \nScrum is based on the principles of inspection\, adaptation\, and transparency. These three principles are the foundation to being success in the face of complexity. Transparency allows people to see issues\, challenges\, and places that can be improved. Inspection and adaptation focus on continuous learning and improvement. Scrum consists of a number of events\, artifacts\, jobs to be done\, and practices. You can read more about Scrum in the Scrum Guide\, which is free to read or download. \nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously. We respect the investment of both time and money that you are making to advance your skills. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques. We also bring energy and fun to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. In this course\, you can expect: \n\nBrain-friendly training to dramatically increase learning and retention (instructors are Certified Training from the Back of the Room Trainers).\nOpportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations.\nIn-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture (we use zero slides)\, this class is NOT for you!\nInteractive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increasing safety and retention — laughing helps learning.\nChallenging work with others that focuses on your real organizational issues.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nWhat is agile and why does it matter: Learn how to discuss agile and scrum with others in your organization and explain why agile is useful and in what contexts.\nDiscuss how complexity and empiricism impact our business decisions and impact our success.\nAnalyze agile principles and values as well as lean principles to understand which are most valuable to you and consider how you could apply them in real life.\nLearn the differences between doing agile practices and being an agile organization.\nPractice using scrum with a simulation where you work as a small team (3-6 people) to create a product.\nLearn the ins-and-outs of scrum events (sprint\, sprint planning\, daily scrum\, sprint review\, sprint retrospective).\nLearn how scrum artifacts and supporting practices help you be successful as well as tips and tricks for doing them well (product backlog\, sprint backlog\, sprint goal\, product goal\, definition of done\, definition of ready\, product increment\, etc.).\nUnderstand what each of the three jobs (not titles) in scrum are\, how they work together\, what they are accountable for\, and what to avoid.\nExplore why scrum values mean little without focusing on the behaviors that support them.\nTrue leadership and servant leadership – what does it mean to lead?\nReality – we expect you to ask the tough questions. We expect you to bring up situations where scrum did not work for you.\nUncover the role of the ScrumMaster regarding impediments and how to first ask the team to solve issues then make the costs transparent!\nReview additional approaches such as facilitation and professional coaching to understand new ways to engage people and teams.\nDiscuss reality: We don’t tell you to “trust us” or include “agile is cool” as a reason to use agile. We EXPECT you to ask hard questions\, as long as you are open to digging into the answers. Scrum is NOT a silver-bullet\, nor is agile. They still require hard work.\n\nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants a foundational knowledge of scrum and what scrum is in practice. \n\nScrumMasters\, Agile Coaches\, Product Owners\nScrum team members\, agile team members\nArchitects\, business analysts\, database administrators\, developers\, operations and support\, quality assurance testers\, usability specialists\, etc.\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our CSM class covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to this group. See our Agile Beyond Software course for more information.\n\nDetails\nCourse Length: 4 1/2 day sessions (2 full days total) 2-days + pre-work \nLevel: Introductory to Intermediate (ask about more in-depth versions) \nPrerequisites\n\nAn interest in learning and discovering new ideas\nFor the CSM Certification\, see the Certification Requirements section\n\nCourse Credit\n\n16 PMI PDUs\n16 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nQualified to take the CSM Exam (exam fee is included in the course fee)\n\nCertification Requirements\nThe course meets the learning objectives for the Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) Certification Training. This class is one of the requirements to receive the CSM certification from Scrum Alliance. To qualify\, you must: \n\nComplete the class prework.\nAttend and participate in the entire CSM class.\nComplete and pass the CSM exam after completing the class. We will submit your name to Scrum Alliance® after completing the class and you can create a profile and take the exam at that time. We cover everything you need to pass the exam in the course.\n\nCourse Facilitator\nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/certified-scrummaster-csm-training/
CATEGORIES:Certified ScrumMaster,Courses
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SUMMARY:Agile Leadership: Leading Amazing Teams [LAT] - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Gain critical professional coaching tools\, techniques\, skills\, and ideas that help leaders enable high performing teams.\n\n\nAgile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams for Breakthrough Results\nLeaders today face shifting challenges when helping teams succeed in our complex world. With increasing speed\, change\, and unknowns\, leaders can’t rely on ‘knowing everything’ — there is too much happening. While many leaders realize this\, acting on it to create an environment where teams can thrive and deliver is not simple. Leaders need to bring new and deeper levels of skill and engagement to meet these challenges. \nHigh-performance is more than a catchphrase\, it is a state where teams are self-organizing to solve problems and deliver value to customers. Self-organizing and self-managing are not the same. The process of helping teams reach and maintain high-performance state varies from team to team and organization to organization\, however\, the foundational skills leaders need do not change. \nLeadership – leading to create real empowered high-performance teams. While we want teams to solve many of their own challenges\, leaders play a critical part in this process by helping teams continue to improve and develop. Great leaders engage with people and teams to address issues like conflict head-on\, helping teams find ways to gain from conflict and improve. They don’t have the luxury of telling teams “you are empowered” and walking away – they must do ‘just enough’ to help teams thrive. This requires leaders to have the awareness and protocols in place to know when they might be limiting the team. Agile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams brings critical tools\, techniques\, skills\, and ideas from professional coaching\, brain-based training\, neuroscience\, leadership\, change management\, and much more to help leaders succeed. \nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously and take your decision to spend time advancing your skills and improving yourself seriously. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques\, and bring energy and fun\, to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. \n\n Brain-based training to dramatically increase learning and retention (both instructors are Certified Training From the Back of the Room Trainers)\n Expect to be challenged and look at ways you need to change to help others improve\n Opportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations\n Advanced and cutting-edge skills and techniques to deal with the specific challenges you are facing\n In-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture\, this class is NOT for you!\n Interactive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increase safety and retention – laughing helps learning\n Two Instructors — This course is co-taught as a partnership by two instructors (Tricia Broderick and Jake Calabrese)\, providing additional depth and insight\, varied experiences and learning opportunities\, and real-time lessons around co-leadership\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nUnderstand the connection between leadership and coaching to achieve high performance\nExplain the value of agile coaching and leading with coaching in today’s world\nExplore and practice using a coaching framework to find your leadership stance\nLearn to assess the level of coaching a team requires and when to ask for help\nDemonstrate how to kick off a new team and provide them with a foundation for success\nApply multiple coaching tools and techniques\, in various situations\, to help individuals and teams create and maintain a high performing team\nDispel common Agile Leadership Myths to address real team challenges\nLearn about and practice shifting your mindset to approach leadership challenges from new perspectives that empower teams\nExplore your ability and capacity as a coach and leader and determine what areas you need to improve\nExplore challenges with organizational agility and multiple teams — and opportunities to address the challenges\nExperience new ideas to help teams embrace healthy conflict as normal\nDemonstrate Training from the Back of the Room\, Brain-based training techniques that you can use as a leader\, manager\, or coach to help your teams continuously improve\nApply practices & skills from the field of Professional Coaching and learn how they are critical to your success as a leader\nEstablish and refine a leadership backlog to apply when you return to work\n\nWho Should Attend\n\nAnyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization\nLeaders involved with helping teams succeed\, including leadership teams\, delivery teams\, Scrum teams\, agile teams\, etc.\nDirectors\, VPs\, managers\, development managers\, agile coaches\, executives\, aspiring leaders (with team experience)\n\nDetails\nLength: 3-days + pre-reading assignments that we will use during class \nLocation: Virtual\, via Zoom with Miro for interactive exercises \nLevel: Intermediate to Advanced \nPrerequisites\n\nAnyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization\nLeaders involved with helping teams succeed\, including leadership teams\, delivery teams\, Scrum teams\, agile teams\, etc.\nDirectors\, VPs\, managers\, development managers\, agile coaches\, executives\, aspiring leaders (with team experience)\n\nCourse Credit & Certifications\n\n27 PMI PDUs\n27 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)\nScrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership – Teams (CAL-T)\n\nCourse Facilitators \nLeading Amazing teams is co-trained by Jake Calabrese\, Helping Improve and Tricia Broderick\, Ignite Insight + Innovation. \nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences. \n \nTricia Broderick\nTricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Her transformational leadership at all levels of an organization\, ignites the growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. She is a highly-rated trainer\, coach\, facilitator and motivational keynote speaker. Beyond her extensive knowledge and skills\, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible. Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic\, vulnerable\, engaging and fun way. In 2020\, she founded Ignite Insight & Innovation.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/agile-leadership-leading-amazing-teams-lat-virtual/
CATEGORIES:Courses,Leading Amazing Teams
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SUMMARY:Certified Scrum Product Owner [CSPO®] Training
DESCRIPTION:Learn the how the Scrum Product Owner (Scrum’s version of a Product Manager) engages with stakeholders & helps the Scrum Team deliver value\n\n\nCertified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) Training\nThe product owner\, in scrum\, is accountable for maximizing the value for that product\, through the work of the scrum team. The product owner is scrum’s name for a product manager. The product owner engages with customers\, other stakeholders\, and the scrum team to create a product backlog and to prioritize the work in the product backlog. The scrum product owner’s approach to doing this work differs in a few key ways from older\, less flexible approaches. \nSpecifically\, the product owner: \n\nclearly articulates and communicates the product vision or goal. The scrum team\, which includes the people building the product or service\, understand what they are building and why.\nprioritizes the backlog by ordering all items against each other. There is not two “#1s” or ten. The backlog items are ordered as 1\, 2\, 3\, 4\, 5\, … 40 … and so on. They make decisions about what is more or less important.\ncreates transparency around the product backlog and the product backlog items\, so that it is visible and available to everyone involved.\n\nWhile these ideas are often what people aim for or espouse to\, the scrum product owner does them. Without transparency of work\, clear decisions on priorities\, and clarity of goal\, we can’t expect teams to be engaged and deliver. The scrum product owner understands this and is accountable to provide these to the scrum team and organization. \nThroughout the course\, you will have an opportunity to engage in practical\, reality-based work with small groups. Explore what the product owner is accountable for in the scrum framework\, learn new ways to engage customers to understand what they truly need\, and create product backlog items and refine them. You will have the opportunity to dig into the tough questions about project vs product thinking and create dialogue in your organization about the problem of too much work in process. \n\n\nWhat is  Scrum?\nScrum is an agile framework used to get work done. Scrum works in a variety of situations\, but it thrives when either the work or the environment is complex and not as predicable as we would like. Scrum focuses on delivering incrementally in small chunks\, to allow us to learn more and adapt\, rather than just continuing to deliver things that are no longer needed or perhaps never were. \nScrum is based on the principles of inspection\, adaptation\, and transparency. These three principles are the foundation to being success in the face of complexity. Transparency allows people to see issues\, challenges\, and places that can be improved. Inspection and adaptation focus on continuous learning and improvement. Scrum consists of a number of events\, artifacts\, jobs to be done\, and practices. You can read more about Scrum in the Scrum Guide\, which is free to read or download. \n\n\nWho Should Attend\nThis course should be attended by anyone who wants to understand what the product owner role is and how the product owner does their job. \n\nProduct Owners\, Product Managers\, Business Analysts\, QA Testers\nAgile Coaches\, Scrum Masters \nScrum team members\, agile team members\nManagers\, directors\, and others tasked with helping teams succeed with scrum and agile (very hard to do if you do not understand it)\nAnyone outside of software or IT: Our product owner training covers topics and examples that are applicable to those outside of software. We also offer training specifically geared to product management and product ownership outside of software\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe take training and learning seriously. We respect the investment of both time and money that you are making to advance your skills. As such\, we use the latest training approaches and techniques. We also bring energy and fun to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible. In this course\, you can expect: \n\nBrain-friendly training to dramatically increase learning and retention (instructors are Certified Training from the Back of the Room Trainers).\nOpportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations.\nIn-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture (we use zero slides)\, this class is NOT for you!\nInteractive\, fun\, and experiential learning — increasing safety and retention — laughing helps learning.\nChallenging work with others that focuses on your real organizational issues.\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\n\nExamine where typical product owner (product manager) roles align with the Scrum Framework\nCompare the types of business decisions you and your organization make and decide if those are sufficient\nIllustrate how risks and assumptions are handled in Scrum by product owners (product managers); summarize how agile adds value and the types of value\nReview common reasons why visions and product goals are not motivating and discuss characteristics that make up good visions\nCompare types of stakeholders and contrast stakeholder analysis approaches\nLearn how customer segmentation is often done wrong and a better approach to understanding customer needs\nAnalyze a case study for stakeholders jobs\, pains and gains\, and review the impact in your work\nLearn the key attributes of a product backlog and analyze a bad product backlog and find errors\nExplore the differences between products and projects and how they impact risk\nUncover the simplicity and challenge of handling multiple products in one backlog with one or more teams\n\nTake an in-depth look at backlog refinement and what it means to have backlog items ready for sprint planning\n\nIllustrate the typical problems with ‘epics’ and why they don’t typically add any value; then learn about a better option to help slice epics\n\nAnalyze a project request for valuable features\, then create detailed assessments and a feature backlog\n\nBreak down features into stories and compile a list of user stories\n\nSlice user stories into smaller parts\, using multiple refinement approaches; explain what a vertical slice is and its value\n\nLearn exactly what the definition of done should be\, why it is challenging\, and understand the pros and cons of multiple definitions of done\n\nLearn why a product backlog is almost never sufficient and how roadmaps\, release maps\, and Product Boards present much more clarity and content for teams\, product owners (product managers)\, and stakeholders — and how to create one\n\n\n\nDetails\nCourse Length: 2 full day sessions  8:30AM-5:00PM Arizona Time (a total of 2 days ) + pre-work \nLevel: Introductory to Intermediate (ask about more in-depth versions) \nPrerequisites\n\nAn interest in learning and discovering new ideas\nDesire to engage with other and participate throughout the course\n\nCourse Credit\n\n15 PMI PDUs\n15 Scrum Alliance SEUs\nQualified to become a CSPO (registration fee is included in the course fee)\n\n\n\nCourse Facilitator \n\n\n\nJake Calabrese\nJake is a coach\, trainer\, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC)\, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)\, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)\, and Professional Certified Coach (PCC)\, and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean\, professional coaching\, neuroscience\, psychology\, facilitation\, brain-based training\, improvisation\, agile\, kanban\, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile\, Scrum Gathering\, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/certified-scrum-product-owner-cspo-training/
CATEGORIES:Certified Scrum Product Owner,Courses
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SUMMARY:Learning Lab: Change/Product/Project Management & Leadership
DESCRIPTION:What is change leadership? Change management? Project management? Product management? How do all these terms align\, relate\, overlap\, or contradict?. Let’s get clear on these concepts and terms and discuss how they may influence success – one way or another.
URL:https://helpingimprove.com/event/change-product-project-management-leadership/
CATEGORIES:L2,Learning Lab
ORGANIZER;CN="Jake Calabrese":MAILTO:info@helpingimprove.com
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81471247288?pwd=OTM3dnVGWm96WDRuRncwVFBaRG12UT09
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