Don’t settle for “business as usual”. Rise to the challenge and give yourself and your team a competitive edge!
This class meets two consecutive days. Thursday October 16 & and Friday October 17, 2025
This course is designed by an experienced Agile practitioner with 15 years of hands-on expertise in Scrum concepts. As a Professional Scrum Master and PMP, Anita brings a deep understanding of Agile principles and their transformative impact on teams and organizations, doubling the amount of value created and in half the time!
This course is crafted to not just teach Scrum, but to help you embed agile concepts into your way of thinking and working culture for continuous improvement and success.
Throughout this course, you’ll gain insights and actionable strategies to implement Scrum effectively, whether you’re new to Agile or looking to refine your approach. We’ll explore real-world applications, tackle common challenges, and ensure you leave with a firm grasp of the framework.
As a key resource, Jeff Sutherland’s book, and website Scrum.org will serve as your go-to references. The site provides a wealth of materials, including:
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- Comprehensive Scrum Guides that define principles, roles, and responsibilities.
- Industry-recognized certifications to validate your expertise in Agile practices.
- Community forums and discussions where professionals share insights and best practices.
- Free learning tools, including blogs, case studies, and open assessments to test your Scrum knowledge.
- What are the best current agile books including ‘Mastering Professional Scrum’ by Ockerman.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence and skills to drive Agile transformations in your teams, delivering high-quality results with efficiency and collaboration at the core. Ready to take your adaptive mastery to the next level?
Key concepts:
- Determining the right approach for each project.
- Creating success criteria with multiple stakeholders.
- Working hands-on with the Agile concepts, understanding each step of a basic process.
- Building and communicating measures for steady progress and successful deliveries.
- Creating high performance Agile teams.
- Gathering and grouping deliverables into a successful sprint.
- Defining quality/benefits for Agile projects.
- Building an Agile mindset and learn how to transfer to others.
Agile projects
- What’s what in Agile methodologies and certifications
- Graphs showing the difference in project management methods
- Change-driven methods vs predicative or traditional project management:
- Agile / Scrum
- Lean
- Kanban
- Case studies
Value to the business
- How to size Agile projects for the correct number of team members
- Understanding the value of now
- Forecasting costs plus tracking benefits
- Eliminate waste
- Determine early the point of no added value
Stakeholder and management oversight
- Key roles defined for all Agile team members
- Contributing to and monitoring Agile projects
- When to stay out and when to step in
- Leveraging ongoing stakeholder involvement
High level processes
- Scope
- Backlog development
- Sprints setups
- Design, build and configurations
- Test and deploy
Requirements
- Storyboards for Agile, creating a DEEP backlog
- User stories and other techniques
- Elicit Agile size deliverables
- Grouping deliverables – the negotiation dance
- Determining the point of “good enough”
- Testing user stories with INVEST
Quality
- Demoing, testing – Live feedback loop
- Success criteria
- Get out of jail free card
The whole team
- The Agility and lean mindset blend
- Agile leaders’ characteristics
- Logistics and daily activities
- Tight team dynamics
- How to improve Agile teams
Team meetings
- Determine sprint size and daily meetings
- Agile “poker” cards for estimating
- Re-prioritizing the remaining work plan (backlog)
- Retrospective reviews
Burn-up or burn-down charts
- Define key agile metrics
- Graphing methods and tools
- Cadence – velocity
- Pick up the pace
- Successes early and late
Integration topics / addressing other project management deliverables
- Frequent collaboration
- Number of outstanding defects
- Change management
- Procurement
- Project charters
- Risks
- Issues
- Communication plans
If you are struggling to keep up with the speed of the customer, and your competitor, consider exploring the project methodology of Agile. Adjustments based on customer requests, the drive for improved efficiencies, the time from order to creation to delivery – all these measurements are being sandwiched into smaller and shorter increments. It doesn’t work everywhere, and it’s not brand-new. It’s a framework that when applied in the appropriate projects, can be the difference of survival for your company.
This course is designed for a wide range of professionals eager to strengthen their Agile skills, including Project Managers & Scrum Masters looking to refine their ability to facilitate Agile and hybrid projects., developers, designers, & testers who want to collaborate more effectively within a Scrum team, product owners & business analysts aiming to improve stakeholder engagement and product delivery, Executives & managers seeking to drive Agile transformations, anyone transitioning to Agile—whether from traditional project management or starting fresh with Agile.
“I learned excellent overall concepts which I am able to bring back to the workplace, share with with my colleagues and implement right away. Looking forward to other great classes with CMD.”
Jason Popp, Product Owner, Cargill
“The class is so good and I will recommend my manager to try to schedule it for all our entire team. “
Nancy N. Taha, EHS Manager, Pfizer McPherson KS
“This class was probably the most challenging class I have taken within the Project Management Certification program. I loved Anita and her real world examples. She tailored the class to our experience with Agile Projects and pushed all of us to think outside the box. You could see the progress that was made throughout the class by each individual person. I found her insights and knowledge very valuable.”
Jenna Ginest, USD 259, Wichita, Kansas
As a key resource, Jeff Sutherland’s book, and website Scrum.org will serve as your go-to references. The site provides a wealth of materials, including:
-
- Comprehensive Scrum Guides that define principles, roles, and responsibilities.
- Industry-recognized certifications to validate your expertise in Agile practices.
- Community forums and discussions where professionals share insights and best practices.
- Free learning tools, including blogs, case studies, and open assessments to test your Scrum knowledge.
- What are the best current agile books including ‘Mastering Professional Scrum’ by Ockerman.
Substitutions are free and must be done prior to the start of the class or certificate program.
Cancellations or rescheduling must be received in writing and full refunds will be given up to four business days prior to the start of class.
Any cancellation or reschedule submitted with three or less business days notice is subject to a $35 charge on 1 or 2 day classes and a $75 charge on certificate programs.
No refunds after the first day of the class or certificate program.
If your team or department need to understand and determine how to apply AGILE, we can have this program at your facility. Let’s explore the possibilities! Denise.Sherman@wichita.edu