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- Definition of done - when is it really, really done?
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- Scrum is often a waste of money
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- Three things that make a daily scrum a waste of time
- Why is Innovation and Entrepreneurship important?
- Don't give up on remote teams!
- How to help your agile teams find the better way
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- Line Management is not "Agile"
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast, so what’s your team eating?
- Getting to ‘no’ – better products through disagreement
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- Do you own your product?
- Scrum vs Kanban - there's no big difference
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- I'm a product owner not a feature owner
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- Diversity and Inclusion – It makes business agility sense
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- Leading SAFe 5.1 (SA1206US) (Copy)
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- Applying Professional Scrum (APS1108)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM0124)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner Advanced (PSPOA0321)
Agile Training
- Introduction to Agile Training Course
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- Professional Agile Leadership Essentials
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- Agile Leadership Development
Case studies
- Financial Times case study - Customer focus delivery
- Elsevier case study - Agile training programme
- RetailMeNot case study
- Global Radio Case Study
- BBC iPlayer case study - focusing team vision
- MyMeds&Me - Case Study
- Historic England case study
- True Clarity case study
- RSA case study - global digital teams
- BBC Academy BA Programme Case Study
- Salmon and Sainsbury's case study
- RS Components Case Study - Digital Teams
- LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor case study
- LifeWorks Agile Product Delivery
- Global pharmaceutical organisation Case Study - Marketing Teams
- National Supermarket Tech Product
- Fintech Scale-up Customer Success Story
- National Newspaper Case Study
Faqs
- What is agile?
- What is Kanban?
- What is a product increment?
- What is a scrum master?
- What is behaviour driven development (BDD)?
- What is the difference between Scrum and agile?
- What is the difference between agile and agility?
- What is a sprint?
- What is a product backlog?
- What is a sprint backlog?
- What is a product owner?
- What is a product roadmap?
- What is a daily stand up / daily scrum?
- Can I claim PDUs for a course?
- What PSM certifications do I need?
- What is a sprint retrospective?
- What is an agile development team?
- What is sprint planning?
- What is a sprint review?
- What is Scrum framework?
- What is a product led company?
- What is the difference between Scrum and Kanban?
- What is an agile coach?
- What is the difference between UX and UI?
- What is the definition of done?
- What problems to be expected when implementing Scrum?
- How many scrum teams per scrum master?
- What is the difference between a daily stand up and a daily scrum?
- Who attends what event in scrum?
- Incremental Vs iterative development?
- How do 7 Lean wastes apply to software?
- What is business agility?
- What is an agile architect?
- What is an agile business analyst?
- What makes a good agile practitioner?
- What are the Scrum Values?
- What is a sprint goal?
- What problems to expect when implementing Scrum?
- What is a backlog item?
- What is product backlog refinement?
- What is servant leadership?
- What is a user story?
- Why do OKRs support business agility?
- What scaling agile frameworks are available?
- What is a task?
- What is a stakeholder?
- When do Scrum.org 2nd free attempts expire?
- How do scrum teams manage technical debt?
- What is a self-organising team?
- How do scrum masters facilitate events?
- How does an empirical process work?
- What’s different between coaching and mentoring?
- What is a definition of ready?
- What is a cross-functional team?
- How do scrum teams work with stakeholders and customers?
- How do I plan a release in Scrum?
- How do scrum teams deliver value?
- What is SAFe?
- What are the roles in SAFe?
- What SAFe training courses are available?
- What is a stakeholder?
- What is an Agile Release Train?
- What are the 10 essential SAFe elements?
- How do I start implementing SAFe?
- What is a Live Virtual Classroom (LVC)?
- What is virtual agile coaching?
- How could I run PI Planning when everyone is working remotely?
- What is single threaded ownership (STO)?
- What is the difference between vision, mission & programme?
- What is eXtreme Programming (XP)?
- What is tech product?
- How can I smash my tech product interview?
- What is a digital company?
- What is a lever?
- What is minimum viable product (MVP)?
- What is an RTE in SAFe?
- What is business model innovation?
- What is an agile culture?
- What is peak end theory?
- What’s the difference between Opex and Capex?
- What’s the difference between business owner, product manager and a product owner?
- Why does page speed matter in tech product?
- Why should I keep my tech product simple?
- What is DSDM Atern?
- What's the best approach to tech product discovery?
- What is an operating rhythm?
- How do I write a tech product vision?
- What is a tech product bet?
- What is DevOps?
- What is the difference between a Product Manager and a Product Owner in SAFe?
- What is the biggest mistake a company can make in product management?
- How can I measure success with OKRs?
- What is a tech product persona?
- How can I use a persona to pivot?
- What are the SAFe events?
- What's the difference between a target and an outcome?
- What metrics will help my agile team?
- What’s an ‘Individual Contributor’?
- What are the stories, features, capabilities, and epics in SAFe?
- What are lead and lag indicators?
- How does Conway’s Law apply to Tech Product?
- How can I gather the information to build a tech product strategy?
- How do I write an agile business strategy?
- How does weighted shortest job first (WSJF) work?
- What is a proxy product owner?
- How can product managers make the time to run experiments?
- How can I scale a digital business?
- What is a digital product experiment?
- What is a moonshot?
- What is a tech product roadmap?
- What is a quarterly planning event and how could I run one?
- How should I start a tech product delivery?
- How can I write a good tech product manager CV?
- How should I interview a tech product manager?
- What's the difference between an internal and external product?
- What are story points?
- What is the sprint review canvas?
- How can I combine technical practices of extreme programming (XP) with Scrum?
- Why is estimation part of refinement and not sprint planning?
- Can a scrum master also be a line manager?
- What is Evidence Based Management?
- How can I use marginal gains to improve tech product?
- What is an Immersive Learning Dojo?
Courses
- Behaviour Driven Development (2016-11-16)
- Professional Scrum Master Training (2017-06-19)
- Professional Scrum Master April 2017
- PSPO Training March (2017-03-20)
- Professional Scrum Master Training August (2017-08-07)
- Professional Scrum Master Training (2017-09-25)
- Professional Scrum Master Training (2017-11-06)
- Professional Scrum Master Training (2017-12-11)
- PSPO Training July (2017-07-10)
- PSPO Training September (2017-09-11)
- PSPO Training November (2017-11-13)
- PSPO Training January (2018-01-15)
- Professional Scrum Master Training (2018-01-22)
- PSPO Training March (2018-03-19)
- Professional Scrum Master Training March (2018-03-22)
- Professional Scrum Foundations May 2017
- Bite-Sized Agile Workshops
- PSPO Test
- Professional Scrum Product Owner course preparation (LVC)
- Introduction to Scrum Course preparation (LVC)
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile (LVC) Oracle
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile (LVC)
- BCS Foundation Level Certificate in DevOps (LVC)
- Behaviour Driven Development (LVC)
- Effective Product Ownership (LVC)
- Effective Use of Kanban (LVC)
- Introduction to Agile (LVC)
- Introduction to Jira for Agile Teams Oracle (LVC)
- Leading SAFe 5.1 (LVC)
- Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (LVC)
- Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (LVC) Oracle
- Professional Scrum Master (LVC)
- Professional Scrum Master (LVC) Oracle
- Professional Scrum Master II (LVC)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (LVC)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (LVC)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner Oracle (LVC)
- SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 (LVC)
- Applying Professional Scrum (LVC)
- Putting Scrum Into Action
- Introduction to Scrum (LVC)
Venues
- Birmingham - Maple House
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- Live Virtual Classroom (LVC) Training
- London - Union Club (Soho)
- London Liverpool Street - Norton Folgate
- London - Moorgate
- London - Monument
- Manchester Piccadilly
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- The Waldorf Hilton London
- Bristol - Regus
- Regus - Manchester
- Regus - Marble Arch
- Regus - Austin Friars
- Online training New York (EST)
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- The benefits of adopting a new approach to hybrid working
- ‘Help To Grow’ scheme lost on business decision makers
- Only a third of UK have heard of the ‘Help to Grow’ scheme and know what it entails
- Boost workforce productivity over sales and profit growth
- ‘Help To Grow’ Scheme ‘lost’ among UK businesses
- More focused on productivity and skills development than profit
- Top tips to help HR be agile when dealing with the skills shortage
