Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. As a Professional Scrum Trainers, we strive to provide training classes without using Powerpoint or digital devices. Moreover, admittedly, I love index cards. And few peers consider a Remote Agile training a suitable alternative yet.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Source: Principles behind the Agile Manifesto.
For the first time, though, this mental model is challenged, and remote Agile becomes a contender. To make your entry into this new world as smooth as possible, our live virtual class on Remote Agile training addresses practices and tools — such as virtual Liberating Structures — for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, project managers, and Product Owners on how to facilitate agile events with distributed teams effectively.
This training is well suited for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, project managers, and Product Owners from all industries — from engineering to software to finance to transportation to pharmaceuticals to e-commerce, to name a few. The live virtual class will address issues that product and project leaders are facing daily:
Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers will facilitate the class. Stefan has extensive experience in facilitating powerful online events with distributed teams, practicing Liberating Structures as well as Training from the Back of the Room techniques.
The Distributed Agile Training class is organized in three blocks of 2.5 hours within two weeks, addressing questions like:
The training activities will comprise of interactive exploration, discussions, and exercises, for example, based on Liberating Structures, as well as short teaching blocks. The techniques that you will learn are also immediately applicable after the class in your team environment.
The Remote Agile live virtual class provides you with actionable insights, a script template to design your remote agile events as well as a workbook that can easily be reused. Additionally, you will also receive several ebooks from Stefan that provide proven hands-on tactics to excel in an agile environment. Also, you will be invited to the Hands-on Agile Slack Community — a vibrant community of over 7,000 agile peers from all over the world.
Meet your coach Stefan Wolpers. Stefan has more than 14 years of experience in agile product development. During this time, Stefan has been working as an agile coach, Scrum Master, or Product Owner in different organizations: from startups to a Google subsidiary to corporations.
Stefan is specializing in coaching agile practices for change, for example, agile software development with Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, and Lean Startup, as well as product management. He has served in senior leadership positions several times throughout his career. His agile coaching expertise focuses on scaling product delivery organizations of fast-growing, venture-capital funded startups, and transitioning existing product teams in established enterprise organizations.
Learn more about your Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers.
