Scrum isn’t just for ScrumMasters; it’s for the entire team. This course is designed to help you understand how to operate effectively within a Scrum Team and contribute to better outcomes.
You’ll learn actionable techniques to improve communication, reduce waste, and focus on delivering value. Sessions are interactive and grounded in real-world experience, giving you tools you can apply right away.
Because great Scrum Teams aren’t built by roles; they’re built by how people work together.
Through the Scrum Essentials®, you’ll learn to:
- Collaborate effectively within a Scrum Team to deliver real value
- Improve team flow by identifying and addressing everyday bottlenecks
- Apply practical techniques immediately rather than relying on theory alone
- Move beyond task execution to actively contribute to team outcomes
- Foster open communication and psychological safety within the team
- Use modern collaboration tools and techniques to work seamlessly in distributed environments
Benefits
• Earn Professional Credits: 14 PDUs with PMI (Project Management Institute) to support continued certification
• Scrum Education Units: 14 SEUs with Scrum Alliance toward your Certification journey
• Expert Instruction: Learn from seasoned facilitators who have built Agile teams and organizations
• Comprehensive Micro-Certification: Includes all fees and steps needed for the micro-certification path
Upcoming Workshops
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Instructor
Lance Dacy has been a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®) since 2015, an agile coach since 2008, and a product leader since 2011, guiding teams through successful Scrum implementations at organizations from Fortune 20 enterprises to early-stage startups.
He holds a Master’s in Data Science from SMU, a rare combination that gives him the applied AI expertise to teach Product Owners to use modern tools as force multipliers rather than replacements.
Lance founded the DFW Scrum User Group, coaches agile leaders nationwide, and helps managers build cross-functional, self-organizing teams that deliver value at modern speed.
Lance also leads Big Agile's dedicated AI for Product Managers workshop, where he goes deeper into prompt engineering, AI tool selection, and product strategy in AI-augmented organizations.