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The growing global structure of businesses have required that we all learn new tools and capabilities to continue working with our team-mates even if we have never met them or we are not even on the same continent. Big Agile can help you with your process, how to use certain tools in an online setting, and help optimize delivery of your products.

Let us help you with any issues your teams may be facing. Send us a note and we can arrange a session to determine the next best steps or go ahead and schedule a session with us in 1 hour increments.

The world is evolving faster than ever before, rendering obsolete outdated methods of organizing work. This is why an increasing number of businesses are recruiting Certified ScrumMasters®.

On the current work market, outdated project management abilities are becoming obsolete. Organizations have abandoned old, bureaucratic management procedures in favor of Scrum and other collaborative approaches.

Certified ScrumMasters® are in high demand to assist organizations with this transition. Join Big Agile for one of the many Certified ScrumMasters® Courses and gain leadership skills for your team!

Help Make the World of Work a Little Better (With Plenty of Opportunities)

As a Certified ScrumMaster®, you’ll earn the credentials to be a change agent, helping traditionally-run corporations learn team-based agile practices using the world’s most popular framework—Scrum.

Companies who’ve adopted this new way of working claim to have happier customers and employees, and as a Certified ScrumMaster® you play a key part in bringing positive change to the corporate world.

Not only is this a rewarding career, it’s a growing field filled with opportunities.

LinkedIn ranked ScrumMaster as one of its most promising jobs in 2019, showing a 67 percent uptick in job openings in year-after-year growth.

Certified ScrumMasters® Earn More

According to the Scrum Master Trends Report 2019, 44 percent of participants in the study that have a certification reported earning more than $100,000, while only 18 percent of those without a certification reported the same.

As a Certified ScrumMaster®, You’ll Be Able To:

• Expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices.
• Demonstrate to employers and peers your attainment of core Scrum knowledge.
• Learn the foundation of Scrum and the scope of the Certified ScrumMaster’s® role from the best minds in Scrum.
• Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement.

Online Convenience & Our Best Pricing Ever

If you’ve been thinking about getting your ScrumMaster® certification, there’s no better time than the present!

With our new online classes, you can watch videos at your convenience and take part in live sessions without leaving your living room (pants optional).

The online option saves you travel time and money and allows us to give you the best pricing we’ve ever had.

Join one of our many online workshops and see how a ScrumMaster® certification can help you advance in your career!

We have partnered with Stacey Ackerman of Agilify Training to help facilitate this unique marketing focused workshop. You won't want to miss this unique opportunity to become a Certified Scrum Master® in Marketing!

Scrum is a lightweight framework for applying agile marketing at your company and you don’t need to be technical whatsoever to learn Scrum.

Up until now, most Scrum classes have been taught by instructors who’ve only used or applied this framework in IT, and marketers have had to translate the tech-talk into their world.

We’re so excited to be the only company currently offering this sought-after certification for marketers and people helping marketing organizations with leadership, project management, process improvement or agile transformation.

We’ve taken all of the translation work out for you, giving your real-world scenarios marketers are facing and how the Scrum framework can be applied to marketing teams.

As a Certified Scrum Master® in Marketing, you’ll be able to:

• Help your organization begin agile marketing with a proven, lightweight framework that has worked for many other corporate marketing departments.
  
• Learn strategies that allow your marketing team to be more adaptable to an unpredictable environment with a framework that adds stability rather than chaos.
  
• Shift your organization towards a team-based culture that fosters collaboration and innovation.
• Help your company go from big-bang campaigns to micro-campaigns for faster customer feedback and marketing that better resonates with customers.

Who Should Attend

• Marketing project managers/professionals interested in becoming a Scrum Master.
  
• Leaders in marketing looking to apply the Scrum framework.
  
• Anyone looking to apply Scrum in Marketing.
  
• Job seekers looking for new skills in a growing field.

If you’re looking to really stand out as a top-notch expert in Scrum, take your career to new heights as an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®.

It’s a competitive world out there, and companies want to bring in leading experts to help them navigate uncharted waters as they move from traditional management practices to using Scrum.

As an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®, you’ll have the experience, skills and designation to take on more challenging work with the credibility you deserve.

Deepen Your Facilitation Skills

Now that you’ve been a Scrum practitioner for awhile, you understand how important facilitation skills are, yet foundational classes never teach them.

As an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®, you’ll be able to facilitate better dialogue between the team members, the product owner and leaders at all levels in your organization.

Get on the Path to Becoming an Agile Coach or Trainer

Scrum Masters at this level are often able to scale their service to the organization by working with multiple Scrum teams, coaching and training newer Scrum Masters and even advancing into agile coaching and training roles.

If you’re ready to move beyond being a Scrum Master for a single team, this workshop will give you the skills and confidence to become a leader in agile transformation.

We’ll help you to move beyond the basics by sharing our best practices in the industry for coaching and training others in the Scrum framework.

As an Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®, You’ll Be Able To:

• Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills.
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace.
• Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional.
• Stand out in your industry as a member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community.

Product owners play a critical role on a Scrum team; working like small business owners for the future of the product, yet many product owners have been thrown into the role with no formal training. By becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner®, you’ll learn the foundational skills necessary to succeed in this role.

Whether you’re already a Product Owner, or you hope to become one, this rewarding role is one that’s often underserved in companies, so more and more Certified Scrum Product Owners® are needed to keep up with the companies wanting qualified people who understand products, customer needs and the Scrum framework. If you are interested in getting your Product Owner® certification check out Big Agile’s events page!

Build Trust, Transparency & Alignment with Stakeholders

Many product owners find themselves always saying yes to stakeholder requests and then having to push the team to work at an unsustainable pace.

By learning how to work with your stakeholders and team to establish a clear product vision and goals, you’ll gain trust and respect with your senior leadership team, as well as an effective partnership with the Scrum team.

We’ll walk you through several collaborative techniques you can try with your stakeholders and team to build trust, transparency and alignment around product development timelines.

Be the Leader Your Scrum Team Needs

Many product owners find themselves either too busy working on the business to support the Scrum team, or too in the weeds with the team to be forward-thinking about the product.

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner®, you’ll learn where to focus your time and efforts to ensure that your product and team are successful.

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner®, You’ll Be Able To:

• Deeply understand the role and responsibilities of a product owner.
• Discover the right balance of your time between the team and the stakeholders.
• Discover ways to gain alignment on the vision of the product.
• Effectively manage and order the product backlog.
• Communicate project timelines and when features will be delivered using agile estimation techniques and velocity ranges.
• Define value of product development using product economics.
• Understand outcome-based delivery, versus output.
• Learn to balance product discovery with product validation.
• Build better connections with customers and users.

Online Convenience & Our Best Pricing Ever

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner® for awhile, there’s no better time than the present!

With our new online classes, you can watch videos at your convenience and take part in live sessions without leaving your living room (pants optional).

The online option saves you travel time and money, and allows us to give you the best pricing we’ve ever had.

You’re a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) who’s focused on maximizing business value and Product Backlog optimization to understand how to do the best possible job to satisfy key stakeholders.

The next step in your Agile journey is to achieve your Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO℠) certification.

Through the A-CSPO, you’ll learn to:

• • Manage multiple business initiatives from competing stakeholders
  • Clearly order and express Product Backlog items
  • Define a clear product vision that ensures your product remains focused on the features your customers and end users will actually use
  • Communicate effectively with various stakeholder groups to achieve alignment
  • Identify the crucial opportunities and avoid wasting time
  • Define and validate business value
  • Increase your credibility as a product expert and become recognized as a person who delivers real business results
  • Benefits:
  • Build on your foundational knowledge with enhanced implementation skills
  • Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
  • Stand out in your industry as a member of the Scrum Alliance globally-recognized community
  • Show advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional

The requirements to obtain the A-CSPO designation are the following:

• • Hold a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification with the Scrum Alliance.
  • Attend a certified A-CSPO educational offering to gain techniques that expand into managing stakeholders, product discovery, and advanced Product Backlog management.
  • Successfully complete all educator-designed components of an approved educational offering. This may include pre- or post-course work as deemed necessary by your approved educator to complete the learning objectives.
    

You will be asked to accept the A-CSPO License Agreement and complete your Scrum Alliance membership profile as well as validate at least 12 months of work experience specific to the role of Product Owner (within the past five years).

Maintain your A-CSPO by earning Scrum Education Units® (SEUs) and renewing your certification every two years. Learn more

The agile Scrum development process continues to gain popularity across a wide variety of businesses and products. Educating the entire team(s) involved has a profound effect on kick-starting the process and resolving challenges that can be discovered within the course itself.

This two-day course, provides teams with the full context of what it means to be agile and how we can get there with the use of a core framework called Scrum. Many teams have individuals with experiences that are far and wide in the agile space; diluting a common understanding for your organization.

This course is designed to give teams a hands-on understanding of current agile concepts and how implementing the Scrum framework can actually accelerate their ability to ship software as frequently as the business desires. With the liberal use of exercises and discussions, team members learn why Scrum's seemingly simple processes can have a profound effect on the organization.

Teams will also learn practical advice they can leverage all the way from the trenches to the Executive offices. We focus on working with core Scrum techniques and activities; including the product backlog, sprint backlog, metrics, daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meeting, and burn-down charts.

Bring your team to this highly interactive workshop. We explore 3 types of stories, User Stories, Job Stories, and Technical Stories. We will explore how to take a product and select significant objectives to help refine a backlog to the proper level for your team. We will take a deep dive into the ins and outs of a great technique designed to foster conversations in your team and mitigate hidden assumptions and risks.

The Kanban Immersion class is a three session, online, Instructor-led class that teaches agile and lean fundamentals, using kanban as the agile method. Each session is four hours long. The workshop helps the students get started quickly and apply what they’ve learned, using their actual endeavors.

While Scrum is simple to understand, it is difficult to master. We can help take your teams to the next level by coaching them on specific issues related to their continuous improvement efforts. Contact us to see how we can setup fully customizable coaching days to help your development teams, product teams, or even stakeholders and management teams.

Any change is hard. Agile takes a lot of discipline and rigor to truly reach the state in which you desire. We can help you plan the transition to ensure any training/coaching can offer the maximum impact and help you grow the agile processes organically in your organization. Our job is to make sure you need us less and less as you gain maturity. That first step is sometimes the hardest; let us help and provide the safety and comfort needed throughout the change.

Sometimes, you just need validation or a second opinion. Effort that is well outside of any focused coaching, training, or transformation. Contact us to see how we can help you best. Having an assessment on your organization could be the best first step for your teams.