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Private Training

We will bring our training exclusively to your team, either in-person or online. We can address your specific questions answered and boost the impact of the training experience with a private workshop. Choose from Certified Agile Leader®, CSM®, CSPO®, Advanced classes, Agile Intro (half day) or Agile Foundations (1 day). If you have a group of 12 or more people, contact us!

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Public Training & Certification

New to Agile? Need to enhance your resume? Want to develop your leadership or advanced Agile skills? We’ve got you covered.

Certified Scrum Master®, Certified Scrum Product Owner®, Certified Agile Leader®, Advanced CSM® & Advanced CSPO®.

Register for one of our public online or in-person courses, or find more information about our workshops.


What our customers are saying:

★★★★★ The class was absolutely fabulous. Brad Swanson was very knowledgeable. He is one of the best instructors I’ve met in my 30+ year career.
— Doug Hall, Sr. Integration Manager

Which course is right for me?

 

Certified Agile Leader® (CAL 1™)

Develop your ability to influence and coach people. Learn powerful frameworks for organizational change and culture change. Target audience: Execs, senior and middle managers, coaches. Learn about CAL…

 

Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®)

Learn how to use Scrum to deliver complex work. Learn how to lead, facilitate and coach teams using Scrum. Target audience: team members, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, team leaders, and project managers. Learn about CSM…

Advanced CSM®

The A-CSM® is an immersion into agile team leadership, coaching and facilitation: how to build high-performing teams. Learn about A-CSM…

Agile Intro

A four-hour introduction to Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban. A great way to get your team aligned and using the same language. Learn more about the Agile Intro training…

Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

Learn how to create products that customers love using A.I. and Agility. Target audience: Product Owners, Product Managers, Analysts, Project Managers, and coaches who need to understand the PO role. Learn about CSPO…

Advanced CSPO®

The A-CSPO® is an immersion into advanced Agile Product skills and techniques. Become the CEO of your product. Target audience: experienced Product Owners who have previously completed the CSPO®. Learn about A-CSPO…

Agile Foundation

An eight-hour session with a deeper dive into Scrum and Kanban, including a fun agile mini-simulation which will give your team some ‘Aha!’ moments about how - and why - Agile works. Learn more about Agile Foundation workshop.


 

Certified Agile Leader®

Develop the proven leadership skills to lead your organization to success in a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, & ambiguous).

In our workshop, you’ll learn:

  1. Pragmatic and proven tools for developing strategy, organizational structure, and company culture — for sustainable business agility.

  2. How to maximize your influence and impact by leveraging tactical, strategic and visionary leadership skills: to become a Catalyst leader.

★★★★★ Interactive exercises. Thoughtful case studies. Next level thinking. Tangible examples/exercises that can be taken back to my organization.
— JOHN G., PRACTICE AREA LEADER AT A NATIONAL CONSULTING COMPANY

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Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

The Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) course is an immersion into the ScrumMaster role with hands-on activities teaching how to build high-performing Agile teams and optimize your effectiveness using Scrum.

What you’ll learn and experience:

  • Agile values & principles – how to 'Be Agile', not just 'Do Scrum'

  • The Scrum framework – Events, artifacts & roles: how all the pieces fit together

  • The Scrum roles & responsibilities: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team

  • The Responsibilities and mindset of the Scrum Master

  • Ways to help your team manage a product backlog and their daily tasks

  • Techniques to have high-impact Retrospectives for process improvement

  • Practical facilitation techniques for running effective team meetings

  • Skills for coaching a team to high performance

  • Proven solutions to common obstacles in organizations on their Agile journey

  • Lean-Agile techniques for forecasting and estimating

  • Experience a Scrum project simulation: deliver a Scrum project during the workshop!


★★★★★ If you’re looking for a top-notch Scrum class led by an exceptional instructor, look no further! This is a 5 out of 5 star experience that exceeded all my expectations.
— Bill Penny

 

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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)

This AI-augmented Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) training is an immersion into the Product Owner role with hands-on activities using ChatGPT, teaching how to build products that customers love using AI, Scrum and Agile practices. No prior AI experience is necessary.

What you’ll learn:

  • Leveraging AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini) to drastically boost your productivity in product strategy and planning. No prior AI experience is necessary.

  • Agile values & principles –how to 'Be Agile', not just 'Do Scrum'

  • The Scrum framework – how all the pieces fit together, and what’s missing

  • The Scrum roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team

  • Responsibilities – and authority - of the Product Owner

  • Several impactful ways to communicate your product vision

  • Tools to succinctly make the business case for your Product

  • Techniques to deeply understand your users and customers

  • Validated learning: how to discover the features customers actually need

  • Simple tools to build an effective Product Roadmap

  • A variety of models for sequencing (prioritizing) features and projects

  • Leveraging user stories for better feature definition (requirements)

  • Patterns for splitting large features into small user stories

  • Backlog refinement (grooming) techniques to optimize your backlog

  • Long-range estimating & forecasting methods – the Lean-Agile way


★★★★★ This has been invaluable for me as a new Product Owner... I cannot imagine how much value Brad has just added to all of the companies represented at this class.
— Johnny Xu, Product Owner @ Granicus


Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO®)

A-CSPO is an immersion into the advanced Agile Product skills and techniques that will help you become the CEO of your product. You’ll also learn how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT to take your Product skills to a higher level.

What you’ll learn:

  • Leveraging AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini) to drastically boost your productivity in product strategy and planning. No prior AI experience is necessary.

  • Tools for defining a clear product vision and value proposition

  • Advanced techniques for collaborating with and aligning your stakeholders

  • Balancing the perspectives of product value, viability, feasibility and usability

  • Thorough techniques for customer discovery and user empathy

  • Principles & methods for experimenting and validating product ideas

  • Developing product strategy to focus on impact over output

  • Recognizing and guarding against cognitive biases in ourselves and stakeholders

  • Effective ways to collaborate with your product development team

  • Techniques for managing multiple business initiatives and competing priorities

  • Frameworks for scaling product practices across multiple teams

★★★★★ Excellent structure, teacher, and materials.
— Jason Jenkins, Product Manager


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Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM®)

The A-CSM® is an immersion into agile team leadership, coaching and facilitation: how to build high-performing teams.

What you’ll learn:

  • Advanced facilitation techniques to have engaging and effective meetings with the team and stakeholders

  • Frameworks for scaling Scrum: LeSS, SAFe®, Scrum at Scale

  • Powerful techniques for coaching and mentoring teams

  • How to overcome common challenges like resistance to change, low motivation, and lack of engagement


★★★★★ Best professional course I’ve ever attended. Amazing instructor. I definitely learned a lot of new concepts and understood how to apply them to my team at my job.
— Valentina Tzvetanov

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Agile Introduction Training

A four-hour introduction to Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban. A great way to get your team aligned and using the same language.

What you’ll learn:

  • Agile values & principles – how to 'Be Agile', not just 'Do Scrum'

  • The Scrum framework – Events, artifacts & roles: how all the pieces fit together

  • An overview of the Kanban method for improving workflow


Agile Foundation Workshop

An eight-hour session with a deeper dive into Scrum and Kanban, including a fun agile mini-simulation which will give your team some ‘Aha!’ moments about how and why Agile practics work.

What you’ll learn and experience:

  • Agile mini-simulation: teams will complete multiple Sprints to learn the fundamentals of incremental and iterative delivery with continuous improvement.

  • Agile values & principles – The context for agile practices, why it works, and how to make it work best.

  • The Scrum framework – Events, artifacts & roles: how all the pieces fit together to manage complex projects and adapt to changing business needs.

  • The Scrum roles & responsibilities: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development team.

  • The Kanban method for improving workflow – and how to leverage both Kanban and Scrum together for optimal productivity


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