Onsite Training

In addition to our public courses, we are pleased to offer onsite agile and Scrum training courses for software development and project management. It is our experience that one of the best ways of succeeding with agile is to train an entire team, not just the ScrumMaster, project manager, or technical leads. To make this cost effective, and to minimize the scheduling challenges, hassle and expense of out-of-town travel, all Mountain Goat Software courses are available for onsite delivery.

Onsite Coaching

Participating in a training course is a wonderful way to quickly learn about some aspect of agile software development or project management. But many principles and practices of agile software development are best learned by augmenting that training with some coaching or mentoring. An ideal approach is to combine a class with coaching on the following day. A one-day Agile Estimating and Planning class followed by a day of estimating and planning with your backlog is an excellent approach. Similarly, a one-day Effective User Stories class from Mike Cohn followed by a day of having Mike coach your teams as they write their product backlogs is the best way of getting your backlog in shape. Follow a two-day Certified ScrumMaster or Working On A Scrum Team course by having Mike coach teams through writing enough of their product backlog to get started and plan their first sprints. A Certified Scrum Product Owner course can be followed by coaching focused on writing user stories or perhaps planning a release.

Periodic check-ins are also extremely useful. Scheduling a couple of days of coaching a month or two after a training course is a wonderful way to make sure that the key concepts presented in the agile or Scrum class have found their way into daily usefulness.

We Can Help You Adopt Scrum or Agile

Mountain Goat Software consultants are Scrum and agile specialists. Along with Scrum inventor Ken Schwaber, Mike Cohn was a co-founder of the Scrum Alliance, which is dedicated to worldwide support Scrum and Scrum practitioners. Having run his first Scrum project in 1995, Mike is among the most experienced of Scrum trainers and coaches. Mike is also a co-founder of the Agile Alliance. We can assist your team through our well-respected and popular training courses, onsite consulting, team coaching and/or ScrumMaster mentoring.

Mike has been High Moon Studio’s agile coach and teacher for several years. He is equally great at one-on-one coaching as he is with teaching entire classes. Mike is the master at pragmatic, real world implementation of agile principles which sets him apart from most others in his field. Clinton Keith, CTO, High Moon Studios

To discuss the possibilities, please contact Mike Cohn at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com or at 720-890-6110.