On-site Agile Training and Coaching

Rather than sending only a few representatives to a public course, consider training your entire team with our on-site training. All of our public courses can be brought to your site, minimizing both scheduling challenges and also the expense and hassle of out of town travel. We can certify team members in a Scrum Alliance-certified course such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). We can also teach any of our other agile training and Scrum training courses, or we can offer both a certified course and another of our agile and Scrum courses through onsite training.

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Onsite Agile Coaching

Scrum teaches us to inspect and adapt. It's a good idea, therefore, sometimes to plan for periodic Agile coaching check-ups. Combining a training class with follow-on coaching a month or two later is a wonderful way to ensure that the key concepts presented in the Agile training or Scrum training class have become daily habits on your teams. Whatever your needs, we can devise an onsite training and Agile coaching plan that will help you succeed.

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Sample Coaching Engagements

Conduct a user story-writing workshop

Have you read about or been trained on user stories but when faced with your own backlog are having trouble turning ideas into estimatable stories? We can conduct a workshop that will take you from zero to a usable product backlog.

Work with you to create a reliable release plan

Release planning is one of the most important, and least understood, elements of a successful agile implementation. Let us show you how to take your prioritized backlog and estimated velocity and turn that into a release plan you can count on.

Facilitate a sprint planning meeting, helping coach team members to plan a sprint at the right level of detail

Anyone who has ever worked on a new Scrum team knows that the first planning meetings can be painful, as team members learn to work together in a new way. Let us help make your first meetings run more smoothly so that team members' first introduction to Scrum is a positive one.

Facilitate end of iteration reviews and retrospectives

Retrospectives and reviews. You know you should have them and you can see their value, but you cannot quite figure out how to make the most of the time you have. Or maybe your reviews and retrospectives have stopped being effective tools for generating improvement ideas. Whatever the case, we can help facilitate a review and retrospective that will help move your team toward continued success with Scrum and agile.

Attend daily scrum meetings and provide advice on how to get the most value from them

Many new ScrumMasters and teams struggle with the initial daily scrum meetings. Too often they degenerate into deep dives that last way too long or surface-level status reports. Let us work with you to keep your daily scrums running as they were intended.

Help initiate an agile transition effort using the iterative ADAPT approach outlined in Mike Cohn's Succeeding with Agile book.

One of the toughest things to do with a new process is launch it. Second only to getting started is staying the course when things get tough. We can give you a foundation that will help your team and organization ADAPT to the practices and principles of Scrum and agile in a way that will lead to long-term success.

Meet with and educate executives and key stakeholders about agile and their role in its successful adoption.

The team is trained and onboard. The ScrumMaster and Product Owner are comfortable in their roles. But to be successful, the entire organization must understand how to work inside the new process and practices. We can speak to executives and other key stakeholders in a language that they understand about the way in which business must adapt to the changes Scrum and agile will ping.

Help convince reluctant agile team members to give agile a try.

There are as many reasons why people might resist change as there are ways to overcome that resistance. We can help you meet the unique challenges that reluctant team members present in your agile adoption.

Specialized Consultants in Scrum & Agile

Mountain Goat Software consultants specialize in Scrum and agile practices. Mike Cohn co-founded the Scrum Alliance, which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support Scrum and Scrum practitioners worldwide. Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995, making him among the most experienced of Scrum trainers and coaches. In fact, in 2003 he co-taught the first-ever Certified ScrumMaster course. Our well-respected and popular Agile training courses, especially when used as onsite training and combined with team Agile coaching or mentoring, will help put you on the path to success.

"Mike's classes at Yahoo! have been incredibly useful. I recommend him to anyone who is serious about implementing Agile in their organization."

Gabrielle Benefield, Director of Agile Development, Yahoo!

Let us ensure your team and organization get off on the right start, move to the next level, or reenergize a stalled transition with our onsite Agile Training.

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Mike Cohn

About Mike Cohn

With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way. 

Mike is CEO of Mountain Goat Software, and one of the industry’s most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.

Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, A-CSM, CSP-SM, CSP-PO

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