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Scrum

Immersion programmes extend learning beyond the classroom, combining real-world practice, retrospectives, and expert guidance for deeper, more …

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Scrum

Explores why Scrum is challenging to master, highlighting cultural barriers, the importance of transparency, and the gap between understanding and …

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Product Development

The most important aspect of Scrum is empiricism—using transparency, inspection, and adaptation to navigate complexity and drive effective product …

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Scrum

Explains choosing Scrum.Org over Scrum Alliance, focusing on values, certification costs, flexibility, community support, and alignment with agile and …

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Product Development

Explains how DevOps and Agile share core principles, focusing on delivering value through rapid feedback, systems thinking, and continuous improvement …

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Agentic Agility

Explains how Taylorism shaped project management through standardised processes, command-and-control structures, and its impact on efficiency, …

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Product Development

The PSU course bridges the gap in product development by integrating user experience and design into Scrum, enabling teams to deliver more valuable, …

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Product Development

Explains how DevOps and Agile work together to enable continuous delivery, rapid feedback, and customer value in software development and product …

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Scrum

Rookie agile consultants often mistake strict adherence to frameworks like Scrum for success, overlooking the need for context, team buy-in, and …

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Guidance for new scrum teams on establishing effective practices, learning from experience, experimenting, and improving during their first four weeks …

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Product Development

Explores how Agile has shifted from top-down management to decentralised decision-making, highlighting ongoing challenges and the move towards true …

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Product Development

Guidance for 2023: Succeed by clarifying strategy, boosting product development, investing in people, and using agile methods to gain competitive …

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Product Development

Explains how Scrum supports customer acquisition and retention in competitive markets by enabling rapid delivery, feedback, and continuous …

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Product Development

Scrum highlights issues and provides feedback for leadership teams but does not select valuable work; leaders must set priorities and use scrum to …

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Product Development

Explains why recessions are ideal for organisations to adopt agile, highlighting adaptability, rapid learning, and customer-focused growth in …

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Leadership

Learn how to build a compelling business case for agile adoption by aligning benefits with key metrics, stakeholder goals, and inclusive change …

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Software Development

Training people worldwide reveals that organisations face similar challenges when adopting agile and scrum, highlighting the universal nature of …

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Product Development

Early agile transformations often failed due to top-down decisions, lack of team involvement, and misalignment between leadership and those doing the …

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The biggest challenge with new scrum teams is overcoming misconceptions about scrum and shifting focus from process mechanics to core agile principles …

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Product Development

Explores why Scrum's "twice the work in half the time" claim is misleading, emphasising value over output and the importance of realistic expectations …

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Leadership

Compares Satya Nadella’s and Steve Jobs’s leadership, highlighting Nadella’s agile approach that fosters innovation, decentralised decision-making, …

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Team Collaboration

Digital scrum training is nearly as effective as in-person, offering greater accessibility, global perspectives, and practical use of remote …

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Product Management

Explores how a skilled product owner drives value, aligns teams with strategy, and boosts product success during economic uncertainty and …

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Product Management

A skilled product owner drives teams to build valuable solutions, anticipate customer needs, and deliver features that create real business impact—not …

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Scrum

Explores signs of a poor scrum team, including autocratic leadership, dysfunctional product ownership, lack of trust, and organisational barriers to …

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Strategy

A great agile consulting outcome enables organisations to adapt quickly to change, fostering resilience, decentralised decision-making, and empowered, …

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Agentic Agility

Key warning signs when hiring an agile consultant include lack of community involvement, weak core agile knowledge, and consultancies prioritising …

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Agentic Agility

Explores how skilled consultants drive rapid, impactful organisational change by identifying core issues, bridging leadership gaps, and fostering …

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Product Development

Agile emphasises values and principles to guide teams through complex, uncertain work, enabling adaptation and improvement where fixed steps cannot …

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Software Development

Explores how hands-on software engineering and DevOps experience informs practical, relatable Scrum training, emphasising real-world lessons and …

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Scrum

Gain practical skills and deep understanding of the scrum master role, scrum theory, empiricism, team dynamics, and delivering value in agile product …

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Scrum

Explains how the APS course uses practical exercises and simulations to help people understand, apply, and improve scrum practices in real-world …

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Product Development

Compares agile product development and waterfall project management, highlighting differences in decision-making, delivery, customer collaboration, …

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Agentic Agility

Experience Scrum hands-on by collaborating in Minecraft Education Edition, simulating real-world product development complexity for all skill levels …

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Scrum

Discover how hands-on Scrum training using Minecraft helps learners experience project chaos, apply agile principles, and gain practical insights into …

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Product Development

Explains when agile consulting is best used, highlighting its role in building internal leadership, rapid problem-solving, and sustainable …

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Pragmatic Thinking

Naked Agility selects associate Scrum Trainers based on real-world agile experience, co-training, and proven ability to teach, coach, and solve …

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Agentic Agility

Explains the key differences between traditional and empirical approaches in project management, highlighting when to use each for effective agility …

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Scrum

Get updates on new trainers, expanded Scrum training classes, community growth, and upcoming professional development opportunities for Scrum Masters, …

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Competence

Learn which skills, capabilities, and certifications make you stand out to employers, boost your agility, and stay competitive in today’s …

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Scrum

Explains Scrum’s core values, roles, artifacts, and events, highlighting how they support teamwork, transparency, and adaptability in managing complex …

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Product Development

Explains how empirical Agile models improve project outcomes by increasing visibility, enabling change, reducing risk, and delivering value …

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Product Development

Explains how agile practices help teams manage complexity, adapt to change, and deliver value faster in modern product development, compared to …

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Continuous Learning

Discover how flipped learning at Naked Agility Limited combines self-study and interactive workshops to build agile, people-first teams and support …

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Product Management

Learn how the Professional Scrum Product Owner course builds agile skills, practical product management, and ongoing support for effective product …

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Scrum

Learn practical strategies for overcoming common challenges in scaling Scrum, based on hands-on insights from the Scaled Professional Scrum course and …

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Scrum

Comprehensive Scrum Master training offering interactive workshops, practical activities, community support, and assessment to build Agile skills and …

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Business Agility

Join monthly interactive sessions to discuss real-world business agility challenges, share insights, and learn from diverse peers using a …

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Agentic Agility

Get a quick timelapse overview of a four-session Professional Scrum Product Owner training, plus links to free live-streamed Scrum workshops for …

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Scrum

Covers key concepts of Sprint Reviews, interactive workshop delivery using Teams and Mural, technical challenges faced, participant feedback, and …

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Agentic Agility

Overview of live virtual training methods, free workshop recordings, schedule updates, and new coaching and retraining programmes for Q4 2021 and Q1 …

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Agentic Agility

Overview of the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM) training, including key concepts, course structure, and what to expect from the …

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Leadership

Learn about Scrum.org’s new PAL-EBM training, which helps leaders use evidence-based management and custom metrics to align teams with organisational …

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Product Development

Explains the key accountabilities, skills, and behaviours required for a Scrum Product Owner, including hiring trends, role requirements, and …

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Scrum

Highlights the importance of professionalism in agile teams, warning against excusing unprofessional behaviour as agility and stressing ethical, …

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Scrum

Covers key responsibilities, skills, and requirements for hiring a Scrum Master, including leadership, coaching, facilitation, and fostering effective …

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Leadership

Explains how Scrum teams rely on three key roles—Influencers, Entrepreneurs, and Makers—to balance leadership, value creation, and technical delivery.

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Leadership

Explores the shift from traditional management to leadership focused on inspiration, effectiveness, and servant leadership, with insights for Scrum …

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Engineering Excellence

Technical debt increases risk to products and businesses, leading to hidden costs, reduced quality, and slower delivery. Ignoring it can harm …

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Kanban

Learn about becoming a Professional Kanban Trainer, the Applying Professional Kanban course, certification process, and key Kanban principles for …

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