Balancing Lean Product Backlog and Future Needs
Explores how to maintain a lean, transparent product backlog that balances current needs with future readiness, enabling teams to adapt and maximise …
Agentic Agility champions autonomy, accountability, and purposeful action. We empower you to optimise your systems of work, advocate pragmatic, evidence-based practices, and challenge conventional thinking—driving adaptive, resilient organisations.
Explores how to maintain a lean, transparent product backlog that balances current needs with future readiness, enabling teams to adapt and maximise …
Learn how Kanban uses data-driven insights and probabilistic forecasting to optimise workflows, improve delivery, and enhance transparency across any …
Discover how Joanna’s technical expertise, clear teaching, and real-world Agile experience make her Scrum.Org classes at NKD Agility essential for …
DevOps consulting enhances Agile by improving collaboration, accelerating delivery, and ensuring quality, making software development more efficient …
Overly detailed consulting contracts can hinder project success by limiting flexibility; focus on outcomes and value to adapt to changing client needs …
Learn how using empirical, data-driven methods can improve decision-making, foster continuous improvement, and build trust through transparent, …
Explores how rigid hierarchies in product backlogs can hinder agility, advocating for flatter, value-focused approaches to manage complexity in …
Discover how EPS immersive learning boosts team agility with structured feedback, coaching, and tailored sessions, driving continuous improvement in …
Discover three essential lessons for Scrum teams after an APS immersive course: deepening core understanding, overcoming early challenges, and …
Explains how Applied Professional Scrum (APS) helps teams master Scrum by focusing on fundamentals, removing unhelpful practices, and enabling …
Explores why rigid dogma hinders consulting, emphasising the value of empirical, flexible, and empathetic approaches for effective problem-solving and …
Explores how knowledge of terrain, using mushroom picking as an example, can teach agility and adaptability in agile teams and project management …
Explores how mushroom foraging offers practical lessons for applying Agile and Scrum, highlighting environment, patience, and team dynamics for …
Explains how a well-ordered, refined Product Backlog guides Agile teams, supports goal alignment, and ensures value-driven product development through …
Explains the key differences between agile leadership and traditional management, focusing on team collaboration, adaptability, and continuous …
Explores the shift from traditional management to agile leadership, highlighting empowerment, adaptability, and collaboration as key to navigating …
Highlights Simon Randell’s significant influence on Agile practices, focusing on his facilitation skills, communication style, and impact on Agile …
Immersive learning enables on-the-job coaching by combining real-world assignments, collaborative feedback, and practical application for deeper, …
Explores essential skills for Agile consultants, focusing on understanding client context, embracing uncertainty, learning from setbacks, and …
Learn why combining Lean principles with Scrum from the start boosts team efficiency, collaboration, and insight, leading to a more successful and …
Discover how continuous learning, embracing trial and error, and caring deeply about your craft drive professional growth, resilience, and lasting …
Explores how superficial adoption of agile in software development mirrors unused gym memberships, highlighting the need for genuine commitment and …
Explores why embracing true professionalism is the hardest part of becoming a Scrum Master, highlighting the importance of deep understanding, …
Discover how immersive learning empowers experienced Agile professionals to deepen skills, tackle real-world challenges, and accelerate growth through …
Discover how immersive learning boosts workplace skills by connecting theory to real tasks, encouraging feedback, and supporting growth through …
Explores how experienced Product Owners transition into systemic leaders, focusing on increased accountability, organisational impact, and fostering …
Explains how the Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials course helps experienced Scrum Masters gain leadership skills, understand organisational …
Failing to deliver a usable product each agile iteration leads to lost trust, technical debt, poor adaptability, misaligned expectations, low morale, …
Highlights Johanna’s passion, deep experience, and engaging teaching style in the Professional Agile Leadership course, fostering dynamic learning for …
Delivering usable, working products frequently is key to reducing risk in Agile. Focus on feedback, automation, and lean practices over excessive …
Join agile experts in Edinburgh for keynotes, workshops, networking, and coaching. Explore new agile ideas, games, and training for teams, Scrum …
Explores how poly immersive learning enhances professional growth through real-world feedback, reflection, collaboration, and practical application …
Explores how immersive learning boosts practical skills, career growth, and organisational improvement through real-world application, coaching, and …
Explores a shift from intensive workshops to ongoing, immersive agile leadership training, enabling leaders to apply skills, build relationships, and …
Explores how spaced learning in Agile and Scrum boosts retention, real-world application, and collaboration compared to traditional intensive courses.
Learn how practical training, real-world application, and community support help you build confidence and skills to succeed as a Scrum Master in Agile …
Explores how Agile success relies on team collaboration, embracing change, continuous improvement, and focusing on delivering real value to customers …
Compares Agile’s risk mitigation through incremental, usable products with traditional project management’s reliance on documentation, highlighting …
Discover how the PSM II course deepens Scrum Master skills, boosts team performance, supports product owners, and advances agile careers with …
Discover how the PSPO-A course helps product managers and owners master Agile and Scrum, boost collaboration, and drive effective product management …
Discover how an APS (Agile Professional Scrum) course helps teams start, refresh, or align their Scrum practices for improved collaboration and …
Explores how immersive learning boosts engagement, retention, and understanding through hands-on practice, community support, and continuous, …
Explains why Scrum Masters should avoid taking on administrative tasks, highlighting the importance of focusing on team effectiveness rather than …
Explores whether organisations are moving past Agile disillusionment towards true understanding, highlighting the shift from hype to people-focused, …
Many Product Owners in PSPO courses feel a lack of control or influence. This highlights the need for greater empowerment, accountability, and active …
Explores what traditional organisations must change—beyond adopting Agile tools—to achieve true agility, cultural transformation, and sustained …
Examines how rigid, hierarchical Alpha organisations struggle and waste resources in fast-paced red markets, highlighting the need for agile, …
Explores how AI boosts workplace productivity and creativity by automating tasks, aiding idea generation, and empowering professionals to work more …
Explains the Sprint Review workshop, detailing its role in Agile teams for stakeholder engagement, market alignment, and continuous product …
Product Owners often feel limited in control and influence. This article explores common challenges and offers steps to boost empowerment and …
Learn how effective Sprint planning boosts Agile team performance, with practical workshops, coaching, feedback, and adaptable methods for continuous …
Explores why traditional hierarchical organisations struggle in fast-changing markets and argues for agile, decentralised structures to boost …
Explore how precise language and transparency impact communication and effectiveness in agile teams, with insights from experienced agile coaches and …
NKD Agility offers immersive, multi-week agile training to build practical skills in Scrum, leadership, and continuous improvement for modern …
Explores the common challenge in PSM 1 courses of balancing real-world pressures with maintaining honesty, transparency, and moral integrity in Agile …
Explore how Agile 2023 in Scotland brings together tech professionals to share insights, foster collaboration, and highlight Agile’s impact on the …
Compares the roles of Scrum Master and seasoned Agile Coach, highlighting differences in experience, responsibilities, and impact on organisational …
Learn practical steps to help Scrum teams achieve continuous delivery, clarify business value, integrate feedback, and build empowerment within 90 …
Compares Agile coaches, who offer deep expertise in Agile methods and drive team innovation, with professional coaches, who focus on guiding teams …
Explains why Scrum teams benefit more from Agile consultants than professional coaches, focusing on the need for technical guidance, mentoring, and …
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YearUp.org
Brandes Investment Partners L.P.
Trayport
Microsoft
Bistech
Emerson Process Management
SuperControl
DFDS
Slaughter and May
Sage
Slicedbread
Alignment Healthcare
ProgramUtvikling
Graham & Brown
Healthgrades
Kongsberg Maritime
CR2
Philips
Nottingham County Council
Washington Department of Transport
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
Ghana Police Service
Akaditi
Xceptor - Process and Data Automation
Schlumberger
DFDS
Capita Secure Information Solutions Ltd
Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG)