Agile Learning Labs

This is a chance to ask Chris your questions and get free advice and coaching.

The Agile Portfolio Game engages you in a full corporate portfolio management scenario. Your mission: Apply agile principles to maximize the value created across multiple scrum teams and product lines. It’s business agility at the portfolio level, and it’s fun! Chris Sims will facilitate this interactive online event.

This is a chance to ask Chris your questions and get free advice and coaching.

A well-designed retrospective supports continuous improvement. Learn the art of creating retrospectives that engage the participants and guide them to their next improvements. We’ll practice creating powerful retrospective agendas, and you’ll come away with many exercises that you can use to keep your scrum team’s retrospective fun and fresh. Chris Sims will facilitate this interactive […]

April 19 & 20, 2023 Live Online Instructor: Chris Sims Scrum teams move too fast for traditional product management. Learn the skills and techniques that successful scrum product owners use to guide their teams and build successful products at agile speed.

This is a chance to ask Chris your questions and get free advice and coaching.

This is a chance to ask Chris your questions and get free advice and coaching.

The agile principles say: "Agile processes promote sustainable development." What does that really mean in a world with climate change and other looming crises of sustainability. Find out in this interactive mini-workshop about change, profit, prosperity, wicked complexity, messy problems and social, environmental and economic sustainability. We’ll explore how you can use your agile experience […]

Being a Scrum Master is tough. You’re accountable for increasing the teams’ effectiveness by fostering behavioral change. People can be notoriously resistant to change. Add in the challenges of trying to measure and justify the worth of your role and the constant looming presence of impostor syndrome - it’s enough to burn anyone out. We’ll […]

“How long will that take?” A simple question, yet one of the hardest to answer. You will learn why traditional estimation fails to provide satisfying results. We will uncover how and why relative estimation leads to better predictability. You will learn the Easy Estimation With Story Points technique, which has helped hundreds of teams provide […]

What does a successful scrum master job search look like? Join a conversation between Agile Learning Labs and Kyle Stephens, Senior Scrum Master at Caesars Entertainment. We'll review strategies for finding - and landing - a scrum master role including how to avoid burnout during (and after) your search. Sign up here!

This is a chance to ask Chris your questions and get free advice and coaching.