Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)

Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) program is an education and practice-based program with the goal of developing agile leadership competency and maturity in order to increase the effectiveness of a leader in complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing conditions.

Programm:

Evolution of Everything

  • Management trends and fitting businessenvironment
  • Journey of Lean and Agile
  • Evolution of organizations

Complex Adaptive System (C.A.S.)

  • Apply Systems Thinking to organizations
  • Excel in VUCA environment with Cynefin framework
  • Leading from the future as it emerges

Leadership Agility

  • Essense of Leadership Agility
  • Types of Leadership Agility and Levels of Leadership Agility
  • Self-development on Leadership Agility
    • Growth Mindset
    • Cognitive Reappraisal
    • Behaviour Loop
    • Neuroscience insights for self-leadership
    • The art of feedback and self-development

Engage People

  • Understand people
  • The Art of Actions – how to make fast and effective decisions
  • Engage people in an agile environment – improve trust and collaboration and continuouslearning
  • Conflicts toxins and team development

Develop Organizations

  • Lead teams and go beyond teams
  • Culture, architecture, and structure
  • Culture profile analysis and assessment
  • Fine tuning to grow healthy organizations

Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement

  • Lead continuous improvement in Complex Adaptive System
  • Create system change experiments in agile environment (tool plus exercise)

Lead Transformation

  • Patterns of Agile Transformations
  • Define next steps to advance yourself and your organization
  • Agile leaders’ behaviors (vs traditional leaders’)

Excel in the Business Environment

  • Product excellence and organization strategy
  • Excel in the business environment with innovations

With CAL program, you will gain more awareness of agile leadership, grasp theory and tools, and bring back concrete next steps to advance your organization.

Target audience:

  • Executives, middle management, and other leaders with organizational influence.
  • Leaders who support, lead, or interact with Agile teams.
  • Scrum Masters / Agile coaches
  • Any leader sponsoring, requesting, or involved with an Agile adoption within their organization

Inclusives:

1. Scrum Alliance CAL-E, CAL-T and CAL-O Credential.
2. 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information:

  • Read more about the course and certification from here

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Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

Through this Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner workshop, you will be able to advance the HOW TO dimension of Product Owner role, and grow skills that help you and your organization build the most fantastic product with concepts and practices with Scrum framework, from product discovery, design thinking, hypothesis driven portfolio management, evaluative experiments.

Through the workshop, we will go from business problem, product idea, customer understanding, CX and UX, prioritizing and validating assumption, and leverage Scrum framework for modern product development.

Programm:

  • Customer Research and Product Discovery
    • Concepts, practices and tools
  • Advanced Product Assumption Testing
    • Concepts, practices and tools
  • Advanced Purpose and Strategy
    • Product strategy and roadmap
    • Product roadmap and release planning
  • Product Backlog Management
    • Ordering product backlog
    • Refining product backlog
  • Examining Product Owner Role
    • Interaction with stakeholders
    • Interaction with development team
  • Scaling
    • Dependency handling
    • Scaling consideration and scaling frameworks
  • Agile Facilitation
    • Facilitation basics
    • Facilitative listening techniques
  • Summarizing Product Owner role and Next Steps

Target audience:

  • The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster workshop requires previous Scrum knowledge and experience.
  • This is NOT a session for those who are new to Agile and Scrum.
  • All attendees must have the Certified Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) and with a minimum of one year practice prior to the this workshop. If you don’t current have a CSPO certification, please contact us for options.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSP-PO Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSP-PO training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 or 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

Read more from here.

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Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

Through the A-CSM course, you’ll learn to:

  • Facilitate better dialogue between the Product Owner, Team members, customers, stakeholders, and executives.
  • Respond confidently when encountering resistance to change, lack of engagement, low motivation, and unavailability of key people.
  • Increase engagement to encourage greater accountability, commitment, and buy-in.
  • Scale Scrum and Agile beyond a single team.

Agenda:

  • Coaching Concepts
    • Coaching Stances
    • Key coaching skills and their application
    • Tactics of coaching at individual, Scrum Team and organization level
    • Agile coaching
  • Agile Facilitation
    • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
    • Facilitation techniques to navigate through Groan Zone and Divergent and Convergent phases
    • Decision making
  • A deeper dive into Lean, Agile and Scrum
    • Value and principles to leverage as a ScrumMaster
    • Practices and tools to help improve
  • Services to Development Team
    • Self-Organization and team Dynamics
    • Key attributes of effective teams
    • Coaching for high performaning teams
    • DoD
    • Agile engineering practices
  • Services to Product Owner
    • The services around Product Vision and Strategy
    • The mindset and tools for a fantastic product
    • Tools to bring customer needs into Product Backlog
    • Product Backlog Refinment tactics
    • The collaboration and its enhancement with Development Team
  • Services to Organization
    • Impediment Removal and its tactics & strategies
    • Leadership team coaching
    • Agile scaling approaches and principles
    • Introducing new ideas
    • Tactics and tools for orgnization change
  • Personal Development
    • Coaching practices for personal growth actions
    • Povital conversation
    • ScrumMaster as Servant Leader

Target audience

  • The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster workshop requires previous Scrum knowledge and experience.
  • This is NOT a session for those who are new to Agile and Scrum.
  • All attendees must have the Certified ScrumMaster certification (CSM) and with a minimum of one year practice prior to the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) workshop. If you don’t current have a CSM certification, please contact us for options.
  • Participants should be passionate in advancing as a ScrumMaster and an Agile coach, and therefore be willing to challenge their own thinking and approaches within this course.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance A-CSM Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. A-CSM training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 or 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information here

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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course will help a Product Owner to understand Scrum and the Product Owner role.

Learning Objectives (general):

  • Why to use Agile? When is Scrum the right approach? When should we use some other approach? Can I combine different approaches?
  • What am I expected of in the Product Owner role? How do I interact with the Development Team and the ScrumMaster, or with the stakeholders?
  • How do I plan for future? What kind of commitments are safe to make?
  • How do those commitments affect the work we do?

Learning Objectives (specific):

  • How can I effectively describe the things / features my clients and users want? How much detail is useful, and when?
  • How can I get the Development Team’s feedback on risks, opportunities, effort and consequences of planned work?
  • What techniques can I use to elicit needs and value information from my stakeholders? How do I keep them informed of product progress?

Target audience: This is a two-day course intended for product owners, product managers, business analysts, management and executives.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSPO Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSPO training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information:

  • Full attendance and participation in the course will result in becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner from the Scrum Alliance. No Exam Required. See more at Scrum Alliance.
  • Read more about the course from here

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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) course will help a Product Owner to understand Scrum and the Product Owner role.

Learning Objectives (general):

  • Why to use Agile? When is Scrum the right approach? When should we use some other approach? Can I combine different approaches?
  • What am I expected of in the Product Owner role? How do I interact with the Development Team and the ScrumMaster, or with the stakeholders?
  • How do I plan for future? What kind of commitments are safe to make?
  • How do those commitments affect the work we do?

Learning Objectives (specific):

  • How can I effectively describe the things / features my clients and users want? How much detail is useful, and when?
  • How can I get the Development Team’s feedback on risks, opportunities, effort and consequences of planned work?
  • What techniques can I use to elicit needs and value information from my stakeholders? How do I keep them informed of product progress?

Target audience: This is a two-day course intended for product owners, product managers, business analysts, management and executives.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSPO Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSPO training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information:

  • Full attendance and participation in the course will result in becoming a Certified Scrum Product Owner from the Scrum Alliance. No Exam Required. See more at Scrum Alliance.
  • Read more about the course from here

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Certified Scrum Master Course (CSM)

The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training class is a two-day learning experience that provides participants with everything from an understanding Agile values and principles, practical application of Scrum framework, to ways to become a great ScrumMaster. It will help you

  • uncover goals, benefits, and application of Agile Software Development
  • deepen understanding of the Scrum Framework, its rules, practices and boundaries of usage
  • develop common understanding of how Scrum can be applied in the given context

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Evelyn uses accelerated learning techniques like Training From The Back Of The Room to teach the course content in brain-friendly ways that help you maximize learning experience and information retention.

As a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Evelyn brings in years of coaching experience to the class, which helps the session to be more beneficial and practical.

Her training is well known as “two days of fantastic learning and great fun”.

Training Topics:

  • Lean and Agile principles
  • Scrum framework overview
  • Great anatomy of great ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Scrum Team
  • Product V ision
  • The Product Backlog & prioritization
  • Relative estimation
  • Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum Meeting
  • Burndown charts & Release planning
  • Sprint Review (demo) & Retrospective
  • Next steps with Scrum framework
  • A full simulation of a Scrum project

The training itself is run by Scrum, and is full of exercises, workshops, games, and simulations.It is very engaging and gives opportunities to participants to get practical experience from real application

The training will be beneficial to:

  • project managers, team leads, business representatives or anybody who are looking for more effective ways of product development;
  • Scrum Masters or Scrum Master candidates;
  • developers, testers, analysts, designers, and all members of software projects;

And in general for everyone interested on understanding the power of the Scrum Framework.

Upon completion of the class, students will be eligible to take the Certified ScrumMaster exam and become Certified ScrumMasters (CSM). The price of the training includes two free attempts to finalize the online test at Scrum Alliance website for every CSM course participant. Participants have 90 days to pass the online CSM test. To get a passing score, you must correctly answer 24 of the 35 questions. Once passed the online test you will receive the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSM Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSM training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 or 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information: Read more about the course from here

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Certified Scrum Master Course (CSM)

The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training class is a two-day learning experience that provides participants with everything from an understanding Agile values and principles, practical application of Scrum framework, to ways to become a great ScrumMaster. It will help you

  • uncover goals, benefits, and application of Agile Software Development
  • deepen understanding of the Scrum Framework, its rules, practices and boundaries of usage
  • develop common understanding of how Scrum can be applied in the given context

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Evelyn uses accelerated learning techniques like Training From The Back Of The Room to teach the course content in brain-friendly ways that help you maximize learning experience and information retention.

As a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Evelyn brings in years of coaching experience to the class, which helps the session to be more beneficial and practical.

Her training is well known as “two days of fantastic learning and great fun”.

Training Topics:

  • Lean and Agile principles
  • Scrum framework overview
  • Great anatomy of great ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Scrum Team
  • Product V ision
  • The Product Backlog & prioritization
  • Relative estimation
  • Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum Meeting
  • Burndown charts & Release planning
  • Sprint Review (demo) & Retrospective
  • Next steps with Scrum framework
  • A full simulation of a Scrum project

The training itself is run by Scrum, and is full of exercises, workshops, games, and simulations.It is very engaging and gives opportunities to participants to get practical experience from real application

The training will be beneficial to:

  • project managers, team leads, business representatives or anybody who are looking for more effective ways of product development;
  • Scrum Masters or Scrum Master candidates;
  • developers, testers, analysts, designers, and all members of software projects;

And in general for everyone interested on understanding the power of the Scrum Framework.

Upon completion of the class, students will be eligible to take the Certified ScrumMaster exam and become Certified ScrumMasters (CSM). The price of the training includes two free attempts to finalize the online test at Scrum Alliance website for every CSM course participant. Participants have 90 days to pass the online CSM test. To get a passing score, you must correctly answer 24 of the 35 questions. Once passed the online test you will receive the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSM Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSM training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 or 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information: Read more about the course from here

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Certified Scrum Master Course (CSM)

The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training class is a two-day learning experience that provides participants with everything from an understanding Agile values and principles, practical application of Scrum framework, to ways to become a great ScrumMaster. It will help you

  • uncover goals, benefits, and application of Agile Software Development
  • deepen understanding of the Scrum Framework, its rules, practices and boundaries of usage
  • develop common understanding of how Scrum can be applied in the given context

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Evelyn uses accelerated learning techniques like Training From The Back Of The Room to teach the course content in brain-friendly ways that help you maximize learning experience and information retention.

As a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Evelyn brings in years of coaching experience to the class, which helps the session to be more beneficial and practical.

Her training is well known as “two days of fantastic learning and great fun”.

Training Topics:

  • Lean and Agile principles
  • Scrum framework overview
  • Great anatomy of great ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Scrum Team
  • Product V ision
  • The Product Backlog & prioritization
  • Relative estimation
  • Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum Meeting
  • Burndown charts & Release planning
  • Sprint Review (demo) & Retrospective
  • Next steps with Scrum framework
  • A full simulation of a Scrum project

The training itself is run by Scrum, and is full of exercises, workshops, games, and simulations.It is very engaging and gives opportunities to participants to get practical experience from real application

The training will be beneficial to:

  • project managers, team leads, business representatives or anybody who are looking for more effective ways of product development;
  • Scrum Masters or Scrum Master candidates;
  • developers, testers, analysts, designers, and all members of software projects;

And in general for everyone interested on understanding the power of the Scrum Framework.

Upon completion of the class, students will be eligible to take the Certified ScrumMaster exam and become Certified ScrumMasters (CSM). The price of the training includes two free attempts to finalize the online test at Scrum Alliance website for every CSM course participant. Participants have 90 days to pass the online CSM test. To get a passing score, you must correctly answer 24 of the 35 questions. Once passed the online test you will receive the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

Inclusives:
1. Scrum Alliance CSM Certification
2. Two-year membership with Scrum Alliance
3. CSM training workbook and a comprehensive list of reference materials
4. 16 or 24 PDUs and/or SEUs that can be used to renew PMP and SA membership respectively

More information: Read more about the course from here

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VMware vSphere: What’s New [V8]

In this 2-day course, you will explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vCenter® 8.0, VMware ESXi™ 8.0, and VMware vSphere® 8.0. Through use-case scenarios, demonstrations, labs, and simulations, you develop skills to implement and configure vSphere 8.0.

This course is recommended for customers who want to deploy vSphere 7 in their existing vSphere environment.

Intended Audience: System architects, system administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing vSphere architectures who want to deploy vSphere 8.0 into their existing vSphere environment.

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Prerequisites: This course requires completion of one of the following courses, or equivalent knowledge, plus administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
  • VMware vSphere: Fast Track
  • VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
  • Experience with working at the command line is helpful.

The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install vCenter Server
  • Create vCenter Server objects, such as data centers and folders
  • Create and manage vCenter Server roles and permissions
  • Create and modify a standard switch
  • Create and modify a distributed switch
  • Connect an ESXi host to NAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage
  • Create a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
  • Use a content library template to create a virtual machine
  • Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
  • Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster
  • Use VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and VMs

If you cannot complete these tasks, VMware recommends that you instead take the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Recognize the importance of key features and enhancements in vSphere 8.0
  • Describe the purpose of VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™
  • Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to update an ESXi host that has a data processing unit (DPU)
  • Identify devices supported for system storage on ESXi 8.0
  • Recognize enhancements to VM hardware compatibility settings
  • Recognize changes related to vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation that improve VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
  • Describe the new virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) topology settings in the VMware vSphere® Client™
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager and VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to manage configuration specifications for hosts in a cluster
  • Recognize vSphere Lifecycle Manager and Auto Deploy enhancements in vSphere 8.0
  • Describe new cluster management features in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0
  • Recognize the cloud benefits that VMware vSphere+ brings to on-premises workloads
  • Identify discontinued or deprecated features and technology in vSphere 8.0

More information:

  • Read more about the course here.

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VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V4.x]

This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX infrastructure. This course introduces you to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your VMware NSX environment. (more…)