Training

Agile / Scrum

Net Objectives has the most comprehensive and effective approach to preparing teams for the transition to Agile methods. While most Agile training companies focus on the Scrum Master, we focus on the enterprise. Our enterprise training enables your teams to transition to effectiveness. We also offer Lean-Agile Project Manager Certification courses, Lean Scrum Master Certification when appropriate.

We also offer tools-based training, including MS VSTS.

A note on our team focus: We don’t believe the correct approach to creating effective Agile teams is to provide a Certified Scrum Master course to the team. To our mind, this is akin to teaching a team to play football by teaching everyone how to be a football coach. Instead, you need to teach the team to play football, and have one person be trained as the coach. We do provide a Lean-Agile Project Manager certification, we strongly feel this training should be given to those who will be coaches, not as a substitute for appropriate training for the team members.

Why do our courses say 'Lean-Agile' and not Scrum? We used to label our courses 'Scrum' but we feel that we've evolved to different and better methods. Scrum is a team centric approach - which is good when you are working on the team. Lean-Agile is an enterprise approach.  We believe even when working on the team you must pay attention to the context the team is in.  This is why all of our training is done within the context of Lean-Thinking.  Our results with large (1000+) and medium sized (100-1000) organizations have demonstrated much faster adoption and sustainable results by doing Scrum within the context of the business needs. This is not a bottom up approach but is one where the entire organization is considered: business, management, team and technical.  We've even written a book about it - Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility.

Our Related Courses

  • Implementing Lean-Agile for Your Team
    This foundational course is a team-centered offering that teaches a development team how to get significant productivity and quality gains by guiding their software development approaches with Lean Principles.  It is a combination of interactive lecture with a significant amount of time spent on hands-on exercises.  The course grounds the participants in how to use Lean to properly execute Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP) within the context of enterprise endeavors.
  • Lean-Agile Project Manager
    This one-day course follows Implementing Lean-Agile for Your Team  and teaches project managers specifically how to use Lean principles and Agile practices to deliver profitable projects within the enterprise.   The course teaches project managers how to manage the alignment between business and technology teams so that a stream of highly profitable solutions and applications flow from the development organization.
  • Lean-Agile Bootcamp
    This team experience combines Implementing Lean-Agile for Your Team, Lean-Agile Project Management, and Lean Requirements Management into an onsite training/coaching week.  In addition to the content from Implementing Lean-Agile for your Team, this course is a tailored curriculum determined as an outcome of our training assessments with the goal of a team set up for success and ready to begin execution of Lean-Agile software delivery against a business driven release plan.
  • Acceptance Test-Driven Development

    The major problem with requirements is misunderstanding. The people who define, implement, and test the product all have a different understanding of what needs to be done. This misunderstanding begets waste, slipped schedules, and mistrust within the organization.  Moreover, big requirement stories are often decomposed into technical tasks that are not focused on the customer’s needs, leading to implementations that are unnecessarily complex to build and maintain.

  • Lean-Agile Enterprise Release Planning
    This course answers the question – “how do we do high-level release planning on Agile projects across an Enterprise?”  It illustrates release planning at both the project level as well as how to coordinate releases of related products.  While Agile has demonstrated an ability to bring high quality software products to market faster than legacy methods, many organizations have had difficulty with Agile’s bottom-up approach.  By incorporating the Lean principle of “optimize the whole” with “deliver fast” participants learn how to implement business driven software development.
  • Lean-Agile Project Manager Certification by Net Objectives
    This three-day certification course teaches project managers how to use Lean principles and Agile practices to deliver profitable projects within the enterprise.   Using new ways to think about the enterprise, the course establishes a model of the lean enterprise organization, and teaches project managers how to manage the alignment between business and technology teams so that a stream of highly profitable solutions and applications flow from the development organization.
  • Advanced Lean-Agile Project Management for Scrum Masters
    Certification by Net Objectives. Net Objectives is not affiliated with the Scrum Alliance.This two day course teaches how to be a Scrum Master using Lean principles to manage an iteration as well as increase visibility of the team's process to management.  Both are essential to improve efficiency of the team and to include corporate management to allow for changes needed to remove impediments to the team.
  • Lean Product Champion Certification by Net Objectives
    This course blends several technologies together in a breakthrough two-day course that gives the tools the entire development team needs to uncover and manage the story discover/definition process. This course moves well beyond the typical Scrum Product Owner course by applying principles of Lean Thinking. Software development is most like product development. That is, much of it is about discovering what the customer needs and how to build it. This course focuses on how to most efficiently discover those features that will return the highest benefit to the clients of a company.