Agile Courses

Certified ScrumMaster® training (CSM®) is delivered by Scrum Alliance Certified Trainers (CSTs) who provide you with a deeper understanding of the three overarching areas of change in Scrum: Iterative Development, Self-Management, and the Visibility required for project success as a ScrumMaster. The course offers a comprehensive understanding of the conduct expected of a ScrumMaster (critical to carrying out the role), and of the Scrum framework.

This interactive, experiential course is suited for all levels of Scrum experience, and is designed specifically for those ready to master the Product Owner Role and manage the Product Backlog effectively. Topics include: Product Vision and Strategy, User Stories and User Story Maps, Product Planning/Forecasting and Creating Customer Focus.

This course explores the Lean-Agile mindset and why it’s so effective in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Understand what it means to lead a Lean-Agile Transformation as a Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA), including how to strategically manage and guide the adoption, success, and ongoing improvement of Lean-Agile culture in an enterprise, using the SAFe® framework. This course is suited for all experience levels, but Scrum experience is encouraged.

The Business Agility Foundations - Enterprise Edition (ICP-BAF) course from Hyperdrive is designed to give attendees the skills and the practical tools to formulate an action plan for agility in an enterprise setting. More than just “doing Agile,” this advanced course teaches techniques for adaptable leadership, evolving with new market trends and tools, and truly living Agile values. With this certification, attendees will be prepared to use a variety of frameworks, tools, and techniques to jumpstart transformation at the individual and organizational level, with a focus on implementation, scaling and sustaining Business Agility.

Not just for Portfolio Managers, this live online training will teach you to apply Lean principles to Business Agility so you can avoid waste and create a system that flows. Learn to prioritize and fund the “right things” and align capacity to demand. Enable strategy to steer execution and governance to maximize ROI. This course focuses on collaborating across silos, empowering teams, and organizing around value to adapt to what customers want, faster.

This eight-hour, live-online interactive course is focused on increasing the flow of business value from initial customer request to final customer delivery. How can your organization unlock insights into your process, identify and eliminate bottlenecks, and speed time-to-market for users? This course demystifies the value chain by visualizing the entire end-to-end process at the organization level, giving attendees a clearer view than is possible when embedded at the team level. Attendees will learn practical, applicable steps for identifying and improving both operational and development value streams. You will learn how to manage the value stream in an ongoing way through collecting the right metrics, learning how to deal with wasteful processes, and mapping the future state of the organization. Leaders in fields such as Product Management, Program and Portfolio Management, and Agile Coaching can learn how to spearhead rapid, sustainable change to become valuable business leaders.

You’re a Certified ScrumMaster® who’s mastered basic Scrum Values, practices, and applications. The next step in your Agile journey is to earn your Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM℠) certification. A-CSM℠ training gives you a practical set of tools for guiding teams and teams of teams, feedback on your communication and facilitation skills, and techniques for mentoring and evolving your Agile teams. Attendees will practice a host of advanced personal and group facilitation exercises that will upgrade your leadership approach and take your team’s performance to the next level.

The Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO℠) online course dives deeper into your role as Product Owner. Learn advanced skills to manage your product launches, backlog, and team to the best outcomes for your company. The course explores Agile Facilitation and Agile Coaching and how the Product Owner can use these skills to support the team, the ScrumMaster, and the organization. This advanced certification offers interactive sessions with in-depth discussions, exercises, and real-world examples. You’ll come away prepared to immediately implement new practices and principles in your work and grow your credibility as a product expert. This course does not require an active CSPO certification, but attendees must have previously taken the CSPO course. Upon completing this course, you will earn your Advanced Certification.

Hyperdrive’s Certified Scrum Professional®-ScrumMaster (CSP®-SM) picks up where Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM®) left off and takes your Scrum Master skills to the next level. Participants will deep dive into Lean Thinking, visual facilitation techniques, remote teams, and more as we examine the relationship of the Scrum Master to the product owner, the team and the organization. Hyperdrive’s Certified Scrum Professional®️-ScrumMaster (CSP®️-SM) picks up where Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®️ (A-CSM®️) left off and takes your Scrum Master skills to the next level. Participants will deep-dive into Lean Thinking, visual facilitation techniques, remote teams, and more as we examine the relationship of the Scrum Master to the product owner, the team, and the organization. Filled with real-world examples and attendees’ experiences, you’ll leave this class able to immediately implement very advanced yet practical tools and techniques at your workplace. Become a Certified Scrum Professional and challenge your teams to improve how Scrum and Agile principles are applied.

Hyperdrive’s Certified Scrum Professional®️-Product Owner (CSP®️-PO) course picks up where our Advanced Certified Product Owner®️ (A-CSPO®️) left off and takes your Product Owner skills to the next level! This class dives deep into Product Strategy, from customer discovery and development to business models and competitive analysis, and explores how Product Owners help launch new teams, work with their stakeholders on planning and forecasting, and work with multiple teams on their backlogs. Filled with real-world examples and attendees’ experiences, you’ll leave this class able to immediately implement very advanced yet practical tools and techniques at your workplace. Become a Certified Scrum Professional and challenge your teams to improve how Scrum and Agile principles are applied.

To be an effective Agile Coach or professional leader is to continuously learn, grow and adapt your skills to effectively guide individuals, teams and organizations to achieve business success. This course focuses primarily on the mindset and role of an Agile Team Facilitator, and through immersive discussions and hands-on exercises, you’ll master advanced Agile capabilities like leadership, coaching, change management and facilitation. Invest in your career and make impactful changes in your organization’s culture with this leadership-readiness course.

The Enterprise Coaching for Agility track includes two interactive courses – Agility in the Enterprise and Coaching Agile Transitions, giving you ICP-ENT and ICP-CAT certifications in just eight 3-hour sessions. This advanced certification track includes the foundational tools and knowledge Agile leaders need to lead organizational design and scale enterprise agility with common agile frameworks.

The Certified OKR Coach & Champion courses are designed to equip individuals with the skills to coach organizations and teams in creating and implementing effective OKRs. Attendees will learn effective goal setting, how to track metrics and create alignment, coaching techniques to motivate their teams, change management skills, methods for aligning OKRs with existing business objectives, and an in-depth breakdown of the 5-step OKR cycle.

Hyperdrive’s Product Management Foundations for Agile course will teach everyone involved in the lifecycle of a product release how to bring world-class products to market in an effective, agile way. Instructor and MIT graduate Daniel Walsh will show you techniques to develop a product vision, product metrics to measure progress, and a better understanding of customers’ behaviors and needs. You’ll explore the main characteristics of innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Learn to reduce risk dramatically, improve value co-creation, and get winning products to market faster.

Are you looking for an easy-to-understand foundational course on Agility? The Agile Foundations course is a basic one-day Agile intro designed for people who are new to Agile or who want a fast refresher course. This is an interactive course that presents the core philosophy behind winning Agile approaches. Using real-world examples and hands-on labs, this course guides students on implementing Agile planning and delivery practices.

The Kanban Essentials Workshop: Lean Practices for Technologies Teams is a highly interactive, two-day course that will give you a foundation for using Lean practices to improve team performance. You will learn how Kanban rapidly adapts to your organization and your project needs. Also learn how Kanban allows your team to operate at a very high level of productivity due to its evolutionary approach to manage change in the organization.