Leadership, Agile and Scrum Training and Coaching with Michigan Technology Services
Michigan Technology Services offers instructor-led Leadership, Agile and Scrum courses and coaching through partnerships with a number of Certified and Professional Scrum Trainers and Leadership Agility consultants. Our guides and trainers are among the most experienced educators and coaches within the Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org and Scaled Agile communities.
In a pre-Covid world our training would take place at our location in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or onsite at your location anywhere around the world. Our Agile workshops and Agile coaching sessions are now offered both online/virtually, reducing your need to travel - and in-person at your location.
While many trainers used to fly into metro Detroit to deliver a class, and then leave, we live here and support the local Business and Agile community. We continue to sponsor local conferences and well-attended Meetups. We have successfully run Leadership, Business Agility, Agile and Scrum courses for countless teams from the Great Lakes area -- and across the globe.
Why Scrum? Why Leadership Agility?
Scrum is one of the most widely adopted agile frameworks. It is a simple, yet powerful way to boost team productivity, elevate quality, and accelerate project delivery. Our courses cover pragmatic practices for long and short-range planning, project execution, and progress reporting. They provide an examination of the project lifecycle as well as an in-depth exploration of roles, ceremonies, and artifacts. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven into each class to illustrate principles and practices.
Leadership Agility helps align leaders and creates a shared focus. One of our goals is to teach behaviors that support increased effectiveness. This helps individuals and teams hit business objectives, leading to successful results, outcomes and sustained profits.
There are numerous Leadership, Agile and Scrum workshops available. The most popular foundational and advanced courses are:
Leadership and Coaching for Leaders
- Certified Agile Leadership - CAL
- Leadership Agility
- Executive Leadership Agility Training
- Certified Agile Leadership II - CAL II
- Professional Coaching as Leaders
- Agile Leadership for Women (and Their Allies)
ScrumMaster
- Certified ScrumMaster - CSM
- Advanced Certified ScrumMaster - A-CSM
- Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster - CSP-SM
Product Owner
- Certified Scrum Product Owner - CSPO
- Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner - A-CSPO
- Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner - CSP-PO
Scrum Developer
Scale
- LeSS - Large Scale Scrum - Certified LeSS Practitioner
- LeSS - Large Scale Scrum - Certified LeSS Basics
- Scrum@Scale
Kanban
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) + Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP, from Kanban University)
- Scrum with Kanban - Professional Scrum with Kanban™ (PSK)
Agile Coaching
- Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator - ACS-CF
- Certified Team Coach (CTC)
- Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)
- Foundations of Facilitation
- ICP-ATF: Agile Team Facilitation
- ICP-ACC: Agile Certified Coach
- Coach the Coach
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Business Agility
- Visual Thinking Skills
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Design, Innovation & Visual Communication
- Agile for your Marketing Team
- High-Performance Teaming
- Agile Manufacturing and Scrum Hardware Development
- Path to Agility Practitioner
- Building Psychological Safety -- Foundation for High Performing Teams
- Lean-Agile Procurement
- Agile for HR
- Cynefin and Complexity
- Design Thinking
- Personal Agility
Micro-Workshops
- Agile Essentials
- AI for ScrumMasters
- AI for Product Owners
- Agile OKRs
- Collaborative Decision Making and Change Management
- Building Collaborative Connections
- Helping Change Stick
- Conflict Management Skills
- Embracing Conflict for Results
- Lean Software Development
- Behavior-Driven Development
- Embracing Conflict for Results
- Advanced Practices for Effective Retrospectives
- Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams
- Foundations of Facilitation
- Kanban Fundamentals
- Fixing your Scrum
- Agile in Sales
- Fundamentals of Project Management
- Team Leadership
- Fixing your SAFe implementation
- Approaching Conflict Essentials
- Microaggressions Essentials
- Psychological Safety
- Feature Slicing
- Liberating Structures
Agile related courses offered also include:
- DevOps Foundation Core Principles and Practices
- DevOps Technical Workshop
- Acceptance Test Driven Development - ATDD
- Effective Distributed and Virtual Agile Teams
- Training from the Back of the Room (TBR)
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Agile for Business Analysts
Additional Benefits of taking our Scrum courses
- Project Management Institute (PMI) members who hold the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential, will be eligible to claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) for every contact hour of these courses.
- Additionally, those pursuing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) credential may claim 1 education hour for every contact hour of these courses.
Organizational Agility 360 Assessment
Is your organization Agile? Our organizational Agility 360 Assessment evaluates the culture, structure and processes of your organization to inform you of your current agile effectiveness. It will also help guide your agile transformation. It outlines those areas aligned and misaligned with agility to help leadership prioritize and steer effectively. While most organizations do agile in some form, most are challenged in effectively scaling it and growing it within their organization to consistently drive business results. Call for details.
Leadership, Agile and Scrum Coaching
Leaders, as well as new and existing Scrum teams need support. We provide Leadership, Agile and Scrum coaching
Agile Meetups
Network with local members of the Agile community at an Agile Meetup. We coordinate and sponsor numerous Agile meetups, both in-person and virtually.
Scaled Agile Framework training - SAFe®
Looking for SAFe training? We offer both public and private SAFe workshops through partnerships with Scaled Agile Gold SPCT Partner AgileSparks and Silver Partner Skillbook Academy. Call us for details about SAFe classes.
- Leading SAFe – Leading The Scaled Agile Enterprise
- Implementing SAFe 6.0 w/ SPC Certification
- SAFe Scrum Master - SSM
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager - POPM
- SAFe Lean Portfolio Management
- SAFe for Teams - SAFe Agile Release Train (ART)
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- SAFe DevOps
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum.org workshops - available by request
- Professional Scrum Master I - PSM I
- Professional Scrum Master II - PSM II
- Professional Scrum Master III - PSM III
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I - PSM I
- Professional Scrum Product Owner II - PSM II
- Professional Scrum Product Owner III - PSM III
- Professional Agile Leadership Essentials - PAL-E
For complete Agile and Scrum course outlines and pricing information contact Michigan Technology Services. 248-489-0408