Agile Training
Bring us on-site or join our public courses to improve your team's success
We teach participants how to use agile approaches to build solutions incrementally, get feedback regularly, and deliver value throughout, rather than in a big-bang delivery at the end. Agile succeeds over traditional or waterfall ways of working by featuring close customer collaboration, small & self-managing teams, and timeboxed iterations.
What is Agile Training?
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
Throughout our training programs, we cover a wide range of topics under the umbrella of agile. These courses help participants adopt an agile mindset and agile ways of working and are typically tailored to meet the needs of specific audiences and the Scrum roles.
Some of our agile training courses include professional certification. The most popular professional agile certification is Scrum, since Scrum is the most popular agile framework in use today. Agile and Scrum certification courses focus on specific roles including the Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Leader, and Team Members.
Our courses are comprehensive, but we understand how organizational structures can differ across industries. We do our best to cater our approach to your unique teams, meeting their needs and strengthening the capability of each member.
You also have the option to select the training delivery approach that best suits your needs. Vitality Chicago offers live online agile training, self-paced instruction, and in-person classes.
Upcoming Courses
| Course Name | Date | Cost | Instructor | Select |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovering Your Inner Badass Agile Coach $600 | Apr 11 - Apr 12 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST | $600 | Bob Galen & Peter Fischbach | Register |
| Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) $995 | Register | |||
| Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) $1395 | Register |
Training Course Categories
Certification Courses
Other Agile Training Courses and Workshops
Certificate in Agile Practices from Northwestern University
Featured Agile Courses
With Vitality Chicago as your agile training company, you get the benefits of our extensive training curriculum and experienced trainers who provide the role-based training you need for your agile journey — away from “waterfall” or chaotic ways of working.
Agile for Teams (2 days)The Agile For Teams Training Course is a hands-on agile workshop delivered to entire Scrum teams including the Product Owner and the Scrum Master.
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) (2 days)The Professional Scrum Product Owner Training is a two-day course that covers the principles of Scrum and agility, the role of the Product Owner, building and sustaining a product vision, and managing a Product Backlog.
Agile for Leaders (2 Days)Our Agile For Leaders Training Course is focused on providing leaders and executives with the understanding tools they need to oversee Agile and Scrum teams.
Is Agile Training Worth It?
Properly implementing agile has significant payback. Businesses that are not utilizing agile methodologies tend to lack more in productivity, alignment, and find it harder to deliver business value. Training for teams that are using hybrid agile approaches has great payback as well because frequently teams are misusing agile or following a process blindly – sometimes this is called Zombie Scrum.
What is an Agile Training Plan?
A Training Plan outlines your goals, audiences, needs, timeframe, and costs associated with training. Learn about how to make the best use of your budget in How to Develop Your Agile Training Plan.
Who Can Benefit from Training?
Anyone who wants to maximize the productivity gains from agile ways of working should sign up for one of our programs. This is most important for organizational leaders, who would become Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. Second most important would be agile team members, managers, and Product Owners. Managers and other leaders are often overlooked in training, which is a mistake because they have the greatest influence on whether agile teams properly adopt the right methodologies to be productive.
How Long? How Much?
Timeframes and costs for training can vary widely depending on geographic location, delivery method and whether the course includes certification. All examples below assume the location is within the United States.
(2 day course)
$14,500 - $16,500
(Up to 24 individuals)
Public Individual Course with Certification(2 day course)
$795 - $1,295
(Per Individual)
Online Self-paced Course without Certification(2 day course)
$49 - $199
(Per Individual)
What are the benefits of Agile Training
Helps teams to:
- Respond to changing customer needs
- Leverage basic and advanced agile concepts to improve productivity
- Use customer feedback to deliver the best solutions in the shortest time
- Promote team communication and collaboration and avoid thrashing
- Speak the same language and follow a common agile process
- Understand how agile team roles maximize team productivity
- Onboard new team members quickly
- Leverage retrospectives to continually improve team performance
- Unlearn ineffective practices and beliefs that hold teams back
- Select the most effective agile approaches based on the team context
Helps Organizations to:
- Improve customer satisfaction and improve sales or product adoption
- Deliver customer value faster
- Retain top performers
- Align teams to organizational value streams and goals
- Optimize organizational structures and make the most effective use of employees
- Speak the same language and follow a common agile process
- Develop leaders who engage and inspire
- Facilitate and support an agile transformation
Helps Individuals to:
- Better understand expectations
- Apply agile techniques and improve personal effectiveness
- Gain expertise through agile project management certification and improve personal marketability