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Day 1: Agile foundations (Agile Essentials microcredential)
Module 1: Course introduction; what agile is: the Agile Manifesto, values, principles, benefits, and frameworks
Module 2: The agile team: roles, how agile and traditional roles differ, and how performance is measured
Module 3: Working on an agile team: operating rhythms, user stories, and prioritizing features
Module 4: Prioritization workshop: MoSCoW, WSJF, and product intake applied to your team's work
Module 5: Agile evolution and agile beyond software; Paper Airplane simulation of flow and iteration
Day 2: Scrum and technical practice (Scrum Essentials microcredential)
Module 6: The Scrum framework: values, accountabilities, events, artifacts, and commitments
Module 7: Scrum in action: the events, Scrum for product development, Scrum in non-Scrum environments, scenario simulation
Module 8: Estimating and metrics: story points, Planning Poker, velocity, and burndown and burnup charts
Module 9: Agile for technical teams: hybrids, Scrum for hardware, scaling with LeSS, SAFe, Scrum@Scale and Nexus, and AI on agile teams
Registration Date/Time:
11/10/2026 07:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 11/9/2026 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
- 11/10/2026 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
Course Location
Lodging
Accommodations include: Enjoy complimentary business center, WiFi and Local/Airport Shuttle. Each room has a refrigerator, microwave, 42-inch HDTV, and executive desk. Parking available $15/night.
Accommodations include: Your stay includes hot breakfast buffet, fitness center, business center, convenient on-site parking. Guest rooms are complete with Keurig coffee maker, refrigerator, complimentary high-speed Internet, and 40-inch, flat screen, high-def TVs.
Room: rates start at $160
Accommodations include: Complimentary WiFi, Local/Airport Shuttle, Pool, and Fitness Center.
Instructor
Dr. Shawn Belling
UW InterPro
Shawn Belling is a globally experienced technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has over thirty years of professional experience, including executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors.
Shawn is IT Director/IT Business Partner for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Analytical Services Division. Shawn holds teaching roles at UW– Madison, UW-Platteville, and the University of Southern California. Areas of professional and academic practice include project and program management, agile practices, organizational change management, software and IT strategy and delivery, new product development and remote work.
In addition to his technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks and consults for businesses, universities, and professional organizations on various leadership and management topics and practices. Shawn released his books Succeeding with Agile Hybrids in November of 2020 and Remotely Possible in June of 2021, and has also contributed chapters of books on project management.
Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner and is also a Certified Scrum Professional and Registered Scrum at Scale Practitioner.
Shawn earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and his Master of Science in Project Management from UW–Platteville. Shawn earned a graduate diploma in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and a Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.Program Director
Blake Suhre