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Course Outline
Module 1: Course Intro/Introduction to Agile: What is it - roots/history - current trends - what it's not.
Module 2: Agile project lifecycle models
Module 3: Agile project process models
Module 4: Agile project artifacts and documents
Module 5: Agile project team roles
Module 6: Agile Communications and Team Interactions - Daily stand-ups/scrums, team spaces/bullpens, other communications tools/methods
Module 7: Agile Estimating - Sizing and story points, planning poker, analogous estimating
Module 8: Agile Planning - release planning, Iterations/Timeboxing, retrospectives, burndown/burnup charts, task boards, definition of done, thin vertical slices, releasable increments
Module 9: Agile Metrics and Tools: Velocity, burndown/burnup charts
Module 10: Scaling Agile – LeSS, SAFe, S@S, Hybrid
Module 11: Adopting Agile - assessing projects, adoption, alternatives/adaptations, organizational readiness and typical challenges
Course Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
4/22/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 4/22/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
- 4/23/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
Location
Venue
Accommodations
Room: rates start at 170
Group Code: Agile for Technical Teams
Reserve by: Mar. 21, 2025
Accommodations include:
Program Director & Instructors
Program Director
Blake Suhre
Shawn Belling
UW InterPro and Farwell Project Advisors
Shawn Belling is a technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has held executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors.
Shawn is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro) within the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Shawn is also the Delivery Experience Officer at FarWell Project Advisors LLC of Madison, WI. 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 over 30 years of 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.
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 Master of Science in Project Management from UW – Platteville. Shawn earned a certificate in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.