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Introductions
I’m Rob Myers, founder of Agile Institute. I’ve been seeking out the finest instructors and mentors, courses and workshops, to give you a single source for training and coaching in:
- Agile processes such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).
- Process improvement methodologies such as Lean and the Theory of Constraints.
- Technical practices such as Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Deployment, and Pair Programming.
My colleagues and collaborators are world-class thought-leaders in the Lean/Agile software development domain. We frequently compare materials, teach together, attend each other’s courses, critique each other, and even debate the merits of some new (or newly applied) technique (e.g. Kanban). This allows me to select the best instructor with the finest materials for the topics most needed by your teams.
This also allows me to put together the most suitable custom curriculum for your team, and (perhaps most surprisingly) at comparable, competitive rates.
Our Edge
At Agile Institute, instructors have actual production experience in the techniques covered by their courses. Each of us is committed to occasionally taking on actual project work, to test and hone our own understanding (while providing some lucky team with essential skills).
They are also professional trainers, forever working to improve and update their materials, labs, simulations, and public presentation style.
Sharpening Your Edge
As truly Lean organizations have shown time and again, easing the most restrictive constraint from the whole organization’s value-stream always provides returns on the investment. In the software world, Agile processes are known for delivering the best business value sooner, and for removing many of the traditional constraints involved in software product delivery.
We realize that training budgets are going to be tight this year, but you know that the cost of making no changes to your value-stream may readily exceed the cost of our constraint-removing courses and coaching.
Do you have an agile team who is grumbling about technical debt? This is a hard-to-quantify profit-sucking monster that affects traditional and agile development efforts, alike. This debt manifests itself later as higher defect rates, higher support costs, and lost sales. Our technically-oriented Essential Series of courses are intended to reduce and control technical debt.
Are morale, productivity, and profits all falling, even though you thought your team was doing everything “Agile”? Perhaps our Agile Jump-Start package, with an Agile Constraints Assessment and a choice of constraint-busting courses, may be what you need to pull the team out of a ditch.
(Further discussions about “debt” and “discipline” can be found in my blog, Powers of Two)
What next?
To see descriptions of courses, see our catalog.
For further information, pricing, and other queries, please contact me.
