Agile For AllReviews of agileforall.com

I had anticipated the course to discuss more tactics and help with facilitation, organization of teams. Approaching difficult team members, etc. I had anticipated some more problem solving techniques. It was a pretty expensive course to go over academic items that are readily available on the internet. The online instruction was pretty good using break out rooms and whiteboards, the instructor was informative and knowledgeable. I appreciated the breaks in between. There wasn't much in the form of professional networking.

Overall, the instructor was average. I attended a course with Agile Bob several years ago and he really helped me revisit the importance of agility. This session with another instructor was somewhat disappointing. Why? I am glad you asked. There were a few points that were either glossed over and/or not conveyed correctly. For instance, the instructor did not know the difference between capacity and velocity. When I mentioned the 2 terms, he indicated that he used velocity and capacity interchangeably and wasn't going to argue over semantics. There was another individual in the class who also felt passionate about differentiating between the two terms to accurately determine how much work can be completed within a given iteration. It was not discussed any further. Another example of why I rated this training session average was because the second day seemed rushed and a lot of basic Scrum concepts were either glossed over or never mentioned. For instance, the importance of small user stories and the importance of INVEST was mentioned in a brief 2 sentences. During the Retrospective session, the instructor did not cover the importance of identifying action items based on what the team deemed most important via dot voting or whatever the technique. These action items help the team continuously improve. Regardless, this class enabled me to obtain my CSM. Thanks!

Content was good, but the presentation could easily be drawn in. There were too many diversions where the presenter was drawn into discussions about one particular groups internal conflicts. The presentation should be given using scrum processes, rather than waterfall processes. The entire presentation should be given with a visual story board, moving topics from backlog to doing to done, with timeboxes.

First, Peter is an excellent speaker. I wish the class was longer for that reason alone. The content of the class felt like a preview. We covered a lot of topics in super light detail, only taking the time to really dive into a couple. It was all very interesting and left me feeling not that much wiser. So I have begun to think that the course is really designed to weed out people who will take the next course or the entire series.. Fair, but not worth more than 3 stars. If there were a way to test out of this intro, or some online offering, I would have preferred that.

The test was more specific than the workshop and the video portion of the prerequisites. The test were primarily based upon the guide so I gave an average review.

The instructor was excellent, the content was as good as could be expected. However the entire "Agile" framework is not very helpful for what we do, its made for software developers and for them it looks amazing, but my work is 75% operational, we already have prescribed roles and responsibilities, Scrum just does not fit our work. I like the values and ethics of the processes, so that combined with the instructors expert delivery of the content is what rates you at 3 stars.

Great CAL 1 Class Good material, Peter was a great instructor and facilitator. There was promised follow-up from Agile for All, following the class more than a year ago, no follow up has happened. I'm wondering if our class was a work-in-progress and we were a BETA group?