A practical program for the managers who run delivery day to day — focused on throughput, budget, and getting real performance out of Scrum teams rather than ceremony for its own sake. These are online project management methodology classes — each class runs one hour and is delivered live online.
Class 01 1 hour
The Manager's Role in Agile Scrum
What changes when the team self-manages: moving from assigning tasks to removing obstacles, setting context, and owning outcomes instead of activity.
What you will learn
What the team owns now, and what stays with you
Moving from assigning tasks to setting context and clearing obstacles
Staying informed without becoming the bottleneck
Where managers accidentally undermine self-management
Class 02 1 hour
Throughput, Velocity & Flow
How to read velocity honestly, where flow actually breaks down, and the practical levers that improve delivery rate without simply asking for more hours.
What you will learn
What velocity does and does not tell you
Spotting flow breakdowns: queues, handoffs, and too much work in progress
Practical levers that raise delivery rate without adding hours
Using cycle time to forecast instead of guessing
Class 03 1 hour
Capacity & Resource Planning
Planning realistic sprint capacity across holidays, partial allocations, and shared specialists — and communicating what that capacity can and cannot absorb.
What you will learn
Calculating real sprint capacity including holidays and partial allocations
Planning around shared specialists and split assignments
Communicating capacity limits to stakeholders with evidence
When adding people helps — and why it slows delivery first
Class 04 1 hour
Budget & Cost Efficiency Under Agile
Where Agile saves money in practice: less rework, earlier kill decisions, smaller batch sizes, and fewer late-stage surprises. Includes how to defend the budget you have.
What you will learn
Where the savings actually come from: rework, batch size, early kill decisions
Building a defensible budget from team cost and delivery rate
Tracking spend against outcomes rather than milestones
Making the cost case for keeping a team together
Class 05 1 hour
AI-Augmented Forecasting & Reporting AI
Using AI & agentic tools to turn raw sprint data into forecasts, status narratives, and executive summaries — plus how to sanity-check what the tool hands back.
What you will learn
Turning sprint data into a forecast range instead of a single date
Using AI to draft status narratives and executive summaries
Prompt patterns that produce useful reporting from Jira exports
What to verify before you forward an AI-written summary
Class 06 1 hour
Metrics That Actually Matter
Separating signal from vanity: cycle time, predictability, escaped defects, and value delivered — and why velocity should never be used as a cross-team scorecard.
What you will learn
The metrics worth tracking, and the vanity metrics to drop
Why velocity must never be used to compare teams
Building a one-page team health view
Detecting when a metric has started driving the wrong behavior
Class 07 1 hour
Coaching Scrum Masters & Product Owners
Developing the two roles your delivery depends on: what good looks like, common failure patterns, and how to coach without taking the role back over.
What you will learn
What good looks like in each role, in observable behavior
The most common failure patterns and how to correct them
Coaching conversations that develop rather than direct
When to step in, and when to let the role struggle productively
Class 08 1 hour
Managing Dependencies Across Teams
Making cross-team commitments visible, sequencing work that spans groups, and running the coordination cadence that keeps dependent teams from blocking each other.
What you will learn
Making cross-team commitments visible before they become blockers
Sequencing work that spans multiple teams
Running a coordination cadence that is not just another status meeting
Escalation paths that resolve dependencies in days, not sprints
Class 09 1 hour
Performance Conversations in a Self-Managing Team
Evaluating and developing individuals when the team owns the work collectively — fair contribution signals, growth conversations, and handling genuine underperformance.
What you will learn
Fair contribution signals in a team that delivers collectively
Separating individual growth from team output
Structuring development conversations around observable behavior
Handling genuine underperformance without breaking team trust
Format: 9 online classes × 1 hour each = 9 hours total. Delivered live online as one class per week, or grouped into longer working sessions.
Manager sessions work best as a short series so participants can apply each class against their own live sprint data between meetings.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll talk through your goals, your team, and which Agile Scrum 101™ with AI track fits best — no pressure, no obligation.
