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- “Better Norms” for your Company Post-Pandemic
- 10 Fundamental Agile Leadership Practices That Will Make You A Better Agile Leader
- 2010 is the Year of the Project Manager
- 5 Ways to Help Your Team Become More Agile
- A 12 Year Old Agilest, What We Can Learn From Kids About Adopting Agile
- A Heartfelt Scrum Lesson From The Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Tragedy
- A Product Owner Is Like An Airline Pilot When…
- A Week in the Life of an Advertising Agency
- Agile allows the business to quickly react to changing market conditions and needs
- Agile and H&R Block – A Braintrust Success Story
- Agile Birmingham October Meeting – Retrospectives That Rock!
- Agile Certification Webinar: Rob McCorkle Answers Your Questions
- Agile Checklist to Finish 2021 Strong
- Agile Coaching: Some Tips From Lyssa Adkins
- Agile creates an ideal environment for knowledge workers
- Agile in Change Management: Is Your Company in Dire Need of a Turnaround?
- Agile Project Management IN MOTION
- Agile provides visibility into the development process
- Agile puts the customer representative in the driver’s seat
- Agile removes the confusion and distractions that are typically present
- Agile Resolutions for 2021
- Agile Secrets Revealed – A Whitepaper
- Agile Success Rates Versus Waterfall
- Agile Tools to Incorporate into Your Daily Routine
- Agile2017 Conference
- Alabama’s First And Only Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider
- Alistair Cockburn upholds the rules of his CST license, by giving it up.
- Amsterdam Recap Day 3 of 3
- Amsterdam Recap: Day 2 of 3
- Amsterdam Scrum Gathering, a Recap. 1 of 3
- An Interview With Our New President, Kate Megaw
- Annual Performance Reviews – The most un-agile way to provide feedback
- Anu Smalley’s Volunteer Journey with the Scrum Alliance
- Are Agile and Lean the Same Thing?
- Are you a problem finder or problem solver?
- Are You A Seagull Manager?
- Are You Able To Practice True Continuous Improvement?
- Are you ready for Advanced Certified ScrumMaster™?
- Are You Ready To Take The Next Step?
- Are you the “CEO” of your project?
- Are Your Communications Treated Like SPAM?
- Artifacts, Roles, and Ceremonies – What Makes Up Scrum?
- Assess Yourself with the Onion Exercise
- Believe it or not, it’s true! PMI now offering their OWN Agile Certification.
- Benefits of Business Agility in a Post-Covid World
- Birmingham Native Honored With International Teaching Designation
- Birmingham Technology Expert To Give Presentation To International Trade Group In China
- Braintrust Coach John Miller Talks with InfoQ About Scrum For Education
- Braintrust Consulting Group Brings Alternative Approach to Traditional Project Management
- Braintrust Family Thanksgiving Recipes
- BRAINTRUST IS PROUD TO PRESENT “TRAINING FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM!” BY SHARON BOWMAN
- Braintrust Launches The Center for Agile Leadership!
- Braintrust Offers On-Site Training!
- Braintrust on Facebook!
- Braintrust Pre-Class Materials
- Braintrust President Brian Rabon Featured in New Issue of Better Software
- Braintrust President Brian Rabon to Keynote 2014 Tampa Bay Annual Symposium
- Braintrust President To Keynote – 2014 PMI Northern Utah – Professional Development Conference
- Braintrust President To Keynote 2014 PMI Nashville Symposium
- BRAINTRUST PRESIDENT, BRIAN RABON LEADS #PMCHAT THIS FRIDAY
- Braintrust Resources that Help #YourAgileJourney
- Braintrust to Host Agile Open Events Across the Country
- Braintrust Visits The Home Of Country Music
- Braintrust World Cup 2014 Pick the Winner Challenge
- Braintrust’s 2023 State of Agile Field Study
- Braintrust’s Most-Downloaded Resource of 2021
- Braintrust’s New Guaranteed to Run Program
- Braintrust’s Own, Kate Megaw Selected to Co-Chair the Global Scrum Gathering, Orlando 2016
- Braintrust’s Tips for Virtual Training
- Braintrust’s Work from Home Manifesto
- Braintrust’s own Kate Megaw just became a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)!
- Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP Just Got Accepted into the National Speakers Association
- Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP Talks Retrospectives and ScrumMasters at 2013 – PMI Central Florida – Symposium
- Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP Talks Retrospectives at 2012 – PMI Tampa Bay – Symposium
- Brian Rabon Selected To Deliver Opening Keynote at Global Gathering 2016
- Brian Rabon to Speak at The PMI Tampa Symposium October 2
- Brian’s Top 7 Hottest Trends for PMs
- Budgeting Your Time
- CAL II Grads—Agile Transformation is Convincing People
- CAL II Grads—Bettering the Relationship with my Manager
- CAL II Grads—Coaching with Confidence
- CAL II Grads—Facing My Saboteurs
- CAL II Grads—From Job-Hopper to Focused Leader
- CAL II Grads—Goodbye, Saboteur. Hello, Certified Agile Leader!
- CAL II Grads—Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and Tools
- CAL II Grads—Leading By Example
- CAL II Grads—Motherhood Prepared Me for Leadership
- CAL II Grads—My Journey from Command and Control to Servant Leadership
- CAL II Grads—Preparing for the Future
- CAL II Grads—Sharing My True Self
- CAL II Grads—Uncovering and Overcoming My Saboteurs
- CAL II Grads—Where Did the Time Go?
- CAL II Grads—Why Take CAL II
- Can Agile Work in Government?
- Can I Be a Certified Scrum Master® and Not Work in Software?
- Celebrating 10 Years of the Agile Manifesto
- Change Management Models that Help Organizations
- Changes to PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Designation
- Changes to the Scrum Guide
- Changing Career Paths—Becoming a Scrum Master
- Client Interview: Meet Jennifer Corfman
- Client Testimonial: Jason Burgess
- Communicating With Your Team
- Communications And Your Project Team
- Company Culture During Covid-19
- Congratulations to Braintrust’s own Lonnie Weaver-Johnson
- Continuous Delivery – Part 1
- Continuous Delivery – Part 2
- Continuous Delivery – Part 3
- Continuous Delivery – Part 4
- Convince Leadership to Invest in #YourAgileJourney
- Cooks and Chefs: Why Agile Hasn’t Fixed Our Problems
- Core Elements of a Product Owner
- Cross Functional, Self Directed Teams A How To
- CrossFit, The Ultimate Agile Exercise
- CSM Vs. CSPO
- Culture in Project Management
- Curious About Certified Agile Leadership II (CAL II)?
- Dana Rhodes Joins The Braintrust Consulting Group
- Designing a High-Quality Agile Work Environment
- Different Ways to Build a Product Roadmap
- Distinguish between Business Operations and Project Work
- Diving into Developer Accountabilities
- Diving into Product Owner Accountabilities
- Diving into Scrum Master Accountabilities
- Do We Really Need a Product Owner?
- Do We Really Need A Scrum Master?
- Do You Have Money Left in Your Training Budget?
- Does a Scrum Master Need to be Technical?
- Don’t forget that your people are people
- Don’t Let Technical Debt Rent Space In Your Mind
- Done? How Scrum Is Like Cooking A Steak
- Earn Money for your PMI Chapter
- Emotional Intelligence & Agile in the Workplace: Consider Yourself a People-Person? You Must Have A High EQ
- End of Year Retrospectives
- Enthusiasm: The infectious motivator
- Essentials, Teams, Organizations—Which CAL to Take?
- Estimating Your Time Accurately
- Event Recap: Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019
- Ever Wonder What Its Like To Be An Agile Coach?
- Evernote for Agile Practitioners, Part 1
- Evernote for Agile Practitioners, Part 2
- Evernote for Agile Practitioners, Part 3
- Failure Sucks! We all fall down, but do we all get back up?
- Farewell, Donna Farmer. Hello, Carol McEwan
- Fear Sucks, How We Can Overcome It To Become More Agile
- Features And Benefits – Clearing Up The Story
- Find More Time To Do The Things That You Love By Forming Your Own Team
- Five Things to Consider Before Taking a Virtual Class
- Fixing Your Product Backlog Problems
- Focus – Is Your Scrum Team Shooting Skeet or Sniper?
- Free Download of Brian Rabon’s New Book, Scrum For The Rest of Us!
- From Scrum Roles to Accountabilities—What’s the Difference?
- From Scrum Roles to Accountabilities—What’s the Difference?
- Global Scrum Gathering 2016 – A Synopsis
- Going Green: Lean Project Management Eliminates Garbage
- Guest Post – Jessica Kennedy – Personal Agility
- Happy Holidays!
- Have You Considered an Agile Coach?
- Hear Lonnie Weaver-Johnson This Week!
- Hiring Managers Admit they need Agile PMs
- History Of Project Management
- How Agile Helps Advertising Teams and their Clients
- How Agile Leadership Creates Trust Within Your Team
- How Consensus Management Can Stall A Project
- How Much Does A Product Owner Make
- How Sunk Costs Can Be Minimized With Agile
- How Technical Debt Affects Your Velocity
- How To Achieve Lasting Agility
- How to Assess Your Team’s Emotional Climate
- How to Avoid Anger
- How to Be An Active Listener
- How to be an Active Listener
- How to Be Encouraging
- How To Become A Product Owner
- How To Become A Product Owner With No Experience
- How to Build a Culture of Accountability
- How to Build a Culture of Accountability
- How to Conduct a Post-Pandemic Retrospective
- How to Create a High-Performing Team
- How to Differentiate Between Good Versus Great Agile Practices
- How to Do a Retrospective for 2020
- How to Earn SEUs from Scrum Alliance
- How to Empower Your Employees
- How to Facilitate Better Meetings
- How to Have an Agile Thanksgiving
- How to Hold People Accountable Without Micromanaging Them
- How to Hold Your Employees Accountable
- How to Improve Employee Engagement
- How To Kill The Sprint
- How to Level-Set Your Team
- How to Reset Working Agreements
- How to Set the Stage for Saying “No” As a Product Owner
- How to Set Yourself Up for Success in January
- How to Spot a Toxic Team
- How To Work Outside Your Comfort Zone
- I Just Broke The Number 1 Business Rule… Shhh, please don’t tell anyone
- IEM Project Management Seminar
- Introducing Braintrust On Demand
- Introducing Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®) Outside of Software
- Introducing the New Certified Agile Leadership I
- Investment banking firm uses CollabNet Platform to give Agile processes a facelift
- Is it Time to Revisit Scrum Values?
- Is Personal Agility For You
- Is Your Organizational Chart Upside Down?
- Is Your Team in Psychological Danger?
- Issues don’t blindside and derail your projects as much anymore
- It’s Monday, Are You Motivated?
- It’s Our 10th Anniversary!
- It’s Time to Revisit Your Definition of Done
- Jerry Rajamoney Innovates On Our ScrumMaster Maturity Model (SM^3)
- Jorge Alvarez to speak at PMI Conference in Houston June 14
- Kanban, Meet IT.
- Kate Megaw Interviewed at Agile Open SoCal 2014
- Keeping Track of Bugs on a Project
- Labor Day Long Weekend Resources
- Leadership defines the container for the team to work in
- Leadership is more than degrees and certifications.
- Leading Cultural Transformation
- Learning To Lead
- Level-Set Your Team by Attending a Virtual Agile Open Together
- Living Your Values: You Made a Powerful Pact, Now Stick to It!
- Local Entrepreneur Launches Software Project Management Consulting Company On Agile Principles
- Lyssa Adkins and her Fruit Salad
- Making the Transition from Project Manager to ScrumMaster – A Mom’s Story
- Management versus Leadership—Who’s Leading Your Organization?
- Manifesto for Personal Agility
- Meet the Braintrust Agile Advisors
- My Experience Becoming a Certified Agile Leader
- My Leadership Journey From Self to Selfless
- Myths of Scrum
- NEW Certification Maintenance and Renewal Requirements!
- New CSM Exam Released from the Scrum Alliance
- New Year’s Resolutions from an Agile Leader
- Oil Spill In the Gulf – A Project Manager’s Worst Nightmare or Time to Shine?
- Operational Applications of Standup Meetings
- Our New Class Will Change Your Business
- Out with command and control, in with servant leadership
- Pareto Knows Agile
- Perfection, It Can Be A Dirty Word!!!
- Personal Kanban Case Study – 3 Year Old Sienna
- Personal Kanban; Taking Back Control of Your Life
- Personal Learning Plan 2011
- Please Pardon Our Progress
- PMI Agile Certification. Answering Your Questions
- PMP Exam Prep Kickstart – 1/19 – 2/23
- Popular Project Management Phrases – Part One
- President Clinton to Speak to Project Managers
- Principles of Business Agility
- Product Owner Myths
- Project Costs – How To Establish A Better Budget
- Project Management Declaration of Interdependence
- Project Management for Small Business
- Project Managers are the Ultimate Intermediary
- Project Scope
- PSPO Vs. CSPO
- Psychological Safety—What is It, Why is It Important, and How You Can Foster It for Your Team
- Radiant – One Way To Describe The Effective ScrumMaster
- Reality Check for PMs
- Reasons for recognizing (and defining) corporate culture
- Recapping the Agile Manifesto 20th Anniversary—Future of Agile
- Recapping the Agile Manifesto 20th Anniversary—Future of Agile
- Recapping the Agile Manifesto 20th Anniversary—Past of Agile Panel
- Recapping the Agile Manifesto 20th Anniversary—Present of Agile
- Recommended Reading List for Agile Teams
- Red Flags When Choosing a Project
- Red Tie or Blue Tie? Little Things Matter When Sending a Message
- Reexamining Your Product Vision
- Reimagining the Agile Manifesto for Organizations Outside IT
- Remember to Delegate
- Removing The Roadblocks To Your Roadblocks
- Restrospective Every Sprint
- Role, Function, & Purpose: Not One in the Same
- Role, Function, and Purpose. Not the same things.
- Roles in Scrum – Attitudes & Traits
- SAFe ≠ Agile
- SAFE ≠ AGILE (Part 2)
- Say Goodbye to the To-Do List and Hello to Personal Kanban
- Scope Creep, and how to avoid it.
- Scrum Alliance 101
- Scrum Alliance on Self Organization
- Scrum Alliance’s Certified Agile Leadership Program
- Scrum and Psychology collaborate nicely, so says our new process Part 1 of 3
- Scrum and Psychology collaborate nicely. Part 2 of 3
- Scrum and Psychology collaborate nicely. Part 3 of 3.
- Scrum Certification: Too Easy?
- Scrum Executive Overview with Scott Dunbar
- Scrum Gathering Atlanta – Braintrust To Host Two Sessions!
- Scrum Gathering Barcelona – Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP To Speak!
- Scrum Gathering in Seattle, WA. May 16-18
- Scrum Process Overview
- Scrum Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Shanghai Trip: Travel Highlights
- Sharing the Agile Mindset
- Should a Product Owner come from the business or technical side of an Organization?
- Signs of Strong Agile Culture in an Organization
- Spotlight PM for December: Lynette Grabow
- Spotlight PM for January: Ralph Jordan
- Staying current in an ever changing field
- Stuck In A Rut, Change Your Scenery
- Talking With Dave Prior: Agile, SCRUM, and Project Management
- TechBirmingham, Planning for 2011 by remembering 2010
- TechMixer 2010
- That’s not my job!
- The Advantages of Virtual Private Training
- The Agile Manifesto – Reviewing Agile’s Core Values
- The Best Selling Project Management Author Passes Away, age 50.
- The Braintrust Consulting Group Announces New Agile Practice Lead
- The Braintrust Consulting Group Announces New Chief Operating Officer
- The Braintrust Consulting Group Announces Partnership with Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc.
- The Braintrust Consulting Group releases new Vision, Mission, Purpose, and Values
- The Braintrust Team Descends Upon The Las Vegas Scrum Gathering
- The Daily Scrum – A Commentary from the Project Manager’s Perspective
- The Difference Between Purpose, Mission, and Vision, and How to Create a Purpose-Driven Team (Part 1)
- The Flavor of Agile Project Management
- The Importance of Leadership for Culture in an Organization
- The Importance of Psychological Safety
- The Importance of Stakeholder Management
- The Journey Begins… What Do You Stand For?
- The Late Rita Mulcahy Identifies the very first step to Project Management
- The Natural Extension of Agile Beyond IT
- The Need For Frequent Personal Retrospectives
- The Power of Forethought
- The ScrumMaster’s Guide To Keeping Your Cool
- The Seven Facets To Achieving Personal Agility
- The team is allowed to manage itself
- Three Big Pitfalls to Avoid in Communcation
- Three Reasons to Take Advanced Classes
- Three Steps to Minimize Stress
- Time to Get Real
- Tips for Building Psychological Safety in the Workplace
- Tips for Creating a Purpose-Driven Team (Part 2)
- To Be A Great Leader Sometimes We Need To Shut Up And Listen
- To Be More Agile Learn To Say No!
- To be or not to be? What’s the right label?
- Top 7 Concerns About Project Management
- Top Tips for Fantastic Facilitation
- Training From The Back Of The Room With Sharon Bowman
- Traits of a Dream Team
- Transparency in your team
- Travel Journal: China, Part 1
- Travel Journal: China, Part 2
- Travel Journal: China, Part 3 – Return Home
- Understanding Business Agility
- Understanding Divergent and Convergent Thinking with Stakeholders
- Unruly meeting, Disciplined Response
- Update from the PMI: RDS, PMP, and Customer Support
- USA World Cup: Leaving with Heads Held High
- Useful Scrum Analogies: Part One
- Useful Scrum Analogies: Part Two
- Using the Agile Mindset to Survive WFH Life
- Video Testimonial about Agile PM class.
- Voices of Agile—My Name is Anu
- Want A Happier Marriage? Make Your Spouse Your Product Owner(*)!
- Want to speed up your development efforts? Do less work.
- Ways to Identify Project Scope
- We Support Bringing Agility to Hope High School
- We’re Looking For Two New Team Members!
- We’re Now Offering Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM®)!
- We’re Excited For Global Scrum Gathering 2016
- Welcome to the Year of Agile!
- What an Agile Leader Should Look Like
- What an Agile Leader Should Look Like
- What can your company do for my business?
- What Do Agile Communications Look Like?
- What Does A Product Owner Do?
- What Does an Agile Leader Look Like?
- What does it mean to lead a self organized team?
- What Exactly is Scrum?
- What Is A CSPO Certification?
- What is a Level-Set and Why Your Team Needs It
- What Is A Scrum Product Owner
- What is Agile Project Management?
- What is an Agile Open and Why Should I Go?
- What is corporate culture?
- What is CSM and do I need it?
- What is Kanban?
- What is Organizational Agility?
- What Is The Product Owner Responsible For During The Sprint Retrospective
- What is the Real Value of Certifications?
- What Is The Relationship Between A Product Owner And A Product Manager
- What Is The Role Of A Product Owner
- What is Traditional Project Management?
- What is Upskilling and Why You Should Do It
- What Scrum Roles Look Like in the Government
- What To Do When The Sprint Review Goes Badly?
- What to Do with Agile Naysayers
- When An Advertising Agency Becomes Agile
- When College Students Get CSM Certified
- When Your Roadblocks Cause Roadblocks
- Where Are You on Your Product Owner Journey?
- Where are You on Your Scrum Master Journey?
- Which Job Role Is A Good Candidate For Becoming A Product Owner
- Why Agile Has Been So Important During Covid-19
- Why Become A Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Why Become An Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Why Do Braintrust’s Virtual Coaching
- Why it’s Important to Take Virtual Advanced Classes During the Pandemic
- Why Product Backlog Refinement is Important
- Why Return to In-Person Classes
- Why Scrum Masters and Product Owners Should Cross-Train
- Why Take Braintrust University Classes
- Why the Norming Stage is the best time for Private Training
- Why would I need Project Management?
- Why You Must Be Selfish
- Why You Need an Accountability Partner in 2021
- Why You Should Become a Certified Scrum Master
- Why You Should Never Assume Your Data’s Accuracy
- Why You Should Share Classes With Team Members
- Why You Should Treat Your Team to Private Training
- Why You Want a Self-Managing Team
- Why Your Team Needs a Vision Statement
- Working With Difficulty Personalities
- You don’t have to be a fortune teller; you can plan as you go
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