Agile for Technical Teams From Principles to Practice

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

Registration Date/Time:
11/10/2026 07:30am Central Time

Event Dates/Times:

• 11/9/2026  8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
• 11/10/2026  8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time

• Instructor

  Shawn Belling

  UW InterPro and FarWell Project Advisors

  Shawn Belling is a globally experienced technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has over thirty years of professional experience, including executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors.
  
  Shawn is IT Director/IT Business Partner for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Analytical Services Division. Shawn holds teaching roles at UW– Madison, UW-Platteville, and the University of Southern California. 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 his 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, and has also contributed chapters of books on project management.
  
  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 his Master of Science in Project Management from UW–Platteville. Shawn earned a graduate diploma in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and a Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.

• Program Director

  Blake Suhre

Fee covers morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, course materials.

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