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Join us for The Agile Heroes Summit

We are excited to announce that we are launching a virtual summit called The Agile Heroes Summit! We saw an opportunity to add more value for people on their Agile Journey after many people began asking for additional supporting resources after attending our Agile training classes. 

Join us on May 12th where we will be interviewing experienced Agilists to share their stories along with guidance tips and resources to help you in your journey. We will also be hosting regular interviews and virtual summits to provide ongoing insights and new resources for you.

The mission of the Agile Heroes Summit is to highlight people that are creating real impact and change through Agile and sharing new insights and thought leadership around how you can be more effective in applying Agile in their context.

Join us for the first Agile Heroes Summit on May 12th, 2021 where Maria Matarelli will interview some of the top Agilists in the world, sharing insights and best practices that you can apply on your Agile journey. Reserve your FREE spot at www.TheAgileHeroesSummit.com

Personal Agility Passion Struck Podcast

Enclosed is an interview with Maria Matarelli and John Miles on his Passion Struck podcast which focuses on unlocking your hidden potential and discovering your passion in life. In this interview, Maria shares a lot about where she started, how she got to where she is today and the journey along the way – Check out the audio links below!

“Wish to learn techniques that can work wonders for your professional life and your personal life? In today’s show, we interview Maria Matarelli, CEO of Formula Ink and co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy and Personal Agility Institute, where she reveals how her agile management strategies can catapult you miles ahead of the competition both in your business and personal life.

Always a hard charger, Maria started working at 15 and paid her way through college. When she entered professional life, she decided to pursue agile project management – which was then an unknown field with very few experts.

Maria progressed quickly through the corporate ranks, and as a 22-year-old, she was managing a 120-person team and saving her employer $1.5 million every year through her project management expertise.”

Listen to the full story… Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/204umd5s6q7KVav6AxqDuJ

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6-maria-matarelli-using-personal-agility-to-unlock/id1553279283?i=1000511295059&fbclid=IwAR2EwLyC8mZJHfeKptMa1IqTP_xCrCmpevqyE00ssHDufoA3j_EuD93B_dI

Agile 100 Conference | Personal Agility

Join Maria Matarelli as she is speaking at the Agile 100 virtual conference on August 27, 2020 on Personal Agility and will share how you can begin to apply this as a simple framework for an empowered life. Create the reality you want in life, in business, with your career.. hear stories of how people around the world are getting results using Personal Agility and how you can begin to too.

Get your ticket to attend here –> https://hopin.to/events/agile100-online-conference-august-2020

Learn from Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Joe Justice

We are excited to welcome Joe Justice to the Formula Ink team! Joe is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and is leading many virtual Agile training classes including Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

Join one of our next live instructor led virtual training classes here: https://www.formulaink.com/events

Joe Justice is now the COO of Formula Ink and he works globally as an interim executive for agile organizations, bringing multinational companies increased return on capital. His teams have held 4 world records. He is a TEDx speaker, guest lecturer at both MIT and Oxford University in England, featured in Forbes 5 times to date including as owner of a “Company to watch” by Forbes Billionaire Club, cited in more than 6 business paperbacks and hardcovers, the subject of a Discovery Channel mini-documentary for his work creating the disciplines Extreme Manufacturing, Scrum@Hardware, The Justice Method, and worked directly for 6 years with the co-creator of Scrum, Dr. Jeff Sutherland.

Joe has worked with all of the top 3 military and defense contractors, autonomous and smart road technologies, ultra-lightweight structures, guest lectured at UC Berkeley, MIT, on behalf of Carnegie Melon, CU Denver, The University of Washington, spoken at Google, Microsoft, Zynga, Lockheed Martin, HP Labs, The Royal Bank of Canada, Pictet bank, and others. Joe’s work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CNN Money, the Discovery Channel, and others.

Live Instructor Led Virtual Agile Certification Training

We are excited to provide live instructor led virtual training. We have taken great lengths to create a highly engaging virtual classroom experience.

In our courses, you have a live instructor who will use real world examples and answer questions live and we do project simulations and have breakout sessions where you get experience planning an actual Scrum project from the beginning while also learning virtual facilitation techniques.

We offer certification training on:

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • Certified Agile Marketing Specialist (CAMS)
  • Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner (PARP)
  • Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)
  • And many other Agile training classes.. just ask!

Get a glimpse into our highly engaging training format!

Our most requested course is the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training class. The CSM course is valuable for people that are new to Agile and Scrum and can also help teams that have been already using Scrum as we really get into the key elements that help teams achieve higher performance as well as the best practices in the industry with real world examples and project simulations in class to illustrate the application.

We begin talking about empiricism and the core values and principles in the Agile Manifesto then we go deeper into the Agile Mindset for high performance talking with real world examples and application. We contrast traditional project management with Agile and go deep into the key elements of the Scrum Framework and how to leverage the best practices to get the results Jeff Sutherland talks about doing twice the work in half the time using Scrum.

We share facilitation techniques and walk through how to plan a Scrum project, write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, Release Planning and a Project Simulation.

One of the biggest things we’ve been hearing recently about an added benefit from our training is the shared experience for the teams going through the class together and people leaving energized and on the same page to apply the techniques we share. The class format is designed to be very interactive and engaging to re-energize teams and bring them together with these practices.

Join one of our upcoming training classes at www.formulaink.com/events

Agile and Scrum Certification Training for Veterans

Advance your career by getting one of the highest paying certifications of the last 5 years by learning the most commonly used Agile approach, the Scrum Framework.

Scrum is a way to tackle complex projects by breaking them into small chunks of work.

Change happens faster in today’s market. Companies need ability to manage the known and the unknown – Minimize impact and cost – Increase speed in innovation and development and overall speed to market.

See what Veterans have to say after attending the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) class led by Formula Ink with instructor Maria Matarelli.

For more information on Scrum –> https://www.formulaink.com/what-is-scrum

To register for the next Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Virtual Training Class –> https://formulaink.com/events

What is Scrum?

The Scrum Framework is one of the most commonly used Agile approaches for managing projects effectively. Companies use this approach to do twice the work in half the time, which is the tagline by Jeff Sutherland, one of the creators of Scrum. Who doesn’t want those kind of results?

The video below from the Scrum Alliance walks through the Scrum Framework with a brief overview (1 min 20 seconds).

We lead Agile training across the globe. Our Founder and CEO, Maria Matarelli, is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) who travels the world teaching companies of all types how to apply this simple framework to work more effectively.

We work with many companies to lead onsite training as well as onsite coaching.

Read more about our series of public training classes in St Pete, Florida –> https://www.formulaink.com/agile-training-in-st-pete-tampa-florida

Agile Training in St Pete/ Tampa Florida

We are excited to be offering a series of public Agile and Scrum Training classes in the central Florida area!

After traveling the globe for the past 5 years leading training in Shanghai, Singapore, Thailand, India, Nova Scotia, and several other locations, Maria Matarelli, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Founder and CEO of Formula Ink landed in St Petersburg, Florida and will be leading a series of public training classes.

Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Maria Matarelli pictured with one of our latest classes of Certified ScrumMasters! When people say this is the best training class they’ve ever been to, it might be because of the high level of engagement and carefully planned activities designed to make learning FUN!!!
Our training classes have a combination of group activities and discussions, multi-media presentations, project simulations, and hands on exercises that will show attendees specific techniques to apply in their work environment.
Guest speaker, Alistair Cockburn, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto and Creator of The Heart of Agile stopped by our Formula Ink training class to share insights and answer all Agile questions the class could think of!
Thank you to Alistair for bringing an extra level of fun to our class!
Agile2019

Join Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. August 5-9. Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa will be representing Agile Marketing Academy with Comparative Agility. Comparative Agile Marketing provides change leaders with the insights they need to create an environment tailored for marketing professionals in an environment of constant change and volatility. The significant benefits of agile are increasingly being adapted by marketing professionals across the world. Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa were among the first domain experts to introduce agile concepts to marketing organizations across the world and the impact has been undeniable. By transforming traditional marketing processes into more agile ways of working, companies are seeing significant increases in brand awareness, effectiveness and customer acquisition. Comparative Agile Marketing also quickly reveals where your efforts need attention and identifies where you can make the most impact to embrace a more adaptive way of operating as a marketing organization.

IIL Agile and Scrum 2019 Online Conference

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a Keynote on Personal Agility: A Powerful Leadership Framework at the Agile and Scrum 2019 Online Conference. The Agile and Scrum Online Conference is an online conference where you have the opportunity to learn from and connect with people who are passionate about uncovering better ways to guide you on your agile journey.

Date: June 6th, 2019

Title: Personal Agility: A Powerful Leadership Framework

Session Type: Keynote

Summary: Discover the keys to truly embrace Agile values and uncover the power of gaining clarity around what really matters. In this session, you’ll learn how to create more alignment in your organization and apply Personal Agility as a leadership framework to guide your teams toward reaching a state of higher performance. 

Focusing on people over process through this simple framework will allow you to uncover better ways to identify obstacles, visualize what’s important, and focus on what really matters as individuals and as an organization.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.