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Join us for The Agile Heroes Summit
April 22, 2021 no comments in Agile by

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

Agile 100 Conference | Personal Agility
August 5, 2020 no comments in Agile, Keynote, Maria Matarelli, Personal Agility by

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
June 15, 2020 no comments in Agile, Training by

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
March 20, 2020 no comments in Agile, Training by

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
February 25, 2020 no comments in Agile, Training, Veterans by

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?
January 13, 2020 no comments in Agile, Training by

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

Certified Agile Leadership
November 8, 2018 no comments in Agile, Leadership, Training, Workshop by

We are excited to offer our next Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) course in February 2019 in Florida (winter get-away!) where you will have the opportunity to sign up to attend CAL1 + CAL2 in the same week for an Agile Leadership Bootcamp. These sessions are powered by Personal Agility where you can also become a Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner. We also have a CAL1 course available in Chicago in March 2019.

CAL1 + CAL2 + Personal Agility Training in Florida – February 2019

Read more details on this program here: Agile Leadership Bootcamp in Florida

CAL1 Training Course in Chicago – March 2019

Read more details on this program here: CAL1 Chicago

CAL1 and CAL2 training courses will be led by Certified Enterprise Coach, Michael Sahota.

Michael is a leading trainer for the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) Program through the Scrum Alliance. He has taught over 700 graduates worldwide. His classes are controversial and unique. This is what allows his students to flourish. He shows them what the missing pieces are to common organizational challenges. You can go back to your organization and implement right away.

He’s been in the Agile world for 20 years and is the expert in helping leaders bridge the gap between Agile and organizational reality.

Heart of Agile Conference Pittsburgh: Experience Report on Personal Agility and Balancing your Life
March 25, 2018 no comments in Agile, Experience Report, Maria Matarelli by

Maria Matarelli will be giving a presentation at the Heart of Agile Conference in Pittsburgh on April 27, 2018.

Date: Friday, April 27, 2018
Title: Agile Lifestyle: Personal Agility and Balancing your Life
Session Type: Experience Report
Summary:  Maria Materelli has been working on balancing her workaholic life for the last several years. In this experience report, Maria will relate recent experiences in helping people organize, balance and start to direct their overly cluttered lives through the Personal Agility framework. This session might be for you if you or one of your friends could do with de-cluttering your lives, getting it back in focus.

Additionally, Maria will DJ during the evening dinner/cruise. Make sure you stay for this magical 2-hour trip up and down the three rivers.

For more information or to register, please click here.

Leadership Keynote at Agile Tour Bangkok 2017
November 10, 2017 no comments in Agile, Maria Matarelli by

Our CEO, Maria Matarelli, is giving the closing keynote at the Agile Tour Bangkok 2017 Conference. The conference theme is Business Agility – The Journey of The Genuine Digital Transformation.

Maria is presenting on “Ineffective Leadership” where she talks about 3 keys to ineffective leadership and how these techniques will be sure to bring out poor performance from those around you. In this juxtaposed presentation, Maria talks about what not to do and why it is so important to be an inspirational leader rather than an ineffective leader. Maria closes by talking about how to begin incorporating Personal Agility to be a great leader.

Event details –> https://www.agiletourbkk.org

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training in New Delhi, India
July 30, 2017 no comments in Agile, Training by

Companies are wanting to increase their efficiency and get to market faster. Scrum is the most commonly used Agile Framework that helps people do twice the work in half the time. The interest in learning this framework is widespread across the world. Maria Matarelli, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) leads a class in New Delhi, India, as one of the many locations that Formula Ink provides training.

Learn more about our training solutions here: https://formulaink.com/training