[2025] Mastering Agile & Scrum Meetings

[2025] Mastering Agile & Scrum Meetings udemy course

Run Productive, Timeboxed Scrum Events: Planning, Standup, Review, Retro & Refinement.

Are your Agile meetings dragging on, lacking focus, or failing to produce real results? Do Daily Scrums become tedious status reports? Do Retrospectives feel like a waste of time? Learn how to facilitate focused, engaging, and valuable Agile & Scrum meetings!

While Agile emphasizes flexibility, its core meetings (Scrum events) thrive on structure, purpose, and skilled facilitation. This course provides the practical techniques and understanding needed to lead productive, timeboxed sessions that foster collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Learn from Luke Angel, an instructor whose 25+ years of leadership experience combined with CSM, PMP, MBA, and Six Sigma Black Belt certifications (plus PgMP & PfMP) offers deep insights into effective communication, team dynamics, process efficiency, and facilitation within both Agile and traditional contexts.

(What You'll Learn - Use Udemy's Curriculum Section for Detailed Topics):

• Understand Agile Meeting Principles: Learn why specific, timeboxed events are crucial for Agile success and how they differ from traditional meetings.

• Master Facilitation of Key Scrum Events:

  • Sprint Planning: Drive effective goal setting, backlog selection, and task planning.

  • Daily Scrum (Stand-up): Keep it brief, focused on the Sprint Goal, and truly collaborative.

  • Sprint Review: Facilitate an engaging session focused on feedback and product adaptation, not just a demo.

  • Sprint Retrospective: Utilize frameworks (like the 5 stages) and techniques to generate actionable improvement ideas.

  • Backlog Refinement (Grooming): Lead efficient sessions for clarifying, estimating, and preparing backlog items.

• Apply Essential Facilitation Skills: Learn practical techniques for setting clear agendas, effective timeboxing, encouraging participation from everyone, asking powerful questions, and guiding teams to decisions and actions.

• Handle Common Meeting Pitfalls: Address challenges like disengagement, scope creep within meetings, lack of preparation, and unproductive discussions.

• Adapt for Distributed/Remote Teams: Learn tips and techniques for facilitating engaging and effective virtual Agile meetings.

Who This Course Is For:

• Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches responsible for facilitating team events.

• Team Leads and Project Managers working within Agile frameworks.

• Facilitators looking to specialize in Agile meetings.

• Development Team Members and Product Owners seeking more productive meetings.

• Anyone participating in Scrum events who wants to understand how to make them better.

Requirements:

• A basic understanding of Agile principles and the Scrum framework is recommended to get the most value.

Instructor:

Luke Angel (CSM, PMP, MBA, Six Sigma Black Belt | PgMP, PfMP) leverages over 25 years of extensive leadership experience and a unique blend of certifications. His expertise in Agile (CSM), project management (PMP), process improvement (Six Sigma Black Belt), and business strategy (MBA) ensures you learn practical, effective techniques for facilitating meetings that truly drive Agile success.

Stop enduring unproductive meetings. Learn to lead Agile events that energize your team and accelerate delivery. Enroll Today!

Topics include:

1. How to Run Agile Meetings

2. How to Keep Meetings Lightweight

3. How to timebox to avoid meetings that run on forever.

4. How to create a release schedule 

5. Delivering without scope

6. Inviting the right groups

7. Hosting awesome daily stand ups

8. Break through roadblocks

9. Avoiding common pitfalls