Redesigning the Product Owner Class – Trusting the Learners
For a while my Certified Product Owner (CPO) class was bugging me. It was OK, but it something about it was off. People were writing good evaluations, but the class was not on the same level of...
View ArticleEpic Vision Fail by HP CEO Meg Whitman
Do you know what HP does this days? Apparently neither does CEO Meg Whitman. About halfway through this twelve-minute Nov 20th interview (beginning around 6:12), she is asked this question by...
View ArticleRedesigning the Product Owner Class – Developing Complete Products
During the second half of 2012, I wrote an article describing some challenges I had regarding my Certified Product Owner (CPO) course and how I achieved a breakthrough in my understanding about the...
View ArticleWhy Brainstorming Often Fails
Let’s start this entry with a real life example – I was once teaching a Certified Product Owner course and I gave the participants instructions to brainstorm, as a group for ten minutes, to create at...
View ArticleCourse Enrollment Policy
January 9, 2014 San Diego, CA – While we will do everything within our power to make sure a scheduled course goes ahead as planned, sometimes there just is not enough interest to sustain a course. As...
View ArticleCourse Refund & Transfer Policy
January 10, 2014 San Diego, CA – Timing is everything and sometimes events come up that prevent you from attending a course. We understand that from time-to-time, that participants will have to cancel...
View ArticleSend Four People, Just Pay For Three
San Diego, CA February 21, 2014 – beginning on March 1st, if your organization enrolls four people in any public class produced by Look Forward Consulting, all you pay is the cost of sending three...
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March Madness – One Week of Scrum Training
San Diego, CA March 3, 2014 – starting today Look Forward Consulting will be offering a crazy good discount for Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Product Owner courses scheduled to begin on March...
View ArticleSpanish Training Tour on Tap for Look Forward Consulting
San Diego, CA Oct 9, 2014 – beginning next week, Look Forward Consulting and Spanish training partner, estratecno, will launch a five week, five city tour of Spain. The main stops of this Fall 2014...
View ArticleStop Paying Full Price for Scrum Training in December
San Diego, CA Nov 24, 2014 – during the first week of December 2014, Look Forward Consulting will be offering a $300 discount for those of you looking for that last minute training opportunity. To...
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That Happened in 2005? Retrospective of the Big Moments of 2005
It is so hard to believe that I have been doing Scrum for over ten years now! Since 2005 was a real long time ago, I thought it might be fun to stroll down memory lane in order to re-visit the key...
View ArticleCarlton Nettleton to Speak at Agile Connect Lisbon July Meeting
Lisbon, Portugal – Learn more about the role of the Product Owner in Scrum and how a Product Owner uses Innovation Games® to create market disruption. In two weeks time, Carlton Nettleton President...
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Business People Make Business Decisions . . .
Is the Product Owner part of the business or part of IT? Scrum works best when the Product Owner (PO) is someone from the business rather than IT. When I think about the role of the PO, I envision an...
View ArticleCursos de Scrum Certificado van a Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador (Diciembre 2017) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc y Jaguar Agile Coaching estamos trabajando juntos para organizar una visita por Carlton Nettleton, Scrum Alliance® Instructor Certificado...
View ArticleCertified Scrum Training Comes to Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador (December 2017) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc. and Jaguar Agile Coaching are partnering to bring Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) Carlton Nettleton to Ecuador this coming...
View ArticleCertified Scrum Product Owner® Training Comes to Chile
Santiago, Chile (January 2018) – Look Forward Consulting, Inc. and Kleer are partnering to bring Scrum Alliance® Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) Carlton Nettleton to Chile this coming February. Carlton...
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Top Ten Blog Posts for 2017
Happy 2018!!! It’s difficult to believe 2017 is already over! Since I had a little free time, I looked back at 2017 to see which of my blog posts, out of all my blog posts, were the most popular...
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Why Can’t a Developer be the Product Owner?
The Product Owner on my team is also a developer on the team. Do you have any advice on using Scrum in such a scenario? SHORT ANSWER: Yeah – stop doing it! LONG ANSWER: In a healthy Scrum Team, each...
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March Madness – One Week of Scrum Training
San Diego, CA March 3, 2014 – starting today Look Forward Consulting will be offering a crazy good discount for Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Product Owner courses scheduled to begin on March...
View ArticleOnline Scrum Training – how to choose?
The online Advanced Scrum Training Platform CSP Fast Pass has now become the Applied Frameworks Online Scrum Training Academy. The existing courses include: Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® (A-CSM)...
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