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Let’s Co-organize Scrum Focus Classes

Over the past few years I have created three proprietary workshops that I call “Scrum Focus Classes“:

  • The Scrum Values” is a workshop about Psychological Safety. In it we collaboratively explore how Scrum’s five core values help look beyond the rules of Scrum and establish psychological safety in a team. Because Scrum is a framework of rules, principles and…values. And values drive behavior. Ultimately, Scrum is more about behavior than it is about process.
  • Engaging the Brain” is a workshop about Psychological Safety. In it we collaboratively explore what the social neuroscience says about motivating and engaging people in the interaction game of navigating complex challenges. Although adopting Scrum will not magically restore fun and work happiness, it does hold some keys to the doors that unlock intrinsic motivation.
  • Multi-team Scrum” is a workshop about Scrum in the Large. In it we collaboratively explore how even when working with multiple teams it is possible to keep the rules of the game intact. It helps people and organizations identify their ‘product’ and re-think their Scrum to upgrade their organization accordingly. Ultimately, the rules are independent of the scale at which Scrum is organized.

The Scrum Focus Classes offer unique and specific modular learning opportunities These interactive workshops allow me to engage, collaborate and interact with friends of Scrum across the planet and help them move (their) Scrum forward.

Promotional image for Gunther Verheyen's Scrum class, featuring his background and book titles. Highlights the journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum, showcasing course topics like Scrum Values, Engaging the Brain, and Multi-team Scrum.

The Scrum Focus Classes complement my Professional Scrum offering that consists of the facilitation of following 2-day Scrum.org courses:

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5 Whys to Explore Scrum with an independent Scrum Caretaker

I embarked on my Agile journey in 2003 when we wrapped eXtreme Programming in Scrum. Besides having engaged with many teams and organizations I have also created and facilitated many Scrum workshops and classes about various topics for various audiences since then. In 2011 I obtained my license as a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org from Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum). From 2013-2016 I maintained the official “Professional Scrum” series of Scrum.org meanwhile training candidate-PSTs and shepherding the global community of Professional Scrum Trainers and coaches. After ending the exclusivity of Scrum.org over my work in 2016, I had to think about a new title. I started calling myself “Scrum Caretaker” because it best represents what it is that I do. As a one-person company, all other titles felt silly too (like CEO, CFO, cleaning person, helpdesk, sales agent, office manager or spreadsheet administrator). I added ‘independent’ to my self-chosen title to emphasize that I am not part of any fixed structure, small nor big. As from the start of the program, my company and business vehicle, Ullizee-Inc, became a member of the Professional Training Network of Scrum.org. Next to teaching Professional Scrum classes, I keep evolving my Scrum Pocket Classes, a series of proprietary half-day workshops based upon my book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide”.

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