ABOUT THE TRAINER

CARLTON  NETTLETON

Who is Carlton?

Carlton Nettleton is the President of Look Forward Consulting, a global provider of live and on-demand training that improves the performance of Agile teams.  He brings nearly twenty-five years of experience with Scrum and other Agile practices and is an expert at designing and delivering impactful Agile training for enterprises of every size.  

Over the years, Carlton has held multiple professional roles: programmer, ScrumMaster, product manager, Certified Scrum Trainer®, instructional designer for online and in-person courses and consultant for a wide variety of companies.   This diverse work history gives him the ability to connect with people from many different backgrounds with interesting real-life examples and purposeful, insightful questions.

But most of all, you will find that Carlton is empathetic to the challenges businesses face when adopting Scrum and other Agile practices.  Unlike most instructors, Carlton has five years of experience as an executive leader.  Which means he has seen the impact of Agile adoption from multiple points of view.  As a result, he is thoughtful, understanding and pragmatic when advising teams and organizations on how to adopt Scrum and Agile.

As a recognized thought leader on Scrum, Agile practices and product management, he has spoken at over sixty events around the world.  He has been writing about Scrum and Agile practices since 2008.  This includes a short book on Scrum, Fourteen Observations of Good Scrum Practice, that helps new Scrum Teams overcome common obstacles to high performance.  He speaks three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese) and lives in Portugal with his family and a Boston Terrier named Bruno.

What are Carlton’s accomplishments?

• 20+ years of experience with Agile and Scrum.  Over the course of his career, Carlton has been a programmer, ScrumMaster, product manager, Certified Scrum Trainer® and consultant.
• Designed the continuing education programs for Certified ScrumMasters® (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owners® (CSPO) for the Scrum Alliance®.  If you have taken a CSM or CSPO course, you have seen Carlton’s work.
• Developed the first online, on-demand certification program for advanced CSM and CSPO practitioners.  Over 1,400 learners from over thirty-five countries have participated in this program.
• Five years as the SVP of Product at Applied Frameworks, a management consulting firm.  Carlton helped scale the company as it grew from five to twenty employees and launched multiple, successful products.
• Author of Fourteen Observations of Good Scrum Practice, a short book on how to successfully implement Scrum within a team, which has also been translated into Spanish. 
• Trained 5,000+ professionals on the effective use of Scrum and Agile practices and over 500 enterprise product managers on how to build profitable products.
• Carlton has visited over twenty-four countries in five continents and speaks three languages – English, Spanish and Portuguese.

For more Information, Please click on >>https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/cnettleton

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)

All Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses are taught by Trainers approved by the Scrum Alliance. Taking a CSM course, accepting the license agreement, and passing the CSM test designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team.

Relax…You’re in Good Hands

So glad you found us. Now, let me tell you what this class is NOT going to be like:

• It’s not going to be two-days of PowerPoint slides.
• It’s not going to be two-days of listening to your instructor talk (down) at you.
• It’s not going to be two-days of dry theory with no practical application.

Professionals don’t learn that way and it’s not worth your time and money for that experience.

Instead, we’ve created a two-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll have the opportunity to both learn and apply the important skills every ScrumMaster needs to know.

Using Zoom and Miro, we have created an engaging, inclusive and respectful online environment that will allow you to try out new ideas, concepts and frameworks BEFORE you bring them back to work.

In your course, expect multiple breakout groups where you’ll learn how Scrum is applied in different organizations and how the role of the ScrumMaster has been adopted in those organizations. Use these conversations to inspire yourself to find those small adjustments you can make that will have a big impact on your performance.

The Learning Objectives for this course are:

• List the five values of Scrum and the eight essential Scrum principles.
• Discuss each piece of the Scrum framework, its purpose and interaction with the other pieces of the framework.
• Describe the rights, responsibilities and interactions of each role in Scrum – Developer, Product Owner, ScrumMaster and stakeholder.
• Discuss with the other participants what Scrum means to you and what it will mean to be a ScrumMaster in your organization.
• Identify the main obstacles to using Scrum and the challenges for sustaining Scrum in your organization.
• Practice applying ScrumMaster skills and thinking to solve day-to-day issues and challenges.
• Watch Scrum in action as the framework of Scrum will be used to deliver the course material.

What you will receive from this course:

• A digital workbook of all the course exercises and lifetime access to any online materials we create in Miro.
• A free copy of Carlton’s book, Fourteen Observations of Good Scrum Practice, an excellent study guide to help you prepare for the CSM assessment.
• A comprehensive recommended reading list of books to supercharge your continuing education after our course.
• An instructor with over twenty years of experience using Scrum and Agile to develop new and innovative products, fifteen years as a consultant helping people at every level of the organization achieve success with Scrum and Agile.
• Two-year membership to the Scrum Alliance®.

After you compare our course to all the others, you’ll see that we offer excellent value for the time and money you’re going to invest with us.

This course spans two days, but don’t worry…we’re going to have lots of breaks. Plan for a break every hour or so. Breaks will last anywhere from five to fifteen minutes plus we’ll have a one-hour break for lunch each day.

Contact Details:

Mobile: +91-9340087935; +91-9717007117

Email id: prasanna.patel@xtransmatrix.com; anupam@xtransmatrix.com

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