Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) | Cincinnati, OH | Aaron Kopel

No lectures, no slide marathons. Two days of markers, flip charts, and real team challenges. Practice tests included. THE CLASS PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT YEARS LATER Markers instead of slides. Conversations instead of lectures. You leave ready to pass the test, with a workbook full of your own thinking and a clear plan for helping your team on Monday. WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT • Drawn live, not read off slides. Your instructor sketches every idea as the group builds it together, so you see the whole picture form, and you remember it. No PowerPoint. Ever. • You do the work. Short bursts of teaching, then practice: games, real team problems, and the tricky situations Scrum Masters face every week. • A workbook that is unfinished on purpose. You fill it in as you go and leave with notes in your own words that stick with you long term. • Built for real organizations. Stories and examples from enterprise teams where budgets, politics, and legacy systems are part of the job. IN THE ROOM Two days working in table groups and at the flip charts with peers from other organizations who face the same challenges you do. Markers, sticky notes, and supplies and your printed workbook all at your fingertips in a specially designed classroom with NO POWERPOINT ever. WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO • Explain how Scrum works in plain language, to your team and to your boss • Run the core Scrum events so they are short, focused, and actually useful • Coach a team to own its work instead of waiting to be told what to do • Spot and clear the obstacles that slow your team down • Avoid the common traps, like status meetings in disguise and teams overloaded with work • Use AI tools to prepare, facilitate, and follow up without losing the human side of the job • Pass the CSM test with confidence EVERYTHING INCLUDED WITH YOUR REGISTRATION • Printed workbook mailed to you before class • Project Brilliant on-demand learning platform with course content, practice tests, and resources, before and after class • Templates and AI toolkit you can use at work the next day • Your CSM test, with two attempts included • Certified ScrumMaster® certification after passing the test • Scrum Alliance membership for 2 years • Scrum Education Units (SEUs) toward your next certification • A one-hour 1:1 coaching call with your trainer after class • Group office hours and access to experienced Project Brilliant coaches when questions come up on the job WHAT PAST STUDENTS SAY Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 with more than 10,000 people trained over 10 years. "The energy, the pace, the environment, the collaboration, the trainer, the discussions, the hand-drawn visuals, the workbook, the timing, and even learning how to properly tear a post-it note off a pad... it was all absolutely perfect." - Josh B., IT Leader, Fox Sports "I completely misunderstood the mindset of Agile and Scrum for 10 years. No wonder it never felt right to me... we were just totally off the mark, even though we thought we were doing all the important parts. This 2-days set me on a new path. Now I get it, and i'll never look back!" - Stephanie M., Tech Lead, Staples “Extremely professional and educational course... by far the best I have been a part of. The coaches take time to make sure everyone in class understands concepts and fills the course with a great deal of team activity. Best of all no PowerPoint slides. Highly recommend!” - Eric P., IT Director, PNC Bank "Best training of any kind I've ever experienced. And it IS an experience! Everything is coreographed for a purpose - to enhance the learning, long term retention, and to make it all fun." - Melanie B., Scrum Master, Capital One Financial "I didn't think it was possible to train people without PowerPoint, but here it is. Never a PowerPoint slide in sight. It was all exercises and talking with eachother. The two days just flew by, and I was a little sad it was over so fast!" - Jamie S., Product Owner, Salesforce "It brought us together to have the deeper conversations that we never take time for in our hectic day-to-day work environement. We were able to focus and think clearly about our "why", really understand eachother's intent, and talk about how all the pieces fit together." - Larry A., Vice President, MedXcel "I was very intimidated coming in as the only non-experienced person from my company. The content was extremely beneficial and the facilitator made it a very safe, collaborateive, and firendly environment. It was great!" - Emily C, Product Owner, Farm Bureau Insuance WHO SHOULD ATTEND • Scrum Masters who want to start strong, or refine their existing experience, with the certification to back it up • Project managers and team leads moving from managing tasks in traditional environments, to empowering and facilitating a real team manage itself • Developers, testers, analysts, and designers who want to see how the whole system fits together and understand how to utilize Scrum for maximum benefit. • Managers and IT leaders whose teams are adopting Scrum and want to learn the real innerworkings of Scrum to maximize it impact • Product owners who want the full picture of how their team works to ensure mutual accountability for success in their roles • No prior experience required. If you have worked on or with a team that builds things, you are ready. And we start from scatch, assuming no knowledge of Scrum or Agile. BRINGING YOUR WHOLE TEAM? Learning together is the fastest way to change how people work. Ask about group seats or a private class for your organization: [email protected] ABOUT YOUR INSTUCTOR - AARON KOPEL Aaron Kopel became a Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC®) in 2016 and a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) in 2017 after more than 10 years as an Agile practitioner, scrum master, product owner, and Agile coach and trainer working in a range of organizations from tech startups to 85,000 corporate environments. Aaron holds countless certifictions in Agile, AI, facilitation, coaching, team building, and organizational change. As the CEO of Project Brilliant, Aaron is known as the Momentum Locksmith®. He guides CIOs and IT leaders to unlock momentum in their enterprise by optimizing organizational design, elevating strategic leaders, and creating high-performing teams. As a trainer, he is well known for his engaging and interactive workshops that simplify complicated business and leadership topics through creative live-drawn visuals, memorable stories, and witty humor. He is the author of “Unlocking Momentum”, reaching Amazon #1 Best Seller status in 6 Business and IT categories. He is the host of the Unlocking Momentum and Unlocking AI Value podcasts. He is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), the Forbes Business Council (FBC), and is one of less than 30 people in the world to achieve the top three Agile industry certifications from the Scrum Alliance. Prior to founding Project Brilliant, Aaron won 2 National Science Foundation grants, and was a 2-time Tech Startup founder. He earned his BA from Wartburg College (Business & CIS double major), and his MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has visited more than 60 countries, rocked out at 45 Pearl Jam concerts, and lives in Carmel, IN with his amazing wife and their two teenagers.