SparkPlug Agility

09/15/2025

Excited to announce The Agile Network's Monthly Conference, Experts Showcase, is happening THIS WEDNESDAY, September 17th, starting at 8am Eastern Time / 2pm Central European Time.

This month's conference features some of the best sessions from the past year, including Chris Li's "Meet in the Middle" talk at 3pm. You can earn PDUs and SEUs for each session you attend!

Tickets are limited and available now, go to www.TheAgileNetwork.com to learn more and get your event tickets.

Check out the Anytime Conference Annual Pass, which enables you to see all 2025 Monthly Conferences on demand.

Also, don't miss out on discounted membership options. Use my Expert Discount Code: SPARKPLUGCMC33 to get 33% OFF all memberships.

09/09/2025

What makes a great team... great? Explore the concept of teamwork in our new on-demand course!

Tapping into some of the latest asynchronous learning practices, This 2-hour course is broken up into small lessons that you can complete on a coffee break. Each lesson includes videos from Chris Li alongside exercises, quizzes, and even techniques you can try with your own teams.

Learn more about this course and register at

Learn about what makes a team great in this on-demand course from SparkPlug Agility

09/03/2025

Velocity, Story Points, Planning Poker... what does it all mean? Are points just a jargon-y way of saying hours? Is it just another way of micro-managing? There are a TON of misconceptions around this topic, and our new on-demand course is here to set the record straight!

Agile Estimation is a 4-hour course using Chris Li's best exercises and techniques to get you thinking about relative estimation the right way, with demonstrations and walk-throughs to make the most of these activities with your teams.

Check out the course and register here:

Learn all about the basics of agile estimation in this on-demand course from SparkPlug Agility

12/07/2021

Time to start working up an appetite, the SparkPlug Holiday Smorgasbord is TOMORROW (Wednesday) at 6pm EST! Join Chris Li and his special guests, Jeff Davis, Curt Czapski, and Avinash "Nash" Tripathi breaking down some agile topics and having a little holiday fun!

For more information and to RSVP: https://www.sparkplugagility.com/holidaymeetup

12/06/2021

Announcing our final special guest for this Wednesday's smorgasbord, Avinash "Nash" Tripathi! Nash's topic is "Demystifying Collaborative culture with Trust." Check out a description of his and our other guests' talks, and RSVP for the event at https://www.sparkplugagility.com/holidaymeetup

12/01/2021

Introducing our first special guest, the Agile Quokka himself, Jeff Davis! Check out his topic, "Flourishing with Feedback" at the SparkPlug Smorgasbord on December 8 at 6 pm! Learn more and RSVP here: https://www.sparkplugagility.com/holidaymeetup

11/30/2021

Friends - Please join us for a virtual Holiday Smorgasbord next Wednesday at 6 pm Eastern Time. We will be hosting speakers from our Trainer Immersion Program and giving thanks as 2021 comes to a close. More information about speakers and topics will be released this coming week, so stay tuned! To join this free event, please RSVP at https://www.sparkplugagility.com/holidaymeetup. Hope to see you there!

We love to get together with our friends and colleagues to say "Thank You" for another terrific year!  For 2021, we wanted to change it up a bit. Instead of having Chris lead a meetup on one central topic, we are going talk and learn about several topics with multiple presenters, a veritable smorga...

07/08/2021

Check out Chris Li on the latest edition of the Agile Uprising podcast - talking training and neuroscience!

This episode features Chris Li and Troy Lightfoot discus the state of Training in the industry, how poor training has not only direct impact but large residu...

06/01/2021

Go mountain climbing with Chris Li this Thursday at ALN DC! Explore how great leaders enable and inspire their teams and organizations:

Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 6:30 PM: TOPIC:What makes a great manager? Organizations face this question on a regular basis. What makes them stand out? What do they do to help others around them really raise the

05/12/2021

Chris Li is back at the Agile Virtual Summit! Join him Wednesday June 9 for his new talk, "Netflix and ______ - a knockout approach towards decisions and prioritization" and hang out all week with an all-star lineup of speakers:

Get your FREE ticket to see 20+ world-class agile speakers *LIVE* in your living room! Level-up your Agile skills June 7th-11th, 2021.

02/16/2021

We are proud to announce our Trainer Immersion Program (TRIP)! This is an intensive program designed to help you grow in your ability to design and deliver effective learning experiences for your students.

Trainers normally have to develop their skills on the job, diving into the classroom with little understanding of the tools or guidance available to them as they improve their craft. We are so passionate about developing new learning to support professionals in this critical position.

If you are a current trainer in the classroom or aspire to add these skills to your portfolio, this is the program for you. We use on-demand learning, live-online instruction, and contextual application for you to take your teaching skills to the next level.

We are excited to be collaborating with the global accreditation and certification body ICAgile to bring this to market. Many thanks go out to them, and the rest of the SparkPlug Agility family to help us make this a reality.

For more information check out the TRIP program page at
https://www.sparkplugagility.com/trip