Effective Agile Development LLC

08/31/2026

Your first AI lesson costs nothing but ten minutes.

Most AI content is theory dressed up as advice. This one is different. It's built from 50 years of hands-on work — construction, retail, software development, and Scrum — turned into five plain-language ideas anyone can use today. No coding background needed. No jargon. Just a real starting point for using Artificial Intelligence with confidence.

Create your free account and start Lesson 1 now: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/free/getting-started-with-artificial-intelligence/getting-started-with-scrum-and-agile-lesson-1

08/28/2026

Three days from now, September's AI training calendar starts filling seats fast.

AI-Enhanced Scrum: Transforming Agile Development with AI runs Sept 23-25 and leads to a Certified Scrum Developer credential — requirements, UI design, technical specs, and test-driven coding, all rebuilt around AI-assisted workflows.

Seats for a hands-on, live, three-day technical class don't stay open long. Bring a PC or Mac with your usual development tools; this session is practical from the first hour.

If your team is one of the 85% still waiting for formal AI training, this is the course that closes that gap for good.
Enroll in the Sept 23-25 class:

https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-enhanced-scrum-transforming-agile-development-with-ai-sept-23-25

08/27/2026

How much of your product backlog would survive an honest AI risk analysis?

Run a real backlog through a structured AI review and it will flag under-specified stories, missing edge cases, and stakeholder assumptions nobody wrote down. Most Product Owners find out those gaps exist only after a sprint goes sideways.

AI For Scrum Product Owners walks through practical GenAI tactics for requirements, user stories, and backlog ordering, plus a hands-on prompt lab where you test this kind of review on real work.

Responsible AI use stays part of the curriculum — the tool flags risk, you still decide what ships.

Register for Sept 18: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-product-owners-september-18-2026

Browse upcoming live Scrum and AI training classes taught by Certified Scrum Trainer Rod Claar. Available virtual, in-person, or on-site. Register today.

08/27/2026

This Scrum Master walked into a 4-hour AI workshop expecting theory and left with a working toolkit.

The Sept 17 session runs 1:00 to 5:00 PM Pacific, and the whole afternoon is hands-on: streamlining ceremonies, pulling insights from team data, and applying AI without losing the human-centered values Scrum was built on.

No slide deck of abstract AI trends. Just a co-pilot approach you can use in Monday's Daily Scrum.

AI For Scrum Masters earns a Scrum Alliance Microcredential and works whether you're new to Scrum Mastery or have years of experience running Sprints.

Save your spot for Sept 17: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-masters-sept-17-2026

Browse upcoming live Scrum and AI training classes taught by Certified Scrum Trainer Rod Claar. Available virtual, in-person, or on-site. Register today.

08/27/2026

Only 9% of Agile practitioners spend more than a quarter of their time working with AI.

Everyone else is stuck below that line, mostly out of uncertainty rather than resistance. Only 1% of practitioners in the AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026 called AI irrelevant to their role — the willingness is there.

What's missing is a repeatable system. AI For Scrum Masters walks through exactly that: writing prompts and using everyday AI tools to support Scrum events, team communication, and data-driven decisions — not one-off tricks, but a workflow you run every sprint.

Open to any experience level, from brand-new Scrum Masters to seasoned facilitators.
Register for Sept 17: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-masters-sept-17-2026

08/26/2026

Is your Product Owner spending refinement writing stories, or reviewing them?

Those are two very different jobs, and only one of them scales. Teams that let AI draft the first pass of a story — multiple user perspectives, risk flags, under-specified gaps — turn refinement into a review session instead of a writing session.

That shift is the whole point of pairing AI with a certified Scrum practice: less time producing drafts, more time making decisions.

AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams is a live 2-day program ending in the AI-Augmented Scrum Practitioner exam — built for teams ready to make that shift together.

Get the full details: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-augmented-scrum-for-product-teams-september-9-10-2026

08/26/2026

Someone on this six-person Scrum team started calling their AI agent "the third shift."
It wrote test stubs overnight. By standup, the team reviewed what it built instead of starting from a blank file. The Scrum Master's job didn't shrink — it changed. Now part of impediment removal means clearing API rate limits and fixing a broken prompt, not just people problems.

That's agent stewardship: a new category of Scrum Master skill, not a smaller one.

AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams is a 2-day certification for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, testers, and analysts who already understand Scrum basics and want to run it with an AI teammate in the mix.
Reserve your seat: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-augmented-scrum-for-product-teams-september-9-10-2026

08/26/2026

Teams that pair AI agents with Scrum aren't cutting headcount — they're cutting rework.

Rod Claar has trained Scrum teams for over 20 years, through CASE tools, outsourcing, and low-code hype. None of those waves replaced a Scrum team. AI agents don't either — they take on the complicated work: test stubs, acceptance criteria gaps, sprint pattern summaries.

The complex work — judgment calls, stakeholder trust, team relationships — still needs the humans in the room. That division is exactly what a two-day certification should teach.

AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams covers AI in discovery, backlog work, Sprint events, and code review, then closes with the AI-Augmented Scrum Practitioner exam.

See dates and register: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-augmented-scrum-for-product-teams-september-9-10-2026

Browse upcoming live Scrum and AI training classes taught by Certified Scrum Trainer Rod Claar. Available virtual, in-person, or on-site. Register today.

08/25/2026

What if your Daily Scrum impediments never had to wait for you to notice them?

Most Scrum Masters catch blockers when a teammate finally says them out loud. By then the blocker has cost two or three days of quiet stalling.

AI pattern-spotting across a team's board, commits, and comments can flag a stall before it becomes a pattern. It won't replace the conversation, but it changes when the conversation happens.

AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches builds a personal AI toolkit for exactly this kind of early detection, plus sharper facilitation for Sprint Planning and retrospectives.

Claim your seat, Sept 8: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-masters-and-agile-coaches-sept-8-2026

Browse upcoming live Scrum and AI training classes taught by Certified Scrum Trainer Rod Claar. Available virtual, in-person, or on-site. Register today.

08/25/2026

A Scrum Master in Denver ran her retro board through AI before the meeting started.

She fed last sprint's board into a structured prompt and asked for recurring patterns only. In four minutes, the tool surfaced a blocker three team members had mentioned separately but never connected: a shared test environment kept failing at the same time each day.

The team spent the retro solving it instead of re-discovering it. That's the difference between using AI and using it well — a gap the AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026 says only 15% of practitioners have closed through real training.

AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches shows you how to run that same pattern with your own team's data.

Register for Sept 8: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-masters-and-agile-coaches-sept-8-2026

Browse upcoming live Scrum and AI training classes taught by Certified Scrum Trainer Rod Claar. Available virtual, in-person, or on-site. Register today.