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Alex Brown

Alex Brown

Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®), trained by creator of Scrum Jeff Sutherland

Alex helps companies connect thoughtful strategy with effective product and service development and delivery. As an independent Certified Scrum Trainer with Glaessel Ventures, he helps a broader range of companies understand and implement agile transformations that achieve sustainable success. As a management consultant, he focuses on Healthcare, Industrial, Retail and Services strategy, with expertise in consumer behavior, and product/service innovation.
Alex has a unique style of running the class as a working Scrum, with four Sprints and a Backlog of class topics. The format allows the class to cover more material than a typical CSM class, and to adapt easily to the needs, questions and backgrounds of the students.

He uses Scrum to teach Scrum, giving the class hands-on practical experience with iterative work, the Scrum roles, Artifacts, and Ceremonies.
Trained in Scrum by Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland, and worked closely with him for 5 years as his Chief Product Owner.

Course outline

Course Outline 

Alex has a unique style of running the class as a working Scrum, with four Sprints and a Backlog of class topics. The format allows the class to cover more material than a typical CSM class, and to adapt easily to the needs, questions and backgrounds of the students. 

SPRINT 

Foundational concepts

Covers a brief History of Scrum and the Agile Movement, Summary Overview of the Scrum Framework  and its Principles, etc.

SPRINT 

Scrum Roles and key concepts 

Backlog covers the Scrum Master Role,Product Backlog and Sprint BacklogUser Stories ,Estimating Story Points, etc.

SPRINT 

Excelling with Scrum in real life 

It goes into details of Scrum Patterns and Best Practices, overview of Scaling Scrum, continuous improvement, etc. 

SPRINT

Advanced topics and group discussion

The last sprint covers cross team Coordination, Agile Metrics & Transformation, managing Technical Debt, group discussions etc.

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