What style of agile training works best?

Have you ever been in a class or training session which is so boring you felt like you might fall asleep?  Or maybe you are one of the people that DID fall asleep!  I know I’ve been there many times.  When I started facilitating sessions on agile and Scrum I knew I couldn’t do it if the sessions would put people to sleep.  I knew I had to have dynamic sessions that kept people involved and challenged them to exceed their own expectations.  I put together the best sessions I knew how and I was quite successful with it (see the bottom of the sidebar at www.agileforall.com for course results and quotes from evaluation forms).  Attendees were very happy with the results, but I knew I could do better.  Much better. I knew I could talk less and have the attendees do even more.  I knew I could better help the attendees if I could just figure out how to get information across in a different way.

Then something happened which changed my life and will help me change many lives going forward. [Read more...]