We help leaders plan and deliver digital transformations by developing an agile way of working across business, technology, and data teams.
About StarCIO Agile Online Courses
Our courses guide Digital Trailblazers on creating an agile transformation culture through a non-prescriptive approach. Our guides address the following:
Vision statements - One-page visions and charters to guide agile teams
Continuous planning - Backlogs are up-to-date with feedback-driven priorities
Stakeholder engagement - Define how stakeholders work with product owners
User story writing - Simplified approaches for basic and advanced agile teams
Reliable estimating - Agile teams create a consistent methodology
Prioritizing - Methodologies for Product Owners to define priorities and roadmaps
Simplified agile ceremonies - Schedule the right meetings, right time for hybrid teams
Change management - Teams plan for changes when defining releases and epics
Release management - Deliver results on program-specific release cadences
Feedback practices - Establish practices to capture stakeholder and end-user feedback
Roles and responsibilities - Defined responsibilities aligned to organizational needs
Self-organizing standards - Empower teams while best practices become standards
ABOUT starcio Agile
We guide leaders around agile planning practices and culture change and reject rigid frameworks that are hard to implement.
StarCIO Online Courses and Certifications in Agile Planning
Learn Agile Planning and Transformation
Everyone can be Agile
A course for business stakeholders and agile newbies. Whether you are a stakeholder trying to understand agile methodologies, or someone joining an agile team without any training, then this course is for you! The course is under two hours and begins with an explanation of why agile methodologies work in transformation programs and digital initiatives. It then explains the basics of scrum and kanban including roles, process, and technologies.
StarCIO Agile Team Member
A course for people joining scrum teams using StarCIO’s Agile Planning practices. This course and certification covers the basics of continuous planning, estimating, story writing, non-functional requirements, release management, and leveraging feedback. Purchasing this course also includes access to the Everyone can be Agile course.
StarCIO Agile Planner
has the following modules: Agile planning, continuous planning • agile estimation • story writing • release management • and agile meetings. This course is designed for anyone leading, managing, or participating on agile teams including product owners, technical leads, scrum masters, developers, test engineers, and devops engineers.
StarCIO Digital Trailblazer
Builds on foundations from StarCIO Agile Planner and adds the following modules: Agile prioritization • brainstorming solutions • agile roles and responsibilities • innovation, ideation, and portfolio management • agile culture and mindset • product, agile, and devops kpis. This course is for leaders overseeing multiple agile teams including CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, product managers, delivery leaders, and scrum coaches.
Go Beyond Courses with StarCIO’s Agile Workshops
StarCIO’s Driving Digital Workshops bring people together from business, technology, and data/analytics disciplines to develop future visions, discuss priorities, learn best practices, and define a roadmap to success. StarCIO’s workshops on Digital Planning -> Execution: Product, Agile, & Data can cover the entire lifecycle from product inception, estimating roadmaps, delivering reliably, monitoring successful DevOps releases, developing agile cultures, and selecting KPIs. Contact us about Workshops
StarCIO Agile Practice Areas
Thanks for your interest in StarCIO Agile Planning
I’ve been leading agile teams for almost twenty years in organizations of all sizes. Getting agile practices and scrum running across multiple teams has its challenges, but I find more organizations struggle to develop agile cultures, mindsets, and collaboration between business, digital, data, and technology teams.
These organizations want to plan agile backlogs iteratively and develop roadmaps. They want to deliver business results, but also want to innovate and address technical debt. DevOps collaboration and automation is needed, and these organization need to be more data-driven.
Does this sound like you and your organization?
If it does, I hope you’ll take the first step in your journey and sign up for our white paper!
Isaac Sacolick
President, CIO, StarCIO
Author of Amazon Best Seller Driving Digital and Digital Trailblazer
Award-winning blog Social, Agile, and Transformation
Videos on the Driving Digital Standup
Discussions during the weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers
