Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Agile PM's Course on Scaling Delivery When Portfolio Pressure Rises

Turn chaotic sprint overload into a predictable cadence that lets you ship value without burning out your team.

Stop spending Monday mornings reconciling sprint data while senior leadership questions your delivery reliability.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Your backlog is a sprawling spreadsheet, sprint reviews are rushed, and stakeholder requests keep slipping into the next iteration. The tooling is a mishmash of Jira tickets, email threads, and shared drives, so you spend hours each week reconciling status instead of delivering.

When the quarterly roadmap deadline looms, senior leadership asks for a clear view of delivery velocity, but the data you have is fragmented and outdated. Missed commitments trigger budget reviews, and the risk of being blamed for missed targets grows.

If this continues, the next portfolio planning session will likely result in reduced funding for your team, and you could be asked to justify every sprint in a boardroom that expects hard numbers, not vague updates.

What you walk away with

A unified delivery roadmap that aligns sprint capacity with business priorities.
A live velocity dashboard that updates automatically from your toolchain.
A stakeholder communication pack that translates metrics into business impact.
A risk-adjusted sprint backlog that surfaces blockers before they stall the team.
A repeatable sprint-retro framework that drives continuous improvement each cycle.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Capacity to Commitment

70% of Agile teams underestimate sprint capacity, leading to chronic overcommit. In a typical sprint planning meeting you see developers scrambling to fit work into a fixed two-week slot. This module walks through a capacity-calculation worksheet that pulls historic velocity, team availability, and sprint goals into one view. By the end you will have a capacity model that balances realistic effort with stakeholder expectations. The deliverable is a populated capacity matrix.

Module 2. Building the Delivery Roadmap

When the quarterly roadmap meeting arrives, leadership asks for a clear view of upcoming releases. You sit in a conference room with product owners juggling feature requests and no single source of truth. This module introduces a roadmap canvas that aligns epics with release windows, dependencies, and resource constraints. By module end a visual roadmap sits in your drive, ready to guide the next planning cycle. Output: roadmap canvas.

Module 3. Automating Velocity Tracking

Data shows teams spend an average of 3 hours per sprint manually updating burn-down charts. In your weekly sync you still copy numbers from Jira to a PowerPoint slide. This module shows how to configure a live velocity dashboard that pulls sprint metrics directly from your Agile tool. By the end the dashboard lives in your drive, delivering real-time insight for any stakeholder meeting. What you ship from this module: live velocity dashboard.

Module 4. Stakeholder Communication Pack

Executives often ask, "How does this sprint translate to business value?" during quarterly reviews. You scramble to build ad-hoc slides that lack consistency. This module provides a communication pack template that maps sprint outcomes to KPI impact, risk mitigation, and revenue contribution. By module end a polished pack sits in your drive, ready for the next executive briefing. Output: stakeholder communication pack.

Module 5. Risk-Adjusted Backlog Prioritization

In sprint grooming you hear the same concern: "What if this story gets blocked?" The current backlog has no risk weighting, so blockers surface too late. This module adds a risk-scoring column to your backlog, linking each item to potential impediments and mitigation steps. By the end a risk-adjusted backlog sits in your drive, enabling proactive sprint selection. What you ship from this module: risk-adjusted backlog sheet.

Module 6. Retrospective Improvement Framework

Teams often finish retrospectives with vague action items that never get tracked. In your sprint retro you notice the same three issues reappear each cycle. This module introduces a structured improvement framework that captures actions, owners, and due dates, then integrates them into a tracking board. By module end a retro improvement board sits in your drive, turning insights into measurable change. Output: retrospective improvement board.

Module 7. Integrating Toolchains for Seamless Data Flow

A recent audit revealed that 45% of your sprint data lives in isolated tools, causing reporting delays. You spend a Monday morning copying Jira tickets into a separate spreadsheet for the steering committee. This module walks through a connector setup that synchronizes tickets, commits, and burndown data across tools. By the end a synced data pipeline sits in your drive, eliminating manual transfers. What you ship from this module: integration configuration guide.

Module 8. Portfolio Visibility Register

When the PMO asks for a snapshot of all active initiatives, you currently email a PDF that quickly becomes outdated. In the weekly portfolio review you see gaps between what product owners claim and what the team delivers. This module creates a portfolio register that consolidates epics, sprint status, and delivery dates into a single, filterable view. By module end a portfolio register sits in your drive, ready for any governance meeting. Output: portfolio visibility register.

Module 9. Value-Driven Sprint Goal Setting

A recent sprint showed that 30% of completed stories did not contribute to the agreed sprint goal. You notice the sprint goal is often vague, leading to scattered effort. This module provides a goal-setting worksheet that ties each story to a measurable business outcome, ensuring alignment before the sprint starts. By the end a goal-setting sheet sits in your drive, guiding every future sprint. What you ship from this module: goal-setting worksheet.

Module 10. Executive Dashboard for Agile Metrics

Executives demand a single page that shows health, velocity, and risk at a glance. In board meetings you currently flip through multiple slides, losing momentum. This module designs an executive dashboard that aggregates key Agile metrics into a concise, visual format. By module end an executive dashboard sits in your drive, ready for the next leadership review. Output: executive Agile metrics dashboard.

Module 11. Continuous Release Readiness Checklist

Your release manager often asks, "Is this sprint ready for production?" and you scramble to gather artifacts. The current process lacks a clear checklist, causing delays. This module creates a release readiness checklist that captures code review, test coverage, documentation, and stakeholder sign-off. By the end a checklist sits in your drive, streamlining every release gate. What you ship from this module: release readiness checklist.

Module 12. Sustaining Agile Cadence

Stakeholders worry that after the initial boost, the team will revert to old habits. In your monthly governance meeting you hear concerns about “process fatigue”. This module outlines a cadence-maintenance plan that embeds regular health checks, metric reviews, and continuous training into the team's rhythm. By module end a cadence plan sits in your drive, ensuring the improvements last beyond the course. Output: cadence maintenance plan.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers capacity calculation , exactly the uncertainty you face when sprint planning meetings stretch beyond the allotted hour.

Module 4 covers stakeholder communication , the exact gap you hit during quarterly roadmap reviews when executives demand clear business impact.

Module 7 covers toolchain integration , precisely the manual data transfer you endure each Monday before the steering committee.

What you get with this course

A capacity matrix template.
A visual roadmap canvas.
A live velocity dashboard configuration.
A stakeholder communication pack.
A risk-adjusted backlog sheet.
A retrospective improvement board.
An integration configuration guide.
A portfolio visibility register.
A goal-setting worksheet.
An executive Agile metrics dashboard.
A release readiness checklist.
A cadence maintenance plan.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, capacity matrix template pre-populated for your team.

Week 1: live velocity dashboard and risk-adjusted backlog draft ready for the next sprint planning.

Month 1: executive dashboard and portfolio register operating on a repeatable cadence, ready for governance reviews.

Before and after

Before

Your sprint data lives in scattered Jira tickets, email threads, and ad-hoc spreadsheets, making it impossible to produce a single source of truth for leadership. Backlog grooming is a guessing game, and every quarterly roadmap meeting ends with vague commitments and no clear visibility into capacity or risk.

After

All delivery data is consolidated into live dashboards and a unified roadmap, giving you a single source of truth. Capacity, risk, and value are visible at a glance, and you can present a polished stakeholder pack that ties sprint outcomes to business impact, enabling confident conversations with leadership.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this, the next quarterly roadmap will arrive with no reliable capacity view, forcing leadership to cut resources. Your team will continue to miss sprint goals, and the PMO will flag your function as a bottleneck during the upcoming budget review.

Who it is for

A mid-career Agile Project Manager who runs two to three cross-functional squads, attends daily stand-ups, sprint planning and quarterly roadmap reviews, and is responsible for translating stakeholder priorities into actionable sprint goals while keeping velocity predictable.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to Agile terminology.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week, saving an estimated 30-40 hours of manual reporting and alignment effort.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2,500 to map your capacity and build a roadmap, a generic Agile certification costs $1,200, and doing this yourself could take 60+ hours of trial-and-error. At $199 you get a proven framework and ready-to-use artefacts that deliver ROI in weeks.

FAQ

Do I need to be a certified Scrum Master to take this course?

No, the course is built for Agile PMs of any certification level who manage multi-team deliveries.

Will the templates work with my existing Jira setup?

Yes, all artefacts are designed to integrate with standard Jira fields and can be adapted to other tools.

How much time will I need each week to complete the modules?

Allocate about 2 hours per module, plus 1-2 hours for applying the artefacts to your current work.

What if I finish the course faster than the suggested timeline?

You can accelerate at your own pace; the playbook remains available for reference whenever you need it.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.