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Build Practical AI and Agile Skills On Your Schedule

Learn when it works for you, progress at your own pace, and return to important lessons whenever you need them. AgileAIDev.com self-paced classes provide practical, professional training without requiring you to rearrange your workday.

Start at any time

Enroll when you are ready and begin the class without waiting for a scheduled session.

Learn at your own pace

Move quickly through familiar topics and spend more time on concepts that require deeper study.

Fit learning around your schedule

Study before work, after work, on weekends, or whenever your schedule allows.

Apply what you learn immediately

Use practical lessons, examples, and downloadable resources in your current Scrum, Agile, AI, and software development work.

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The AgileAIDev Self-Paced Learning Library

Build the Skills You Need for Modern Agile and AI-Enabled Work

Our self-paced classes cover the complete learning journey—from Scrum and Agile fundamentals to practical artificial intelligence, AI-assisted software development, and organizational transformation.

Take each class when it fits your schedule. Move through the material at your own pace, repeat important lessons, practice with real scenarios, and build a reusable library of techniques you can apply directly to your work.

Included with Every Class

The AgileAIDev Read Sheet Learning System

Every AgileAIDev self-paced class includes our revolutionary Read Sheet system—a structured learning workbook designed to help you remember what you learn, practice it, and bring it back to your team.

“What we write down, we remember.”

The Read Sheet transforms online training from passive watching into active learning. Instead of finishing a course with scattered notes, you leave with organized prompts, validated outputs, practical actions, and a growing professional reference library.

Capture what matters

Record important concepts, examples, exercises, prompts, decisions, and next steps as you learn.

Build better prompts with RCCF

Use Role, Context, Constraint, and Format to turn rough ideas into clear, reusable AI prompts.

Validate AI-generated work

Apply the VALID checklist before using AI output in professional, product, or team settings.

Create your personal knowledge library

Save proven prompts, useful patterns, examples, and practices that you can reuse after the course.

Transfer learning to your team

Use the Team Sharing section to convert individual learning into team standards and organizational change.

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Learning Path

Scrum and Agile Foundations

Build a sound understanding of Scrum, Agile principles, Lean thinking, teamwork, and the practical engineering practices required to deliver valuable products.

FoundationFirst!

Scrum Essentials

A practical introduction to the Scrum framework for people who need to understand how Scrum works and how to participate effectively on a Scrum Team.

You will learn to:
  • Explain Scrum theory, values, roles, events, and artifacts
  • Understand the purpose of each Scrum event
  • Recognize effective Product and Sprint Goals
  • Participate in inspection and adaptation
  • Avoid common mechanical-Scrum failure patterns
Designed for: New team members, managers, stakeholders, developers, analysts, testers, and anyone beginning Scrum work.
PractitionerSOON!

Practical Scrum Mastery: Beyond the Certification

Move beyond memorizing Scrum terminology and develop the facilitation, coaching, systems-thinking, and impediment-removal skills needed to help a real team improve.

You will learn to:
  • Facilitate focused and productive Scrum events
  • Identify systemic impediments and recurring blockers
  • Coach without taking control of the team
  • Use meaningful flow and outcome measures
  • Address conflict, dysfunction, and low accountability
Designed for: Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, team leads, and certified practitioners who need stronger real-world skills.
Systems ThinkingPlanned

Lean Software Development

Learn how Lean principles expose delay, waste, excess work, queues, handoffs, and other constraints that reduce the speed and quality of software delivery.

You will learn to:
  • Identify the major forms of waste in development
  • Reduce queues, handoffs, delay, and unfinished work
  • Apply pull, flow, and work-in-process limits
  • Use small batches to accelerate feedback
  • Improve the complete value-delivery system
Designed for: Scrum Teams, managers, technical leaders, Product Owners, developers, and organizational change leaders.
EngineeringPlanned

Agile Engineering Essentials for Scrum Teams

Close the gap between Scrum management practices and the engineering disciplines teams need to produce working, maintainable software every Sprint.

You will learn to:
  • Break product work into small, testable increments
  • Use automated tests to support rapid change
  • Apply continuous integration and collective ownership
  • Reduce technical debt and integration risk
  • Connect engineering quality to the Definition of Done
Designed for: Developers, testers, technical leads, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and teams struggling to produce a usable Increment.
Advanced PracticePlanned

Acceptance Testing, Specification by Example, and AI-Assisted Backlog Refinement

Learn how examples, acceptance tests, and collaborative refinement can expose ambiguity before development begins—and how AI can accelerate the work without replacing team judgment.

You will learn to:
  • Turn vague requirements into concrete examples
  • Write clear acceptance criteria and executable specifications
  • Use AI to find ambiguity, gaps, and edge cases
  • Improve Product Backlog refinement conversations
  • Create shared understanding across business and technical roles
Designed for: Product Owners, analysts, testers, developers, Scrum Masters, product managers, and cross-functional teams.
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Learning Path

AI for Scrum and Agile Teams

Learn how to use artificial intelligence within your existing Agile process—supporting better preparation, analysis, decision making, communication, and continuous improvement without abandoning Scrum.

Core AI-Agile CourseIn Development

AI-Enhanced Scrum

Learn how generative AI can support Scrum Teams across product discovery, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, daily coordination, Sprint Review, and Retrospective improvement.

You will learn to:
  • Integrate AI into Scrum without weakening empiricism
  • Prepare and refine Product Backlog items with AI
  • Identify risks, dependencies, and missing information
  • Support Scrum events with responsible AI workflows
  • Establish guardrails for quality, privacy, and validation
Designed for: Complete Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers, testers, analysts, and Agile coaches.
Role-BasedPlanned

AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches

Use AI to improve facilitation preparation, impediment analysis, team coaching, retrospective design, flow analysis, and organizational communication.

You will learn to:
  • Create stronger facilitation plans and event agendas
  • Analyze recurring blockers and systemic constraints
  • Develop coaching questions and conversation structures
  • Find useful patterns in team data and feedback
  • Use AI without becoming the team’s administrative assistant
Designed for: Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, delivery leads, team coaches, and organizational facilitators.
Role-BasedPlanned

AI for Product Owners and Product Managers

Apply AI to product discovery, stakeholder analysis, customer feedback, Product Goal development, backlog refinement, and evidence-based product decisions.

You will learn to:
  • Synthesize customer and stakeholder information
  • Generate and challenge product assumptions
  • Improve Product Goals and outcome hypotheses
  • Refine Product Backlog items using structured prompts
  • Validate AI recommendations before product decisions
Designed for: Product Owners, product managers, business analysts, entrepreneurs, and product leaders.
Focused PracticePlanned

AI-Assisted Sprint Planning

Enter Sprint Planning better prepared by using AI to analyze Product Backlog items, identify dependencies, expose uncertainty, and develop candidate Sprint Goal and planning options.

You will learn to:
  • Prepare Product Backlog items before planning begins
  • Detect dependencies, risks, and missing acceptance criteria
  • Generate candidate Sprint Goal options
  • Explore scope and capacity scenarios
  • Preserve team ownership of the Sprint plan
Designed for: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers, analysts, testers, and complete Scrum Teams.
Integrated PracticeIn Development

AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams

A complete role-spanning course that shows product teams how to use AI throughout discovery, planning, delivery, validation, review, learning, and continuous improvement.

You will learn to:
  • Create a responsible team AI working agreement
  • Use AI across Scrum events and artifacts
  • Coordinate role-specific AI workflows
  • Validate AI output before product use
  • Build a shared team prompt and practice library
Designed for: Product teams, Scrum Teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, testers, analysts, and Agile coaches.
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Learning Path

AI Development and Engineering

Develop the technical practices needed to work effectively with AI coding assistants, agents, models, context systems, automated tests, and modern AI-enabled software delivery workflows.

FoundationPlanned

Getting Started with AI Prompt Engineering

Learn a repeatable method for communicating with generative AI, evaluating results, refining prompts, and building prompts that can be reused across professional tasks.

You will learn to:
  • Write prompts using the RCCF framework
  • Provide useful context and explicit constraints
  • Select appropriate output formats
  • Iterate based on observed results
  • Validate AI output using the VALID checklist
Designed for: Professionals, managers, trainers, Agile practitioners, developers, and people beginning practical AI use.
DeveloperPlanned

AI-Enhanced Software Development

Use AI across the software development lifecycle while maintaining architectural integrity, testability, security, maintainability, and human accountability.

You will learn to:
  • Use AI for analysis, design, coding, and refactoring
  • Generate code in small, testable increments
  • Review AI-generated code systematically
  • Protect architectural boundaries and design intent
  • Integrate AI into an Agile engineering workflow
Designed for: Software developers, technical leads, architects, testers, engineering managers, and Agile development teams.
Quality EngineeringPlanned

AI-Assisted Testing and Quality Engineering

Apply AI to test design, boundary analysis, acceptance testing, unit testing, exploratory testing, defect investigation, and quality-risk assessment.

You will learn to:
  • Generate test ideas from requirements and examples
  • Identify boundary conditions and missing scenarios
  • Create draft unit and acceptance tests
  • Evaluate tests generated by AI
  • Use AI without weakening professional testing judgment
Designed for: Testers, developers, analysts, quality engineers, Product Owners, and technical leaders.
AI ToolingIn Development

AI Skills 101

Learn how reusable AI skills package instructions, workflows, examples, resources, and standards into repeatable capabilities for individual and team use.

You will learn to:
  • Explain what an AI skill is and when to use one
  • Structure skill instructions and supporting resources
  • Convert repeated prompts into reusable workflows
  • Test and refine a skill against real tasks
  • Share skills responsibly across a team
Designed for: AI practitioners, developers, trainers, consultants, Scrum Teams, and people building repeatable AI workflows.
Advanced AI EngineeringPlanned

Agentic Code Generation

Learn how to assign bounded development work to AI coding agents, provide context, establish verification loops, and control the quality of agent-generated changes.

You will learn to:
  • Decompose work into agent-sized engineering tasks
  • Provide repositories with effective project context
  • Use tests and acceptance criteria as control mechanisms
  • Review patches, assumptions, and architectural effects
  • Coordinate humans and agents within an Agile workflow
Designed for: Experienced developers, technical leads, architects, engineering managers, and AI-enabled development teams.
AI ArchitecturePlanned

Model Context Protocol Essentials

Understand how Model Context Protocol connects AI systems with tools, files, data sources, and services through standardized, controlled interfaces.

You will learn to:
  • Explain MCP clients, servers, tools, and resources
  • Connect AI applications to external capabilities
  • Design safe and bounded tool interfaces
  • Test MCP integrations and failure behavior
  • Evaluate security and permission risks
Designed for: Developers, architects, AI engineers, technical consultants, and teams creating integrated AI applications.
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Learning Path

Leadership and Organizational Change

Develop the leadership, governance, operating-model, and organizational capabilities required to adopt AI responsibly while preserving Agile principles and human accountability.

LeadershipIn Development

Leading AI-Enabled Agile Organizations

Learn how leaders can create the strategy, guardrails, support, and learning environment needed for responsible AI adoption across Agile teams.

You will learn to:
  • Create an outcome-oriented AI adoption strategy
  • Establish governance without blocking experimentation
  • Clarify acceptable use, ownership, and accountability
  • Support teams through capability and workflow changes
  • Measure adoption through business and delivery outcomes
Designed for: Executives, directors, managers, transformation leaders, product leaders, Agile coaches, and senior Scrum practitioners.
Learning and ChangeIn Development

Read Sheets: Our Revolutionary Approach to Agile Learning and Change

Learn how structured capture, active recall, prompt libraries, and team-sharing practices convert training into sustained individual learning and team-level behavior change.

You will learn to:
  • Explain why active capture improves retention
  • Use all six areas of the Read Sheet system
  • Build prompts with RCCF and validate them with VALID
  • Develop a personal prompt and practice library
  • Use shared Read Sheets to reinforce team change
Designed for: Learners, trainers, Scrum Teams, Agile coaches, managers, organizational change leaders, and AI adoption leaders.
GovernancePlanned

Practical AI Governance for Agile Teams

Create lightweight, actionable AI governance that gives teams room to learn while protecting customers, data, products, and the organization.

You will learn to:
  • Classify AI uses by risk and impact
  • Define acceptable-use and data-handling rules
  • Establish review and escalation mechanisms
  • Assign human ownership for AI-supported decisions
  • Integrate governance into Agile workflows
Designed for: Leaders, managers, product teams, Agile coaches, architects, security professionals, and governance groups.
The AgileAIDev Difference

More Than a Collection of Recorded Videos

Each class is designed as a practical learning experience that helps you understand a concept, practice it, evaluate your work, and apply it in a real professional setting.

Short, Focused Lessons

Progress through clearly organized topics without sitting through unnecessarily long lectures.

Practical Demonstrations

See techniques applied to Scrum, product, engineering, testing, leadership, and AI scenarios.

Hands-On Activities

Practice the methods instead of merely hearing them described.

Read Sheet Workbook

Build a structured record of prompts, examples, insights, decisions, and practical next steps.

Downloadable Resources

Keep the templates, checklists, reference materials, and exercises used during the class.

Workplace Application

Complete each class with concrete practices that can be tested in your current role or team.

Learn on Your Schedule

Choose Your Learning Path and Start Building Practical Skills

Begin with Scrum and Agile foundations, focus on the needs of your current role, or move directly into AI-enabled development, leadership, and organizational change.

Start at any time Learn at your own pace Read Sheet included Practical workplace application
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Experience You Can Trust

Learn from Decades of Practical Experience— Not Just Theory

AgileAIDev courses combine decades of software development, Scrum, Agile, testing, leadership, and professional training experience with a structured learning system designed to help you retain and apply what you learn.

Your Instructor

Rod Claar

AI Developer, Scrum Trainer, Software Development Trainer, and Agile Practitioner

Rod Claar has spent more than three decades developing software, leading development efforts, teaching professional software practices, and helping teams improve the way they deliver products.

He was among the earliest Certified ScrumMasters and has extensive experience teaching Scrum, Agile software development, acceptance testing, unit testing, Lean thinking, and AI-enabled development. His courses are built around the realities practitioners encounter at work—not idealized examples that disappear when the class ends.

30+ Years in software development and professional training
Decades Teaching Scrum, Agile, testing, and engineering practices
Early Certified ScrumMaster and experienced Scrum trainer
Practical Experience leading developers and working with real teams
Built for working professionals

Lessons focus on decisions, practices, tools, and problems that Scrum practitioners, product professionals, developers, testers, coaches, and leaders face in actual organizations.

Included with Every Course

The AgileAIDev Read Sheet System

“What we write down, we remember.”

Watching a video is not the same as learning. The AgileAIDev Read Sheet turns self-paced training into an active process of capturing, practicing, evaluating, reviewing, and applying important ideas.

Every course includes a structured Read Sheet workbook. You use it while taking the class—not merely after it—to build a practical reference that remains valuable when the course is complete.

  • Structured active learning

    Guided sections help you recognize and record the concepts, examples, decisions, and actions that matter.

  • RCCF prompt development

    Build stronger AI prompts using Role, Context, Constraint, and Format rather than relying on repeated trial and error.

  • VALID output review

    Evaluate whether AI-generated work is Verified, Accurate, Legal, Intentional, and Delivered correctly.

  • Personal knowledge library

    Preserve useful prompts, proven techniques, examples, and observations for future projects and courses.

  • Team-level application

    Share effective prompts and practices with colleagues so individual learning can become team improvement.

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Experienced Instruction

Lessons grounded in decades of software development, Scrum, Agile, testing, leadership, and training experience.

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Structured Learning

The Read Sheet helps you capture, practice, validate, review, and retain what the course teaches.

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Practical Change

You finish with reusable skills, working resources, and concrete practices that can be applied in your role and shared with a team.

What You Can Expect

Training Designed for Application

AgileAIDev courses are designed to help experienced professionals improve their work—not simply collect another completion record.

Practical Examples

Course scenarios are based on recognizable Scrum, Agile, product, engineering, testing, and leadership situations.

Responsible AI Use

AI is treated as a powerful assistant whose output must be reviewed, challenged, validated, and used with human judgment.

Repeatable Methods

Frameworks such as RCCF and VALID provide reusable methods rather than isolated tricks tied to one AI tool.

Team-Level Thinking

Courses address how individual practices affect the complete Scrum Team, product system, and organization.

The AgileAIDev Commitment

Learn It. Record It. Practice It. Use It.

Each self-paced course combines experienced instruction, structured practice, and the Read Sheet learning system so that your training produces more than temporary awareness. It produces knowledge and working practices you can continue to use.

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Before You Enroll

Practical Training with Clear Expectations

AgileAIDev self-paced courses are designed for working professionals who want practical Scrum, Agile, software development, testing, and artificial intelligence skills they can apply in their current work.

Review the intended audience, general prerequisites, and refund guarantee before purchasing a course.

Intended Audience

Who This Training Is For

These courses are designed for professionals who want to improve how they work with Scrum, Agile methods, software development, and artificial intelligence.

  • Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches

    Improve facilitation, coaching, flow, impediment analysis, team development, and responsible AI adoption.

  • Product Owners and Product Managers

    Strengthen product discovery, Product Backlog refinement, customer analysis, prioritization, and product decisions.

  • Developers, Testers, and Technical Professionals

    Apply Agile engineering, acceptance testing, unit testing, AI-assisted development, and quality practices.

  • Managers and Organizational Leaders

    Understand how Agile and AI affect teams, workflows, governance, leadership, and organizational change.

  • Professionals Expanding Their AI Skills

    Learn how to use AI responsibly within an existing role, team, development process, or Agile operating model.

Before Starting

General Prerequisites

Individual course pages may include additional prerequisites. Unless otherwise stated, most AgileAIDev self-paced courses require only basic professional experience and access to standard online learning tools.

  • Basic Computer and Internet Skills

    You should be comfortable using a web browser, downloading files, opening documents, and navigating an online course.

  • Reliable Internet Access

    A stable internet connection is required to view course lessons and access supporting resources.

  • Spreadsheet Software

    Microsoft Excel or compatible spreadsheet software is recommended for using the AgileAIDev Read Sheet workbook.

  • Access to an AI Tool for AI Courses

    Courses involving artificial intelligence may require access to ChatGPT, Claude, or another supported generative AI tool.

  • Willingness to Practice

    These are applied courses. You will receive the greatest value by completing exercises, using the Read Sheet, and testing the practices in realistic situations.

Advanced courses may require prior Scrum, Agile, programming, testing, product management, or AI experience. Review the individual course description before enrolling.

Purchase with Confidence

14-Day Self-Paced Course Guarantee

We want you to feel confident when enrolling in an AgileAIDev self-paced course.

You may request a full refund when:

  • The request is submitted within 14 calendar days of the original purchase.
  • You have completed no more than 25% of the course.
  • You have not downloaded a substantial portion of the course resources.
  • You submit the request using the email address associated with your enrollment.

Approved refunds will be returned to the original payment method.

Refunds are generally not available when:

  • The request is submitted more than 14 calendar days after purchase.
  • More than 25% of the course has been completed.
  • A substantial portion of the downloadable course materials has been accessed or downloaded.
  • Course access, files, credentials, or materials have been shared with another person.
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Technical or Course Problems

If a course is materially defective, inaccessible because of a problem within our control, or substantially different from its published description, contact us so that we can correct the problem or provide an appropriate refund.

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Downloadable Materials

Downloadable resources may include Read Sheets, templates, workbooks, prompt libraries, exercises, checklists, reference materials, and other proprietary course resources.

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Individual Course Access

Course access is provided only to the registered purchaser. Access and materials may not be shared, copied, redistributed, transferred, resold, or published without written permission.

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Separate Terms May Apply

This guarantee applies to individual self-paced course purchases. Live classes, memberships, subscriptions, bundles, organizational licenses, and promotional purchases may have separate cancellation or refund terms.

Questions before enrolling?

Review the individual course description or contact AgileAIDev before purchasing if you are uncertain about prerequisites, course content, software requirements, or eligibility.

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This section summarizes the self-paced course refund policy. The complete terms presented during checkout and in the official refund policy govern each purchase.

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