About David
David, as Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, works to improve the profession of software delivery. He helps organizations deliver products of the highest possible quality and value.
His career highlights the intersection of business, technology, and education. With his broad experience, he helps organizations and teams understand agility at all levels: practice and delivery, leadership and stewardship, organizational design and culture.
David is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org, Agile Business Consultant, Product Manager, Technical Coach and Software Engineer, Public Speaker, Executive Director of Ontario Scrum Community®, TEDx Alumnus, Musician, Husband and Dad. David works throughout Canada.
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Courses taught by David
Applying Professional Scrum
Professional Scrum Master
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Professional Scrum with User Experience
Other Services by David
- Coaching/Consulting
- Immersion Classes
- Private Courses
Upcoming Classes by David
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Live Virtual
Date: Feb 15-16, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: Feb 22-23, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: Feb 26-27, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/New_York
In Person
Date: Feb 28-29, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
Toronto, ON, Canada
Live Virtual
Date: Mar 25-26, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: Apr 15-16, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/New_York
Live Virtual
Date: Apr 22-23, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: May 27-28, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: Jun 3-4, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/New_York
Live Virtual
Date: Jun 6-7, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/Toronto
Live Virtual
Date: Jul 22-23, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/New_York
Live Virtual
Date: Sep 9-10, 2024
Language: English
Class Format: Traditional
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM America/New_York
Latest Blogs by David
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Common complaint: “Scrum is not working in today‘s software engineering industry.”
Response: If Scrum isn‘t “working” in today’s software engineering industry, then perhaps there are counter-signals in the industry that are preventing teams from employing Scrum effectively.
This is a story about a former client. Early plans were to release a “Minimum Viable Experience” before year end. By late Spring, the Product Director described two “problems” and asked for my help: Release dates for the first publicly available version were slipping. And scope was expanding.
SDLC is an acronym that means either Software Delivery Life Cycle or Systems Development Life Cycle. And it is a lie. A fiction. A total fabrication. Somebody made it up out of thin air many years ago and the idea was cemented deep into corporate bureaucracy.
In this blog post, PST David Sabine shares a real life story focused around transparency.
Unclear language leads to incomplete transparency and ambiguity. The careful use of words like ‘bug’ will improve decision-making in your organization.
Velocity, as a metric used by some Scrum teams, is rife with trouble. David's concise article highlights a common pitfall.
A discussion is raging among Project Managers about the Iron Triangle because the authors of Scrum say “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle”.
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