Effective Agile Development LLC

Seven days from now, a product owner can stop staring at a blank story.

AI for Product Owners and Product Managers is a live four-hour class on Friday, October 9, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT. It is built for Scrum Product Owners, Product Managers, and team leads who already own a backlog. No prior AI experience is required.

An experienced AI trainer leads the session. Rod Claar has 30 years in software and 20 years teaching Scrum. He teaches from real product work, not a slide deck. You will practice prompt patterns for backlog refinement, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint prep. You will also practice when to trust, edit, or reject an AI answer.

A Certificate of Completion from AgileAIDev.com is included. The seat is $299. Only 12 seats, so each person gets direct coaching.

Register for the October 9 class: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training/ai-for-product-owners-and-product-managers

Thursday is six days away. That is the next open seat for Scrum Masters who want AI they can use on Monday.

AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches is a live half-day on October 8, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT. It is built for working Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. No prior AI experience is required. You do need real Sprint experience.

You will practice AI for Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and the Retrospective. You will also practice spotting team patterns faster, drafting clearer backlog items, and deciding when to trust, edit, or reject an AI answer. You leave with a personal AI toolkit and a Certificate of Completion. The seat is $199. The group stays small so you get direct coaching.

Product people are covered the next morning. AI for Product Owners and Product Managers runs Friday, October 9, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT. Same live format. Certificate included. Twelve seats.

Register for the October 8 Scrum Master class: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training/ai-for-scrum-masters-and-agile-coaches

Every live class at AgileAIDev.com earns you a Certificate of Completion, with your name, the course name and the class date on it.

Three live, virtual classes are coming up:
- Oct 6-7: AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams ($495 through 11:59 PM Pacific tomorrow, then $695)
- Oct 8: AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches ($199 introductory price)
- Oct 9: AI for Scrum Product Owners and Product Managers ($199 introductory price)

Each class is limited to 12 seats. See dates and register: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training

When pilots are in training, they learn to read instructions back to the controller and then check that they actually understood them. It feels unnatural at first. It's also what keeps everyone safe.

Working with AI needs the same habit. The tool gives you an answer, and someone has to confirm it before the team acts on it.

That's the mindset behind AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams, October 6-7, live and virtual, 9 AM to 5 PM Pacific. Two days of hands-on practice using AI in discovery, backlog work, Sprint events, and code review and quality checks.

$495 through 11:59 PM Pacific this Friday, October 2, then $695. Twelve seats. Certificate of Completion included.

https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-augmented-scrum-for-product-teams-october-6-7-2026

Working Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches: I'm running a live half-day class on how to use AI in your daily work.

AI for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches is Thursday, October 8, 9 AM to 1 PM Pacific, online. You'll use AI to run sharper Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums and Retrospectives, spot team problems sooner, and build your own AI toolkit.

No AI experience needed, but you should have real experience running a Sprint. The introductory price is $199, seats are limited to 12, and registration closes October 7. You get a Certificate of Completion.

Details and registration: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-masters-and-agile-coaches-october-8-2026

Is your Scrum team trying to figure out where AI actually fits?

I'm teaching AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams on October 6-7, live and virtual. Two days of hands-on practice using AI in product discovery, backlog work, Sprint events, and code review and quality checks. It's for people who already work on a Scrum team, and you finish with a Certificate of Completion.

Launch price is $495 through 11:59 PM Pacific this Friday, October 2. Then it goes to $695. Seats are limited to 12.

Register here: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-augmented-scrum-for-product-teams-october-6-7-2026

Thursday’s Product Owners left with more than a file named Certificate.pdf. Each one received a Certificate of Completion printed with their own name — and a method they can use on the next backlog.

AI for Scrum Product Owners and Product Managers ran live September 24. Four hours. Rod Claar, CST, walked the room through prompt patterns for story writing, backlog ordering, and stakeholder updates. The model drafted. The Product Owner decided. That line is the job.
A named certificate marks the work. It does not replace the work. Students now draft INVEST stories faster, split oversized items before refinement, and prep Sprint Planning with options instead of a blank page. AI-Enhanced Scrum stays human where it must: priority, risk, and the call on what not to build.

The next live session is October 9. Same class. Same named certificate. Same cap of twelve seats.

Register for AI for Scrum Product Owners and Product Managers on October 9: https://www.agileaidev.com/Courses/Live-Training/ai-for-scrum-product-owners-and-product-managers-october-9-2026

Forty-two percent of developers now say AI writes at least half their code. Last year that number was twelve.

The extra hours did not land in clearer Sprint Goals. They landed in review queues. Two-thirds of those same developers now spend more time checking AI drafts than writing from scratch. Half spend more time fixing problems the model introduced. Scrum events still assume a person typed every line.

That lag is expensive. Tools change every quarter. Team agreements do not. An Agile practitioner who cannot name when AI drafts and when a human decides will keep shipping faster waste. Product Owners inherit stories they cannot defend. Scrum Masters run ceremonies on private prompts no one inspects.

Live practice is how you close the gap. Generative AI For Scrum Teams runs September 29–30. AI-Augmented Scrum for Product Teams follows October 6–7. Role sessions for Scrum Masters and Product Owners land October 8 and 9. Rod Claar, CST, teaches each one.

See the live class calendar and pick a seat: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training

What if your Scrum team's AI problem isn't the AI at all?

Many leaders buy ChatGPT or Copilot licenses and wait for speed to show up. Then delivery stays flat. Quality slips. People quietly paste company data into public tools.

Tools don't change how a team works. Practice does.

Generative AI for Scrum Teams gives your Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Developers two days of hands-on practice with AI inside real Scrum work. Think sharper Sprint Planning inputs, faster Sprint Review summaries, clearer Retrospective follow-ups, and AI-assisted tests and code review.

It also covers the step most rollouts skip: guardrails. Clear team agreements on privacy, IP, bias, and who makes the final call.

Live and virtual, Sept 29–30, 2026. Special price: $299 per seat, $100 off the regular $399.

Enroll your team at $299 per seat: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training/generative-ai-for-scrum-teams

Sprint Planning had run 40 minutes over, and the stories still weren't ready.

Maria, the Product Owner, had used ChatGPT to draft them the night before. The developers pushed back. The acceptance criteria were vague. Nobody knew which parts came from AI and which came from her.

The tool wasn't the problem. The team had no shared way to use it.

That's the gap Generative AI for Scrum Teams closes. In two live, virtual days, your team practices AI-assisted story writing and refinement together. You learn prompts that sharpen acceptance criteria. You agree on when AI helps and when it gets in the way. And people keep ownership of every decision.

The class runs Sept 29–30, 2026, led by Rod Claar, Certified Scrum Trainer. Special price: $299 per seat (regular $399).

Reserve your $299 seat: https://www.agileaidev.com/courses/live-training/generative-ai-for-scrum-teams