This course page promotes Rod Claar's Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) class, offered in both virtual and in-person formats. It's built for anyone on a product development team — from beginners to those who want to sharpen their Scrum skills.

Virtual training is highlighted for its flexibility, cost savings, and convenience — no travel required. New options include a half-now/half-later payment plan and a Gold Plan that bundles up to 8 hours of one-on-one coaching with the instructor in the 60 days after class.

What you'll learn covers the core of Scrum — why it works, the roles of the ScrumMaster and Product Owner, and how to handle real-world challenges when rolling out Scrum in an organization.

Organizations sending 3 or more people can take advantage of a customized Private Team Session.

Graduates earn 14 PDUs and gain access to the Scrum Alliance CSM exam — an online, open-book test. Passing it earns the official Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) credential.

The page closes with a bold promise: instructor Rod Claar, CST, will personally work with every student until they pass the exam — or until one of us dies!

AI Agents Don't Replace Your Scrum Team — They Multiply It

Are you worried AI is coming for your Scrum team's jobs? You're not alone — but you're also wrong. And in this video, I'll show you exactly why.

After 30 years in software development and 15+ years as a Certified Scrum Trainer, I've seen every wave of technology that was supposed to make developers obsolete — CASE tools, offshore outsourcing, low-code platforms. None of them did it. But AI agents are genuinely different. Not because they replace your team, but because for the first time, you can add a tireless, always-on team member who ships work while your humans sleep.

In this video, I break down exactly where AI agents fit inside a real Scrum team — and more importantly, where they don't.

What you'll learn:

🔹 Why the fear is real — and why it's still wrong — AI agents are exceptional at complicated work: writing functions, generating tests, drafting documents. But complex problems — the kind Scrum was built for — still require human judgment, relationships, and context no AI currently has.

🔹 What the AI "team member" actually does in a Sprint — From Sprint Planning through Retrospective, I'll walk you through exactly how an agent plugs into each Scrum event: flagging acceptance criteria gaps, generating test stubs, surfacing sprint patterns your team missed, and preparing Sprint Review summaries your Scrum Master can edit and your Product Owner can present.

🔹 How the Scrum Master role evolves — You're still an impediment remover. But now you have a new category of impediment: non-human team member blockers. API rate limits. Failing Definition of Done checks. Prompt refinement problems. I call this agent stewardship — and it's not a smaller job. It's a bigger one.

🔹 The Product Owner's new superpower — A well-prompted agent turns a stakeholder conversation into a fully structured user story with acceptance criteria in under five minutes. It generates backlog risk analyses, flags under-specified stories, and writes the same feature from multiple user perspectives so your refinement sessions are richer than ever.

🔹 The one rule that keeps you in control — Every team that has struggled with AI has broken this rule. I'll tell you exactly what it is, and why following it changes your team's entire relationship with AI agents.

Learn how to use AI tools to run sharper Scrum ceremonies, coach smarter, and remove impediments faster. This live half-day session is built exclusively for working Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. No prior AI experience required. Certificate included. $299.