Includes Better Agile: Iterating and Better Agile: Meetings & Artifacts
These two new courses show you how to improve meetings, refine artifacts, and evolve how your team works, so each sprint gets better than the last.
16 lessons • 80 minutes of teaching content
This course explores how to apply agile principles directly to the way teams refine their process and evolve their practices.
You’ll learn how to guide improvement efforts using the same principles that make agile delivery effective:
16 lessons • 75 minutes of teaching content
This course examines the meetings and artifacts that shape day-to-day agility, from Sprint Goals and backlog structure to how teams collaborate during the sprint.
Small improvements in how these practices are run can have a significant impact on how teams plan, collaborate, and deliver.
You’ll learn how to:
This bundle is well suited for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, agile coaches, and leaders who are already using agile and want to strengthen how improvement happens over time.
If you’re interested in helping teams move beyond mechanical execution toward sustained capability and ongoing improvement, these courses provide practical guidance for refining how teams work.
These courses are being included with the library for a limited time. When you buy the Agile Skills Video Library before the deadline, you’ll receive access to both Better Agile courses at no additional cost.
The Agile Skills Video Library focuses on the core capabilities agile teams rely on every day, including:
The Better Agile courses shows teams how to:
Together they form a simple progression:
This video course shows you how to improve agility the same way agile teams build products: through small, continuous changes that compound over time. You’ll learn how to identify real problems inside your iterations, like unfinished work, interruptions, and poor flow, and address them with practical, action-oriented techniques. Using the Better Agile Framework, you’ll create improvement backlogs, run experiments, and build lasting change instead of one-off fixes.
This course focuses on improving the day-to-day practices that most affect your team’s performance: your meetings and your artifacts. You’ll learn how to run shorter, more effective planning sessions, reviews that generate meaningful feedback, and refinement that doesn’t drag on. It also shows you how to use backlogs, story maps, and estimation practices to create clarity, reduce waste, and help teams consistently deliver what they commit to.
With more than 7,000 licenses sold, Better User Stories is one of our most popular training experiences. You get a proven system for writing, organizing, and splitting stories so your team can focus on delivering value instead of arguing in planning meetings. Based on Mike's best-selling book User Stories Applied, this is the definitive course on making user stories work in the real world.
You’ll be able to identify the right personas, run productive story-writing workshops, and create consistent, valuable stories that move smoothly from idea to delivery.
Finally, you’ll know how to split any story to fit within an iteration, and ship faster.
Agile Estimating & Planning shows you how to create reliable estimates that give teams the freedom to deliver while keeping stakeholders confident and informed.
You’ll build a planning process that’s transparent, collaborative, and safe, where teams don’t feel pressured to pad or hide their estimates.
Learn how to balance flexibility with accountability, accelerate planning meetings, and improve the quality of every conversation about time and scope.
Plan realistically, forecast confidently, and deliver with trust instead of tension.
Cut through the confusion and make story points actually work for your team.
This course shows you how to explain story points clearly to both developers and stakeholders, create consistent estimates across different skill levels, and plan fixed-date or fixed-scope projects with confidence. You’ll uncover and correct the most common mistakes that derail estimation, use practical worksheets to apply lessons immediately, and get access to two exclusive bonus modules on stakeholder communication and agile planning.
Whether you’re new to story points or repairing old habits, this course turns estimation from frustration into focus.
Turn retrospectives from routine meetings into real engines of improvement.
After this course, you’ll design and facilitate retros that spark honest discussion, engagement, and change. You’ll use frameworks like the Diamond Model of Participation and the Retrospective Menu to keep sessions fresh, focused, and productive. You’ll know how to draw out quieter voices, adapt to different team personalities, and build trust so feedback turns into action.
No more same issues, different sprint. Instead, you’ll leave with the confidence and tools to make every retrospective meaningful.
This course shows you how to fix retrospectives that have lost their spark.
In just over an hour, you’ll tackle 10 of the most common retrospective challenges, from quiet teams and surface-level discussions to remote disengagement and weak follow-through. You’ll learn how to spot the real issues behind recurring problems and apply practical techniques that rebuild trust, energy, and safety.
Retrospectives Repair Guide is your field-tested troubleshooting kit for restoring focus, momentum, and genuine value to every sprint review.
When Scrum starts to slip, this course helps you set it right.
With lifetime access to seven focused modules, you’ll get practical, bite-sized lessons that help you spot and solve the issues slowing your team down. You’ll learn how to pinpoint problems before they hurt productivity, manage stakeholder pressure without derailing your sprint, and rebuild focus and energy so your team collaborates at full strength.
Whether you’re new to Scrum or have years of experience, Scrum Repair Guide gives you the tools to restore flow, protect your team, and get back to delivering high-quality products fast.
Challenge what you think you know about agile.
Based on Mike's popular keynote, Let Go of Knowing helps you spot the assumptions and biases that quietly hold teams back. Through personal stories and real examples, Mike shows how rethinking long-held beliefs can open the door to better teamwork, smarter decisions, and genuine agility. You’ll discover how to stay curious without over-questioning, and how to create a culture where learning and adaptation come naturally.
Short, honest, and thought-provoking, it’s a reminder that sometimes the biggest breakthroughs start with letting go.
Scrum Foundations gives you a clear, practical introduction to how Scrum really works. In this short course, Mike walks you through the essentials, from the five Scrum values to the roles, events, and artifacts that bring agility to life.
You’ll see how sprint planning, daily scrums, and backlog refinement connect to deliver potentially shippable increments every iteration. You’ll also understand how timeboxing, a clear Definition of Done, and an organized product backlog improve both speed and quality.
It’s the perfect starting point for newcomers, or a quick, confidence-boosting refresher for experienced practitioners.
This brand-new feature transforms traditional video training into active, personalized coaching.
As you watch, you can ask questions like:
“How would this work for my remote team?”
“Can you give me an example of this for a product backlog?”
“How do I explain this concept to a stakeholder?”
You’ll get clear, practical answers based on the content you’re watching—instantly.
Whether you’re running your next retrospective, planning a sprint, or improving your backlog, the AI coach gives you real-time guidance that helps you apply what you learn right away.
Your registration includes access to tools that support your work beyond the class:
MGS AI Toolkit for coaching, story-splitting and backlog items
Planning Poker® for collaborative estimation
Elements of Agile™ assessment to help teams identify improvement opportunities
