Posts Tagged ‘canada’

Half-price Certified ScrumMaster Training ends Sept 21

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

The summer is quickly coming to an end, and with it will end our summer special of 50% off Certified ScrumMaster training or only $995.00 CAD.  Our special offer is still available for the next 25 people to register and pay, but that offer ends on September 21.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled in Canada is available at this fantastic price (Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa).

Even without the discount, our course is a better value than many out there.  It’s a three day course instead of the normal two.  This gives you a chance to really dig into the concepts and practices of Scrum and Agile Project Management.  Our course is especially designed for project managers, team leads and aspiring leaders.  This course is a perfect way to help you expand your knowledge and skills in a practical and effective way.

Our list of scheduled courses is here.  Do not miss this great deal.

We’ve been asked, why don’t we bounce around offering courses in other cities like other Scrum Trainers? The simple answer is because we live here in Canada, and we offer courses in locations where we can support you and your organization after the training course is over. Trainers who parachute in from south of the border don’t do that. We are committed to helping you get the most out of Agile in your organization. Give Berteig Consulting a call and let us show you the quality consulting and coaching services we provide.

Certified ScrumMaster Training – Canada Locations – 50% Off Summer Special!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Canada. We love it.  We love it so much that we have decided to completely change our strategy for helping organizations here in our home country.

We have noticed that Certified Scrum Trainers from other parts of the world are starting to offer ScrumMaster training here in Canada.  But there is a problem.  They aren’t local.  They won’t be able to stick close by you as you learn about Scrum, learn about hyper productive teams, and learn to transform your organization.

We are local. Our home base is in the Toronto area and we have experienced coaches and consultants in other areas of the country as well.  We are here to accompany you on your journey with Scrum and agile methods.  How?

By changing the price on our Certified ScrumMaster seminars.  The value in our seminars is huge already: three days (vs. the normal two), the focus on implementing Scrum and obstacles to overcome with Scrum, a focus on leadership in Scrum, and a great deal of experience with both successful and not-so-successful attempts to do Scrum.

What is the new price?  For the first 100 people to sign up for one of our scheduled courses, the price is $995 – Canadian!  That’s a 50% discount off of our regular price. Pretty good, eh?

We are investing in your success.  Our new strategy: make the premier Certified ScrumMaster training course more accessible locally!  Come to our seminar.  Connect with our trainers and coaches.  And rest assured that we will be around to help you out when you need it.

“… this was an outstanding class! I was originally very nervous on starting this role, but now have the confidence needed to successfully implement this role.”
— Kristopher Laughrey [Project Lead of Paychex Inc.] about Certified ScrumMaster course.

“Excellent kickstart for any organization going agile.”
— Yvon Leclerc [Dev. Manager of Espial] talking about Certified ScrumMaster course.

“Overall extremely good, best training I have received in years.”
— Deane VanLuven [Manager of Product Development of Pitney Bowes Business Insight] regarding Certified ScrumMaster course.

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The full description of our course goes into even more detail about the advantages of taking this seminar with us!

ANN: June Agile Software Engineering Practices

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Isráfíl Consulting Services is pleased to announce our upcoming:

Agile Software Engineering Practices Courses (2 day)

Software Developers, Technical Architects and Lead Developers for teams that currently use or are intending to use Agile methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming or OpenAgile will benefit from attending this course.
After completing this course you will:

  • increase your development productivity
  • be familiar with basic disciplines to create well-tested, defect-free code
  • be able to integrate successfully into Agile teams
  • understand what makes healthy, maintainable code
  • receive a Certificate of Attendance
  • receive $100.00 discount on a 3-day Scrum training and certification course by our partners

Available Classes:

  • 2009-06-22: 2-day Agile Software Engineering Practices – Ottawa, ON $1450.00 CAD [16 spaces]
    • Register by June 1 and get the early-bird price of $1,250.00.
  • 2009-06-25: 2-day Agile Software Engineering Practices – Markham, ON $1450.00 CAD [16 spaces]
    • Register by June 1 and get the early-bird price of $1,250.00.


Register!: http://www.israfil.net/publictraining/registerCourse Details: http://www.israfil.net/publictraining/coursesClass Schedules: http://www.israfil.net/publictraining/scheduleFor more information, please e-mail us at: training@israfil.net

Bell Canada and Net Neutrality

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Bell Canada is traffic shaping to restrict the speed of data on P2P networks.  Mark Kuznicki has written a good reference piece on his blog.  The piece is titled Bell Canada Hands Net Neutrality Advocates a Gift.  It’s sad but funny too.  I don’t usually post non-agile items, but I thought this one deserved some attention.  Please, if this is important to you, take the time to blog about it even if just to link to Mark’s article.  We’re using the tags: bellthrottling, netneutrality, canada.