Improv your Agile or Scrum Stand-up by Todd Charron

Todd Charron from Planning For Failure tells us how was his experience creating his course on how to improve agile and scrum meetings using improv after taking Grumo’s How to Create an Awesome Online Course on Udemy.

Todd’s course is a bit of niche market (Agile and Improv geeks), but it’s a lot fun for anyone looking for ways to shake up their meetings and ensure that everyone is focused, energized, listening, and making eye contact with each other. It’s a fun course to take and it’s even more fun to put into practice!

Why did you decide to create an online course?
I was running a lot of sessions at conferences and thought people might be interested in having a permanent version of it and it also gave me the opportunity to reach more people.

How did you choose the topic of the course?
It was an existing session I already had that I could put together fairly easily as an experiment.

What is the purpose of this course?
To help those working on Agile teams get the most out of their daily stand-up and to bring a sense of play to work.

How did you find time to produce it?
Set aside a weekend to shoot and another to edit.

How long did it take you to put together?
About 4 days total

What was the hardest thing to do?
Get started, after that, editing.

What was the simplest thing to do?
Post it to Udemy.

How did you determine the price of the course?
Udemy recommended price, then played with different discount values.

What is your marketing strategy to promote it?
Promoting it at conferences, over social networks, and using it as a promotional tool for other sessions.

What software did you use?
Kdenlive (http://www.kdenlive.org/)

What hardware did you use? (camera, microphone, lights, etc.)
Kodak Zi8, room lighting and on camera mic.
What was the part the Grumo course help you the most with?
Organizing the material and figuring out how to break down the course.

What other resources have you used to make your course?
Mostly sessions on marketing and promoting. It’s an area I still have to work on.

If you are interested on taking Todd’s course he made available a special 50% discount coupon link for our readers. Here it is: https://www.udemy.com/improv-your-agile-scrum-stand-up/?couponCode=Grumo*

Todd is the senior principal of Planning for Failure. Todd is an Agile coach and consultant with a different approach. He believes that when people are empowered to bring their full creativity to their day­ to ­day work and allowed to collaborate freely, they will achieve far more than they could have in any other situation.
By combining his background in Improv and Theatre with over 10 years of experience in the software industry as a Developer, Technical Lead, and Manager, Todd has become an expert in helping organizations, teams, and individuals overcome the fears that are holding them back from reaching the success they truly desire. Todd has helped organizations improve their delivery.

(*Note most Udemy coupons are bound to a quantity limit or expiry date so they may not work by the time you read this article. If they don’t let me know and I always can ask the instructor to extend it or create a new one for you!)