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Mastering Work Intake Book Club

8 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn to solve IT’s dirtiest secret — work intake. Stop ignoring it. Start fixing it.

Course overview

Work intake is the biggest challenge facing organizations today.

Join Tom and Jeremy and a group of like-minded readers as we conduct a book club on Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery.


Each live session is a summary of the previous week’s reading, mixed with interactive activities and conversation.


Note: The minimum price to list a group on the Maven platform is $1. You will also need to purchase your own copy of the book. Paperback and e-book is available from Amazon.com or JRoss Publishing.

Who is this course for

01

Scrum Master / Agile Coach who aspires to help teams and organizations predictably deliver.

02

Project Manager / Program Manager / Portfolio Manager who craves better ways to facilitate conversations around scope, schedule, & priority.

03

Product Owner / Product Manager / Release Manager / Delivery Manager / Delivery Lead who truly wants to maximize value delivery.

What you’ll get out of this course

Master work intake. Predictably deliver.

You’ll leave with a thorough understanding of the topic, as well as things you can act on immediately to start solving work intake challenges.

Facilitate effective prioritization and sequencing. Get the right things done in the right order.

You’ll leave with step-by-step facilitation approaches to collaborate with colleagues on prioritization and sequencing.

Navigate all levels of the organizational structure. Ensure the organization is effective.

You’ll leave with an awareness of the impact of organizational structure on work intake.

Measure work intake and flow. Get the right things done at the right time.

You’ll leave with a tangible list of ways to immediately measure flow and work intake in your context, so that you understand what’s working… and what isn’t.

Diagnose a variety of work intake problems. Get to work solving them.

You’ll leave with techniques that you can use to diagnose and solve work intake anti-patterns.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

2 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Oct 18—Oct 20

    Oct

    18

    Part 1 Live Session

    Fri 10/184:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Part 1 Live Session

    1 item

Week 2

Oct 21—Oct 27

Week 3

Oct 28—Nov 3

Week 4

Nov 4—Nov 10

    Nov

    6

    Part 2 Live Session

    Wed 11/65:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Part 2 Live Session

    1 item

Week 5

Nov 11—Nov 17

Week 6

Nov 18—Nov 24

    Nov

    22

    Part 3 Live Session

    Fri 11/225:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Part 3 Live Session

    0 items

Week 7

Nov 25—Dec 1

Week 8

Dec 2—Dec 8

Week 9

Dec 9—Dec 11

    Dec

    11

    Part 4 Live Session

    Wed 12/115:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Part 4 Live Session

    0 items

What people are saying

        “[For] all of my clients — [and] all the people who think they might be clients — this business of work intake is a really big problem. The principles [in “Mastering Work Intake”] make it possible for people to be actually able to master work intake.”
Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman

Author, Consultant, Speaker

Meet your instructor

Jeremy Willets

Jeremy Willets

Jeremy Willets is a coach, speaker, and author who has spent the last decade working with people and teams to achieve greatness in the workplace. He started out as a technical writer on a Scrum team and quickly fell in love with Scrum and the Agile Manifesto values and principles. Since then, he’s served thriving organizations as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Senior Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, people manager, and mentor.  


Jeremy has spoken at conferences throughout the midwestern United States. He’s an avid Substack blogger and music maker. He holds a SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) certification.


Jeremy can be found at jeremywillets.com

Thomas Cagley

Thomas Cagley

Tom Cagley is a consultant, speaker, author, and coach who leads organizations and teams to unlock their inherent greatness. He helps teams and organizations adopt and adapt agile and lean concepts so they can thrive. His coaching is focused on implementing changes that impact cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction; and then proves it. He has been an internationally respected blogger and podcaster for over 18 years, focusing on software process and measurement. His blog entries and podcasts have been listened to or read well over a million times. He is a two-time Past President of IFPUG.


Tom can be found at tomcagley.com.

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Course schedule

~50 pages every ~18 days

  • Wednesday & Fridays

    12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

    4 live sessions — we’ll discuss 1 part in each session:

    • Friday, October 18th (Part 1)
    • Wednesday, November 6th (Part 2)
    • Friday, November 22nd (Part 3)
    • Wednesday, December 11th (Part 4)
Free resource

“Mastering Work Intake” Preview

Check out the front matter and first two chapters of “Mastering Work Intake” for free!

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Learning is better with cohorts

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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