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Ralph Jocham (he/him)
Jun 29, 2021
Good teacher and good training
Good teacher and good training. It's a pitty that we need to do it virtual instead of face to face, but it was well organized with enough breaks.
customer
Jun 20, 2021
Very good 2-day course
Very good 2-day course. Lots of real-live examples and explanations. Excellent trainer with great experience.
Hansjuerg Nyffenegger
May 14, 2021
PSM-1 Training from Ralph
Took the PSM-1 Training from Ralph. Being a Scrum Master I can vouch for the trainer and the content which was taught to me. The whole training was really effective and I still love it when Ralph answered every generic question using real-life examples. I would totally recommend Agile Actors for Scrum training.
Mubariz Hamza Aslam
May 14, 2021
Great training! Worth taking
I liked that we were divided into small groups where everyone had ability to speak up. Ralph described all the basics in a clear way and gave us a lot of guidance what to read next and how to improve further. I hope I know have all the needed knowledge for passing the exam. Only the time will show.
Veronika Sulgina
Feb 22, 2021
A good basis that ought to be expanded upon with other references for the PSPO 1 exam preparation sake
The offered materials made up a good basis for building one's knowledge upon the whys and wherefores of the Product Owner. Overall, time management was an issue given the breadth of the topics and some items could have been addressed at a deeper level. The remote class was done through a collaboration-enabled tool that has offered great interaction. Our trainer and facilitator Ralph is extremely knowledgeable about empiricism, iterative and incremental product development. I was expecting more exercises directly connected to the PSPO 1 exam. The reading of two books "The Professional Product Owner" and "Essential Scrum" helped me in my exam preparation.
Olivier Bathany
Feb 19, 2021
Great and insightful training indeed
Great and insightful training indeed, with a very knowledgeable and expert trainer.
Stefano
Feb 3, 2021
A great trainer
The had a broad knowledge and could grant us an easy access to the "world of scrum". Because of his long dev career he was able to share a lot from his great experience pool. Unfortunately this course was online-only (due to covid) and therefore a lot of practical exercises were quite difficult to manage, but in the end the outcome was still great.
Tobias Kunz
Jan 28, 2021
SCrum Master Roche 26-28 Jan 2021
I have really appreciated the entire training and especially:
- exhaustive introduction of the fundamentals
- exercises in small team
- room for questions
- Answers supported by referenced documentation
- The training support and tools utilized
- Rythme of the training and the diversity of workshops
I invite you to consider
- having less examples around Software dev and more for other fields as well
- would it be added value to run a small sprint and practically utilize the various technics, I understand this is what we more or less did for the "car" but we did not went so much throught Sprint review / retrospective
Pierre-Antoine Rosemary
Jan 15, 2021
There are very few trainers where you…
There are very few trainers where you feel that you can ask ANY question and he will AT ALL TIMES be able to answer it with the highest professionalism and integrity. I truly enjoyed this class and may only recommend it to anybody interested in Scrum.
Priska
Jan 7, 2021
Excellent training experience.
Ralph is a great trainer. Tailored to POs who need to understand how to maximize value in their organizations. I totally recommend this class.
Anastasios Makris
Dec 20, 2020
Very scientific approach to scrum by a…
Very scientific approach to scrum by a competent tutor.
The practical part consisted sometimes of creating thing and afterwards learning what is important while creating these things, which is not always the optimal choice of order, especially if you need the created items for other practical tasks and have no time to refine them.
I learned a lot. Thanks
Rafael Vinci
Dec 3, 2020
Excellent class
It was an extremely useful and pleasant class. The trainer has a lot of practical knowlege and was able to transfer it clearly and effectively. The pace of the class was just right: not too slow that would cause distraction, not too fast that would make it difficult to absorb the content. There was a right balance of theory and practice, of listening and interacting that made all the information easy to understand, process and apply in the practical parts. All in all, an excellent class.
Francesca Ferrandino
Oct 30, 2020
I really liked Ralph's training and…
I really liked Ralph's training and Ralph's personality. Well prepared (Mural is great), good activities, well explained. I could see Ralph has loads of experience and knows what he is talking about.
I could see Ralph has experience as trainer, he brought several non-formal activities to the workshop. I liked he let the teams try first and explain later.
The only suggestions I would do is to ask for people's expectations in the beginning, also explain there are no right or wrong answers, and to explain whats the objetive of the workshop. I had the feeling some participants had different expectations and got frustrated in the end.
Thanks again!
Tiago Knoch
Sep 24, 2020
Awesome!
Awesome Dynamics, Great Insights and a lot of learnings! Facilitation was great, trainers helped not only to learn, but to understand. Great work. I am happy to be part of this class!
Ralph, Robbin, Awesome Job!
Yevhen Domchenko
Sep 18, 2020
Amazing class
Amazing class
Ralph did a tremendous job as a teacher. Really enjoyed his class. You can profit from the wealth of his experience.
Daniel Večeřa
Sep 15, 2020
Feedback
Ich fand die Schulung sehr spannend und abwechslungsreich gestaltet (Gruppendiskussionen).
Dajana
Mar 10, 2020
Professional Scrum Master Class
Excellent teacher. I have benefited immensely from this course.
Daniel Peter Bucher
Feb 14, 2020
Ralph and Willem were great teachers
Ralph and Willem were great teachers. they really maximized the value of this training. Thank toy to both of them
Tarras
Jan 30, 2020
Good presentation
Good presentation , nice real life situations
Alexandru
Jan 30, 2020
A very interesting and useful course
A very interesting and useful course. Ralph made many practical games from which I understood very well how to apply the scrum in my team. He also gave us some good tips on how to proceed to change things in better.
Adina Voina
Jan 28, 2020
PSPO- A with Chris Lukassen was cool
PSPO- A with Chris Lukassen was cool. Strongly recommend
Andrzej Patyra
Jan 26, 2020
very interesting and useful
very interesting and useful
Vassilios Stathoulias
Jan 24, 2020
PSPO-A in Athens
Great insight from real world scenario about high end product ownership.
Fantastic teammates and fellow attendees; sharing informations, collaborations and energy.
Very useful experience.
Andrea Casiraghi
Jan 23, 2020
Great class which trainer Ralph Jocham
Great class which gave a lot of insight to the PSPO role and explained the scrum framework. The trainer Ralph was very good and made the training very interactive. He also shared a lot of real world examples. I would definitely recommend it for anyone interested in becoming a certified scrum product owner
Stefan Schmidt
Dec 4, 2019
Agile experience
Exciting discussions in class and a very knowledgeable teacher.
Nicola Grütter
Dec 2, 2019
Knowledgeable group, seasoned moderator, great content
The group was knowledgeable and very open to sharing their experiences. Ralph Jocham is a diligent facilitator and seasoned moderator and as such he made sure we touched on all of the critical topics without getting lost in the weeds.
Juan Romero Abelleira
Nov 28, 2019
This is a great training
This is a great training, very interactive and a very good trainer with a lot of experience! Would however be even better with at least some examples of non-IT application.
Richard Koch
Nov 26, 2019
Great content, great delivery and exercises w. large group.
Full disclosure, I am a PST. I enjoyed the advanced PSPO training a lot. The content was great and the delivery with exercises was just good, also for the size of the group (>20 people).
The trainers were also very open and incorporated our feedback from day 1 into day 2.
Peter Gfader
Oct 15, 2019
It was a useful course
It was a useful course, where we learned the fundamental aspects of Scrum, in an interactive and fun way.
Maria Nikolopoulou
Oct 14, 2019
Ralph is a great trainer and very…
Ralph is a great trainer and very passionate about the knowledge he's imparting.
Alice Abrokwa
Oct 10, 2019
PSPOmg this was a good class!
Great experience! Interactive, many new insights and learnings, many opportunities to connect with other students, awesome learning environment and hospitality! Thank you Chris and Ralph :)
Boris Steiner
Oct 8, 2019
Excellent Course
Great Course, gives you a good overview of what is scrum and the role of PO. Praxis oriented and very interactive.
I would recommend the course to anybody who is starting to work with Scrum, has a new role as a PO or is thinking about taking new challenges.
Pascale Ruegg Justiniano
Oct 8, 2019
Informative and engaging training
Informative and engaging training. Highly recommended!
Dan Ellis
Oct 3, 2019
Great training with amazing materials.
Great training with amazing materials.
Great discussions among the trainees under the supervision of Ralph
Olivier Ledru
Sep 9, 2019
Very good Value
Very good Value. I got many good ideas and inspiration to work with. Thank you!
Sven Bolliger
Aug 5, 2019
Scrummaster
The teacher was great and told his experience in a really energic way. What I would have liked is a general start of the course. First some theory of what the rol of scrummaster is and some definition. On the second day more focus was put on the definition this would be better in a reversed way.
Tara de Vries
Aug 2, 2019
Complete training
Complete en goed gegeven training over SCRUM en de rol van de PO
Bas Tillema
Jul 15, 2019
Ralph was a great trainer.
Ralph was a great trainer.
Ashutosh Dhotkar
Jun 12, 2019
Excellent experience
Excellent experience. One thing to consider would be to include a whole session on implementation issues and how to tackle them. Also even more real-life examples would be excellent.
Anna Papantoniou
May 31, 2019
Amazing experience! Thanks Ralph!!!
Amazing experience! Ralph was the best. He knows the scrum methodology better from anyone.
Very good choice to participate and learn from the best!
Theodoros Marosis
Apr 3, 2019
Very helpful
Very helpful, the practical insights helped me a lot
Samuel Calan
Mar 12, 2019
Great Course
A really interesting, educational and interactive course. Ralph is a great teacher, passionate about the topic and open for any kind of question.
Marieke Smolny
Mar 7, 2019
Great input!
Great input!
There was a lot of information that can be used in our company and will certainly improve our agile performance. Thank you for that.
Alex B.
Mar 1, 2019
An eye-opener seminar for aspiring Product Owners!
Very knowledgable instructor, well organized and presented topics, constructive discussions, refreshing exercises, and hands-on advice to help you put newly acquired knowledge into practice right away. Well done Ralph!
I. NTINOS
Mar 1, 2019
Very insightful experience
Very insightful and useful experience, really worth my time
Nikitas Despotidis
Feb 20, 2019
Great experience
I've attended both the PSM I & PSPO I trainings of effective agile. Ralph is a well-educated tutor who provides thorough explanations and practical examples of Scrum practices. I highly recommend both these classes.
Panagiotis Timotheatos
Feb 17, 2019
Great but no Nexus
I hoped we would cover some of the nexus material required for the exam
Vassilios Stathoulias
Feb 2, 2019
Great class!
Great class!
Ralph is a really great teacher with extensive experience.
Ivan Milasevic
Ralph's Certifications
Ralph's Bio
Ralph Jocham is founder of effective agile. an agile consulting company. He works there globally as an agile change agent helping customers of various business domains to improve their productivity, quality and throughput by using agile practices. Currently, Ralph's main focus is targeted towards enabling management to understand agile and see how Scrum will benefit them in their given context.
Ralph co-designed the Professional Scrum Developer (Java) course and is Europe’s first Professional Scrum Master Trainer for Scrum.org since 2010.
The book The Professional Scrum Product Owner was written by Ralph Jocham and Don McGreal.
Biography
Ralph has over 20 years of global (DE, UK, USA, CH) development experience in various technologies and blue chip business domains. Ralph believes that state of the art development practices and a clear business value focus are crucial for the ROI.
Before founding effective agile. he worked for Zühlke in Switzerland, ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, USA and Oracle in the UK.
You can read more about Ralph Jocham at www.effectiveagile.com.
Languages
- German
- English
Courses taught by Ralph
See What My Students Say
Jun 29, 2021
Good teacher and good training
Good teacher and good training. It's a pitty that we need to do it virtual instead of face to face, but it was well organized with enough breaks.
customer
Jun 20, 2021
Very good 2-day course
Very good 2-day course. Lots of real-live examples and explanations. Excellent trainer with great experience.
Hansjuerg Nyffenegger
May 14, 2021
PSM-1 Training from Ralph
Took the PSM-1 Training from Ralph. Being a Scrum Master I can vouch for the trainer and the content which was taught to me. The whole training was really effective and I still love it when Ralph answered every generic question using real-life examples. I would totally recommend Agile Actors for Scrum training.
Mubariz Hamza Aslam
May 14, 2021
Great training! Worth taking
I liked that we were divided into small groups where everyone had ability to speak up. Ralph described all the basics in a clear way and gave us a lot of guidance what to read next and how to improve further. I hope I know have all the needed knowledge for passing the exam. Only the time will show.
Veronika Sulgina
Feb 22, 2021
A good basis that ought to be expanded upon with other references for the PSPO 1 exam preparation sake
The offered materials made up a good basis for building one's knowledge upon the whys and wherefores of the Product Owner. Overall, time management was an issue given the breadth of the topics and some items could have been addressed at a deeper level. The remote class was done through a collaboration-enabled tool that has offered great interaction. Our trainer and facilitator Ralph is extremely knowledgeable about empiricism, iterative and incremental product development. I was expecting more exercises directly connected to the PSPO 1 exam. The reading of two books "The Professional Product Owner" and "Essential Scrum" helped me in my exam preparation.
Olivier Bathany
Feb 19, 2021
Great and insightful training indeed
Great and insightful training indeed, with a very knowledgeable and expert trainer.
Stefano
Feb 3, 2021
A great trainer
The had a broad knowledge and could grant us an easy access to the "world of scrum". Because of his long dev career he was able to share a lot from his great experience pool. Unfortunately this course was online-only (due to covid) and therefore a lot of practical exercises were quite difficult to manage, but in the end the outcome was still great.
Tobias Kunz
Jan 28, 2021
SCrum Master Roche 26-28 Jan 2021
I have really appreciated the entire training and especially:
- exhaustive introduction of the fundamentals
- exercises in small team
- room for questions
- Answers supported by referenced documentation
- The training support and tools utilized
- Rythme of the training and the diversity of workshops
I invite you to consider
- having less examples around Software dev and more for other fields as well
- would it be added value to run a small sprint and practically utilize the various technics, I understand this is what we more or less did for the "car" but we did not went so much throught Sprint review / retrospective
Pierre-Antoine Rosemary
Jan 15, 2021
There are very few trainers where you…
There are very few trainers where you feel that you can ask ANY question and he will AT ALL TIMES be able to answer it with the highest professionalism and integrity. I truly enjoyed this class and may only recommend it to anybody interested in Scrum.
Priska
Jan 7, 2021
Excellent training experience.
Ralph is a great trainer. Tailored to POs who need to understand how to maximize value in their organizations. I totally recommend this class.
Anastasios Makris
Dec 20, 2020
Very scientific approach to scrum by a…
Very scientific approach to scrum by a competent tutor.
The practical part consisted sometimes of creating thing and afterwards learning what is important while creating these things, which is not always the optimal choice of order, especially if you need the created items for other practical tasks and have no time to refine them.
I learned a lot. Thanks
Rafael Vinci
Dec 3, 2020
Excellent class
It was an extremely useful and pleasant class. The trainer has a lot of practical knowlege and was able to transfer it clearly and effectively. The pace of the class was just right: not too slow that would cause distraction, not too fast that would make it difficult to absorb the content. There was a right balance of theory and practice, of listening and interacting that made all the information easy to understand, process and apply in the practical parts. All in all, an excellent class.
Francesca Ferrandino
Oct 30, 2020
I really liked Ralph's training and…
I really liked Ralph's training and Ralph's personality. Well prepared (Mural is great), good activities, well explained. I could see Ralph has loads of experience and knows what he is talking about.
I could see Ralph has experience as trainer, he brought several non-formal activities to the workshop. I liked he let the teams try first and explain later.
The only suggestions I would do is to ask for people's expectations in the beginning, also explain there are no right or wrong answers, and to explain whats the objetive of the workshop. I had the feeling some participants had different expectations and got frustrated in the end.
Thanks again!
Tiago Knoch
Sep 24, 2020
Awesome!
Awesome Dynamics, Great Insights and a lot of learnings! Facilitation was great, trainers helped not only to learn, but to understand. Great work. I am happy to be part of this class!
Ralph, Robbin, Awesome Job!
Yevhen Domchenko
Sep 18, 2020
Amazing class
Amazing class
Ralph did a tremendous job as a teacher. Really enjoyed his class. You can profit from the wealth of his experience.
Daniel Večeřa
Sep 15, 2020
Feedback
Ich fand die Schulung sehr spannend und abwechslungsreich gestaltet (Gruppendiskussionen).
Dajana
Mar 10, 2020
Professional Scrum Master Class
Excellent teacher. I have benefited immensely from this course.
Daniel Peter Bucher
Feb 14, 2020
Ralph and Willem were great teachers
Ralph and Willem were great teachers. they really maximized the value of this training. Thank toy to both of them
Tarras
Jan 30, 2020
Good presentation
Good presentation , nice real life situations
Alexandru
Jan 30, 2020
A very interesting and useful course
A very interesting and useful course. Ralph made many practical games from which I understood very well how to apply the scrum in my team. He also gave us some good tips on how to proceed to change things in better.
Adina Voina
Jan 28, 2020
PSPO- A with Chris Lukassen was cool
PSPO- A with Chris Lukassen was cool. Strongly recommend
Andrzej Patyra
Jan 26, 2020
very interesting and useful
very interesting and useful
Vassilios Stathoulias
Jan 24, 2020
PSPO-A in Athens
Great insight from real world scenario about high end product ownership.
Fantastic teammates and fellow attendees; sharing informations, collaborations and energy.
Very useful experience.
Andrea Casiraghi
Jan 23, 2020
Great class which trainer Ralph Jocham
Great class which gave a lot of insight to the PSPO role and explained the scrum framework. The trainer Ralph was very good and made the training very interactive. He also shared a lot of real world examples. I would definitely recommend it for anyone interested in becoming a certified scrum product owner
Stefan Schmidt
Dec 4, 2019
Agile experience
Exciting discussions in class and a very knowledgeable teacher.
Nicola Grütter
Dec 2, 2019
Knowledgeable group, seasoned moderator, great content
The group was knowledgeable and very open to sharing their experiences. Ralph Jocham is a diligent facilitator and seasoned moderator and as such he made sure we touched on all of the critical topics without getting lost in the weeds.
Juan Romero Abelleira
Nov 28, 2019
This is a great training
This is a great training, very interactive and a very good trainer with a lot of experience! Would however be even better with at least some examples of non-IT application.
Richard Koch
Nov 26, 2019
Great content, great delivery and exercises w. large group.
Full disclosure, I am a PST. I enjoyed the advanced PSPO training a lot. The content was great and the delivery with exercises was just good, also for the size of the group (>20 people).
The trainers were also very open and incorporated our feedback from day 1 into day 2.
Peter Gfader
Oct 15, 2019
It was a useful course
It was a useful course, where we learned the fundamental aspects of Scrum, in an interactive and fun way.
Maria Nikolopoulou
Oct 14, 2019
Ralph is a great trainer and very…
Ralph is a great trainer and very passionate about the knowledge he's imparting.
Alice Abrokwa
Oct 10, 2019
PSPOmg this was a good class!
Great experience! Interactive, many new insights and learnings, many opportunities to connect with other students, awesome learning environment and hospitality! Thank you Chris and Ralph :)
Boris Steiner
Oct 8, 2019
Excellent Course
Great Course, gives you a good overview of what is scrum and the role of PO. Praxis oriented and very interactive.
I would recommend the course to anybody who is starting to work with Scrum, has a new role as a PO or is thinking about taking new challenges.
Pascale Ruegg Justiniano
Oct 8, 2019
Informative and engaging training
Informative and engaging training. Highly recommended!
Dan Ellis
Oct 3, 2019
Great training with amazing materials.
Great training with amazing materials.
Great discussions among the trainees under the supervision of Ralph
Olivier Ledru
Sep 9, 2019
Very good Value
Very good Value. I got many good ideas and inspiration to work with. Thank you!
Sven Bolliger
Aug 5, 2019
Scrummaster
The teacher was great and told his experience in a really energic way. What I would have liked is a general start of the course. First some theory of what the rol of scrummaster is and some definition. On the second day more focus was put on the definition this would be better in a reversed way.
Tara de Vries
Aug 2, 2019
Complete training
Complete en goed gegeven training over SCRUM en de rol van de PO
Bas Tillema
Jul 15, 2019
Ralph was a great trainer.
Ralph was a great trainer.
Ashutosh Dhotkar
Jun 12, 2019
Excellent experience
Excellent experience. One thing to consider would be to include a whole session on implementation issues and how to tackle them. Also even more real-life examples would be excellent.
Anna Papantoniou
May 31, 2019
Amazing experience! Thanks Ralph!!!
Amazing experience! Ralph was the best. He knows the scrum methodology better from anyone.
Very good choice to participate and learn from the best!
Theodoros Marosis
Apr 3, 2019
Very helpful
Very helpful, the practical insights helped me a lot
Samuel Calan
Mar 12, 2019
Great Course
A really interesting, educational and interactive course. Ralph is a great teacher, passionate about the topic and open for any kind of question.
Marieke Smolny
Mar 7, 2019
Great input!
Great input!
There was a lot of information that can be used in our company and will certainly improve our agile performance. Thank you for that.
Alex B.
Mar 1, 2019
An eye-opener seminar for aspiring Product Owners!
Very knowledgable instructor, well organized and presented topics, constructive discussions, refreshing exercises, and hands-on advice to help you put newly acquired knowledge into practice right away. Well done Ralph!
I. NTINOS
Mar 1, 2019
Very insightful experience
Very insightful and useful experience, really worth my time
Nikitas Despotidis
Feb 20, 2019
Great experience
I've attended both the PSM I & PSPO I trainings of effective agile. Ralph is a well-educated tutor who provides thorough explanations and practical examples of Scrum practices. I highly recommend both these classes.
Panagiotis Timotheatos
Feb 17, 2019
Great but no Nexus
I hoped we would cover some of the nexus material required for the exam
Vassilios Stathoulias
Feb 2, 2019
Great class!
Great class!
Ralph is a really great teacher with extensive experience.
Ivan Milasevic
Upcoming Classes by Ralph
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Latest Blogs by Ralph
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Ralph Jocham
This blog aims to shed some light on the underlying forces at play and how good goal setting with well-chosen metrics can help.
Apr 8, 2021
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Ralph Jocham
The University of Applied Sciences at Albstadt-Sigmaringen (HSAlbSig) is respected for its well-balanced curriculum. However, even the best curriculum can benefit from outside sources and experts.
Jul 6, 2018
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Ralph Jocham
I recently finished writing a book with fellow Professional Scrum Trainer, Don McGreal, titled, "The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage." I learned a lot from this experience and wanted to share it here.
May 16, 2018
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