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Right before Agile 2011, I had the opportunity to co-train a CSM course with an awesome candidate to join the ranks of Certified Scrum Trainers, Karen Greaves. One of the reasons why I was interested in training with Karen is that she has been applying many of the Training From the Back of the Room (TFBR) concepts that I have been very curious about and looking to apply in my course. I was curious to see how another practitioner would take these concepts and use them to teach Scrum.
The most visible benefit of my collaboration with Karen was for me to “4C” my training plan for my CSM course. 4C is an acronym that stands for “Connection, Content, Concrete Practice, Conclusion” and they are framework for an instructor to help design their class that leverages TFBR and Accelerated Learning. The 4C’s are described in more detail below:
From my experience with Karen and applying the 4C’s on my own, the framework offers instructors two powerful advantages: