Agile Marketing: Sprint Planning & Project Estimating (201) (Virtual Open Enrollment)
Agile Marketing Mastery Program 201
(Virtual Half Day Workshop)
This workshop is the second part of the ANA’s Agile Marketing Mastery Program, a four-part series designed to give you exposure to all facets of Agile Marketing and equip you for implementation within an organization.
In this virtual workshop, participants will get a closer look at the players involved and their responsibilities within the Agile process by taking a deep dive into the Sprint Planning and project estimating process. These two parts of the process make up the foundation of a successful sprint and usually where the most challenges arise. Following a deep dive on the fundamentals, participants will be given the opportunity to apply what they learned to a campaign specific to a brand, using the Poker Planning process and tracking team times via Team Velocity.
This engaging virtual workshop contains individual exercises, case studies, and real-world examples to give you the experience you need in order to understand how to implement Agile on the job.
Target Audience
This virtual workshop is open for marketers at any level that develops and/or executes marketing campaigns. It is particularly useful for those who want to understand how to implement an agile process for improved decision-making.
Virtual Workshop Benefits
The benefits of attending this virtual workshop fall under the following key drivers of growth: improving marketing effectiveness, increasing marketing efficiencies, and maximizing marketing ROI.
Improve marketing effectiveness by:
- Understanding common Agile marketing integration pitfalls and how to avoid them
Improve marketing efficiency by:
- Understanding how to improve team communication and collaboration using Agile Marketing
- Learning how to track deliverables more efficiently
Improve marketing ROI by:
- Achieving increased human capitol ROI through reduced execution timeframes, improved collaboration, and more effective planning
- Achieving increased marketing ROI through iterative changes based on validated learning
Founder and President, Advocacy Social Cord Silverstein is an award-winning marketer, leader, coach and speaker with over 20 years of proven marketing expertise. He has worked on both sides of the aisle leading the marketing strategy and execution for Fortune 500 brands on the agency and client-side. Cord is president of Advocacy Social, a content marketing and social media agency that specializes in working with brands of all sizes to better identify, engage and empower their true brand advocates and most influential members delivering real and tangible ROI for his clients. 
Cord Silverstein
For more than 10 years, Cord has been speaking at conferences and at organizations to share his thoughts and industry best practices. Today, Cord splits his time between leading marketing campaigns and personalized corporate training. He has taught and taken part in over 100 certified marketing courses and corporate trainings with a focus of getting more done in less time and quickly adapting to change allowing marketing teams to work better, smarter and faster.
Cord’s diverse background allows him to teach a number of courses including Agile Marketing for Marketers, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, and specific leadership and creativity training. He is passionate about Agile Marketing having led the training and integration for more than 50 different organizations including his own company and the vast majority of his clients.
Some notable clients and employees Cord has worked with include Dell, Lenovo, Chrysler, Staples, MetLife, and GlaxoSmithKline. Cord is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and an active member of several boards and local community projects.