Subject-matter expert
Bob Mahler
Bob Mahler found his passion for project management early in his career after watching a project manager help set up the cellular network in Nashville and West Virginia. That experience sparked a lifelong interest in the value that good project management brings to any environment. He’s developed and delivered training on foundational project management skills and is now focused on helping learners apply the PMBOK in practical, real-world scenarios. When he’s not creating training content for CBT Nuggets, you’ll likely find him fishing for bass and trout near his home in Tennessee.
Credentials
Certifications Bob Mahler holds
Vendor-issued credentials Bob holds — the hands-on IT background behind the courses your team will train on.
- PMP
- RMP
- PSM 1
Training coverage
Courses that carry Bob Mahler's expertise into your team plan
Use these courses as proof of coverage for the roles and technologies your team needs to support.
Courses Bob Mahler teaches
11 courses
PMI
PMI PDU
Sharpen your project leadership skills while earning 25 PMI-approved PDUs (professional development units) that you can use towards renewing your PMI certification. This course is designed for PMP, CAPM, and other PMI-certified professionals, aligning with the latest PMBOK standards. You’ll strengthen project governance, improve stakeholder communication, and apply modern planning tools to real-world scenarios. By completing this course, you'll not only stay current with industry best practices but also satisfy a substantial portion of the professional development units required to maintain your PMI credential. Walk away ready to lead smarter and deliver stronger project outcomes.
PMI
PMI-PBA Certification
Get 35 hours of approved PMI-PBA certification training. This course helps you build advanced business analysis skills, develop a portfolio of professional analysis artifacts, and earn PMI’s Professional in Business Analysis certification. You’ll work through challenging scenarios that reflect how experienced analysts identify business problems, engage stakeholders, define requirements, and evaluate whether solutions deliver real value. This PMI-PBA training includes exercises in stakeholder interviews, requirements prioritization, process modeling, and business case development. You’ll produce practical deliverables like requirements documentation, stakeholder analysis, and business cases that you can download, reuse in your own work, and include in a professional portfolio.
PMI
PMI-RMP
Earn the advanced PMI-RMP certification and become the kind of project leader who anticipates risk before it strikes. This PMI-RMP training satisfies PMI's required 30 hours of risk management education, and will teach you to identify and mitigate threats to your project’s success using proven risk management frameworks from the Project Management Institute. Taught by seasoned risk management expert Bob Mahler, this training helps you think ahead, act decisively, and confidently prepare for the PMI-RMP while positioning yourself for high-level project and risk management roles.
Project Management
Project Estimator Best Practices
Master project estimation techniques to deliver on time and within budget. This training covers professional best practices for estimating tasks, different project estimation techniques, creating accurate work breakdown structures (WBS), and forecasting time and costs. This PM training is deal for project managers looking to improve planning precision and any organization who wants to improve the accuracy of their project estimation efforts.
Project Management
Project Management
This entry-level project management training covers the fundamentals of running IT projects: defining project scope and reading work breakdown structures (WBS), scheduling with Gantt charts and Microsoft Project, Agile frameworks such as Scrum compared with Waterfall, tracking progress with Kanban boards or Jira, allocating resources, and defining project risks and milestones so timelines hold and scope creep is contained. For a Team Lead or IT Manager whose engineers increasingly carry project-based work, this training gives aspiring coordinators, junior project managers, and technical staff one method for planning, scheduling, communication, and task tracking. Individual professionals moving toward project management start on the same path.
Scaled Agile
SAFe Scrum Master Certification
This SAFe Scrum Master certification training transforms you into someone who helps teams move faster, collaborate better, and deliver at scale. Learn how to take Scrum principles and apply them to enterprise organizations using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You’ll learn how to support multiple Agile teams, facilitate SAFe events, and keep work aligned across departments and stakeholders. This SAFe Scrum Master certification training focuses on real-world execution: iteration planning, retrospectives, and coaching teams toward continuous improvement while helping you prepare for the SAFe Scrum Master certification. You’ll also learn about AI tools that can streamline facilitation, metrics, and communication while protecting sensitive data.
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
When delivery stalls, sprint reviews turn tense, or a team resists a new release cadence, the root cause is rarely a missed Scrum event. It is usually team dynamics, unclear accountability, or organizational systems. This intermediate course helps IT Directors and Training Managers develop experienced Scrum Masters who can read those signals and respond with sound judgment instead of quick fixes. Built for Scrum Masters, Agile Team Leads, and delivery leaders who already know Scrum fundamentals, the 11 skills cover coaching individuals and teams, facilitating difficult conversations, leading without formal authority, organizational systems thinking, scaling and dependencies, and evidence-based continuous improvement. Learners practice separating observable facts from assumptions, treating resistance as useful information, and influencing stakeholders across teams. The course closes with an integrated coaching simulation and final preparation for the Professional Scrum Master II assessment, including representative questions and a full-length practice assessment. At about 9.9 hours per learner, it fits a quarterly development plan, and Playlists and Team Reporting let Training Managers assign the path and track progress across the team.
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner II
When Product Ownership stops at backlog ordering, teams can deliver sprint after sprint without clear gains in customer outcomes or revenue. This PSPO II course helps IT Directors and Training Managers build Product Owners who make decisions about value, not just manage work. It is built for experienced Product Owners, Scrum Team Leads, product managers, and Agile IT practitioners who already know Scrum fundamentals. Across 11 skills, learners practice treating products as investments, creating a vision that changes decisions, discovering customer value, using experimentation and evidence, managing stakeholders as a system, prioritizing under pressure, and leading through influence. A running case study, an integrated product simulation, and an assessment and decision lab with question walkthroughs connect each concept to realistic tradeoffs. For team plans, Team Leads can assign the course as a shared language reset before roadmap discussions, product planning, or stakeholder alignment sessions. Playlists can sequence it after Professional Scrum Product Owner I, and Team Reporting gives IT leaders visibility into completion across product and delivery teams.
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I)
This Scrum course gives IT Directors and Team Leads a way to unify the Scrum framework their teams already use. Kanban practices complement Scrum rather than replace it, which keeps change-management friction low. Built for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team Leads, and practitioners on infrastructure, DevOps, and service teams, the training helps learners visualize the workflow, set explicit policies and WIP limits, and measure the four flow metrics: WIP, cycle time, work item age, and throughput. They will also learn to use service level expectations to flag aging work before it becomes an escalation, and apply flow data in Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives to forecast delivery from evidence instead of gut feel. Training Managers can sequence this in a Playlist alongside PSM I or PSPO I and follow per-learner progress and completion through Team Reporting.
Scrum.org
PSM I
Master the Scrum Framework and earn your PSM I certification in this expert‑led Professional Scrum Master I course. You’ll learn Scrum’s core principles (empirical process control, self-organization, collaboration, value-based prioritization, time-boxing, and iterative development) and how to coach, lead, and empower self‑managing teams. You’ll also develop skills in product vision, backlog management, continuous integration and delivery, and fostering agility across the organization. With bite-sized engaging lessons taught by experienced project manager Bob Mahler, you'll prepare for the PSM exam and build the Agile skills you need to lead with confidence.
Scrum.org
PSPO I
Earn your PSPO Certification and stand out as a certified Scrum Product Owner. This PSPO 1 certification course is designed for IT managers, product managers, and anyone ready to lead with agility. You’ll master product backlog management, release planning, and stakeholder collaboration while gaining the confidence to drive product success. Along the way, you’ll practice Scrum terminology and real-world techniques so you’re fully prepared to pass the PSPO 1 exam.
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How Charles IT Built a Culture of Continuous Improvement Through Training
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