Agile Fundamentals Training

Duration: 2 days
Language: English
12 PMI PDUs
Level: Foundation

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This Agile Fundamentals Training course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts, processes and tools of lean project management and lean methodology. You will learn how to apply these methodologies to improve the product strategy, eliminate waste and streamline the product management process. The course also covers extreme programming (XP) practices, including feedback loops and how to manage product backlog items to help deliver work efficiently. This training is designed to help product team members understand the product vision and how to continuously improve their processes for maximum impact.

Agile Fundamentals Training Delivery Methods

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Agile Fundamentals Training Course Information

In this Agile Fundamentals training, you will:
- Apply the values and principles of the Agile model for product development.
- Recognise the cultural and mindset challenges of being entirely successful with Agile.
- Create a strong focus on the delivery of customer value.
- Grow self-organising teams that frequently deliver valuable, high-quality products.
- Choose from blended on-demand and instructor-led learning options.
- Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.
- Have the option to earn ICAgile's ICP (ICAgile Certified Professional) certification.
Prerequisites

None.
Certification Information

Pass the end-of-class exam to obtain ICAgile Certified Professional certification.

Agile Fundamentals Instructor-Led Training Outline

Module 1: Complexity, Agile Values and Principles

Embracing complexity in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world
Recognising how Business Agility enables organisations to continuously innovate in the face of change
Articulating the values of the Agile Manifesto and the principles behind them
Understanding that Agile product development is disruptive to traditional ways of working
Locating the current drive to Agile in the history of development practice and theory

Module 2: Growing Self-Organising Teams

Rooting the concept of self-organising teams in complex thinking
Delivering 'early and often' for Return on Investment and feedback
Exploring the characteristics of a 'real team'
Shifting roles and responsibilities toward a self-managing team
Navigating conflict so that it drives team behaviours in a positive direction
Developing genuinely collaborative behaviours
Establishing environments that facilitate collaboration

Module 3: Value-Driven Delivery

Delivering business-valued functionality as a priority
Resolving the efficiency paradox: resource efficiency vs. flow-of-value efficiency
Explicitly focusing on outcomes rather than outputs
Limiting Work In Progress (WIP)
Understanding the importance of 'pull' systems for product quality

Module 4: Planning, Monitoring and Adapting with Agile

Exploiting the 'Chain of Goals' to efficiently deliver customer value
Understanding the need for continuous product discovery
Envisioning products to establish the 'big picture'
Planning to achieve product, business, and user goals and iteration goals
Regarding customers as individuals or groups who extract or generate business value
Viewing other stakeholders as people or groups who exert oversight or impose constraints
Prioritising customers as the most important and relevant stakeholders
Writing user stories to drive conversations with different classes of customer
Splitting user stories so that they fit into inspect-and-adapt cycles
Coordinating work through information radiators
Estimating effort with relative sizing units (e.g., story points)
Tracking progress by measuring velocity and/or cycle time
Holding reviews and retrospectives to adapt product and process

Module 5: The Agile Mindset

Reflecting on Agile adoption as a paradigm shift
Thinking about 'being Agile' in order to 'do Agile'
Transforming leadership styles to accommodate Agile
Comparing the 'growth' mindset to the 'fixed' mindset
Enumerating aspects of the 'professional' Agile mindset
Contrasting the professional Agile mindset with the 'bureaucratic' mindset
Recognising the key indicators of the mindset in teams
Observing the Agile mindset in individuals
Comparing the Agile Fluency ® Model with traditional maturity models for growing the Agile mindset
Using business goals to select fluency levels needed
Changing muscle memory to improve fluency

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18 830 kr

2-day instructor-led training course
After-course coaching available
End-of-course exam included

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Agile Fundamentals Training Course FAQs

No specific experience is required.

To obtain ICAgile Certified Professional certification, students must pass the end-of-class exam. Please allow Learning Tree's customer service 10 business days from the date you have taken the exam to submit registration with ICAgile.

This is the right course for you if you want to learn Agile methodology to develop value-laden, high-quality products using proven Agile principles. You do not need an Agile background for this course, though familiarity with project management concepts can be helpful.

Scrum is the name of a popular methodology for applying Agile. Scrum is a thin framework of roles, artefacts, and events that support self-organising, cross-functional development teams. More than three-quarters of Agile teams claim to be using Scrum.

Agile software development is a product engineering approach that delivers high-quality, working software products early and often. This allows the customer to generate business value earlier and provide feedback to the developers. In addition, agile methods emphasise constant, open, honest, and real-time communication between developers and their customers.

This course covers some of the most popular methodologies for performing Agile work, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP.

The traditional waterfall software development method treats the analysis, design, coding, and testing as separate phases in a linear software development plan. Conversely, Agile is an iterative software development methodology focused on flexibility in adapting to changes and delivering value early and often.

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PDU Information for This Course:

Total PDUs: 12
Ways of Working PDUs: 7
Power Skills PDUs: 2
Business Acumen PDUs: 3
PMI Claim Code: 1154OUYNPE

Yes, this course is eligible for 15 PRINCE2 CPDs (Continuing Professional Development).

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Agile Fundamentals Training

Agile Fundamentals Training Delivery Methods

Agile Fundamentals Training Course Information

Agile Fundamentals Instructor-Led Training Outline

Module 1: Complexity, Agile Values and Principles

Module 2: Growing Self-Organising Teams

Module 3: Value-Driven Delivery

Module 4: Planning, Monitoring and Adapting with Agile

Module 5: The Agile Mindset

Live Instructor 18 830 kr

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