This Agile Fundamentals Training course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts, processes and tools of lean project management and lean methodology.
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 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.
Access exclusive LinkedIn group membership for peer and SME community support.
Prerequisites
None.
Certification Information
Pass the end-of-class exam to obtain ICAgile Certified Professional certification.
Agile Fundamentals 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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