Duration: 2 Days

Who should attend:

In this Agile fundamentals training course, you will gain the necessary knowledge to become an ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP). You will learn about the key aspects of value-driven development, adaptive planning techniques, self-organising teams and why they are critical to success in a world of accelerating change while referencing popular Agile approaches such as Scrum and Kanban.

Pre-requisites:

No Knowledge of Agile is assumed for this course.

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Price: £1995+VAT

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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