Agile Professional

This course covers how to be Agile, starting with an Agile mindset. We help you apply Agile practices, regardless of which Agile methodology or approach you use.

Description

Many teams have seen the benefit of adopting an Agile approach, but get stuck on following a specific framework. This course removes the focus on roles and events, and focuses on agility within the team. Learn about the Agile mindset, values, and principles and how this mindset will help your team become truly agile.

Course Objectives

  • Apply the Agile mindset, values, principles and foundational concepts to your work
  • Use tools and techniques to create a shared understanding within teams
  • Describe what self-organised teams look like
  • Demonstrate how to build and manage a product backlog
  • Differentiate between Customers and Users and explain how they impact your product development process
  • Execute an iterative process using the Scrum framework

Duration

In Person - 2 full days

Live online - 4 half days

Topics Covered

  • Introduction to Agile 
  • Novice-to-expert Journey 
  • Structuring teams for Agility 
  • High Performance Teams 
  • Lifting Off Teams 
  • Create and Manage the Product Backlog 
  • Buyers vs Users vs Customers
  • Agile requirements and User Stories
  • Relative Sizing and planning poker
  • Managing stakeholder expectations
  • Visual Information Radiators 
  • Useful Agile metrics
  • Technical practices

Who Should Attend?

Those new to the Agile world, and practitioners who recognize the need to focus on “being” agile in addition to “doing” agile

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