Agile In A Day is a 1-day training course that introduces Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban so attendees can understand how they can use them with their teams and organisations in order to build more valuable products.
Students learn through instruction and team-based exercises. The course is designed to bring groups of people up to a common level of understanding about the language, tools and techniques that are needed for effective working in an agile environment.
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This course is suitable for all. It is intended to provide a quick introduction to Agile including Scrum, Lean & Kanban.
There are no prerequisites for this course, other than a willingness to learn about Agile. No technical knowledge or experience is required.
Agile
- The values & principles behind Agile and its history
- Differences between Agile and traditional approaches
- When to use Agile approaches (and when not to)
- The commercial case for Agility
Scrum
- What is Scrum and when to use it?
- Scrum Accountabilities
- Scrum Events
- Scrum Artifacts & Commitments
- Iterative & Incremental Development
- Cross-functional, Self-managing Teams
Product & Project
- Governance of Agile projects
- Managing and communicating scope, plan, progress, costs & risks
Lean & Kanban
- What is Lean and Kanban?
- When to use Kanban?
There is no assessment or certification with this course
- The key terminology associated with Agile
- The benefits of Agility for people, teams and organisations
- When to use Agile approaches (and when not to)
- An overview of the Scrum Framework
- An overview of Lean and Kanban
- Understand the next steps to make teams and the organisation more Agile