Agile Fundamentals

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Agile Fundamentals 

Duration: 2 Days

Course Code: ICPAF

Course Description:

In order to succeed with agile, teams and organizations should focus first on “being agile” as a foundation for success in “doing agile.” Agile fundamentals ICP training learning objectives delve into key concepts such as adaptive planning, value-driven development, team collaboration and frequent feedback for continuous improvement. The course also covers the history of agile, the agile manifesto, the agile principles, and some widely applied frameworks and practices.

Students come away with a solid understanding of core concepts as they prepare to embark on their agile journey. Consequently, participants leave the course more confident in five key areas:
•    The intention behind agile practices
•    Value-driven development
•    Adaptive planning
•    Customer engagement in agile
•    Putting lean agile into action

Course Objectives:

•      Origin and History of Agile.
•      Agile Values and Principles.
•      Clarity about transitioning to the Agile roles.
•      What is Empirical Process?
•      Deeper understanding about various agile frameworks.
•      Understanding about where to use Scrum, Kanban or both.
•      Overview about Scrum framework.
•      Scrum Roles, Artifacts and events.
•      Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria.
•      Exploring Differences between various frameworks.
•      Tools for Agile Project Management.
•      Tracking and measuring project success in agile.
•      Value delivery vs Fixed Schedule Project.
•      Essential elements for Agile Way of Working.    

Intended Audience:

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this workshop. If you are looking for improvements in the way they work, want to start using Agile at work or levelling up their knowledge, have creative work that requires frequent feedback from the client or user.

Course Outline:

•    Origins of Agile
•    Agile Manifesto
•    Understanding the Agile Mindset
•    Establishing the Agile Mindset
•    Incremental Development
•    Value-Based Work
•    Retaining Quality
•    The Scrum Framework
•    Scrum Roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development
•    The Definition of Done & Acceptance Criteria
•    Working with organizational challenges
•    Working with Product Vision
•    Writing User Stories and Story Mapping
•    Release planning in Agile
•    Non-functional requirements
•    Using Agile metrics
•    Working with the development team and stakeholders
•    Tracking and Measuring Project Success in Agile
•    Essential Elements for Agile Way of Working