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Agile Fundamentals Scrum Kanban Lean and XP

Duration:

3 days

Codes:

XP,918

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Overview

Learn the importance of being Agile, the key aspects of value-driven development, adaptive planning techniques, and how to be collaborative with customers, clients, and teams. In this training course, you are introduced to several Agile methodologies to determine what will work best for your team.

This course qualifies for 24 Scrum Alliance SEUs as well as the ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) certification.

Skills Gained

You Will Learn How To You Will Learn How To

Apply the values and principles of the Agile model for product development
Compare and contrast the most popular Agile approaches, including Scrum and Kanban
Recognise the cultural and mindset challenges of being fully successful with Agile
Create a strong focus on the delivery of customer value
Grow self-organising teams that frequently deliver valuable, high-quality products

Prerequisites

Important Course Information Important Course Information Course Materials: Course Materials:

If you are primarily interested in Scrum and not what it means to be Agile, and all the ways to be Agile, we would strongly recommend taking one of the Scrum Alliance entry-level qualification courses instead:
- Course 1813, Certified ScrumMaster or
- Course 1814, Certified Scrum Product Owner
This course focuses on what it means to be Agile, and addresses several available opportunities to apply Agile tools.
This course is a gateway into Learning Tree's comprehensive training in Agile. As an introduction into many facets of Agile, the course gives all members of an organization a unified foundational understanding of the Agile mindset, and offers where to go for in-depth training, by specific job role.

If you are primarily interested in Scrum and not what it means to be Agile, and all the ways to be Agile, we would strongly recommend taking one of the Scrum Alliance entry-level qualification courses instead:

Course 1813, Certified ScrumMaster or
Course 1814, Certified Scrum Product Owner

Course 1813 Course 1813 , Certified ScrumMaster or

Course 1814 Course 1814 , Certified Scrum Product Owner

This course is a gateway into Learning Tree's comprehensive training in Agile. As an introduction into many facets of Agile, the course gives all members of an organization a unified foundational understanding of the Agile mindset, and offers where to go for in-depth training, by specific job role. Certification & Exam Information: Certification & Exam Information:

To obtain ICAgile Certified Professional certification, students will need to pass the end of class exam. Please allow Learning Tree's customer service 10 business days from the date you have taken the exam to submit registration with ICAgile
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Course Outline

Introduction to Agile Values and Principles

Articulating Agile values and principles
Understanding the principles of Lean Thinking
Comparing Agile with traditional, master plan methods

Agile Approaches Compared

Scrum

Recognising Scrum as a framework for self-managing teams
Locating Scrum in empirical process control theory
Revealing the mandatory roles, artefacts and events of the Scrum framework

Kanban

Identifying the link between Kanban and Lean's focus on the removal of waste from the workflow
Seeing Kanban as a change management approach rather than as a method
Visualising the workflow by designing a Kanban Board

eXtreme Programming (XP)

Explaining the core values of XP
Engineering software with XP's core practices
Running a software development project using the XP process

Comparing and contrasting Scrum and XP with Kanban

Internalising the differences between Scrum Boards and Kanban Boards
Time-boxing with Scrum and XP
Understanding why Scrum requires cross-functional teams while Kanban is neutral

Value Driven Delivery

Focusing on business value

Delivering business-valued functionality as a priority
Explicitly focusing on business value and product quality
Evolving requirements and solutions together throughout development

Iterative and Incremental Delivery

Delivering “early and often” for Return on Investment and feedback
Comparing Scrum and Kanban as “pull” systems
Classifying different types of requirement for value-driven planning

Fostering Self-Management within the Development Team

Mapping Roles and Responsibilities

Contrasting the Agile “Feature team” model with traditional “Component teams”
Shifting roles and responsibilities towards a self-managing team
Leading teams rather than managing tasks

Transitioning to self-management

Facilitating cross-functionality and team learning
Empowering the team to control their own development process
Navigating conflict so that it drives team behaviours in a positive direction

Growing Agile teams

Developing genuinely collaborative behaviours
Acquiring soft skills for servant leadership
Adapting coaching styles to the experience and maturity of the Agile team

Customer and User Involvement

Defining customers and Other Stakeholders

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

Involving Users

Understanding the different ways Scrum and XP teams interface with customers
Writing user stories to drive conversations with different classes of customer
Splitting user stories so that they fit into inspect-and-adapt cycles

Planning, Monitoring and Adapting with Agile

Planning for business value

Envisioning products to establish the “big picture”
Planning at release, iteration and daily levels
Coordinating work through information radiators

Monitoring Progress

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

Removing Impediments

Recognising impediments as opportunities for continuous improvement
Driving down technical debt with test automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration

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