Name: Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP
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Duration:

16.00 hours

13.0 CPD hours

Overview:

This Agile Fundamentals Training course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts, processes and tools of lean project management and lean methodology. You will learn how to apply these methodologies to improve the product strategy, eliminate waste and streamline the product management process. The course also covers extreme programming (XP) practices, including feedback loops and how to manage product backlog items to help deliver work efficiently. This training is designed to help product team members understand the product vision and how to continuously improve their processes for maximum impact.
This course covers some of the most popular methodologies for performing Agile work, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP.

Description:

This Agile Fundamentals Training course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts, processes and tools of lean project management and lean methodology. You will learn how to apply these methodologies to improve the product strategy, eliminate waste and streamline the product management process. The course also covers extreme programming (XP) practices, including feedback loops and how to manage product backlog items to help deliver work efficiently. This training is designed to help product team members understand the product vision and how to continuously improve their processes for maximum impact.
This course covers some of the most popular methodologies for performing Agile work, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP.

Course Outline:

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

Available Delivery Options for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP

Live Instructor Led Classroom Online (Live Online)
Traditional Instructor Led Classroom training (TILT/ILT)
Delivery at your offices in United Kingdom
Private dedicated course for your staff

What certification does Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP prepare you for?

The Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP course helps prepare you for the Certified Professional) certification path.

How many CPD hours does Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP provide?

The 2 day Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP course gives you up to 13.0 CPD hours/structured learning hours.

Who is the correct audience for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP?

This is the right course for you if you want to learn Agile methodology to develop value-laden, high-quality products using proven Agile principles. You do not need an Agile background for this course, though familiarity with project management concepts can be helpful.

Do you provide training for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP?

Yes, we provide corporate training, dedicated training and closed classes for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP. This can take place anywhere in United Kingdom including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh or live online.

What is the duration of Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP?

The Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP training takes place over 2 day(s), with each day lasting approximately 16.00 hours including breaks.

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Nexus Human are recognised as one of the best training companies. Our trainers have won awards including Small Firms Best Trainer, national training partner of the year for Ireland, and global top 30 instructor awards in 2012, 2019 and 2021.

Is there a discount code for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP?

Yes, the discount code PENPAL5 is currently available for Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP training. Only one discount code can be used per booking.

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