Agile and Scrum Training and Courseware
WA1984 Real World Agile |
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| This is not your typical Agile and Scrum 101 course. This course is designed to spend 25% of the time on “What” and “Why” behind Agile and Scrum and 75% on “HOW” you can actually start using it on your team tomorrow! This is team training so all roles (including the Business Product Owners) are encouraged to attend. We walk you through an end to end lifecycle Agile project journey from the Product Vision all the way to Production Release using your own project or a sample project provided. More Info |
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WA1980 PMI Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP |
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| This unique 3 day workshop aims to help new and seasoned Agile practitioners learn how to successfully apply Agile methods to their projects and programs.
Through an engaging combination of discussion, group interaction, case studies and Real World focused workshops, you will learn not only how to apply Agile, but will gain the experience necessary to immediately implement Agile practices that are appropriate for your teams. Better yet, this course was designed to hit all the 10 tools and techniques, and 43 knowledge skill areas you need to learn to pass the new PMI Agile Certified Practitioner exam. More Info |
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WA1771 Overview of Agile for Product Owners |
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| This is a 1 day course that addresses the business questions related to Agile such as: What is the business value of using Agile for me and why should I collaborate with IT this way? Who is the Product Owner and what does my new role entail? What are the expectations of me? What are User Stories and how do I write them? How can I be an effective Product Owner? What is the role of my Users and business SMEs? What are Acceptance Tests and how do I identify them? When do I and my users do acceptance testing? What techniques and real world best practices can I use to motivate and encourage the team? I haven’t played a ‘Leader’ role before, how do I prepare? More Info |
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WA1773 Creative Requirements Gathering |
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| This is not your traditional requirements gathering course that only focuses on writing heavy use cases! This course focuses on how to effectively and efficiently gather user requirements using creative and powerful techniques. You will learn by practicing how to use fun facilitation activities to gather the “breadth” of user requirements up front and catch the usually ‘missing’ ones. You will learn how to breakdown big requirements into small manageable ones and how to dive into the details later. You’ll learn how to effectively prioritize (not just with business value!) and how to build effective release plans that show your customer quick ROI. You will learn about business rules, acceptance tests, process modeling and UI prototyping. (Agile or Non-Agile versions of the course available ). More Info |
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WA1774 Executive Overview of Agile |
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| This is our intensive executive overview course that introduces the main concepts behind Agile, Lean and Scrum to an executive team. The goal of this course is to look at organizational impact Agile may have on various aspects such as roles, leadership style, existing processes and organization culture. We will explore the tactical and strategic aspects of applying Agile and Lean to your organization. We discuss Agile Portfolio Management, Vendor Management, the role of the Agile PMO and outline steps you can take to develop an Agile Rollout plan. More Info |
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WA1775 Becoming a Servant Leader |
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| Working to empower the people you lead is the main concept behind Servant Leadership. Challenging them to go farther, reach higher, innovate and have fun doing it requires leadership skills that are beyond the traditional “Command and Control” style of management. Through this course, you will learn and practice execution of the most critical skills needed for leading by serving first. More Info |
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Workshop 1 – Real World Agile and Scrum Techniques |
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Description: This is a half day workshop aimed at providing you with a quick overview of Agile and Scrum and then a deep dive into how actual teams in several organizations have applied these techniques on their projects. It will take you through the life cycle of an Agile project and discuss best practices and techniques used at each phase. There is a cost to using trial and error to learn Agile so why not come learn from what other teams have actually implemented? Your instructor is a real world Agile Coach who has coached over 16 teams successfully on implementing these methods. If you’re also looking for intensive hands on workshops please see our 3 day Real World Agile and Scrum course. Pre-requisites: Some background or familiarity with Agile and Scrum is preferred but not required. |
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Workshop 2 – Exploring ‘Just Enough Documentation’ of Requirements in Agile |
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Description: This half day workshop aims to clarify what Agile means by ‘Just Enough Documentation’ and provide the student with end to end samples of what Agile requirements actually look like. We will be exploring the topics of User Stories and best practices on identifying them, breaking them down, estimating and prioritizing them. We will also look at what Acceptance Tests and Business Rules look like. We will then take a tour of how you can use Agile Modeling methods to document requirements instead of heavy weight (and never read) stacks of documents. Your instructor is a real world Agile Coach who has coached over 16 teams successfully on implementing these methods. If you are looking for intensive hands on workshops please see our 2 day Effective Requirements Gathering course. Pre-requisites: Some background or familiarity with Agile and Scrum is preferred but not required. |
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