TP2898 Agile & Lean for Business Training
The term agile was coined in the early 2000s to describe a new way of developing software. This new way described software development to be flexible and delivered iteratively. This was a huge departure from the old rigid way of doing things. While agile has revolutionized how we develop software, people are finding that by applying these agile principles to other areas can provide dramatic improvements to efficiency, throughput [..]
Duration
Two days
Outline for Agile & Lean for Business Training
Chapter 1. Agile Overview
- What is Agile
- Why Agile
- Benefits
- Research
- Workshop – Drawing Agile
- Manifesto, Values and principles
- Workshop – Manifesto mapping
- Overview of common frameworks
- Scrum
- Extreme Programming
- Scaling agile
Chapter 2. Lean
- 5 principles
- 7 wastes
- The Value Stream
- Definition
- Customer Focus
- Lead time vs cycle time
- Current state vs future state
- Defining Value
- MVP- Minimal Viable Product
- Workshop – Define a Value Stream Map
Chapter 3. Kanban
- Core properties
- Visualize workflow
- Limit WIP
- Measure and manage flow
- Principles
- Start with what you do now
- Agree to pursue incremental change
- Respect the current process, roles and responsibilities
- Workshop – Build a Kanban board
Chapter 4. Scrum
- Roles
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Development Team
- Other
- Events
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Artifacts
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Working increment
Chapter 5. Communicating Requirement
- User Stories
- Types
- Who, What, Why
- Invest
- Acceptance criteria
- Supporting documentation
- Workshop – Practice Writing Stories
Chapter 6. Work & Task Management
- Creating the Product Backlog
- Breadth vs depth
- Progressive elaboration
- Conditions of satisfaction
- More on defining value
- Internal vs external customers
- Prioritization
- MoSCoW
- Kano
- Cost of Delay
- Estimation
- Short term
- Long term
- Story Points
- Workshop – Estimating Thanksgiving Dinner
Chapter 7. Teams
- Self-organization
- Traditional vs agile
- Accountability
- Empowerment
- Democratic vs authoritarian
- The new role of management
- Command and Control vs Servant Leadership
- Situational leadership
- Workshop – Mapping roles & responsibilities
Chapter 8. Continuous Improvement
- Retrospectives
- Kaizen event
- The Business role
- The process improvement backlog
- Workshop – Practice Kaizen
- Reporting: Measuring quality
- Burn-up Charts
- Burn-down Charts
- Workshop – Course Retrospective