Agile fundamentals
Introduction to Agile
Build your perfect agile course!
I provide several training modules that you can mix and match to build your perfect Agile training agenda!
You can compile your ideal training program and I’ll make sure the content is tailored to your team’s context.
I conduct both – remote and in-person training.
Each module has different content and goals but all of them encompass the best practices from Agile ways of working.
They also differ by the level of complexity:
Basic – the very ABC of Agile
Medium – useful knowledge, techniques, and practices for everyday use
Advanced – complex topics for those who want to go ‘deep’ into Agile practices
Course outline
- Digitalisation of industries
- Evolution of software development techniques
- History of Agile
- Agile umbrella
⏱️ 30 min
- Background of “Lightweight Methods Conference
- Inception of the Agile Manifesto
- Values of Agile Manifesto
- Principles of Agile Manifesto
- Agile Manifesto NOT for software development
⏱️ 30 min
- Speed of delivery
- What is a “product-centric” company
- Journey to product centricity
⏱️ 30 min
- Process management theory
- Defined process control
- Adaptive process control
- Working in short iterations
- Working incrementally
- Reducing risks
- When to use Agile?
⏱️ 40 min
- The impact of dependencies
- Component teams vs feature teams
- Qualities of a x-functional feature team
⏱️ 30 min
- Changing role of leadership
- Aligned autonomy and how to achieve it
This module includes a practical exercise
⏱️ 45 min
- Practical group exercise to experience working in short time iterations and delivering value frequently
⏱️ 1h
- The concept of “inspect & adapt”
- Retrospective technique
This module includes a practical exercise.
⏱️ 1h
- Scrum roles
- Scrum events
- Scrum process
- Practical application & some Scrum tweaks
⏱️ 40 min
- Core practices of Kanban
- Practical implementation of Kanban
- When to use Kanban?
⏱️30 min
- Planning fallacy
- Solution to the planning fallacy
- Velocity of the team
- Calculating delivery time
- Agile take on scope, time & costs
This module includes a practical group exercise.
⏱️ 2h
- Frameworks for scaling Agile
- Why Agile fails (top 10 reasons)
- The true side of Agile implementation
- Changes needed in the organisation
⏱️ 1h
- Why business Agility?
- Agile mindset
- Business Agility pillars
- Making people awesome
- Early delivery of value
- Continuous improvement
This module includes a number of practical group exercises.
⏱️ 6h
- Intro to Confluence – information management wiki
- Confluence structure
- Creating and editing pages
- Creating and editing spaces
- Managing Spaces
- Use of macros
- Intro to Jira
- Creating and managing Jira issue
- Issue hierarchy in Jira
- Creating and managing Jira projects
- Backlog management in Jira
- Jira workflows
- Jira addons
- Roadmap planning in Jira
⏱️ 2h
- Backlog refinement techniques
- Splitting of backlog items
- Estimation techniques
- Setting up DoD and DoR
⏱️ 2h
