About This Course

Invest one focused day and walk away with practical skills, recognized credentials, and the confidence to apply what you’ve learned immediately.

Duration

A complete one-day program running from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM — carefully designed so you gain maximum value without disrupting your schedule for days.

How You’ll Learn

Join us in a professional classroom setting for an engaging, interactive experience. Prefer flexibility? We also offer live virtual sessions and fully customized in-house training at your location — just let us know what works best for you.

Language

Delivered entirely in clear, professional English so every participant can fully engage and benefit.

What You Earn

Upon completion you receive 8 PDUs / training hours — valuable continuing-education credits that support your professional development and certification requirements. You will also be awarded an official Course Completion Certificate, a tangible recognition of your commitment to growth.

Your Comfort is Covered

Enjoy complimentary lunch and refreshments throughout the day so you can stay focused, energized, and fully present.

Course Overview

This course serves as an introductory guide to mastering Agile techniques, skills, and tools. Participants will learn about the foundational principles of Agile, explore its benefits and drawbacks, and engage in practical exercises that simulate real-world Agile team dynamics. The curriculum includes organizing and participating in Agile teams, applying concepts through hands-on classroom projects, and exploring the collaborative and communicative efforts essential for successful Agile implementation. By the end of the course, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of Agile practices and will be prepared to leverage Agile opportunities effectively within their organizations.

Course Outline

1. Agile Overview

What is Agile?
Agile Methods — Principles and Practices
Agile Benefits — what you can expect
Why Agile works
Agile Teams

2. Agile Basics & Practices

User Roles and Personas
Definition of Agile Methods
Agile Practices
Sprinting: Agile Practices in Motion
Product vision, roadmap, and planning
Product Backlog and User Stories
Prioritization techniques
Relative Estimating
Agile's iterative approach

3. Becoming Agile

The Top 10 Agile Myths
How to “Become Agile”
Ten Pitfalls when Implementing Agile
Setting your Course Forward

Course Topics

Understand Agile principles and how to build the discipline to support those principles in your everyday practice.
Appreciate the history of Agile and how the collection of principles and practices came together to enable customer success.
Know how to examine Agile methods, including: Scrum, Extreme Programming, AgileUP, Feature Driven Development, Lean Development, and DSDM.
Understand how to draw best practices from the various methodologies that will contribute to your team's success.
Talk the talk: Learning the Agile terminology, roles, and forums with their context.
Walk through the processes that support Agile principles to enable the delivery of great products.
Begin to map the transition of your existing team or enterprise-level processes, artifacts, and forums to Agile.
Discover the power of Agile teams through communication, collaboration, and cadence.
Uncover the pitfalls that teams will encounter in an Agile transition and understand how to overcome those challenges.
Lay the foundation upon which you can build a learning team and organization.

Learning Objectives

Take a logical approach to selection interviewing using the PRICE structure and Question Plan.
Prepare effectively for selection interviews.
Build and maintain appropriate rapport with candidates.
Conduct selection interviews effectively and professionally.
Manage the expectations of candidates when closing selection interviews.
Evaluate the interview to help select the best possible candidate.

Course Agenda

Day 1

Agile – A Clear Definition
A Brief History of Software Development
Agile Methods
Agile Practices
Agile Basics
Putting Agile into Action – Becoming Agile

Certification

Upon completion of the training, you will receive a course completion certificate from Strivewisdom.

Who Can Attend?

This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of Agile methods for software development, including:

Project Managers
Program Managers
Analysts
Developers
Programmers
Testers
IT Managers/Directors
Software Engineers
Software Architects
Customers/Stakeholders
Product Managers

To discuss your team’s training needs, email us at info@strivewisdom.com

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