Agile Team Training Course
Agile Team Training is focused on getting everyone who is (or will be) on the team up-and-running with agile. Agile Team Training is designed for teams that are transitioning to agile, have already started without training, or need a refresher to reinvigorate the teams.
Agility and agile are about thinking in a different ways than many of us have learned or been rewarded for in our careers.Exploring how and why agile is different is an important aspect of the training and helps improve success with agile. We cover agile practices and the most important aspect of agile, principles, which help drive success. Agile also exposes challenges and constraints quickly, so an important part of agile is learning how to deal with these issues. We cover these concepts so you know what to expect and how to tackle the challenges.
Learning Approach
- Agile Team Training uses team-based exercises and discussions to learn agile concepts and principles.
- Expect to get involved throughout the course with hands-on exercises, discussions, lecture (have to do a bit!), and both team and individual work.
- We use an agile simulation using Lego™ to engage everyone in learning agile by doing agile.
- Engage with, move around, and interact with other attendees and the trainer to ask questions about challenging issues.
- Training is based on multiple levels of interaction to provide the most valuable learning and retention.
- Agile Team Training is hands-on and interactive with zero slides.
- Our training process starts before class with some light reading assignments to level-set and get everyone exposed to agile ideas. We also provide you with a number of key books on agile and lean to get your Agile Library started!
Learning Outcomes for Agile Team Training
- Explore how your organization and teams align with agile principles, values, and benefits of agile and agility.
- Discuss and practice elements of agile, lean, Scrum, extreme programming (XP), and Theory of Constraints (TOC).
- Explore agile ceremonies, activities, and artifacts (from Scrum and other agile frameworks). This includes product backlog grooming and refactoring, sprint planning, sprinting (the sprint itself), daily standup (daily Scrum), sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, burn down charts, and cumulative flow diagrams.
- Learn agile through a hands-on simulation involving the entire class using Lego™.
- Understand agile roles and the value of each role — Development team members, product owners and scrum masters. Evaluate how these roles align with your current structure.
- Practice product owner and agile analysis concepts: writing minimum marketable features (MMFs) and user stories, splitting stories, and acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.
- Assess the core components to build and maintain strong teams: review and explain why people are the key to success with agile as well as the benefits of well-formed teams.
- Learn and practice techniques to have better meetings and increase responsibility within teams and the organization.
- Practice agile in real and tangible exercises to experience agile first-hand: review common issues and challenges from practical experience.
- Uncover and evaluate challenges to agile within your organization and create options to address these challenges.
- And more! Contact us for additional details!
Details
Audience: Anyone who will be working with or on agile teams or otherwise involved with the agile process should attend Agile Team Training. This course is for everyone, including product managers, product owners, developers, testers, business analysts, usability/designers, database engineers, architects, and scrum masters.
Duration: Agile Team Training is 2.5 days.
Course Credit: You can submit Agile Team Training for course credit for 17 PDUs or CDUs.
Questions and Scheduling
Contact us with questions on availability, additional details on the course, pricing, or to schedule a class!