Course Outline
Understanding Agile: The Mindset Shift
- The Agile Manifesto: four values and twelve principles.
- Moving from plan-driven to value-driven ways of working.
- Why Agile matters for teams outside software development.
- Exercise: Mapping current work challenges to agile principles.
Scrum at a Glance: The Big Picture
- The Scrum framework in one view: roles, events, artifacts.
- The three pillars: transparency, inspection, adaptation.
- How an empirical approach reduces risk and waste.
- Activity: Identifying transparency opportunities in your work.
Scrum Roles: Who Does What
- Product Owner: owning the vision and prioritizing value.
- Scrum Master: facilitating the process and removing impediments.
- Developers: self-managing to deliver done increments.
- Exercise: Role-play clarifying accountability boundaries.
The Sprint Cycle: Scrum Events in Action
- Sprint as a container for all other events.
- Sprint Planning: setting a goal and selecting work.
- Daily Scrum: inspecting progress toward the Sprint Goal.
- Sprint Review: inspecting the increment with stakeholders.
- Sprint Retrospective: planning improvements for the next Sprint.
Scrum Artifacts: Making Work Transparent
- Product Backlog: the single source of upcoming work.
- Sprint Backlog: the plan for the current Sprint.
- Increment: a stepping stone toward the Product Goal.
- Workshop: Building a sample Product Backlog from a real scenario.
Kanban Foundations: Seeing Your Work
- The origins of Kanban and the flow-based mindset.
- Designing a Kanban board: columns, cards, workflow stages.
- Making invisible work visible across a team.
- Hands-on: Mapping your actual workflow onto a Kanban board.
WIP Limits and Flow: Stop Starting, Start Finishing
- What WIP is and why limiting it matters.
- Pull systems vs. push systems.
- Identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
- Exercise: Setting and testing WIP limits on a team board.
Kanban Metrics: Measuring What Matters
- Cycle time, throughput, and work item age explained.
- Reading a Cumulative Flow Diagram.
- Using metrics to drive better conversations, not to judge people.
- Activity: Analyzing sample flow data and proposing improvements.
Feedback Loops and Continuous Improvement
- Kanban cadences: replenishment, delivery planning, service review.
- Making policies explicit and evolving them over time.
- The evolutionary change approach: start where you are.
- Practice: Defining explicit policies for a sample workflow.
Scrum and Kanban Together: The Scrumban Approach
- Where the two frameworks complement and reinforce each other.
- Using a Kanban board to visualize the Sprint Backlog.
- Applying WIP limits within Sprints for smoother delivery.
- Discussion: Choosing the right practices for your context.
Hands-On Simulation: Running a Sprint with a Kanban Board
- Multi-round simulation: plan a Sprint, build a board, set WIP limits.
- Execute work items through the board, track flow metrics.
- Conduct a Sprint Review and Retrospective using real data.
- Debrief: What the simulation reveals about real-world teamwork.
Bringing Agile to Your Daily Work
- Identifying low-risk starting points in your own environment.
- Practical techniques you can apply starting next week.
- Avoiding common pitfalls when introducing agile practices.
- Action planning: One concrete change to try after the course.
Requirements
- No prior experience with agile methodologies is required.
- Basic familiarity with working in a team environment is helpful.
Audience
- Professionals from any department interested in learning agile fundamentals
- Team members looking to improve project management and workflow visibility
- Individuals seeking practical tools for day-to-day work organization
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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Testimonials (5)
workshops, practical cases
Joanna Nowak - LKQ Polska Sp. z o. o.
Course - Introduction to Agile Testing
Jim's real life experience was evident and the fact that he is still working with teams keeps him current with the problems encountered. The activities were interesting and we appreciated the frequency of breaks. Delivery of the course was confident and good humoured too.
Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Professional Scrum Master I | PSM I (accredited training course with Scrum.org exam and certification)
team exercises
Dan
Course - SAFe® for Teams
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Agile Business Analysis
I really enjoyed the mix of practical with theory. The trainer was also exteremly knowledgable and answered all our questions perfectly
