Agile Fundamentals Training

Agile Fundamentals Training (LT-918)

Course Length: 2 days
Delivery Methods: Multiple delivery options
Course Overview

This Agile Fundamentals Training course is designed to provide a thorough understanding of Agile methodologies and lean project management principles. Participants will learn how to improve product strategies, eliminate inefficiencies, and apply Extreme Programming (XP) practices to streamline product management processes. The course focuses on developing self-organizing teams, enhancing collaboration, and delivering business-valued functionality through Agile principles. Participants will also explore how to adopt an Agile mindset, transforming leadership styles to encourage continuous innovation and adaptability in today's volatile and complex business environments. This training is ideal for product team members seeking to understand and apply Agile practices to maximize their impact and improve their processes continuously.

Course Benefits
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of Agile fundamentals and principles.
  • Learn how to apply lean methodologies to streamline product management processes.
  • Understand how to improve product strategy and eliminate waste.
  • Develop skills to manage product backlog items efficiently using Extreme Programming (XP) practices.
  • Enhance team collaboration and foster a self-organizing team environment.
  • Learn to deliver value-driven business functionality with a focus on outcomes.
  • Acquire tools to plan, monitor, and adapt projects using Agile frameworks.
  • Adopt an Agile mindset to transform leadership and team dynamics.
  • Boost innovation and adaptability in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Available Delivery Methods
Public Class
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Course Outline
  1. Complexity, Agile Values and Principles
    1. Embracing complexity in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world
    2. Recognizing how Business Agility enables organizations to continuously innovate in the face of change
    3. Articulating the values of the Agile Manifesto and the principles behind them
    4. Understanding that Agile product development is disruptive to traditional ways of working
    5. Locating the current drive to Agile in the history of development practice and theory
  2. Growing Self-Organizing Teams
    1. Rooting the concept of self-organizing teams in complex thinking
    2. Delivering 'early and often' for Return on Investment and feedback
    3. Exploring the characteristics of a 'real team'
    4. Shifting roles and responsibilities toward a self-managing team
    5. Navigating conflict so that it drives team behaviors in a positive direction
    6. Developing genuinely collaborative behaviors
    7. Establishing environments that facilitate collaboration
  3. Value-Driven Delivery
    1. Delivering business-valued functionality as a priority
    2. Resolving the efficiency paradox: resource efficiency vs. flow-of-value efficiency
    3. Explicitly focusing on outcomes rather than outputs
    4. Limiting Work In Progress (WIP)
    5. Understanding the importance of 'pull' systems for product quality
  4. Planning, Monitoring and Adapting with Agile
    1. Exploiting the 'Chain of Goals' to efficiently deliver customer value
    2. Understanding the need for continuous product discovery
    3. Envisioning products to establish the 'big picture'
    4. Planning to achieve product, business, and user goals and iteration goals
    5. Regarding customers as individuals or groups who extract or generate business value
    6. Viewing other stakeholders as people or groups who exert oversight or impose constraints
    7. Prioritizing customers as the most important and relevant stakeholders
    8. Writing user stories to drive conversations with different classes of customer
    9. Splitting user stories so that they fit into inspect-and-adapt cycles
    10. Coordinating work through information radiators
    11. Estimating effort with relative sizing units (e.g., story points)
    12. Tracking progress by measuring velocity and/or cycle time
    13. Holding reviews and retrospectives to adapt product and process
  5. The Agile Mindset
    1. Reflecting on Agile adoption as a paradigm shift
    2. Thinking about 'being Agile' in order to 'do Agile'
    3. Transforming leadership styles to accommodate Agile
    4. Comparing the 'growth' mindset to the 'fixed' mindset
    5. Enumerating aspects of the 'professional' Agile mindset
    6. Contrasting the professional Agile mindset with the 'bureaucratic' mindset
    7. Recognizing the key indicators of the mindset in teams
    8. Observing the Agile mindset in individuals
    9. Comparing the Agile Fluency ® Model with traditional maturity models for growing the Agile mindset
    10. Using business goals to select fluency levels needed
    11. Changing muscle memory to improve fluency
Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Live Public Class
$2,009.00 / student
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Live Private Class
  • Private Class for your Team
  • Live training
  • Online or On-location
  • Customizable
  • Expert Instructors
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