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Agile Fundamentals
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Agile Fundamentals

Agile vs Traditional | Agile Project Management | Challenges| Agile Values and Principles | Why Agile | PDUs
Last updated 2/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Customer Centric Approach
  • Agile Project/Program management and Product Development
  • Agile Values and Priciples
  • Why Agile
  • Challenges of adopting agile

Course content

1 section6 lectures1h 41m total length
  • What is agile?19:53

    Understand fundamentals of agile.  What is agile, and its values.  How to develop agile mindset.  Know different agile methodologies and the most popular agile methodology as per the state of agile report.  You will learn how important is it to develop agile mindset to maximize customer value delivery.

  • Agile Principles23:17

    This session covers 12 agile principles.  What does it mean to apply these principles or implement them.  How these principles helps keeping customers in mind while maximizing value delivery.

  • Traditional vs Agile product-development philosophies10:58

    Compare traditional vs agile ways of product development. Understand how agile ways of working helps deliver value early and continuously to the customers.  How risk starts reducing gradually and how it is mitigated throughout the product delivery to maximize value delivery to the customers.  Lean how to maintain higher visibility and transparency throughout the agile projects.  How adaptability is maintained throughout the project unlike in traditional projects.   

  • Challenges of adopting Agile10:20

    Understand the most significant Agile adoption barriers and how do we overcome them.  Learn about how to deal with these challenges by coming up with potential ideas that you can go back and implement.

  • Why Agile?18:51

    Understand the WHY of agile referring to the data came out of state of agile report.  This session will help you getting yourself convinced with the agile ways of working and why everyone should adopt it.

  • Creating a cross-functional team18:39

    Understand the composition of cross functional team.  The difference between cross functional and functional team and how to form a cross functional team which is self organized and maximize customer value delivery.  Why is it important that the individuals in team to have a growth mindset.  What does it mean and how to get away from the fixed mindset and align yourself to agile values and principles to develop agile mindset.  Agile mindset helps to put the customer at the centre and maximize the value delivery as the outcome.     

Requirements

  • None

Description

This training program is designed to learn how to use agile ways of working to deliver maximum value to customers or businesses. The course strengthens the foundation knowledge and skills about agile ways of working applied to manage project/programs, product development, service management, process improvement, and continuous improvement.  You can also apply agile ways of working to self-improvement and developing a growth mindset.

Agile ways of working require a change in mindset aligning to agile principles and values. The course covers how to change the mindset and provides a framework to make it easy to adapt to change.

The course is very helpful to people appearing for agile Scrum or project management certifications. You can also claim professional development units (PDUs) or SEUs (Scrum Education Units) required as a prerequisite or renewal of agile or project management certifications.


What's In It for You?

This course will challenge your status quo and help you get out of your comfort zone. Working out of your stretched zone will bring more innovation and creativity, and highlight your contribution in delivering your project/program/product/services.  Aligning your mindset to agile ways of working will give self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement as you deliver value to the customer early and continuously. The growth mindset you develop will help you, in the long run, foster your career growth, collaborate effectively, and work together with people.


Course Overview

Agile Fundamentals

  • What is Agile?

  • Agile values and principles

  • Traditional vs Agile product-development philosophies

  • Challenges of adopting Agile

  • Why Agile?

  • Creating a cross-functional team


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to know about agile ways of working and how customer centric agile approach helps deliver maximum value to our customers.