Certified Agile Associate: The Fundamentals of Agility

Discover your why for pursuing agility and committing to the course, clarify personal goals, career progression or curiosity, and envision the positive impact of adopting an agile mindset.

Explore the agile methodology and the agile mindset. Learn how to foster flexibility and stability while enabling an organization to renew itself and respond swiftly to change in turbulent environments.

Discover how the agile mindset, a core set of values and assumptions, drives behavior and results, enabling agility through the four values and twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto.

Foster a productive agile mindset by embracing growth, continuous learning, and regular retrospectives, while applying the four values and 12 principles of agility in daily life.

agility centers on aligning individuals with the agile mindset, emphasizing testing and learning, and it starts with you, not as a silver bullet or a fix for bad management.

Highlight agility's importance for survival, and summarize key takeaways from the skills in the new world of work report by Scrum Alliance and Business Agility Institute (2023).

Top five takeaways from the 'skills in the new world of work' report highlight the rising importance of human skills, multiple deep skill capabilities, agile acumen, coaching, and skill-based education.

Explore how the next 5 to 10 years shape demand for scrum masters, technologists, product owners, business analysts, and project managers in the job market.

Explore why agility matters in a fast-changing business landscape, embracing change, enabling continuous improvement, and delivering smaller chunks of value with frequency aligned to customer needs through learning and collaboration.

Explore agile values and the 12 principles, emphasizing individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and adapting to change through sustainable development, face-to-face communication, and self-organizing teams.

Discover the three laws of agility: the customer as purpose, small cross-functional teams delivering in short cycles, and a network of teams with a shared, action-driven goal and fast feedback.

Discover the heart of agile: value driven work, close collaboration with frequent communication, small probes, periodic reflection, and continuous improvement of ideas, implementation, and processes.

Evaluate how a rigid scrum master undermines collaboration and reveals anti agile behavior, emphasizing that agile values prioritize individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Explore common agile frameworks and tools, with a focus on Scrum as a lightweight, empirical framework. Learn Scrum roles, values, artifacts, and events rooted in lean thinking.

Implement kanban to optimize value flow with a visual pull-based system. Define and visualize workflow, actively manage items, and improve workflow while applying flow theory, lean principles, and quality control.

Extreme programming emphasizes speed and simplicity through short development cycles and sprint-based work, guided by five values and twelve practices plus frequent code reviews and unit testing.

Explore Azure case studies to learn how successful companies adopt agile in their organizations, with Spotify highlighted as a prime example.

Discover how Spotify builds agility through culture, autonomy, and continuous improvement, with autonomous squads owning product missions to drive rapid, waste-free learning.

Identify one agile value ignored by the coachee and one principle neglected by the team, then coach them to embody these through root-cause analysis and a safe space for sharing.

Add your certificate to your LinkedIn profile and share agile achievements; apply course learnings to your career and pursue certifications with Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, Aisc, Agile Scale, and Pro Kanban.