Learning the Essence of Agile

Name: Learning the Essence of Agile
Rating: 4.4 (51 reviews)

This course delivers a deep, wide & a holistic view of Agile and all it's popular frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.

Created bySanjeet Biswas

Last updated 6/2023

English

What you'll learn

Learn the Agile mindset
Learn about Agile ways of working
Learn about the various Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP and other scaling frameworks such as SaFe, Less, etc.
Learn about the key structural elements needed to successfully adopt Agile
Learn about management practices that are important for successful Agile adoption
Learn about the leadership styles that are relevant for successful Agile adoption
Get a sense of the various scaling frameworks

Course content

1 section • 22 lectures • 1h 56m total length

Course Introduction3:50
A brief outline of what's in the course.
A look back in time to the pre-Agile landscape12:29
A brief look at history of process in software development.
Birth of Agile2:16
The beginnings of Agile.
What is Agile?2:59
An elevator pitch for Agile.
Deep dive into Agile Values5:48
A review of the values in the Agile Manifesto.
Deep dive into Agile Principles10:54
A review of the principles in the Agile Manifesto.
Benefits of Agile2:44
Measurable & well known benefits of Agile.
Intro to Scrum9:19
A brief introduction into the Scrum process.
Intro to Kanban6:57
A brief introduction into the Kanban process.
Intro to Scrumban2:57
A brief introduction into the Scrumban process.
Intro to Extreme Programming9:07
A brief introduction into the XP process.
Scaling using Agile2:14
Introduction to scaling.
Intro to Scaled Agile Framework3:14
A brief introduction into the SAFe process.
Intro to LeSS & DAD3:09
A brief introduction into the LeSS & DAD processes.
Key Structural Ingredients to Practice any Agile Process11:15
A practitioners view into the structural elements required to adopt Agile successfully.
Experience the Power of Incremental Delivery and Self-organizing & Self-directed2:27
Some thoughts & a powerful YouTube video highlighting the power of incremental devilry and self-organizing & self-directed teams.
Experience the Power of Decentralized Decision Making2:55
Some thoughts & a great YouTube video demonstrating how decentralized decision making elevates team performance.
What Truly Motivates People?3:03
Learn about the real motivational factors for people in this cool YouTube video.
Lean Principles in Agile6:54
A summary of Lean Principles as applicable to software development.
Leadership Styles for an Agile Organization7:41
A brief overview of the mainstream leadership styles.
The Power of a Vision2:35
A great vision should blow your mind. See a vision from John Deere's (YouTube video).
Wrap Up!1:28
Final thoughts from instructor.

Requirements

Although NOT a MUST, it will be quite HELPFUL for you if you have some basic or rudimentary familiarity with how software applications are created.
If you have very little or no technical background, you should still be able to follow most of the course (of course, it depends on your comfort level at grasping new concepts)
Someone who is committed to learning about Agile (i.e. NOT someone who is only casually interested in this topic)

Description

Agile has become the defacto approach to build software applications across any and all organizations.

In the past 20 years or so, there has been a quiet revolution in the way products get built. This revolution has been driven by 'Agile'. Organizations big, small and in-between have been rapidly adopting Agile. Initially, it was used to build software applications but now Agile is used in a variety of corporate functions such as Sales, Marketing, HR and others. Not only that, major tech and non-tech companies worldwide (such as Google, Crate & Barrell, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Atlassian, etc.) require that their leadership be Agile in their leadership style.

So what is this Agile? In short, it is a way of being, a way of thinking which has spawned several highly productive project management frameworks such Scrum, Kanban, Scrum-ban, XP to name a few.

This course will deliver a deep understanding of Agile and then provide comprehensive overview of it's most well known and popular frameworks.

There are many courses online that teach Agile frameworks but they teach them as a series of mechanical steps. In other words, most courses teach how to DO Agile when one needs to BE Agile. None of the other courses try to build the connection between the frameworks and the Agile way of thinking. This course will provide you with that perspective. In other words, this course will teach you how to BE Agile and NOT DO AGILE. Additionally, this course will also expose you to some of the more recent conversations that are taking place in Agile domain in terms of other management principles that are becoming part of the Agile ways of working.

At the end of this course, you will not only be well versed with the Agile philosophy and its various frameworks but most importantly, you will be able to practice any Agile framework not just as series of mechanical steps but in true Agile spirit.

Who this course is for:

Project managers
Product owners
Scum masters
Developers
Testers
Mid-level managers in an organization
Any IT professional is has recently joined an agile team or is seeking a position within an agile team