Course Code: 19317

Introduction to Agile

Class Dates:
3/12/2025
4/15/2025
5/14/2025
6/11/2025
Length:
2 Days
Cost:
$1449.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Business
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • You will learn the concepts, principles, and methods of Agile development and become empowered to execute on your plans for incorporating Agile practices and techniques into your organization. Agile success demands a strong and stable foundation. This introduction to Agile training will give you the foundation of knowledge and experience you need to begin. This course is a starting point for you to acquire the techniques, skills, and tools that enable you to build Agile discipline. In addition to defining Agile principles, we will cover the advantages of Agile development. Learn about organizing and participating in an agile team, and understand the practices of the most popular Agile technique. Understand and learn how to take advantage of the opportunities for Agile. Finally gain an understanding and practice the collaboration and communication needed between customer and developers for Agile to succeed.
  • Audience
  • This Introduction to Agile training course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of Agile Methods for software development, including:

    Project Managers
    Program Managers
    Analysts
    Developers
    Programmers
    Testers
    IT Manager/Directors
    Software Engineers
    Software Architects
    Customers/Stakeholders
    Product Managers
    Or any business professional

Prerequisites

  • Skills Gained
    Understand Agile values and principles, and how to build the discipline to support those principles in your everyday practice
    Appreciate the history of Agile and how the collection of principles and practices came together to enable customer success
    Examine Agile methods, including Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, Kanban
    Draw best practices from the various methodologies that will contribute to your team success Talk the talk: learning the Agile terminology, roles and forums with their context Walk through the processes that support Agile principles to enable the delivery of great products
    Discover the power of Agile teams through communication, collaboration and cadence Lay the foundation upon which you can build

Course Disclaimer

*Course cost listed does not include the cost of courseware. Please contact us at learn@vtec.org or 207-775-0244 for additional pricing information, or if you have any questions. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment to run. Course may run as a Virtual Live Distance Learning session if the minimum enrollment is not met.

Course Details

  • Part 1: Why Agile
  • What are the factors driving business turbulence and need for agility.
  • Understanding the changing mindset
  • What a Burning Platform is and how it ties to the need for change.
  • Why change may be needed.
  • The difference between traditional delivery and Agile delivery.
  • Why implementing Agile provides benefits beyond traditional delivery.
  • Benefits of adopting Agile.
  • Part 2: Agile Foundations
  • The 4 Agile Values in the Agile Manifesto.
  • The 12 Agile Principles that guide how we do our work.
  • The Agile Mindset.
  • Part 3: Agile Teams
  • That an Agile team is a system.
  • Scrum Team Roles.
  • Levels of Team Maturity
  • Part 4: Agile Methodologies
  • The value of Lean and the relationship to Agile.
  • Differences between iterative and continuous flow work.
  • The work drives the method.
  • How Agile teams embrace Continuous Planning.
  • Products, Product visions and users
  • Key Scrum events for planning and execution.
  • Review User Stories, Understanding Minimum Viable Product
  • The 3 core Scrum artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment.
  • The importance of adapting and continuous improvement., The benefits of conducting a Review at the end of each Sprint.
  • The Retrospective, your most powerful agile tool.
  • Differences between Scrum and Kanban, and complimentary capabilities., The benefits of limiting the Work in Progress.
  • Stop starting and start finishing!
  • Part 5: Agile Adoption
  • Barriers to agile adoption.
  • Thinking about knowledge growth using Shu Ha Ri.
  • Realizing a suitable agile culture
  • Kotter Framework for organization change.
  • Ways to scale agile across large projects and portfolios.