The Agile Principles and Mindset

• Why Agile?
• What is Agile?
• When should I use Agile?
• How should I use Agile?
• Who does what in Agile?

At the end of the course, the participant will be able to:

• gain a deeper understanding of an agile mindset and learn the practices needed to bring agility into their daily business

• The Agile Manifesto
  • Values
  • Principles
• Rationale & benefits of Agile
  • History of Agile
  • Empirical and defined processes
  • The pillars of the empirical process
  • The waterfall approach
  • Working with uncertainty and volatility
  • Agile myths
  • Empirical models for improvement and change
  • Business culture and Agile
  • The lifecycle of product development
• Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools
  • Motivated and talented individuals
  • Emergent design from self-organising teams
• Working systems over comprehensive documentation
  • Satisfy the customer with continuous delivery of value
  • Deliver working systems frequently
  • Working systems as a measure of progress
  • Technical excellence and good design
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
  • Business people and developers must work together
  • Face-to-face communications
  • Reflect and adjust regularly
• Responding to change over following a plan
  • Embrace change
  • Sustainable pace
  • Simplicity – The art of maximising the amount of work not done
• Common Agile roles
  • The role of the customer
  • The role of the team
  • The role of the Agile leader
  • The role of stakeholders
• Common Agile techniques
  • User stories
  • Acceptance criteria and scenarios
  • MoSCoW prioritisation
  • Estimation using story points
  • Agile quality assurance and testing
• Common Agile practices
  • Short feedback loops
  • Focus on quality
  • Emergent documentation
  • Visual boards
  • Retrospectives
  • Continuous improvement
• Relevant methods and approaches for Agile teams
  • Scrum
  • XP
  • Kanban
  • Lean

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of participation delivered by the House of Training.