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 

Anyone wishing to learn about Agile

No exam is available for this course.