Virtual Live Instructor: 1-Day Disciplined Agile Foundations of Agile (FOA) training by Glen Little, DAIT, CDAC/CDAI, DA Fellow

In these challenging and unique market conditions, adaptability will be the key to relevance, both for businesses and professionals. Now more than ever is the time to upskill yourself, and differentiate the value you bring.

Process Mentors has a passion for helping individuals and organizations understand what their options are, and which ones work in different contexts leads to better decisions. We firmly believe that agility is the new currency of business.

Ever wonder what it is like to work on an Agile team? Sure, on the surface Agile looks simple and straightforward. In practice, though, when we start adopting an Agile way of working, reality quickly proves to be much more complex than expected. This module teaches you the foundation for successfully starting an Agile way of working (WoW) inside your team.

This module is not technical and is recommended for all team members new to Agile. Games, simulations and group discussions reinforce the practices learned.

Learning Objectives

By the completion of this module, you are able to:

• Apply an iterative way of working inside your team

• Describe the artifacts, roles and ceremonies of an iterative way of working

• Utilize a work board and information radiator

• Write user stories and estimate them

• Gather requirements in a collaborative way

Foundations of Agile

Course Outline

The big agile picture

Planning the first iteration

Running the first iteration

• • Information radiators
  • Agile team roles
  • Agile ceremonies

Demonstration and retrospective of the first iteration

Planning the second iteration

Running the second iteration

• • User stories and estimation
  • Test-first approach
  • Dealing with change

Demonstration of second iteration

Retrospective of the module

Benefits

• Workshop attendees will be registered on Disciplined Agile Consortium to receive DA communications, engage with the DA community and track their certification progress.
• Technical (7): see how to claim PMI PDU’s