Agile Curriculum
Take a look at our numerous courses to kick-off your Agile transformation. Reach out to us at info@agilebrainsconsulting.com to schedule your next training session.
Intro to Agile - 1 Day
Grasp the concepts, principles and methods of Agile development and get a fast start towards executing your plans for incorporating Agile practices and techniques into your organization. This workshop will give you the foundation of knowledge you need to begin. It is a starting point for you to acquire the techniques, skills and tools that enable you to build Agile discipline.
Intro to Scrum - 1 Day
This Introduction to Scrum training course will lay the foundation for understanding and building successful agile teams using the Scrum Framework. In this powerful two-day course, you'll grasp the concepts, principles and methods of the Scrum framework and become empowered to execute on your plans for incorporating Scrum practices and techniques into your organization.
Learn how DevOps has brought together years of the most effective and proven practices from development and operations (Agile, Lean, and more) – and aligned them around common characteristics: value, cross-functional collaboration, agility, teams. DevOps is really the marrying of process, ops, and product. Bring these groups together to optimize, re-think, and re-engineer your processes.
Transition from Waterfall to Agile - 2 Day
There are significant benefits available when utilizing an Agile approach that can address the risks, unknowns, and uncertainties that affect nearly all software development projects. These complexities can best be addressed with a flexible and adaptable model that turns traditional problems into advantages
Agile for Managers - 1 Day
Agile Management techniques promote autonomy and respect on teams, leading to trusting, collaborative relationships resulting in continuous improvement, higher productivity, stronger loyalty and higher performance for team members. Using a servant leader approach rather than a traditional command and control approach, managers become the catalysts to guide self-directed teams.
Agile for Executives - 1 Day
Enable your Agile initiative to deliver on the promise of speed, flexibility, quality and customer satisfaction by aligning the expectations and actions of your executive and senior management team. The Agile for Executive Workshop is tailored to the needs of the participants. For private onsite workshops, the agenda is defined based on the organization’s specific needs. Public workshops begin with a collaborative agenda-setting activity.
Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) 2 Day
Leading teams to higher levels of maturity requires the ability to plan and conduct effective team meetings to ensure the team is working collaboratively. In an Agile environment, the team depends on the facilitation skills of the Agile Team Facilitator to lead the team to higher levels of performance.
Kanban Workshop - 2 Day
Kanban methods have increased in popularity. Going beyond the manufacturing origins, more and more teams in information technology are adopting the practices. Kanban methods go beyond the visual aspects of the Kanban board. Kanban provides techniques to manage the flow of work and continuously improve on that flow.
Agile Coaching Workshop (ICP-ACC) 2 Day
A coach's primary goal is to enhance their client's awareness of practice and behavior, enabling and empowering the client to realize objectives which may be just outside of their reach. Through thoughtful and deliberate engagement, the coach strives to enhance, in a measurable and sustainable fashion, team practices in order to provide focus on the business goals and objectives of the organization.
Certified Scrum Master 2 Day
Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, this Scrum Master (CSM) training course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a Scrum Master.
Certified Product Owner 2 Day
As we move through Scrum principles you will gain a comprehensive understanding of this agile product development methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a Product Owner. While many of us may be accustomed to the practice of establishing value and priority across projects, the Product Owner needs to consider value and priority across the features of a single project.
Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF)
Business Agility Foundation explores the mindset, approaches, and skills demanded in today's dynamic and fast moving world – a world where change is constant, disruption expected, and team work is a competitive advantage. Every level and every role in today's organization must focus on customer delight and bringing innovation and continuous improvement into our work. The tools that served us well in the past do not necessarily still apply.
Agile Portfolio and Program Mgmt.
In this Agile Portfolio and Program Management training course you will learn how to get work to flow from ideas to working software fast. IT practitioners have long known the importance of aligning efforts with business strategy but have approached it with an annual cadence of strategic planning and project selection. In today’s fast changing world this is just too slow. Look at the subject of scaling and will review at a high level some approaches to scaling Agile within your organization.
Business Value Analysis (ICP-BVA)
The Business Analyst’s role changes significantly as organizations rapidly replace their traditional system-development methodologies with more iterative or agile approaches. More and more companies are realizing the benefits of faster product deployment at a lower cost, with less rework due to missed requirements. Effective business analysis is key to developing those requirements and keeping projects on track. This indispensable course explores the contributions of good requirements development within Agile.
Design Thinking Bootcamp
High performing companies such as Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook and others innovate continuously because of their culture of design thinking. Design Thinking begins with a set of principles that frame a way to see problems and solutions from a new point of view. These principles provide the foundation for delivering solutions that meet or exceed your users’ expectations with focus on user outcomes and diverse empowered teams.
Agile Leadership Workshop (ICP-LEA)
The world around us is changing at an extraordinary pace. It is not just the rapid pace of change, but that business leaders now deal with a VUCA world.
In this two-day Agile leadership training, participants learn why we need business agility, the personal key competencies to lead the transformation, and the organizational elements required to survive and thrive in today’s turbulent environment.
Agile Human Resources (ICP-AHR)
This certification is aimed at people who are in what organizations traditionally call the Human Resources (HR) domain.
They are part of an organization aiming to adopt Agile thinking and practices, irrespective of their industry. Participants will come away with the knowledge necessary to tackle new ways of thinking and working equipped with people engagement practices that are more humanistic and values-based