There are many misconceptions on agility, what it can deliver, how it works and how to adopt its principles. This situation is not helped by the myriad of online courses that claim to “teach you Agile” but that fail to explain the fundamentals in a way that resonates with individuals and teams.
Mind Fitness can solve this for you. We currently provide two courses, which are delivered remotely by expert practitioners:
- Introduction to Agile – 90 minutes
- Agile Essentials – 8 hours (4 * 2 hours, 2 * 4 hours or 1 * 8 hours)
If required, after the initial training the same practitioners are available for hands-on consultancy, either remote or in-person, to truly embed agile ways of working into your teams and your organisation.
Learning Outcomes
Introduction to Agile:
- Understanding what agility is when applied to the workplace
- Awareness of the main values and principles of agile
- Appreciation of the benefits that agility delivers
- Awareness of how agile values and principles can be put into practice using common frameworks and methods – Scrum, Kanban, Lean
- Understanding the difference between “being agile” and “doing agile”
Agile Essentials:
- Understanding what agility is when applied to the workplace
- Understanding of the four values and twelve principles of agile and how they can be applied in your context
- Knowledge of the benefits that agility delivers
- Awareness of how the nature of the work affects the most effective approach – when agile is most appropriate, when other approaches may be better
- Appreciation of the many myths that surround the topic of agile
- Appreciation of what motivates individuals and teams into improved performance, the importance of psychological safety to team effectiveness
- Understanding of the Scrum framework, its main roles, events and artefacts
- Understanding of Kanban, how it differs from Scrum and when it may be most useful
- Awareness of Lean Product Development
- Awareness of the various scaling frameworks such as SAFe and LeSS
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
