Agile Boot Camp for Non-Software Work: ICP Fundamentals Certification

Course Code: 1500

$1495

Overview
Schedule classes
What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

Agile techniques play a key role in software development. However, these methodologies can be applied to many other types of business work as well. The Agile boot camp for non-software work discusses application of the agile techniques to different business processes, such as, infrastructure, operations, etc. The course explores the application of popular agile techniques for both discovery and operation work. It also covers the basic concepts behind agility and how agile can help in the daily tasks.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Understand agile principles, concepts and mindset, and their importance
Learn to apply the agile concepts to work other than software development
Follow the team approach – start as a team, finish as a team, while focusing on delivering value to the organization
Understand the power of the teams and typical agile team roles
Learn agile approaches for sustainability, infrastructure operations and non-IT work
Understand when to use methods like scrum and Kanban
Learn methods that support incremental and emergent projects as well as continuous work flow
Understand agile planning techniques
Grasp the value of continuous planning
Map and visualize workflow to eliminate bottlenecks and streamline capacity
Learn how to achieve a continuous improvement culture
Learn how to practice and maintain regular cadence to delivering excellence at work

Outline

Module 1: Why Agile? The case for change

Why Agile? The case for change

Module 2: Becoming Agile

Becoming Agile

Module 3: Review agile methodologies practiced in organizations today (such as Scrum, Kanban)

Agile mental models
Agile manifesto
Agile principles
Agile practices

Module 4: Building an agile team

Building an agile team

Module 5: Delivery with Scrum

Delivery with Scrum

Module 6: Agile project planning

Vision
Roadmap
User roles and personas

Module 7: Backlog planning

Writing user stories
Prioritization
Estimating

Module 8: Iteration execution

The daily scrum
Story review
Visual management
Agile metrics

Module 9: Inspect and Adapt

The iteration review
The Demo
The Retrospective

Module 10: Kanban overview and concepts

Kanban’s five core properties
Kanban Emergent behaviors
Kanban concepts, principles and terminology

Module 11: Implementing Kanban

Visualization of work
Work item types, card walls
Workflow, queues and buffers
Cadences, work-in-progress
Bottlenecks, issues and blocked items

Module 12: Kanban metrics and reporting

Tracking work-in-process, cumulative flow diagrams
Lead time, trends, throughput

Module 13: Scaling Kanban

Scaling Kanban for different size efforts
Minimal marketable release
Two-tiered card walls

Module 14: Kanban improvements

Three types of improvement opportunities
Estimations, Class of service
Service level agreements, policies

Module 15: Agile adoption

Kaizen culture and mindset
Agile leadership
Kotter’s model
Continuous improvement culture

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Who Should Attend

The boot camp is highly recommended for –

Anyone wanting to apply Agile to their work
Business professionals wanting to apply Agile to their business projects and processes
Infrastructure, Operations, Sustainability, Support Services professionals
Teams and individuals engaged in non-IT work, projects or continuous flow work
Teams and individuals who support or work with other Agile teams
Specialty Teams, Transactional Teams
Software developers

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Certification

Participants will receive the ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) designation upon course completion, based on their exposure to the agile fundamentals learning objectives, covered in the course.