Agile and Scrum in practice

This course is run on demand: in a virtual classroom or at your premises, on dates that suit you. Ask us for the next dates or a quote for your team.

Agility is not just for IT teams: marketing, HR, finance and product teams adopt it to become more responsive. Through simulations and serious games, you experience an agile project from the inside and learn to put the right roles, ceremonies and tools in place.

• Understand agile values and principles
• Implement the Scrum framework: roles, events, artefacts
• Write and prioritise a backlog with user stories
• Manage flow with Kanban
• Adapt agility to your context

• Project managers, product owners, managers
• Team members moving to agile
• Anyone curious about agile methods

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1. Module 1

   The agile mindset

   • –Why agile: limits of traditional approaches
   • –The Agile Manifesto and its principles
   • –Agile, hybrid or traditional: choosing

2. Module 2

   Scrum

   • –Roles: product owner, Scrum Master, team
   • –Sprint, planning, daily scrum, review, retrospective
   • –Simulating a project in sprints

3. Module 3

   Backlog and estimation

   • –User stories and acceptance criteria
   • –Value-based prioritisation
   • –Relative estimation and velocity

4. Module 4

   Kanban and scaling

   • –Visualising flow and limiting work in progress
   • –Metrics: lead time, throughput
   • –Rolling out agility in your organisation

Serious games, sprint simulations and team workshops. Groups of up to 10 participants, in a virtual classroom or at your premises, with a practitioner trainer. For 30 days after the course, you can email your questions to the trainer.

• Scrum and Kanban guide
• Backlog and user story templates
• Agile ceremonies facilitation kit

Initial assessment, hands-on exercises and a final quiz. Certificate of attendance; Onarcle certificate of achievement from a 70% score on the final quiz.

Public course price per participant, materials included. In-company (up to 10 participants, programme tailored to your needs): €2,990 excl. VAT per group. 10% discount from 3 participants from the same organisation. If your employer or a funding body will pay, contact us and we will find the right arrangement.