Agile For Executives 1 Day Training in Adelaide

Course Description: This one-day course presents a step-by-step approach to Agile for Executives. The course provides you with overviews of key principles and benefits of applying Agile methodologies.

Defining the Challenges of Software Development

? Making the Case for Change

? What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?

Course Topics:

Defining the Challenges of Software Development

? Making the Case for Change

? What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?

Defining the Agile Proposition

? Why Agile

? The Agile Paradigm

? Agile Basics

? Agile Manifesto and Principles

? Agile Methodologies

? Five Levels of Agile Planning

? Agile Benefits — including industry data, survey results and personal experience

The Path to Agile Adoption

? Dealing with Barriers to Agile Adoption

? An Agile Organization

? Driving Investment Decisions with Agile

? The path to successful Agile adoption

Learning Goals:

? Understand Agile Practices and Principles

? Obtain valuable information from industry surveys identifying compelling Agile benefits realized by companies worldwide

? Gain insight into effective metrics for managing Agile team performance

? Dispel the myth that mid and long term planning are abandoned with Agile

? Appreciate how teams and management can build trust more quickly

? Discuss the transition from command and control to empower and inspire style of leadership

? Explore how to help teams to create a cadence that will enable them to succeed

? Understand tools and techniques for promoting transparency in communication at all levels

? Identify some of the common pitfalls Agile teams may encounter

? Learn from an instructor with day-to-day experience implementing agile practices across multiple organizations

? Glean knowledge of Agile team roles and where the Executive fits

Course Agenda:

Day 1

? Agile Overview

? Agile Basics and Practices

? Becoming Agile

who can attend?

This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile method for software development, includingk? Project Managers

? Analysts

? Developers

? Programmers

? Testers

? IT Manager/Directors

? Software Engineers

? Software Architects

? Customers