WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED
We understand the importance of agile ways of working and the impact it has on organisations. To start on this journey its essential to train your staff to understand what agile means and how to use agile practices in their roles to unlock their full potential and reap the benefits.
AGILE 101 AND BUILDING TEAMS
AGILE FUNDAMENTALS
Agile fundamentals will explain what it means to be agile whilst doing agile. Gain an understanding of the agile mindset, the origins of agile, discuss common characteristics, the complexity of work, methods and practices.
This is fully remote interactive session with practical exercises to help you learn and takeaway.
Outcomes
Establish the agile mindset
Experience how complexity can change our perspective on our work
Understand the difference between waterfall and agile
Understand the layers of agile
Apply agile values and principles
(Half day course)
FORMING TEAMS
The first step to building high preforming teams is to form them right from the start.
In this fully remote session we will form a team to understand our purpose, goals, values, skills and behaviour within our team.
Understand where your teams are in their journey to help guide them and become a high performing team.
Outcomes
Understand the 5 stages of team development
Understand how people work
Experience in how to form teams
The importance of team reflection
Learn the 5 dysfunctions of a team
(Half day course)
this cohort consistst of 4 half day
1. WHATS THE PROBLEM
Start with the why to ensure you understand the real problem you are trying to solve.
This first session of the cohort lets you pick your own problem to solve.
We show you how to keep it lean when starting out, identify your users, values, solutions and how to measure success.
By the end of this session you will know the first experiments to validate your assumptions and learn.
Session 1 of 4
Outcomes
Understand why you are building your product
Know how to use canvas's to shape your solution
Identify how to start small to learn the most
Understand how to manage assumptions to learn
2. USER NEEDS
By understanding who your users are and what they really want gives you the knowledge of the value in your product.
Users should always be at the heart of any product and through this session we show you how to get the most out of user research using powerful questions and interview techniques.
By the end of this session you will understand three different user types and needs for your product.
Session 2 of 4
Outcomes
Understand your users and what they need
Be able to create empathy maps and know how to use them
Design a research plan
Experience real user research and powerful questions
3. RELEASE AND MAPPING
How to understand your end to end product and create your minimal viable product and future releases of value.
We explain the importance of user stories, how to visualise your product, how to slice your product into iterative valuable releases and form your backlog.
By the end of this session you will have a minimal viable product ready to design.
Session 3 of 4
Outcomes
Understand the importance of user stories
How to visualise your product
How to focus on your users
Experience in releasing value to your users
4. DESIGN YOUR PRODUCT
How to design your solution at pace to get get feedback and learn.
We explain design principles, psychology of user experience, what wireframe are and how to create prototypes.
By the end of this session you will have a prototype of your minimal viable solution to test with your users.
Session 4 of 4
Outcomes
Understand how to visualise your solution
Know the importance of design
Experience design tools
Know how to create prototypes
Agile Practices
The Scrum Framework
About this course
This fun and interactive session allows you to build a product from scratch using the scrum framework, whilst gaining experience of the roles and the importance of collaboration within a scrum team.
Outcomes
Describe the scrum values
Recognise the roles in a scrum team
Apply the scrum framework
Create a product using scrum
Understand feedback loops
Full day course
A Beginners Guide To Kanban
About this course
The beginners guide to Kanban understand the core practices of Kanban, giving you a simple guide to create your own Kanban board, visualise your work, control work limits, understanding flow and the importance of collaboration.
We will go deeper into how Kanban is used in different industries around the world.
Outcomes
Understand the core practices of Kanban
Compare Kanban across different industries
Create and use a Kanban board
Demonstrate how to increase productivity
Half day course
