Agile ways of working are the focus for every team and every leader in most organisations and industries these days.

This course has been designed to develop participants' understanding of how this movement came about, how it has evolved over the past few decades, and what benefits as well as challenges embracing agility brings to people, teams and organisations.

Over this 2-day course, your trainer will give you pragmatic means to adopt Agile mindset and principles and an opportunity to become a high performing team, based on their own extensive experience in the field in various organisations and industries across 10+ countries.

The curriculum has been developed so as to teach you a variety of frameworks and practices, including the core elements of the most adopted Agile frameworks and approaches such as Scrum, XP and Kanban, practices such as Customer Centricity, Design Thinking and Lean Start-up, and techniques for planning, estimation and requirements specification.

This class is highly interactive with multiple activities, experiments and group discussions throughout the 2 days - do not expect to sit back and be bored by lectures on screen!

So, enjoy a good breakfast, load up on coffee or tea, and get your (virtual) sharpies and sticky notes out! Ready?

Target audience

Anyone wanting to learn about agile!

There are no prerequisites to attend this foundations class, whether or not you are working in IT.

No matter your industry, experience in the workforce or exposure to agile concepts, this class has been designed to be accessible and open to anyone.

It's a safe space to just be yourself and have fun while you learn.

Learning outcomes

Participants will leave this course with the ability to:

• Receive the ICAgile Certified Practitioner (ICP) certification*
• Explain the origin and emergence of Agile
• Define and demonstrate an Agile mindset
• Exhibit understanding of the fundamental mechanisms and benefits of Agility as well as common agile practices, tools and frameworks
• Share a personal plan to improve their personal agility along with suggestion for their team
• Identify and act upon opportunities to improve the state of agility in their own context

Key concepts covered

Participants will gain a sound understanding of fundamental Agile concepts such as (but not limited to):

• The agile mindset, values and principles
• Key references like the agile manifesto, umbrella and iceberg
• The history and current context of agility
• Project management shifts between traditional and agile approaches
• High performing teams, associated dynamics for success and maturity model
• Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming and Design Thinking
• Common tools and practices being adopted to enable agility (agile events, customer centricity, iterative and incremental development, agile estimation and planning, self-management, facilitation, visualisation, soft skills etc.)