Agile and Lean Boot Camp
Understanding Agile and Lean
Teams that embrace an agile mindset possess the ability to rapidly adapt to customer feedback and market and environmental changes in productive and swift ways. Understanding agile and lean principles empower them to ensure their way of working is fit for purpose. This boot camp brings fundamentals to life.
Course Description
Practical 2-day immersive and interactive boot camp covers Agile and Lean principles, practices, and techniques. Its focus is on anyone seeking to expand their knowledge about agile ways of working, including Iterative/Scrum and Lean/Kanban. The learnings are not just for software development; the course will also demonstrate non-software development’s applicability.
Learners will find a balance between courseware content and collaborative exercises, spending a significant portion of the boot camp, applying the learnings in a working simulation filled with activities. Exercises are within a virtual collaboration canvas, and attendees receive a pdf of the outputs as a takeaway.
Benefits to DA Certification Seekers
If you seek to earn a certification such as the PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM), the combination of this boot camp and DASM course is a significant enabler to success.
Already Attended a Certification Course
If you have attended a certification course, such as the DASM, and you were challenged by the exam or did not pass it, this boot camp supplements the learning, bringing it to life by doing practical exercises. Certification courses covering a large quantity of content often don’t have enough time to include the learnings practical side. Someone can also take them with no pre-requisites, yet these courses are better positioned for those with some existing knowledge or experience. Attendees that are new to agile or lean can benefit from attending but often realize that they could benefit from additional learning.
Already Certified
Did you take a certification course, pass the exam, and are now certified but unsure how to put the theory to practice? This boot camp moves you beyond the theory to doing your way of working. Just because you have a certification should never set-in motion the mindset that you cannot learn by doing foundational practices.
Course Length
14 hours
Prerequisites
This is a boot camp for those seeking to understand the insights and fundamentals of agile and lean. No prior knowledge, experience or certifications required.
Learning Objectives
- Overview Agile and Lean origins
- Understand basic agile terminology
- Recognize the agile mindset
- Define an agile way of working
- Identify inhibitors that impact agile teams
- Compare differences between Iterative/Scrum vs. Lean/Kanban
- Execute simulation using an Iterative/Scrum way of working
- Recognize differences in simulation if applying to non-software work
- Recognize differences in simulation if applying Lean/Kanban
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Agile and Lean Boot Camp
The course was fascinating, and the Agile and Lean Bootcamp was perfect preparation for the DASM material. It gave me a strong foundation for what was to come and a great theoretical understanding of the work. It was great having two instructors for a range of opinions!
Agile and Lean Boot Camp
I think that this deep dive into the basics of agile and lean is incredibly important to really be able to understand, apply, and be a person to help expand Disciplined Agile within an organization. Taking this two-day introduction first greatly enhances the value the participant will gain from the future training, because you know the meaning of the terms and the ideas on which DA rests.
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