SAFe® for Teams Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in the Waterfall model and the various strategies employed to address its limitations, including but not limited to Agile approaches.

The first day provides an overview of these methodologies, helping you determine which approach best fits your organizational context.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile that can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile environments.

Business analysis is the process of investigating, understanding, and defining business needs in order to develop solutions that meet those needs. It is a key element in the change management process within an organization and in the design of new business solutions. The goal of business analysis is to ensure that technological, process, or organizational solutions align with business goals and needs. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of projects and organizational changes by ensuring that implemented solutions are accurate, feasible, and fully meet business requirements.

The course "Scrum for the Advanced Scrum Master + Preparation for PSM II" is aimed at experienced Scrum Masters who wish to expand their competencies, gain a deeper understanding of how Scrum functions, and become genuine leaders within an agile framework. The course covers interpretations of the Scrum Guide aligned with Scrum.org’s vision, which is crucial for passing the PSM II exam. Participants gain practical knowledge about complexity, empirical approaches, the value of Scrum, and the role of the Scrum Master as a leader. Additionally, the course prepares attendees for the PSM II exam, which is based on the latest version of the Scrum Guide.

This course delves into the essential role of the business analyst in achieving success within Agile environments. Participants will learn how to effectively collaborate with the development team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development process. The curriculum includes a simulated project where attendees can practice handling common scenarios encountered in Agile settings.

Target audience:

IT Directors, Project Managers, Technical Team Leaders, Analysts, Software Developers, and Testers.

Learning objectives:

This training aims to provide participants with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the workshop components of Kanban and the foundational principles of Agile methodologies.

This course is designed for individuals seeking to integrate Agile methodologies (particularly SCRUM) with Lean and Kanban practices to effectively oversee their projects.

It bridges the gap between product design and software design.

Who should attend?

This two-day course is ideal for IT professionals eager to adopt Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies for managing software development. It is especially beneficial for project managers, team leaders, developers, and stakeholders in software development who wish to take an active role in the development process.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance professionals, testers, software developers, project managers, and senior management to explain how Agile project management frameworks, particularly SCRUM, handle testing activities.

By the end of the course, each participant will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (which may be a real client application if available).

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers fundamental test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for development teams aiming to enhance their testing practices within an Agile environment.

It is also suitable for individuals considering a career in testing and serves as a prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This instructor-led, live training in Norway (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level professionals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Scrum and pass the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification exam.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Master the fundamentals and concepts of Scrum.
• Gain core competencies to handle internal and external distractions in project development.
• Master the ins and outs of all Scrum ceremonies.
• Gain proficiency in executing Scrum.
• Take the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification Exam with confidence.

JIRA Software is a robust tool for project management, yet participants often concentrate more on the software itself rather than the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led live training reveals the synergistic power of Jira and Confluence, demonstrating how they work together to help teams deliver products and projects successfully. Participants will learn to utilize these tools effectively to enhance efficiency in handling user requirements, testing, and communication, all centralized in one location.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning, dependencies, the linkage between Jira and Confluence, reporting, essential fields and custom fields, issue types, as well as screens and filtering.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create Scrum or Kanban projects
• Configure Jira for effective project management
• Manage issues with efficiency
• Design necessary screens to handle various issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand their interplay
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports required by the team and management

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course that combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.

You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

JIRA is a Java-based web application designed to provide project and issue tracking, thereby enhancing the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile methodologies within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the principles underpinning Agile and Kanban
• Utilize Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Tailor Jira to meet the specific requirements of their organization
• Conduct both basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• The course combines lectures and discussions with exercises and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.

Kanban is a method for managing workflows.

This live, instructor-led training (available online or on-site) is suitable for participants at both beginner and advanced levels. The tools and insights gained can be directly applied to your daily work to enhance workflow efficiency.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Boost the volume of work items completed within a given timeframe.
• Shorten the duration needed to finish work items.
• Enhance the predictability of work outcomes (providing more accurate responses to "When will it be finished?").
• Track flow metrics (including throughput, lead time, work in progress, and the age of work items).
• Utilize flow charts such as the Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, and Work Aging Chart.
• Apply statistical forecasting techniques, including Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreements.
• Methodically design a Kanban System (using STATIK).
• Comprehend Little's Law, which explains the nature of value flow.

Are you facing challenges in implementing Agile within your organization? Is the prescribed change too rigid? Do your teams feel overburdened and less productive, yet remain resistant to radical transformation?

Opt for the \u201cAlternative Path to Agility\u201d and adopt an evolutionary and humane Change Management approach that enhances, rather than disrupts, your existing processes.

The Kanban Method offers practical, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for achieving successful evolutionary change. It begins by acknowledging your current practices and respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles. This approach enables organizations to gradually evolve business processes, define and utilize relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you regain control of your work. It introduces a new technique for dynamically managing your workflow and exposing bottlenecks.

This training equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary to apply Kanban in your daily work, teaching you how to determine what tasks to prioritize now, which to defer, and which to remove from your to-do list entirely.

Learning Outcomes

This 1-day course covers the fundamentals of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry point and starting stage for an alternative path to agility.

Participants will gain familiarity with the Kanban Method. They will be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board. They will understand different types of work items and the risks associated with specific items. They will be acquainted with various Team Kanban board designs and styles, knowing how to select the design best suited to their context. Additionally, they will be aware of the training roadmap and the value and benefits derived at each step along the \u201calternative path to agility.\u201d

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional involved in a product development or knowledge work environment who wishes to discover how Kanban can help improve working conditions. Kanban is applicable across multiple organizational functions, from senior staff members looking to adopt Lean Management to delivery team members aiming to enhance their working practices. Previous participants have included professionals in roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals