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Agile Training Courses

Local, instructor-led live Agile training courses cover areas such as agile project management, agile development, agile testing, and the agile mindset.

Agile training is available as "onsite live training" or "remote live training". The UAE onsite live Agile trainings can be carried out locally on customer premises or in NobleProg corporate training centers. Remote live training is carried out by way of an interactive, remote desktop.

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Agile Course Outlines

Course Name
Duration
Overview
Course Name
Duration
Overview

Managing Projects using Waterfall and Agile Techniques

14 hours
Overview
This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in using the Waterfall model and how people have traditionally tried to deal with its shortcomings - including, but not limited to, Agile approaches.

The aim of the 1st day is to give an overview of these approaches enabling you to decide what might suit them in your environment.

The 2nd day looks at project management techniques and good practices that have been identified from Agile, and which can be applied in a Waterfall or Agile context.

Contemporary Development Principles and Practices

14 hours
Overview
The course covers contemporary development principles and practices, including the place of project management, testing and business analysis, within Agile and traditional Waterfall contexts.

The course is intended to be workshop-style with opportunities for delegates to ask questions and explore real life application of the content.

This course comprises a series of modules with each module designed to take 1.5hrs, ie 1 training day would consist of 4 modules.

Intended Audience

This course is aimed at those who want to gain a rapid overview of contemporary Waterfall & Agile software development and the impact on project management, testing and business analysis.

Scrum Product Owner

7 hours
Overview
This course is for: Product owners, managers, or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.

The course, Scrum Product Owner (SPO), utilizes a combination of presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises explaining and demonstrating through practice. It illustrates what it is like to take on the role of an Agile team. The course covers all aspects of a product owner's involvement in an Agile product's life-cycle, such as gathering requirements rapidly, writing user stories, estimating story points, tracking, release planning, reporting, forecasting, scaling, and so on.

Preparation for Professional Scrum Master

14 hours
Overview
The Scrum Master role is an essential part to any Agile/Scrum team. This course trains delegates in key aspects of the Scrum framework and prepares them to sit the online Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM1) exam.

Audience:

Anyone who either is, or is planning to be, a Scrum Master and for others working in a Scrum environment who have a need for in-depth knowledge of Scrum.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

- Understand the origins of Agile methods.
- Understand and apply the core values and principles of Agile methods.
- Know the difference between the defined process and the empirical processes used in Agile.
- Understand the Scrum roles, Artefacts, Events and practices.
- Be fully prepared to sit the Professional Scrum Master (PSM1) exam

Scrum for Managers and Executives

7 hours
Overview
This course is also known as SCRUM awareness training.

Who should attend?

This course has been created for managers, executives and other decision makers who want to know how to calculate the benefits of implementing the methodology or want to understand what their team is doing.

It is also suitable for customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

Scrum Essentials Workshop

14 hours
Overview
This course is very much structered towards a workshop approach to enable delegates an opportunity to practise the Scrum and Agile skills.

Scrum Practitioner

14 hours
Overview
The Scrum Practitioner training aims to introduce agile concepts and techniques in a classroom situation using a combination of talks, exercises and fun activities embracing the principle of ‘learning by doing’. During the course, there will be the opportunity to apply the techniques with a ready-prepared simulation, which will help consolidate learning.

SAFe® for Teams

14 hours
Overview
This two-day course teaches teams who are part of an Agile Release Train (ART) how to work in an Agile environment using Scrum, Kanban, and XP. The teams will learn how to become Agile Teams, build their backlog, and plan and execute iterations. Agile teams learn about their ART and their role in it, planning, executing, and improving with other teams.

This class prepares teams to run a Program Increment (PI), including all meetings at the Team and Program level with a specific focus on the upcoming PI planning. Attending the class prepares participants to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Practitioner (SP).

After this course, you should be able to:

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Apply SAFe to scale Lean and Agile development in your enterprise

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Know your team and its role on the Agile Release Train

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Know all other teams on the train, their roles and the dependencies between the teams

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Plan iterations

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Execute iterations, demo value, and improve your process

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Plan Program Increments

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Integrate and work with other teams on the train

SAFe® 4.0 Advanced Scrum Master Course with ASM Certification

14 hours
Overview
This two-day course prepares current Scrum Masters for their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a SAFe® implementation. The course covers facilitation of cross-team interactions in support of the program execution and relentless improvement. It enhances the Scrum paradigm with an introduction to scalable engineering and DevOps practices; the application of Kanban to facilitate the flow of value; and supporting interactions with architects, product management, and other critical stakeholders in the larger program and enterprise contexts. The course offers actionable tools for building high-performing teams and explores practical ways of addressing Agile and Scrum anti-patterns in the enterprise. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (ASM).

Leading the Lean-Agile Software Enterprise with the Scaled Agile Framework® - Scaled Agilist Certification (SA)

14 hours
Overview
This two-day course teaches the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale.

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Agilist (SA). Associated Certification: SAFe Agilist (SA)

Agile Project Management with OrangeScrum

14 hours
Overview
OrangeScrum is an open-source, web-based project management and collaboration tool for managing projects, teams and tasks in one place. It includes bug tracking, email integration, and issue management, among other features.

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to implement Agile and Scrum methodologies using OrangeScrum.

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

- Set up and configure OrangeScrum on their own premises (optional)
- Identify and implement key Scrum principles and practices, including the product backlog, sprint burndown chart, task boards, and more.
- Use OrangeScrum to organize tasks, communicate with a team effectively and keep project documents under control

Audience

- IT professionals
- Project managers
- Team leaders
- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

- If you are interested in installing and administering an onsite instance of OrangeScrum, contact us to arrange.

Agile Project Management with Kanban and Jira

14 hours
Overview
JIRA is a Java based web application that provides project and issue tracking for improving the agility of software development.

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

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

- Understand the principles behind Agile and Kanban
- Use Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
- Customize Jira to fit the needs of their organization
- Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
- Generate and review reports

Audience

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

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence

7 hours
Overview
JIRA Software is a powerful tool for Project Management and people tend to focus more on the tool than the method itself.

This instructor-led, live training introduces the participants to the power of Jira and Confluence, working together to serve the only purpose of helping the team to deliver successfully the product / project. The team will learn how to properly use these tools to be more efficient handling User Requirements, Testing, Communication, centralized in one place.

Will be studied JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning and dependencies, Jira/Confluence linkage, reporting, important fields and custom fields, issue types, screen & filtering.

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

- Create a Scrum or Kanban project
- Configure Jira to manage the project properly
- Manage issues effectively
- Build the necessary screen to handle issue types
- Create workflows and boards, and understand their interaction
- Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
- Generate and review reports necessary for the team and the management

Jenkins: Continuous Integration for Agile Development

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live training in the UAE covers the concepts, tools and techniques needed to carry out continuous integration of your software projects in an Agile environment. Participants carry out a series of hands-on exercises throughout the course to apply their knowledge in real situations. Interaction among instructor and participants is encouraged. Real-world cases are discussed and specific issues and questions are addressed and resolved in class.

GoCD: Continuous Delivery for Agile Development

7 hours
Overview
Continuous Delivery is a development practice wherein developers release new changes to users quickly and sustainably. GoCD is an open source tool used to achieve continuous delivery in software development.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of Continuous Delivery (CD) as they step through setting up and configuring CD pipelines on GoCD.

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

- Understand the fundamentals of Continuous Delivery
- Use GoCD to set up their CD process and pipelines
- Configure GoCD depending on their needs

Audience

- Developers
- IT Professionals
- DevOps Engineers
- Business Managers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Efficient Requirement Management using Agile Methods and Agile UML Modeling

21 hours
Overview
Objective:

This training course aims at helping product managers, products owners, business analysts, system architects and developers understand how to efficiently Manage Requirements on the basis of the product vision till guiding developers accurately in implementing them.

More in detail, this course aims at assisting product managers in better defining the value propositions of their products on the basis of strategies and stakeholder needs. Business Analysts and product owners understand how to describe requirements of the product backlog then discover appropriate epics and user stories of the system while contributing to the required value creation. Along interactive case study exercises, participants learn how to describe in detail such requirements in order to validate correct understanding of needs and prepare system acceptance tests. Thus, only using a very common and productive UML profile, they learn to structure requirements in order to communicate efficiently with architects and developers through an iterative requirement gathering process.

Audience:

- Product Managers
- Product Owners
- Business Analysts
- Anyone interetsted in the Requirements Management Process

Codeship: Continuous Integration for Agile Development

7 hours
Overview
Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice wherein developers merge changes in their code as often as possible in order to detect and locate errors quickly. Codeship is a platform that provides Continuous Integration services in the cloud.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of Continuous Integration as they step through setting up a simple Continuous Integration process on Codeship.

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

- Understand the fundamentals of Continuous Integration
- Operate the essential functions in Codeship
- Set up a simple CI process using Codeship

Audience

- Developers
- IT Professionals
- DevOps Engineers
- Business Managers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Agile Business Analysis

14 hours
Overview
This course focuses on the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. Course participants will learn how to cooperate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master as well as with the Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will go through a mock project practising common scenarios.

Business Modeling for an Agile Enterprise

14 hours
Overview
Objective:

Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs.

This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.

Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age

7 hours
Overview
Participant Profiles

CxO, Operation Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business and System Analysts and Designers

Objective

This introduction seminar provides you with an overview of the digital business models, business and enterprise architecture frameworks as well as methodologies that organizations are trying to focus on to increase their business agility facing disruptions of the digital age.

In particular, this seminar aims at helping you to understand frameworks and reference architectures that are used worldwide to align digital business models and IT system architectures with the changing competitive landscape.

BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live workshop in the UAE begins with an introduction to BDD, what it is and how it is used by companies to promote good software design, development and testing. We do this from a non-engineering point-of-view, with an eye on the end-users, their requirements, language, and way of thinking. We also address the communication challenges that business stakeholders are likely to encounter as they work closer with their technical-minded peers.

By the end of this training, participants will know how to:

- Write succinct user stories that capture the usage patterns of real users of the software.
- Translate their user stories into the behavioral language of BDD (Given, When, Then.)
- Derive test cases from these stories, for use by engineers to implement and test.
- Understand the relationship between product requirements, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
- Demystify the technical jargon that impedes communication and understanding.
- Install and use great tools for writing BDD feature files.
- Understand and appreciate what happens once the work is handed to engineers.
- Play a more active role in the iterative development cycle.

Introduction to Agile Testing

14 hours
Overview
Overview

This 2-day course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory’s (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for development teams who want to improve their testing practices in an Agile context.

It is also suitable for those intending to pursue testing as a specific career and is a suitable pre-requisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

Agile, TDD and Swift

35 hours
Overview
This 5 day course is for developers who wish to write high quality iOS applications in Swift. This is a hands on course which involves writing a number of increasingly complex high quality applications. Delegates will need to have an Apple copmputer with the latest version of OS X and Xcode installed. Delegates wishing to run applications on real devices, rather than emulators, will need to be registered with Apple as iOS developers and have their devices registered.

Agile and TDD with C

21 hours
Overview
TDD, or Test Driven Development, is an approach to developing software where coding, testing, and design occur in tandem throughout the software development cycle. Agile is a broader process and management approach to software development that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to write high-quality C applications using a TDD and Agile development approach. Participants will put their knowledge into practice by carrying out a series of hands-on exercises to create a well-designed and well-tested C application.

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

- Install and configure development and testing tools needed to carry out TDD
- Design, develop and unit test a C application using a TDD approach
- Apply planning and management practices of Agile development

Audience

- Developers
- Project managers

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Agile Software Testing Overview

7 hours
Overview
This course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory's (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Agile Software Testing with Continuous Integration

28 hours
Overview
Agile Software Testing is a series of testing practice that provides feesback to software quality issues in a timely and continuous manner following the principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) refers to all developers in a team merging their work several times a day.

Agile Software Testing

14 hours
Overview
This course has been created for test managers, quality assurance staff, testers, software developers, project managers and management in order to explain how the Agile project management frameworks (notably SCRUM) deal with testing.

At the end of the course, each of the delegates will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (it can be an actual client application if available)

Agile Project Management with Scrum

14 hours
Overview
Who should attend?

This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers and customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

Managing Agile Projects with Lean and Kanban

21 hours
Overview
This course is created for people who need to combine Agile (notably SCRUM), with Lean and Kanban togather to manage their projects.

It combines the worlds of product design and software design.

Agile Project Management with Kanban

14 hours
Overview
Target group:

IT Director, Project Manager, Technical Team Leader, Analyst, Software Developer, Tester

Learning objective:

The purpose of this training is to acquire knowledge and practice of the workshops aspects of Kanban and Agile foundations.

Upcoming Agile Courses

Agile Project Management with OrangeScrum

2019-11-10 09:30:00
Dubai
Remote
11700AED
 Classroom
14400AED
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Agile and TDD with C

2019-11-11 09:30:00
Abu Dhabi
Remote
17550AED
 Classroom
21100AED
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Codeship: Continuous Integration for Agile Development

2019-11-18 09:30:00
Abu Dhabi
Remote
5850AED
 Classroom
8500AED
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Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence

2019-11-19 09:30:00
Dubai
Remote
5850AED
 Classroom
8300AED
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GoCD: Continuous Delivery for Agile Development

2019-11-21 09:30:00
Dubai
Remote
5850AED
 Classroom
8300AED
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Visual Analytics – Data science

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Dubai
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Applied AI from Scratch in Python

10/27/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
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23400AED
23166AED
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Introductory R for Biologists

10/27/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
29400AED
26460AED
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32600AED
29660AED
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Introduction to IoT Using Raspberry Pi

10/30/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
11700AED
11583AED
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14400AED
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GDPR Advanced

11/05/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
17550AED
17375AED
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20500AED
20325AED
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Angular 7

11/10/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
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23400AED
23166AED
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26600AED
26366AED
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Buildroot: a Firmware Generator for Embedded Systems

11/11/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
7350AED
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9800AED
9727AED
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Raspberry Pi

11/13/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
5850AED
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8300AED
8242AED
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Introduction to R

12/16/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
22050AED
21830AED
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25000AED
24780AED
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CRISC - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control

12/17/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
9300AED
9207AED
 Classroom
12250AED
12157AED
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Docker and Kubernetes: Building and Scaling a Containerized Application

12/23/2019 - 09:30
Dubai
Remote
17550AED
17375AED
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20500AED
20325AED
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