Agile Essentials Training Course

This two-day course is ideal for IT professionals interested in the Waterfall model and traditional methods used to address its limitations, such as Agile methodologies.

The first day provides an overview of these approaches, helping you determine which may be best suited for your environment.

On the second day, we explore project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile that can be effectively applied in both Waterfall and Agile settings.

Course Format

• Engaging lectures and discussions.
• Abundant exercises and practical sessions.
• Real-time implementation in a live-lab setting.

Customization Options for the Course

• To tailor this course to your needs, please reach out to us to make arrangements.

This course is designed to equip business analysts with the skills needed for success in Agile projects. Attendees will gain insights into collaborating effectively with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Customer to streamline the development process. The training includes practical exercises through a simulated project, covering typical scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is aimed at marketing executives who wish to understand how to leverage Agile frameworks to optimize growth marketing strategies, create customer-centric products, and achieve scalable growth.

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

• Understand the key frameworks used in agile product management.
• Analyze the potential demand for new products and services.
• Learn how to price new products and techniques for tuning value.

Agile Software Testing is a set of testing practices that delivers prompt and ongoing feedback on software quality issues, adhering to the principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) involves all team developers merging their work multiple times daily.

This course offers an introductory overview of Agile software testing. It focuses on fundamental testing concepts within the Agile (Scrum) development methodology, utilizing Crispin & Gregory's (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine modern Agile testing principles and practices.

In this course, master the Agile Team Facilitation concepts, principles, and techniques, crucial for leading teams to higher maturity levels. Effective team meetings and collaboration are essential for success in an Agile environment, and the Agile Team Facilitator plays a pivotal role in guiding teams towards self-organization. Gain the facilitation mindset needed to design and conduct collaborative meetings, driving teams towards better results and maturity. This course serves as a stepping-stone towards becoming an Agile Coach, focusing on both skills and mindset transformation. Learn group facilitation tools and techniques to engage the audience and achieve desired outcomes in meetings and workshops.

Overview

This 2-day course offers an introductory look into Agile software testing. It covers fundamental test concepts within the framework of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model to delve into modern principles and practices in Agile testing.

Intended Audience

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

It is also ideal for individuals looking to specialize in testing as a career path, serving as a suitable prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester certification.

Applying Metrics for Predictability will give you the tools you need to answer those questions predictably. In this course, attendees will learn what metrics are necessary for accurate forecasting, how to visualize those metrics in appropriate analytics, how to use those analytics to make reliable forecasts and understand risk, and, finally, how to make meaningful interventions for overall process improvement.

Objective:

This training is designed to assist Business Analysts in effectively modeling and validating business processes and resources. The goal is to enhance the agility of their organization by aligning these models with target architecture and evolving market demands.

Over two days, this course will guide participants on how to model their business processes and resources to accommodate shifts in goals, strategies, and impacted capabilities within their target architecture. By focusing on critical aspects of business performance such as strategies, tactics, KPIs, and business capabilities, delegates will learn to create a vision-centric map of business processes and resources. Using the appropriate BPMN and UML notations tailored to their needs, participants will gain insights into adapting these models in response to changes in strategy, tactics, and policies.

Objective:

This training course is designed to assist product managers, product owners, business analysts, system architects, and developers in effectively managing requirements from the initial product vision through accurate guidance for implementation.

In more detail, this course aims to help product managers articulate the value propositions of their products based on strategic goals and stakeholder needs. Business analysts and product owners will learn how to define product backlog requirements, identify relevant epics and user stories, and contribute to creating necessary value. Through interactive case studies, participants will gain skills in detailing these requirements to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs and prepare system acceptance tests. By utilizing a widely used and efficient UML profile, they will also learn how to organize requirements for effective communication with architects and developers throughout an iterative requirement gathering process.

Audience:

• Product Managers
• Product Owners
• Business Analysts
• Anyone Interested in the Requirements Management Process

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.

JIRA Software is a robust tool for project management, often leading people to focus more on the tool itself rather than the methodology.

This instructor-led live training aims to introduce participants to the capabilities of Jira and Confluence when used together. The goal is to support the team in successfully delivering their product or project. Participants will learn how to effectively utilize these tools for managing user requirements, testing, and communication all within a centralized platform.

The course will cover topics such as setting up JIRA projects, creating Confluence spaces, understanding workflows and boards (Kanban and Scrum), planning and dependencies, integrating Jira with Confluence, reporting, key fields and custom fields, issue types, screens, and filtering techniques.

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

• Create a project using either Scrum or Kanban methodologies
• Configure Jira for effective project management
• Effectively manage issues within the system
• Design necessary screens to handle different issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand how they interact with each other
• Conduct both basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review essential reports for team and management purposes

Lean is a methodology focused on maximizing value while minimizing waste in processes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level banking and process management professionals who wish to apply Lean and Agile tools to improve efficiency in managing requirements, projects, and operational processes.

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

• Understand and apply Lean principles in the context of banking processes.
• Use Lean tools to optimize requirements gathering and project execution.
• Implement and manage Kanban boards for effective workflow management.
• Identify and eliminate waste in banking and service-oriented processes.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on application of Lean and Agile tools in case-based scenarios.

Course Customization Options

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

PAQ is a three-day experiential training program designed to prepare participants for their exam while enhancing practical skills that can be directly applied in their workplace.

The exam consists of a ‘hands-on’ evaluation where candidates are provided with a product backlog release, which includes user stories and related design documentation, along with a 'multi-drop' application containing defects. Candidates will receive clear instructions on the expectations for the practical portion of the assessment and will have the chance to produce the necessary work products. Each practical assessment will also include one or two scenario-based questions that require written responses (up to five questions in total), covering various competencies. These written answers, along with the responses to the product backlog release, will be evaluated by an independent assessor. The entire assessment lasts for 2.5 hours.