Applying Metrics for Predictability (AMP) Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in understanding the Waterfall model and exploring how its traditional shortcomings have been addressed, including through Agile methodologies.

Day one provides an overview of various approaches, helping you determine which might best suit your organizational environment.

On day two, we examine project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures paired with group discussions.
• Abundant exercises and practical drills.
• Hands-on implementation within a live laboratory environment.

Customization Options

• For tailored training on this course, please reach out to us to make arrangements.

This course targets the business analyst’s role in ensuring success on Agile projects. Participants will learn how to collaborate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will work through a mock project to practice common scenarios.

The iSQI Agile Essentials course offers a globally recognized qualification designed for professionals engaged in agile projects who wish to familiarize themselves with working in an agile environment. This includes Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Directors, and Management Consultants. The course consists of eight sections and guides participants through the agile project lifecycle, from release planning and writing user stories to the iteration review (showcase) and retrospective. The first day emphasizes key principles, with 55% theory and 45% exercises, while the second day focuses on practical application, with 40% theory and 60% exercises.

Course Objectives

• Value the principles behind the agile manifesto and its approach to software development
• Appreciate the roles within an agile team
• Understand how to contribute as an agile team member to quantifiable requirements
• Apply Whole Team quality methods to ensure acceptance criteria are met
• Appreciate the importance of effective Iteration Reviews and how to contribute to continuous improvement through retrospectives

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is designed for marketing executives who want 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:

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

Agile Software Testing encompasses a set of practices designed to provide timely and continuous feedback on software quality issues, aligning with the core principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) involves team members merging their code changes multiple times a day to ensure consistent software health.

This course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers essential testing concepts within the framework of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory's Agile Testing Quadrants model to examine modern Agile testing principles and practices.

This course equips you with the essential concepts, principles, and techniques of Agile Team Facilitation, which are vital for guiding teams toward higher levels of maturity. In an Agile environment, effective collaboration and well-managed team meetings are key to success, with the Agile Team Facilitator playing a central role in nurturing self-organization. You will develop the facilitation mindset required to design and lead collaborative sessions, helping teams achieve superior results and growth. Acting as a foundation for aspiring Agile Coaches, this course emphasizes both skill acquisition and mindset evolution. Explore powerful group facilitation tools and methods to engage participants and deliver tangible outcomes in workshops and meetings.

This intensive two-day program offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers fundamental testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore the modern 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 appropriate for individuals planning to pursue testing as a dedicated career path and serves as a suitable prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

Objective:

This course empowers Business Analysts to master the efficient modeling and validation of business processes and resources. The goal is to enhance organizational agility by aligning operations with target architecture and responding effectively to evolving market demands.

Over the course of two days, participants will learn to model business processes and resources, enabling them to adapt to shifts in goals, strategies, and impacted capabilities within the context of the target architecture. Leveraging key performance drivers such as strategies, tactics, KPIs, and business capabilities, delegates will acquire the skills to create a vision-centric business process and resource map. Furthermore, using appropriate BPMN and UML notations tailored to their professional language, they will understand how to adjust these models in response to changing strategies, tactics, and policies.

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, yet learners often concentrate more on the software itself rather than the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led, live training unveils the synergistic power of Jira and Confluence, demonstrating how they work together to help teams successfully deliver their products or projects. Participants will learn to leverage these tools efficiently to centralize user requirements, testing, and communication in a single location.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning and dependencies, Jira/Confluence integration, reporting, key fields, custom fields, issue types, screens, and filtering.

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

• Create Scrum or Kanban projects
• Configure Jira to effectively manage the project
• Handle issues with precision
• Design appropriate screens for specific issue types
• Create workflows and boards, understanding their interplay
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analyses
• Generate and review essential reports for the team and management

Lean is a methodology designed to maximize value while minimizing waste in processes.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level banking and process management professionals who wish to apply Lean and Agile techniques 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 techniques 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 techniques in case-based scenarios.

Course Customization Options

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

PAQ is a 3-day experiential exam preparation training course with a focus on honing practical skills that can be implemented back in the workplace.

The exam takes the format of a ‘hands-on’ assessment where candidates are given a product backlog release which includes user stories, associated design documentation plus a ‘multi-drop’ application seeded with defects. Candidates will be given instructions as to what is expected of them during the practical assessment and the opportunity to create the work products required. Each practical assessment will contain 1or 2 additional scenario-based questions requiring written answers (up to 5 questions in total) that cover a selection of competencies. These written answers will be marked along with the answers to the product backlog release by an independent assessor. Assessment duration is 2.5 hours.

This Leading SAFe Agilist certification positions you as a key stakeholder in your organization’s success. Highly valued across various industry sectors, it not only equips you to deliver value through Agile Release Trains but also empowers you to lead a Lean-Agile transformation.