Certified ScrumMaster

Course Overview

Scrum is an agile framework for maximising the value of product development. This may take the form of a project but Scrum is designed to be applicable to both project and non-project environments.  Scrum uses an empirical approach based on iterative and incremental development with regular feedback to enable maximisation of return on investment.

Day(s): 1

Course Code: GKCSM

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Certified Scrum Product Owner

Course Overview

In a Scrum team, the Product Owner maximises value to its customers and users through the regular and frequent delivery of valuable product releases.  The Product Owner role therefore can be both difficult and very rewarding.

On this course you will learn how to be an effective Product Owner.    Through a number of hands on exercises and interactive learning experiences you will learn how to get your stakeholders and team excited about your product, how to effectively communicate what you want your product to do and how to maximise return on investment in a fun and exhilarating environment.  You will also learn some of the common pitfalls experienced by Product Owners and strategies to overcome these.

Day(s): 1

Course Code: GKCSPO

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Scrum in a Day

Course Overview

Scrum is an agile framework for complex projects. Scrum was originally formalised for software development, but works well for any complex, innovative scope of work. As such, today Scrum is the most popular of all agile approaches and is used by thousands of organisations worldwide. This one-day course provides an introduction to Scrum and an overview of the principles and practicalities of its implementation and use for Agile development and delivery.

Day(s): 1

Course Code: SA1

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An Overview of Agile Project Management

Course Overview

Learn what Agile project management can mean for you.
Agile software development methods differ significantly from traditional plan-based approaches, affecting how projects are planned and managed. In this course, you will explore the ways in which your role as the project manager differs on an Agile project. You will learn to form and coach a self-directed team, facilitate continuous collaboration with your customer, embrace changing requirements, and deliver business value (production-ready software) to your customer early and regularly throughout the project.

This virtual short course, specifically designed to give you a quick convenient way to renew and refresh your project management skills, maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification, and earn PDUs on your own time, at your own pace.

Virtual short courses do not include materials or headsets.

 

 PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK2728

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The Business Analyst in an Agile Environment

Course Overview

This is a self-paced GK Digital Learning product. GK Digital learning products are created by world-class production and instructional design teams to deliver an experience that feels more like a classroom than traditional e-learning with hands-on activities for real-world results. In addition to high quality video content and hands-on labs you will have access to subject matter experts to ask questions for feedback and support.

 

In this course, you'll learn how to discover your role within an Agile team's software development, how to adapt the techniques you already use to the Agile environment, and how to use some new requirement techniques specific to Agile. Each project will be different, and the role of the BA (business analyst) may vary from project to project. However, the concepts remain relatively stable and, assuming a willingness to be adaptable (agile), you will find an exciting new way of being a BA.

 

A major thrust of the course is the necessity of collaborative teamwork—others may take on part of the activities for which you have sole responsibilities in the Waterfall projects; you will be more closely involved in the work management of the team.

This course is consistent with the themes of the Agile Manifesto and the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide. Since most teams use hybrid approaches, the course considers Agile methodologies generically, rather than adhering to branded approaches, such as Scrum, XP, or Kanban.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK7652

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PRINCE2 Agile®

Course Overview

This course covers the new qualification from AXELOS which represents an extension to PRINCE2®.  The course is equally divided between practical exercises and theory as it examines how to use PRINCE2® in an agile context.  The course ends with an exam that allows you to achieve PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner status.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: P2A

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Agile Boot Camp: An Interactive Introduction to Software Development

Course Overview

Explore Software Agility from a Variety of Perspectives

 

There’s more to Agile development than simply a different style of programming. That’s often the easy part. An effective Agile implementation completely changes your methods for:

 

- Requirements gathering
- Project estimation and planning
- Team leadership
- Producing high quality software
- Working with your stakeholders and customers
- Team developmentWhile not a silver bullet, the Agile framework is quickly becoming the most practical way to create outstanding software. This course explores the leading approaches of today’s most successful Agile teams. - You’ll learn the basic premise and techniques behind Agile so you can apply them to your projects.

 

Discover and Harness Strengths across Various Methodologies

 

Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean, Feature Driven Development and other methods each have their strengths. While there are significant similarities under the Agile umbrella, each method brings specific tools for team success. Rarely do organizations adopt one methodology in its pure form. Rather, success is achieved by combining best practices. In class, you will work to define an approach for your unique needs.

 

- Practice how to be and develop a self-organized team
- Create and communicate a product vision
- Understand your customer and develop customer roles and personas
- Initiate the requirements process by developing user stories and your product backlog
- Put together product themes from your user stories and establish a desired product roadmap
- Conduct story point estimating to determine effort needed for user stories to ultimately determine iteration(s) length
- Take into consideration assumed team velocity with story point estimates and user story priorities to come up with your release plan
- Conduct retrospectives after each iteration
- Run a course retrospective to enable an individual plan of execution on how to conduct Agile in your environment
- Engage the planning and execution of your iteration

Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK2505

Delivery Methods:

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Agile Project Management

Course Overview

As companies increasingly adopt the agile methodology to manage a wide spectrum of projects, project managers and team members at all levels must learn how to effectively apply this approach to maximize results. If your role involves managing or working on projects in an existing agile environment or if your company is planning to implement agile soon, then take this course to learn how to manage an agile project from inception to closeout.

 

This course provides a thorough understanding of the agile process and extensive opportunities to practice implementing agile best practices throughout a project’s life cycle. You will learn about agile concepts such as the minimum viable product (MVP), project envisioning, team velocity, estimating and prioritizing user stories, how to manage risk, effective techniques to identify key stakeholders and their success criteria, and best practices for leading agile teams.

 

The course exercises provide hands-on experience in all areas of agile project management including developing an agile team, understanding client needs, creating user stories, estimating required resources, and prioritizing features. This course also covers how to coach and collaborate effectively, including integrating with teams using different methodologies. In addition, you will plan iterations, identify risk, modify stories in the backlog, and coordinate a release.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK2923

Delivery Methods:

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Agile Testing

Course Overview

Transition sound traditional test practices into an Agile development environment.
By using a step-by-step approach, this course documents how to transition from traditional test practices to an Agile testing approach. Learning the goals of Agile will help you transition, implement, and monitor testing in the high-speed Agile testing environment. Agile principles add value to your organization.

Building on traditional risk-based test practice, we are now being challenged by incremental delivery. To address, and not inhibit, we examine the concept of pair testing. Strengthening relationships in a team setting helps to build a sense of common purpose. Working in parallel eliminates hand-offs, late stage testing, and an opportunity for incremental confirmed component delivery. This program builds on what we know and adapts to what we have: Agile delivery. Traditional methods become a barrier under new development methods and place further pressure on the test team to feel a sense of value compromise. The new-found, high-speed test delivery opens new areas of opportunity to build strength in product quality, process improvement, and test confidence.

Learn to transition to Agile testing practices across the entire release cycle. Despite changes in methods and approaches, we continually slide back into old test habits. Often we leave methods behind, rather than transition from them. We throw everything away and do a wholesale replacement without putting to bed the reasons for change. Most testing works but only within the development context that it was framed. The program will reflect tradition against Agile testing, what changes we must make, and the role that we will play. Testing is not a service but an integrated part of the development team.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK2504

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Introduction to Agile

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Day(s): 2

Course Code: GK2506

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Agile Project Management - Practitioner

Course Overview

This course covers how to operate in such an Agile fashion within an overall project framework which is accredited as a stable-mate to PRINCE2 and based on the DSDM Atern approach. Through practical experience of the Agile style of working, case studies and example scenarios from a highly experienced trainer, it provides delegates with an understanding of how the Agile Project Management process can enable planning, management and control for predictable Agile project deliveries.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: AGILEPMP

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Agile Project Management - Foundation and Practitioner

Course Overview

Agile approaches such as eXtreme Programming, Scrum and Lean Software Development are becoming increasingly mainstream. They describe how to successfully deliver in complex situations when requirements and possible solutions are subject to continuous change; but they stop short of describing a full project lifecycle with defined Phases, Work Products, Roles and Responsibilities. This course covers how to operate in such an agile fashion within an overall project framework which is accredited as a stable-mate to PRINCE2 and based on the DSDM Agile Project Framework (DSDM APF) approach. Through practical experience of the agile style of working, case studies and example scenarios from a highly experienced trainer, it provides delegates with an understanding of how the Agile Project Management process can enable planning, management and control for predictable Agile project deliveries.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: AGILEPMFP

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Agile Project Management - Foundation

Course Overview

Agile approaches such as eXtreme Programming, Scrum and Lean Software Development are becoming increasingly mainstream. They describe how to successfully deliver in complex situations when requirements and possible solutions are subject to continuous change; but they stop short of describing a full project lifecycle with defined Phases, Work Products, Roles and Responsibilities. This course covers how to operate in such an Agile fashion within an overall project framework based on the DSDM Atern approach. Through practical experience of the Agile style of working, case studies and example scenarios from a highly experienced trainer, it provides delegates with an understanding of how the Agile Project Management process can enable planning, management and control for predictable Agile project deliveries.

Day(s): 2

Course Code: VMNSXFT

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