Learn foundational agile topics from a methodology-neutral, mindset-based approach. Agile fundamentals (ICP) is an industry-recognized credential that demonstrates an understanding of the agile mindset, values, principles, and foundational concepts. Professionals are grounded in what it means to "be agile while doing agile" and achieve organisational agility.
Agile ways of working are the focus for every team and every leader in most organisations and industries these days.
This course has been designed to develop participants' understanding of how this movement came about, how it has evolved over the past few decades, and what benefits as well as challenges embracing agility brings to people, teams and organisations.
Over this 2-day course, your trainer will give you pragmatic means to adopt Agile mindset and principles and an opportunity to become a high performing team, based on their own extensive experience in the field in various organisations and industries across 10+ countries.
The curriculum has been developed so as to teach you a variety of frameworks and practices, including the core elements of the most adopted Agile frameworks and approaches such as Scrum, XP and Kanban, practices such as Customer Centricity, Design Thinking and Lean Start-up, and techniques for planning, estimation and requirements specification.
Participants will gain a sound understanding of fundamental Agile concepts such as (but not limited to):This class is highly interactive with multiple activities, experiments and group discussions throughout the 2 days - do not expect to sit back and be bored by lectures on screen!
So, enjoy a good breakfast, load up on coffee or tea, and get your (virtual) sharpies and sticky notes out! Ready?
Participants will leave this course with the ability to:
Anyone wanting to learn about agile!
There are no prerequisites to attend this foundations class, whether or not you are working in IT.
No matter your industry, experience in the workforce or exposure to agile concepts, this class has been designed to be accessible and open to anyone.
It's a safe space to just be yourself and have fun while you learn.
To be eligible for receiving the ICAgile Certified Practitioner (ICP) certification, participants will have to be engaged in learning and actively participate during the class. An assessment of their understanding of the concepts covered will also be conducted during the course itself.
The starting point to adopt business agility and bring innovation outside of the software delivery space.
Solidify your knowledge of Scrum through practice in and engaging learning environment and an activity based course.