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Enterprise Agile Transformation VIDSCOLA Business Leadership Team
VIDSCOLA DWC – LLC
Dubai World Central – Dubai, UAE.
VIDSCOLA DWC - LLC 11/24/19 Contact us: [email protected]
WhatsApp Live Chat: +971 58 808 7155
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Contents
Introduction About VIDSCOLA ........................................................................................................................... 2
VIDSCOLA Services & Clients .............................................................................................................................. 2
Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 3
Organization Transformation - Typical Scenarios .......................................................................................... 3
Where Things Can Go Wrong ............................................................................................................................. 4
Our Approach ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Suggested First Steps for Your Organization ................................................................................................... 6
Our Coaching Team ............................................................................................................................................. 7
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Introduction About VIDSCOLA
VIDSCOLA is a world-class provider of specialized training and coaching services in IT and
Networks domains. We serve small, medium and large size companies across Middle East and
Africa by providing innovative training solutions, and consultancy services helping customers
in boosting their own capacities, enhancing their work flow, and breeding a skilled workforce.
Combining over a decade of expertise in IT and Networks industry, we recognize that the key
to success and growth in such a competitive domain is ultimate flexibility. We are committed
to constantly respond to customer needs by customizing top-quality solutions that meet
customer-specific demands and exceed their expectations.
VIDSCOLA Services & Clients
VIDSCOLA offers a comprehensive portfolio of training solutions and consultancy services to
its entire list of clients. Our premier catalog is rich with a plethora of solutions that cover a very
wide spectrum of services on different tracks, including Core & Tx Networks, Fixed & IP
Networks, Information Security, Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT Services and Business
Management, Agile and Lean transformation…etc.
Our training curriculum and tracks are designed to meet the needs of a diverse workforce
ranging from basic level trainees up to more experienced supervisors as well as high-level
experts and C level executives in the field.
Our teams of elite consultants and experts share the passion of “effective knowledge transfer”.
They are among the best-known experts in the field with decades of solid experiences working
for top multinationals and market leaders around the globe.
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Executive Summary
Organizational transformation towards agile tools and methods is extremely valuable when
successful. However, all too often, they are just a change of names of what we do that are
added as a façade; but underneath there are no real changes, and in turn, there is little
business value associated with such programs.
In this document, we describe a typical successful scenario (based on our work with many
organizations over the years), we describe what aspects are needed for a success (culture,
process, and technical), as well as our recommended approach.
Finally, we describe what can go wrong with a transformation, where training programs and
certification programs fit in, and suggest the first steps for your organization to get started
right away.
Organization Transformation - Typical Scenarios
It is not unusual for an organization to spend significant time and money "transforming" to an
agile approach. This is especially true for large, multi-national, organizations that live in an
ecosystem of competitors, both small and large, and need to be able to support changing
business needs and a changing landscape (i.e. agility in the English definition of the word).
Usually, they are looking for changes in time to market - for a competitive edge. Or for closer
customer collaboration and feedback. Sometimes there are quality problems that need to be
addressed to be able to maintain and grow their place in the market.
Unfortunately, after a huge start and investment, most organizations fail to realize what they
needed. A typical large-scale adoption includes training and coaching with significant
certifications in SAFe, LeSS or Disciplined Agile (the variety in the field is amazing, and
frustrating at the same time). Yet, we've spent many years, unfortunately, cleaning up after
large organizations and scaling methods as they rarely achieve their goals.
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Where Things Can Go Wrong
In general, things may go wrong in a variety of places. Each of these is enough to bring any
success to a halt.
• The program is "pushed down" from executives with not enough room for
customization of methods for contexts of particular parts in the organization. This
creates a mindset of obligation, and when things become difficult (as they always do),
people fall back to blaming each other for the failure and distancing themselves from
the problem.
• A "ground up" solution comes from the teams without executives buy-in. Frequently
these have quick successes, and unfortunately lose steam as different ways of working
clash with existing business environment and culture. Culture eats process for
breakfast, so the saying goes.
• The entire value stream of the organization's product lines is not taken into
consideration. So, even when successful changes take place, no value is seen from an
organizational standpoint as improvements get "stuck" downstream at the bottleneck.
• Process coaching is seen as the solution. Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc... are not
enough for success, which is unfortunate and hidden. In fact, very few coaches and
trainers around the world grasp this and have the skills to address it. Because, what
you need, is process, culture, and technical - without all three - it, unfortunately,
becomes a big waste of time and money for all involved.
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Our Approach
Our approach involves working with clients to give a broad swath of fundamentals training and
then to work with teams - with their management and executives - to make theory real. We
are extremely effective in describing a culture in practical terms and helping organizations
change their cultures to support high performing self-organizing teams (this is what Agile
teams are at their best).
A typical scenario from this approach is that we start with an assessment and understanding
of the team(s) involved and choose together a single pain or attribute (ex. slow time to market,
or quality problems) to work on. Then we create a customized training program that is spread
out over several months on an as-needed basis.
We work with the teams to learn practices, not processes (ex. story map, or limiting WIP,
instead of Kanban or SAFe) because they are targeted to their situation and the smaller step
you take, the more quickly you see results and the more tailored your end state. As we work
with a team, we may notice that current business practices clash with the new way of work -
such as fixed bid, fixed scope projects and an agile way of managing a backlog or story-map
while maintaining quality. We would then work to coach middle management and executives
to find an alternate set of rules and expectations that support the new way of work. This is an
example of thin-vertical-sliced coaching where we coach up and down the management chain
as needed.
Our goal for each of these training / coaching scenarios is to help the group reach
independence and continuous improvements without us. So, at a large scale we usually go
three rounds: one led completely by the external coach and trainer, another where they pair
with internal agile coaches and ScrumMasters, and a third where they support while the
internal coaches and ScrumMasters take the lead.
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Suggested First Steps for Your Organization
We believe the next step for a successful strategy implementation is to start rolling out
fundamentals’ classes as soon as possible. And then consider rolling out specialized classes for
product owners, developers, testers, HR, Sales and Marketing that focus on their problems
and start to take advanced techniques.
In the meantime, we highly recommend starting to plan a coaching program with teams and
departments that includes their managers and executives. These programs usually cycle at 4-
6 months per group until they achieve independence. Roughly one coach can handle about
20-person groups, and you will likely need a coaching team for any sizable group. We would
recommend also that you deal with experienced organization that’s capable of rolling out such
programs with at least one seasoned enterprise coach who is still hands-on and hasn't gotten
disconnected from real work and real delivery.
• Put the basic agile foundation and introduce the required culture change.
Foundation
• More specialized training programs on different agile techniques & Practices.
Specialized Training
• Joining staff on the ground, and coaching designated teams all the way up to executives.
Coaching Teams
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Our Coaching Team
Our coaching team is composed mainly of 3 main profiles:
▪ Executive Coach:
Experienced coach who has the ability and experience to coach senior executives,
create and modify corporate adoption strategies, and guide other coaches on the
team. The Executive Coach is considered the backbone of the whole service delivery,
where he always intervenes whenever needed to provide the required support and the
needed guidance. The Executive coach provides coaching/training for the leadership
team on what to expect and how to respond to friction and impediments to the current
business culture and environment that they are responsible for.
▪ Agile Coach:
Experienced Coach who supports multiple squads as a part of the coaching team. The
Agile Coach is always monitoring all agile practices across the whole organization,
pairing with the management to modify rules, processes and help them deploy the new
culture engine that can incubate a real transformation. He will often need to work with
leadership team outside of the tribe boundaries to be able to adapt factors that affect
the tribe members. Finally, he will pair regularly with internal Agile Coaches, roam
across the squads and help remove impediments as they arise.
▪ Player Coach:
Hands-on coach who joins as a member of the team. They not only help the team
through coaching, but actually work and produce code. As full members of the team,
they work with everyone to develop a rapport that enhances communication and
collaboration. They will help the squad focus on the bottleneck, build their T, and pair
with all roles (product owner, scrum master, developer, tester) to help them advance
their skillsets. Teams will get to know more on how to release early and often; usually
more early and more often than previously thought possible!
Certified Agile Learning Tracks VIDSCOLA DWC – LLC
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LEAN & AGILE
FUNDAMENTALS
COURSE OVERVIEW:
In this class you will experience working in a truly agile
way through a series of exercises designed to let you
see and feel the difference. You will work as a self-
organizing team, understand the basics of lean thinking
and visualize your value stream. You will then
understand and choose the agile practices that are
best for your context. Of course, we'll also cover agile
values and the manifesto, Scrum basics, Kanban
basics, and many of the common practices to be found
in the agile world. You will understand exactly how
these methods can improve your current way of work.
When we are done, you will have the fundamentals
needed to start your agile journey as well as a concrete
plan for you and your teams to start seeing value right
away.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Since the ICP is foundational and the gateway to all
other ICAgile tracks, the ICP certification has the
broadest target audience. It is appropriate for those
new to the agile world, and for practitioners who
recognize the need to focus on “being” agile in addition
to “doing” agile.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. HISTORY & MINDSET 1.1 History
1.1.1 Origins of Agile
1.1.2 Agile Manifesto
1.1.3 Agile Beyond Software Development 1.2 Culture & Mindset
1.2.1 Understanding the Agile Mindset
1.2.2 Establishing the Agile Mindset
1.2.3 Agile in Context (As a Journey) 2. INDIVIDUALS & INTERACTIONS
2.1 Creating Shared Understanding
2.1.1 Developing Soft Skills
2.1.2 Understanding Communication Barriers
2.1.3 Sharing Knowledge
2.1.4 Physical Work Environment
2.1.5 Collaboration Techniques
2.1.6 Techniques for Shared Understanding
2.2 Shifts in Roles 3. VALUE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
3.1 Incremental Development
3.2 Work-in-Progress (WIP)
4. CUSTOMER & USER INVOLVEMENT
4.1 Including Customers and Users
4.1.1 Defining Customers
4.1.2 User Involvement
4.1.3 User Feedback
4.2 Product Adaptation 5. PLANNING & ADAPTING
5.1 Planning & Estimation
5.2 Process Adaptation
5.3 Project Adaptation
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FACILITATION FOR AGILE
COACHES AND SCRUM
MASTERS
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Being a great coach or Scrum Master requires
excellent facilitation skills. In this class, you will
experience (not just learn theory) facilitating and
running effective meetings and conversations. You
will learn the essentials of the necessary human
dynamics needed for effective collaboration as well
as a number of concrete facilitation tools and
techniques and when to use them. Attend this class
to enhance your ability to guide an agile team
towards successful self-organization.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Agile team leaders or aspiring team leaders with a
passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn
and practice the art of facilitation in the context of
team facilitation and coaching. Relevant roles
include ScrumMasters, Agile Project Managers,
Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches, Product
Owners, Business Analysts, and anyone with the
desire to explore the power of facilitation.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGILE COACHING DISCIPLINE
1.1 Development Path for Agile Coaching
1.2 The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset
1.3 The Agile Coaching Mindset
2. COACH AS FACILITATOR 2.1 Foundational Facilitation Skills
2.2 Conducting a Facilitated Session
2.3 Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
2.4 Skillfully Facilitating the Agile Practices
3. COACH AS PROFESSIONAL COACH 3.1 Foundational Professional Coaching Skills
3.2 The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for
Action
4. COACH AS MENTOR 4.1 Key Mentoring Skills
4.2 Mentoring Agile Role Transitions
5. COACH AS TEACHER 5.1 Key Teaching Skills
5.2 Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks
6. COACH AS TEAM COACH 6.1 Foundational Team Coaching
6.2 Describing Team Development
6.3 Coaching the Journey toward High
Performance
6.4 Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the
Team
6.5 Handle Organizational Impediments
7. SET BOUNDARIES FOR AGILE COACHING 7.1 Coaching Alliances and Contracts
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BUSINESS VALUE ANALYSIS
& PRODUCT OWNERSHIP
COURSE OVERVIEW
Being an effective product owner or business
analyst on an agile team is a critical role. You
are responsible for collaborating with
stakeholders to decide what to build and then
work with the development team to describe
and prioritize the requirements. This is often
the most challenging role on an agile
team. Attend this class to get a deep,
experiential understanding of the role, tools,
and techniques to become a more effective
product owner.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Relevant roles include Business Analysts,
Product Owners, Product Managers,
Business Subject Matter Experts, or anyone
aspiring to these roles. Also, anyone with a
curiosity about agile approaches to value-
driven software delivery will benefit from this
certification.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. PRODUCT OWNERSHIP AS AN AGILE DISCIPLINE AND CRAFT
1.1 Product Ownership Maximizes Value
1.2 Levels of Product Ownership
1.3 Role Scope and Diversity
2. SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS FOR BUSINESS
VALUE ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT
OWNERSHIP
2.1 Thinking Skills 10
2.2 Behaviors
2.3 Value Leadership
2.4 Defining Enterprise Value
3. SEEKING VALUE
3.1 Determining Value in the Initiative
3.2 Value Context Around Initiatives
3.3 Communicating Value
3.4 Value Beyond Initiatives
4. THE DISCOVERY PROCESS
4.1 Understanding Stakeholders
4.2 The Bigger Picture
4.3 Analyze to Determine Value
4.4 Analyzing Beyond an Initiative
4.5 Exploring the Solution
5. THE CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY OF VALUE
5.1 Building for Discovery vs. Building for
Delivery
5.2 Managing Artifacts
5.3 Discovery Beyond an Initiative
5.4 Enabling Valuable Delivery
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BUSINESS AGILITY – ICP BAF
COURSE OVERVIEW
People at every level and in practically every role in
today's organizations are required to focus on
customer delight & bring innovation and continuous
improvement into their work. This is a hard
challenge and one that requires limbering up
muscles we often haven't used for many years. This
highly experiential set of learning outcomes equips
participants with new knowledge, tools, and
techniques to implement immediately. The ICAgile
Certified Professional in Business Agility
Foundations (ICP-BAF) is intended to jumpstart the
organizational and individual transformation
towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary
to enable organizational agility in today's innovative
business climate will find the Business Agility
Foundations course compelling. Although this is a
generalist certification and an entry point to several
of ICAgile’s tracks, it is not intended to be a direct
substitution for the ICAgile Certified Professional
credential. Those already holding the ICP are likely
to find this course compelling, especially if they are
on a journey towards business agility outside of a
software development context.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. SETTING THE SCENE FOR BUSINESS AGILITY 1.1 Awareness: The Need for Business Agility
1.2 Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of
Purpose
2. ENABLING BUSINESS AGILITY
2.1 New Ways of Thinking
2.2 New and Differentiating Behaviors
3. IMPLEMENTING AND SUSTAINING BUSINESS
AGILITY
3.1 Frameworks, Tools and Techniques
3.2 Business Agility as the New Normal
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AGILE PROGRAMMING:
HANDS-ON (TDD) AND
(BDD)
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Getting great results from Agile methodologies is
dependent more than just Scrum or Kanban, or any
of the well-known processes. These results only
come when you pair a good team process with great
technical practices like Test Driven Development
and Behavior Driven Development. Bring your
laptops, set up your IDE, and roll up your sleeves for
this class - it is TOTALLY hands on. In this class,
you will learn and experience these amazing skills
by doing it. Practice writing your tests first, refactor,
and do it again. Not only will you do this for a new
project, but we have some legacy code for you to
put under test also. Then, we will jump right in and
use the same red-green-refactor loop with human
readable/writable tests in Gherkin so that you can
work with your non-coding teammates to build the
right thing.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Agile Developers, Programmers, Development
Managers, Technical Team Leads or other team
members involved in development or who would like
to increase their agile programming knowledge.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. AUTOMATED TESTS 1.1 Unit Testing
1.2 Readable Tests
1.3 Test Coverage
2. REFACTORING 2.1 Code Smells
2.2 Refactoring with Existing Tests
2.3 Dealing with Legacy Code
3. DESIGN 3.1 Architecture
3.2 Design-In-The-Large
3.3 Simplicity - Simple and Good Design
3.4 Patterns
3.5 Design for Automated Testing
3.6 Technical Debt
4. TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT 4.1 TDD
4.2 BDD
5. ACCEPTANCE TESTING 5.1 LIVING DOCUMENTATION
5.2 ATDD
6. COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT 6.1 Collective Responsibility
6.2 Pair Programming
6.3 Technical Leadership
7. THE BUILD PROCESS 7.1 BUILD TOOLS AND VERSION CONTROL
7.2 CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
7.3 CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
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AGILE TESTING: BECOME
AN AFFECTIVE TESTER ON
AGILE TEAM
COURSE OVERVIEW
Agile teams are sometimes a scary perspective for
testers. Small iterations, whole teams, automation,
and a whole new set of ways to work; where do you
fit as a tester on an Agile team? How does your role
and responsibilities change? In this class, we will
delve deeply into what it means to be a tester on
such a team. We cover concrete practices and
approaches such as behavior driven development,
test automation, and the importance of test data as
well as understand how all of this fits together with
the test automation pyramid and the Agile testing
quadrants. Attend this class to get yourself ready to
be an effective tester on an Agile team.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This certification will be most relevant for Agile
testers or aspiring agile testers with a passion for
collaboration and software quality along with a
desire to learn and practice agile testing techniques.
Relevant roles include Testers, Test Managers,
Analysts, and Developers with an interest in testing.
COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
1. AGILE TESTING MINDSET 1.1 Overview of Agile Testing
1.2 Mindset & Culture
2. TESTING TECHNIQUES 2.1 Categories of Testing
2.2 Collaborating with Developers
2.3 Example Driven Development
2.4 Feature and Story Testing
3. AGILE TESTING PROCESS 3.1 Roles and Responsibilities
3.2 Test Strategy and Planning
3.3 Successful Delivery
3.4 Test Environments and Infrastructure
3.5 Working on Distributed Teams
4. TEST AUTOMATION 4.1 Test Automation Strategy
4.2 Continuous Integration
4.3 Automating Story and Feature Testing
4.4 Automation Support for Integration and
System Testing
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CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
COURSE OVERVIEW
This two-day workshop will empower you with in-
depth knowledge of Scrum and its application to
complex project problems. You will earn the
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation
awarded by the Scrum Alliance; the most widely
recognised network of agile software
development professionals in the world.
You will gain direct experience with Scrum and
learn about the context from which the framework
emerged. Through direct experience and deep
understanding of the intentions of Scrum, you will
have confidence to apply the techniques
effectively in your particular project situations.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile
Project Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring
coaches, Product Owners, Business
Analysts, and Team Leads or Team Members
who are interested in learning more about Scrum
and leading Agile projects.
COURSE DURATION: 2 FULL DAYS
COURSE OBJECTIVES
▪ Experience Scrum through high-energy
simulations
▪ Explore cultural values that enable Scrum
▪ Identify problems that will benefit from
Scrum
▪ Evaluate and challenge traditional
management paradigms
▪ Relate Scrum to agile methods such as
XP, DevOps, Lean and Kanban
▪ Gain insights into motivation, teams,
coaching, customer-supplier
collaboration, contracts, risk management
& organizational change
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CERTIFIED SCRUM
PRODUCT OWNER
COURSE OVERVIEW
This two-day workshop will empower you with in-
depth knowledge of Scrum and its application to
complex project problems. You will earn the
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) designation
awarded by the Scrum Alliance; the most widely
recognised network of agile software development
professionals in the world.
You will gain direct experience with creating,
managing and prioritising business initiatives using
the Scrum framework. Through direct experience
and deep understanding of Scrum, you will have
confidence to apply the techniques effectively in
your particular project situations.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile
Project Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring
coaches, Product Owners,Business Analysts, and
Team Leads or Team Members who are
interested in learning more about Scrum and
leading Agile projects.
COURSE DURATION: 2 FULL DAYS
COURSE OUTLINE
▪ Practice creating shared project goals &
company vision.
▪ Explore company values essential for
innovation.
▪ Practice stakeholder facilitation
techniques.
▪ Explore customer-supplier collaboration
techniques.
▪ Apply estimating, planning and project
tracking techniques.
▪ Practice requirements gathering and
business analysis skills.
▪ Gain insights into team motivation, agile
contracts, risk management &
organizational change.
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CERTIFIED SCRUM
DEVELOPER
COURSE OVERVIEW
Upon successful completion, delegates can obtain
technical requirements for the Scrum Alliance Certified
Scrum Developer® (CSD) designation. With over 1 million
members, the Scrum Alliance is the most established and
recognised Agile certification authority and network of
Agile practitioners in the world.
The course is taught using an iterative and incremental
approach, whereby the same techniques and principles
are visited repeatedly within the context of several
hands-on exercises.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Anyone seeking first-hand experience in software
engineering techniques that are essential for Scrum
teams to succeed will benefit. This includes technical
business analysts, Scrum Masters, project managers,
developers, technical testers, and architects.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
Delegates are expected to have basic knowledge of
object-oriented programming as well as at least 1
month of hands-on experience with an object-
oriented programming language for example C# or
Java gained at some point in their career – even as a
student.
COURSE OUTLINE
On completion of the Certified Scrum
Developer® course, delegates will be able to:
▪ Apply 12 Extreme Programming
techniques
▪ Apply the principles and values of the
Agile Manifesto to new situations
▪ Apply Test Driven Development and
Behaviour Driven Development
techniques
▪ Design and set up Continuous Integration
▪ Apply Agile techniques to large projects
involving distributed teams
▪ Quantify code quality and apply
refactoring
▪ Extend Agile principles to software
architecture
This course follows the Scrum Alliance Certified
Scrum Developer® syllabus. The hands-on
approach to this course ensures that, more than
60% of this course is comprised of labs and
technical exercises.
COURSE DURATION Course should be consumed over 3 full days.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE
SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is the most popular
methodology for scaling up software development
operations and gaining maximum utilization of your
people and resources. SAFe is a collection of popular
movements, frameworks and mindsets and practices,
such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, DevOps,
Lean, Continuous Delivery and System Thinking, along
with some new roles and meetings which attempts to tie
them all together in one unified model.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion, attendees will be able to
describe the popular frameworks that make up SAFe,
their origins and how they support each other. Attendees
will also be able to describe the various versions of SAFe
and the unique practices in each of them.
By the end of this course attendees will have a shared
vocabulary of SAFe terminology and the confidence to
participate in discussions regarding it application.
Attendees will also have adequate background
knowledge which will allow them to evaluate SAFe, and
to tailor SAFe to create their own customised
frameworks for their own circumstances.
COURSE OUTLINE
This course will incorporate hands on activities and
discussions. The course is structured but the
sequence of topics will largely be driven by the
questions and discussions from the attendees.
The main topics to be discussed and explored during
the course are:
▪ Agile Software Development and its Origins
▪ Scrum
▪ Kanban
▪ Extreme Programming
▪ Product Planning and Roadmaps
▪ Requirements gathering techniques
▪ DevOps
▪ Lean and Value Streams
▪ Continuous Delivery
▪ SAFe roles
▪ Framework creation
▪ The need for Scaling
▪ The role of Software Architecture in Scaling
▪ At least two case studies where SAFe was
attempted
This course is taught by trainers who are qualified in
the latest and most effective training techniques.
These trainers also have real-world experience with
SAFe and experience in designing and applying other
scaling techniques and governance models.
COURSE DURATION Course should be consumed over 2 full days.