This two day course combines the best tools and ideals from Extreme Programming, Scrum, Lean and Lean Startups. Immersion exercises will help you learn by trying and will bring to the surface the questions that you don’t yet know to ask.

• Agile Background: Principle and values, team composition, agile styles, and an overview of agile practices
• Team Skills: collaborative and informative workspace, stand up / daily scrum meetings
• Product Design: collaborative chartering, pragmatic personas, story maps, product backlogs and paper prototypes and sketching
• Agile Planning: release planning, iteration / sprint planning, visual planning, cross team planning, distribute planning, acceptance tests
• Agile Delivery: burn up / downs charts, velocity, task boards, kanban, TDD, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Pairing
• Learning and Adjusting: Product reviews, retrospectives

• Concrete understanding of core agile concepts and terms
• Tools for building better backlogs and doing deeper product discovery
• Fundamental skills around planning and tracking and learning from iterations
• Understanding of how to use iteration data to adjust team structure, technology decisions and product direction

• Leaders: Managers, executives, directors
• Business: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts
• Development: Developers, Testers, Architects, Data Modelers
• Operations: Operations managers, Deployment Teams, Training Staff