Agile Academy Courses
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Agile Testing
Become an expert tester in an Agile environment, this two day course covers tester tasks and responsibilities in all phases of the project life cycle.
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Agile Initiate Phase Start Me Up
This course will guide you through each of the Initiation steps - solution refinement, story identification, story prioritisation, story estimation, and release planning - looking at the deliverables and techniques used to produce them.
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Agile Leadership
This one day course is tailored for people managers – learn Agile tools and techniques outside and around Agile projects to help lead high performing teams.
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Agile Project Management
This course is specifically designed for project or iteration managers to show you the key differences in leading & managing an Agile project compared to traditional software development methodologies. -
Agile Delivery Phase Start Me Up
The Delivery Phase follows the Initiate Phase. This 2 day course will give you an in-depth understanding of story elaboration, and experience real-life case studies on delivery iteration.
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Continuous Improvement using Lean and Agile
This course will look at general principles of continuous improvement, using Agile, lean manufacturing and lean software development as a starting point. -
Agile Facilitation
This course will help you improve your facilitation skills, so that you can be a more effective team and workshop leader. These skills are applicable on agile projects and in a range of other contexts. -
Agile for the Business
This 1 day course is tailored for the business, focussing on their role in an Agile project, typical pitfalls in an Agile project that would help them better appreciate and steer Agile projects. -
Agile for Legacy Applications and BAU
On this 1 day course you will look at ways you can incrementally add Agile practices to projects dealing with legacy applications and some tips and tricks to help you along the way. -
Taste of Agile
The participants get hands-on experience of the Agile values, principles and practices and what it means to work and think in an Agile manner in a team situation irrespective of whether software development is involved or not. -
Agile Programming with Test Driven Development (TDD)
The course delves into the development techniques embodied in eXtreme Programming and other Agile methods. -
Design Patterns for Agile Development
This course covers the fundamentals of object-oriented analysis and design, and the use of software design patterns. It is essential knowledge for developers on an agile team. -
Agile Concept Phase Start Me Up
This 2 day course will help you to start up a project/initiative in a structured Agile manner by carrying out a “Concept Phase" and to assess whether it makes business sense and is worth pursuing.
About Agile
Agile is not just a software development methodology but a way of working that helps deliver business value faster, cheaper and with less risk. If you are an IT professional within an IT department or organisation, or if you are a business professional in any sector, Agile values, principles and practices can help you optimise your team performance, your deliverables and related processes.
Agile started off as a software development and delivery methodology but over the last few years it has grown to be broader and scaled to the enterprise level. Organisations in all kinds of industries are finding that the Agile way of working is not just suitable for IT departments, but for the organisation as a whole and it is delivering tangible benefits in record time.
Agile is not a radical new methodology but rather an evolution of best practices and work philosophy that now has a definite shape and can be implemented to deliver substantial improvements and business value.
Agile Values
Values are ideals that teams should pursue as a goal.
Agile Principles
Principles are applications of the Agile Values or Ideals to a particular industry.
Value: Focuses on business benefits and risk mitigation.
Collaboration: Focuses on actively working together and leveraging collective knowledge.
Speed: Focuses on time-boxed delivery and sustainable development.
Flexibility: Focuses on adapting to business requirements and welcoming change.
Simplicity: Focuses on keeping things simple.
Teamwork: Focuses on creating empowered, self-adjusting teams.
Agile in Practice
There is more to Agile success than just using practices. However, practices can serve as valuable techniques to assist you in working Agile.