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 one day course is tailored for the business, focussing on their role in an Agile project, and typical pitfalls in an Agile project that would help them better appreciate and steer Agile projects. -
Agile for Legacy Applications and BAU
On this one 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 UpThis 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.
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Agile Design, Architecture and Technical Leadership
This course examines the values, principles and philosophy behind Agile architecture and design and looks at the technical leadership role through all phases of an Agile project.
ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks is changing the way that enterprise software is delivered. In seven countries we have gathered the best and brightest software development practitioners and they serve our clients through a mixture of consultancy, project delivery and tools.
Through our production services we work with our clients to design, build, deploy and evolve systems that are truly an asset to our clients' businesses. Through our consultancy services, we provide insight into tough problems, transform IT organisations, provide objective support for big decisions, troubleshoot technology, projects and mobilise delivery programmes. Through our Studios division we create simple, innovative software leveraging our development expertise.
We were early adopters of Lean and Agile methods and have adapted them to enterprise and distributed projects. This enables us to take on high risk, business critical projects while simultaneously creating very high quality, innovative software assets. We have helped clients tailor and adopt similar practices in their drives to eliminate waste and improve speed to market. The knowledge gained from fourteen years of client delivery is also channelled into developing innovative products which help us and other people deliver value through technology.
At every stage in the software delivery life cycle, from the earliest conception of a proposition, all the way through creation, deployment and evolution of a business asset, ThoughtWorks is revolutionising enterprise software delivery. For more information about ThoughtWorks and how we can assist you with providing training from the Agile Academy please contact us.
ThoughtWorks are proud to be a partner of the Agile Academy. Because our business is about delivering better software and showing our customers how to do the same, all our trainers are experienced and current practitioners. Learning directly from people who deliver solutions for a living ensures the training experience is rich with practical advice.