Hasten the timeframe between ideas & outcomes
Keep up with the demands of today’s ever-changing workforce.
Influence executives to innovate.
Agile Fundamentals is an interactive and engaging two-day course that focuses on the agile mindset, values, principles and foundational concepts for professionals.
On completion of the program, participants will receive an internationally recognised certificate from ICAgile, a leading body of agile practitioners.
Why learn agile?
Agile is a smarter way of working based on flexibility and collaboration, enabling you to deliver results quickly.
By understanding what agility means you’ll be able to:
- Empower teams to rapidly develop products and services that customers love
- Apply principles and tools to increase productivity
- Utilise agile rituals such as sprint planning, daily stand ups and sprint reviews
Course overview
What you'll learn...
Day 1
- Activity: Meet and greet
- Simulation: Kanban board
- Theory: Introduction to agile principles
- Theory: Agile Manifesto
- Exercise: Pocket sized principles
- Theory: Beyond software development
- Activity: The agile mindset
- Exercise: Getting to the heart of agile
- Activity: Paper plane game
- Theory: Agile as a journey
- Exercise: Developing soft skills
- Theory: Agile collaboration techniques
- Simulation: Soft skills and collaboration in practice: the communication race
Day 2
- Theory: Introduction to customer and user personas
- Simulation: Knowledge management project
- Theory: Introduction to estimations
- Activity: Presentation – planning poker
- Activity: Cooking estimation game
- Activity: Incremental development
- Activity: Get to work game
- Activity: Scrum techniques game
- Theory: Scrum overview
- Exercise: Work-in-progress
- Activity: Sudokuban game
- Exercise: Storytelling
Contact us about our courses
Book your place on the next public course
Where
Melbourne
9 Brighton Street, Richmond
Meet the trainers
ALLY HANCOCK
EXPERIENCE LEAD DESIGN
Ally is a UX Design Lead and runs a team of passionate user experience Designers. With over 12 years experience in UX, UI Design, UX Research, Product Design and Service Design she brings an expertise in creating human centered digital experiences. Ally runs a fun and engaging Design Thinking course for Silicon Block.
ALLANNAH RODRIGUES
HEAD OF AGILE
Allannah has over 10 years in industry working with large organisations in all things digital. She is an experienced agile coach and business process consultant and has been involved in leading large scale agile transformations. She has a background in project management, business operations and digital product design and has successfully built and led multidisciplinary teams.
HAMISH DOAKE
AGILE COACH & TRAINER
Hamish is an experienced agile coach and trainer. With over 8 years experience working in digital delivery teams, he draws on his vast experience and uses real world examples to reinforce his lessons. Hamish has worked with various large corporates as an agile project manager and agile product manager.
HARRIET ASPINALL
EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
Hattie is an Experience Designer and Design Thinking course facilitator. She’s passionate about utilising data and insights to create experiences which are fluid, functional and with minimalistic aesthetics. Hattie also facilities Design Thinking workshops for younger students wanting to up-skill.
DAVID COX
HEAD OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
David is a strategic Customer Experience (CX) consultant with over 20 years of industry experience as a creative technologist, designer, developer and process designer. David creates products, services and experiences that resonate with people and allow technology to have a positive impact on their lives.
“Highly innovative training style, with integrated digital and multimedia delivery. I recommend the certification to anyone seeking principles and frameworks to apply the agile mind set within their organisation.
EMILY KNOWLES
Business Consultant, Nous
“We’ve found that the enhanced communication around shared work priorities has helped us get more out of every hour & work cohesively as a team.
STEPHANIE BARR
Founder & MD, Barr Group
“The simulations and game-based learning activities allowed for easy and fast understanding of the agile principles – with immediate application.
BRENDAN THORNTON
Senior Business Partner, Australia Post
“I found it a fun, engaging and very informative experience. I'm walking away knowing how to apply agile, not just the theory itself.
