Agile Foundation

This certification is a key requirement for the following jobs:

• Software testers
• Software developers
• Product owners
• Business analysts and Scrum Masters

• The Agile Manifesto
• Rationale & Benefits of Agile
• Individuals and their Interactions over Processes and Tools
• Working Systems over Comprehensive Documentation
• Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiations
• Responding to Change over Following a Plan
• Common Agile Roles
• Common Agile Techniques
• Common Agile Practices
• Relevant Methods and Approaches for Agile Teams

This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

• Any professionals requiring an understanding of Agile
• Organizational leaders and managers wanting to understand the value of Agile practices

• The Agile Manifesto (5%,K1)
  • 4 Values
  • 12 Principles
• Rationale & Benefits of Agile (30%,K3)
  • History of Agile
  • Empirical and defined processes
  • The pillars of the empirical process
  • The waterfall approach
  • The iron triangle of project constraints
  • Working with uncertainty and volatility
  • Agile myths
  • Empirical models for improvement and change
  • Business culture and Agile
  • The economic case for Agile
  • The lifecycle of product development
• Individuals and their Interactions over Processes and Tools (5%,K3)
  • Motivated and Talented Individuals
  • Emergent design from Self-Organising Teams
• Working Systems over Comprehensive Documentation (5%,K3)
  • Satisfy the Customer with Continuous Delivery of Value
  • Deliver Working Systems Frequently
  • Working Systems as a Measure of Progress
  • Technical Excellence and Good Design
• Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiations (5%,K3)
  • Business People and Developers Must Work Together 7
  • Face-to-face Communications
  • Reflect and Adjust Regularly
• Responding to Change over Following a Plan (5%,K3)
  • Embrace Change
  • Sustainable Pace
  • Simplicity – The Art of Maximising the Amount of Work Not Done

• Common Agile Roles (10%,K3)
  • The Role of the Customer
  • The Role of the Team
  • The Role of the Agile Leader
  • The Role of Stakeholders
  • The Agile Mindset
• Common Agile Techniques (15%,K3)
  • User Stories
  • Acceptance Criteria and Scenarios
  • MoSCoW Prioritisation
  • Estimation using Story Points
  • Agile quality assurance and testing
• Common Agile Practices (10%,K3)
  • Short Feedback Loops
  • Focus on Quality
  • Emergent Documentation
  • Visual Boards
  • Team Synchronisation Meeting
  • Show and Tells
  • Retrospectives
  • Continuous Improvement
• Relevant Methods and Approaches for Agile Teams (10%,K2)
  • Scrum
  • XP
  • DSDM Atern
  • Kanban
  • Lean
  • Lean Startup