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Enterprise Agile Transformation VIDSCOLA Business Leadership Team

VIDSCOLA DWC – LLC

Dubai World Central – Dubai, UAE.

VIDSCOLA DWC - LLC 11/24/19 Contact us: [email protected]

WhatsApp Live Chat: +971 58 808 7155

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Contents

Introduction About VIDSCOLA ........................................................................................................................... 2

VIDSCOLA Services & Clients .............................................................................................................................. 2

Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 3

Organization Transformation - Typical Scenarios .......................................................................................... 3

Where Things Can Go Wrong ............................................................................................................................. 4

Our Approach ........................................................................................................................................................ 5

Suggested First Steps for Your Organization ................................................................................................... 6

Our Coaching Team ............................................................................................................................................. 7

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Introduction About VIDSCOLA

VIDSCOLA is a world-class provider of specialized training and coaching services in IT and

Networks domains. We serve small, medium and large size companies across Middle East and

Africa by providing innovative training solutions, and consultancy services helping customers

in boosting their own capacities, enhancing their work flow, and breeding a skilled workforce.

Combining over a decade of expertise in IT and Networks industry, we recognize that the key

to success and growth in such a competitive domain is ultimate flexibility. We are committed

to constantly respond to customer needs by customizing top-quality solutions that meet

customer-specific demands and exceed their expectations.

VIDSCOLA Services & Clients

VIDSCOLA offers a comprehensive portfolio of training solutions and consultancy services to

its entire list of clients. Our premier catalog is rich with a plethora of solutions that cover a very

wide spectrum of services on different tracks, including Core & Tx Networks, Fixed & IP

Networks, Information Security, Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT Services and Business

Management, Agile and Lean transformation…etc.

Our training curriculum and tracks are designed to meet the needs of a diverse workforce

ranging from basic level trainees up to more experienced supervisors as well as high-level

experts and C level executives in the field.

Our teams of elite consultants and experts share the passion of “effective knowledge transfer”.

They are among the best-known experts in the field with decades of solid experiences working

for top multinationals and market leaders around the globe.

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Executive Summary

Organizational transformation towards agile tools and methods is extremely valuable when

successful. However, all too often, they are just a change of names of what we do that are

added as a façade; but underneath there are no real changes, and in turn, there is little

business value associated with such programs.

In this document, we describe a typical successful scenario (based on our work with many

organizations over the years), we describe what aspects are needed for a success (culture,

process, and technical), as well as our recommended approach.

Finally, we describe what can go wrong with a transformation, where training programs and

certification programs fit in, and suggest the first steps for your organization to get started

right away.

Organization Transformation - Typical Scenarios

It is not unusual for an organization to spend significant time and money "transforming" to an

agile approach. This is especially true for large, multi-national, organizations that live in an

ecosystem of competitors, both small and large, and need to be able to support changing

business needs and a changing landscape (i.e. agility in the English definition of the word).

Usually, they are looking for changes in time to market - for a competitive edge. Or for closer

customer collaboration and feedback. Sometimes there are quality problems that need to be

addressed to be able to maintain and grow their place in the market.

Unfortunately, after a huge start and investment, most organizations fail to realize what they

needed. A typical large-scale adoption includes training and coaching with significant

certifications in SAFe, LeSS or Disciplined Agile (the variety in the field is amazing, and

frustrating at the same time). Yet, we've spent many years, unfortunately, cleaning up after

large organizations and scaling methods as they rarely achieve their goals.

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Where Things Can Go Wrong

In general, things may go wrong in a variety of places. Each of these is enough to bring any

success to a halt.

• The program is "pushed down" from executives with not enough room for

customization of methods for contexts of particular parts in the organization. This

creates a mindset of obligation, and when things become difficult (as they always do),

people fall back to blaming each other for the failure and distancing themselves from

the problem.

• A "ground up" solution comes from the teams without executives buy-in. Frequently

these have quick successes, and unfortunately lose steam as different ways of working

clash with existing business environment and culture. Culture eats process for

breakfast, so the saying goes.

• The entire value stream of the organization's product lines is not taken into

consideration. So, even when successful changes take place, no value is seen from an

organizational standpoint as improvements get "stuck" downstream at the bottleneck.

• Process coaching is seen as the solution. Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc... are not

enough for success, which is unfortunate and hidden. In fact, very few coaches and

trainers around the world grasp this and have the skills to address it. Because, what

you need, is process, culture, and technical - without all three - it, unfortunately,

becomes a big waste of time and money for all involved.

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Our Approach

Our approach involves working with clients to give a broad swath of fundamentals training and

then to work with teams - with their management and executives - to make theory real. We

are extremely effective in describing a culture in practical terms and helping organizations

change their cultures to support high performing self-organizing teams (this is what Agile

teams are at their best).

A typical scenario from this approach is that we start with an assessment and understanding

of the team(s) involved and choose together a single pain or attribute (ex. slow time to market,

or quality problems) to work on. Then we create a customized training program that is spread

out over several months on an as-needed basis.

We work with the teams to learn practices, not processes (ex. story map, or limiting WIP,

instead of Kanban or SAFe) because they are targeted to their situation and the smaller step

you take, the more quickly you see results and the more tailored your end state. As we work

with a team, we may notice that current business practices clash with the new way of work -

such as fixed bid, fixed scope projects and an agile way of managing a backlog or story-map

while maintaining quality. We would then work to coach middle management and executives

to find an alternate set of rules and expectations that support the new way of work. This is an

example of thin-vertical-sliced coaching where we coach up and down the management chain

as needed.

Our goal for each of these training / coaching scenarios is to help the group reach

independence and continuous improvements without us. So, at a large scale we usually go

three rounds: one led completely by the external coach and trainer, another where they pair

with internal agile coaches and ScrumMasters, and a third where they support while the

internal coaches and ScrumMasters take the lead.

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Suggested First Steps for Your Organization

We believe the next step for a successful strategy implementation is to start rolling out

fundamentals’ classes as soon as possible. And then consider rolling out specialized classes for

product owners, developers, testers, HR, Sales and Marketing that focus on their problems

and start to take advanced techniques.

In the meantime, we highly recommend starting to plan a coaching program with teams and

departments that includes their managers and executives. These programs usually cycle at 4-

6 months per group until they achieve independence. Roughly one coach can handle about

20-person groups, and you will likely need a coaching team for any sizable group. We would

recommend also that you deal with experienced organization that’s capable of rolling out such

programs with at least one seasoned enterprise coach who is still hands-on and hasn't gotten

disconnected from real work and real delivery.

• Put the basic agile foundation and introduce the required culture change.

Foundation

• More specialized training programs on different agile techniques & Practices.

Specialized Training

• Joining staff on the ground, and coaching designated teams all the way up to executives.

Coaching Teams

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Contact us: [email protected]

WhatsApp Live Chat: +971 58 808 7155

Our Coaching Team

Our coaching team is composed mainly of 3 main profiles:

▪ Executive Coach:

Experienced coach who has the ability and experience to coach senior executives,

create and modify corporate adoption strategies, and guide other coaches on the

team. The Executive Coach is considered the backbone of the whole service delivery,

where he always intervenes whenever needed to provide the required support and the

needed guidance. The Executive coach provides coaching/training for the leadership

team on what to expect and how to respond to friction and impediments to the current

business culture and environment that they are responsible for.

▪ Agile Coach:

Experienced Coach who supports multiple squads as a part of the coaching team. The

Agile Coach is always monitoring all agile practices across the whole organization,

pairing with the management to modify rules, processes and help them deploy the new

culture engine that can incubate a real transformation. He will often need to work with

leadership team outside of the tribe boundaries to be able to adapt factors that affect

the tribe members. Finally, he will pair regularly with internal Agile Coaches, roam

across the squads and help remove impediments as they arise.

▪ Player Coach:

Hands-on coach who joins as a member of the team. They not only help the team

through coaching, but actually work and produce code. As full members of the team,

they work with everyone to develop a rapport that enhances communication and

collaboration. They will help the squad focus on the bottleneck, build their T, and pair

with all roles (product owner, scrum master, developer, tester) to help them advance

their skillsets. Teams will get to know more on how to release early and often; usually

more early and more often than previously thought possible!

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Certified Agile Learning Tracks VIDSCOLA DWC – LLC

Dubai World Central – Dubai, UAE.

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TRAINING CATALOG

LEAN & AGILE

FUNDAMENTALS

COURSE OVERVIEW:

In this class you will experience working in a truly agile

way through a series of exercises designed to let you

see and feel the difference. You will work as a self-

organizing team, understand the basics of lean thinking

and visualize your value stream. You will then

understand and choose the agile practices that are

best for your context. Of course, we'll also cover agile

values and the manifesto, Scrum basics, Kanban

basics, and many of the common practices to be found

in the agile world. You will understand exactly how

these methods can improve your current way of work.

When we are done, you will have the fundamentals

needed to start your agile journey as well as a concrete

plan for you and your teams to start seeing value right

away.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Since the ICP is foundational and the gateway to all

other ICAgile tracks, the ICP certification has the

broadest target audience. It is appropriate for those

new to the agile world, and for practitioners who

recognize the need to focus on “being” agile in addition

to “doing” agile.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. HISTORY & MINDSET 1.1 History

1.1.1 Origins of Agile

1.1.2 Agile Manifesto

1.1.3 Agile Beyond Software Development 1.2 Culture & Mindset

1.2.1 Understanding the Agile Mindset

1.2.2 Establishing the Agile Mindset

1.2.3 Agile in Context (As a Journey) 2. INDIVIDUALS & INTERACTIONS

2.1 Creating Shared Understanding

2.1.1 Developing Soft Skills

2.1.2 Understanding Communication Barriers

2.1.3 Sharing Knowledge

2.1.4 Physical Work Environment

2.1.5 Collaboration Techniques

2.1.6 Techniques for Shared Understanding

2.2 Shifts in Roles 3. VALUE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

3.1 Incremental Development

3.2 Work-in-Progress (WIP)

4. CUSTOMER & USER INVOLVEMENT

4.1 Including Customers and Users

4.1.1 Defining Customers

4.1.2 User Involvement

4.1.3 User Feedback

4.2 Product Adaptation 5. PLANNING & ADAPTING

5.1 Planning & Estimation

5.2 Process Adaptation

5.3 Project Adaptation

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FACILITATION FOR AGILE

COACHES AND SCRUM

MASTERS

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Being a great coach or Scrum Master requires

excellent facilitation skills. In this class, you will

experience (not just learn theory) facilitating and

running effective meetings and conversations. You

will learn the essentials of the necessary human

dynamics needed for effective collaboration as well

as a number of concrete facilitation tools and

techniques and when to use them. Attend this class

to enhance your ability to guide an agile team

towards successful self-organization.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Agile team leaders or aspiring team leaders with a

passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn

and practice the art of facilitation in the context of

team facilitation and coaching. Relevant roles

include ScrumMasters, Agile Project Managers,

Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches, Product

Owners, Business Analysts, and anyone with the

desire to explore the power of facilitation.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGILE COACHING DISCIPLINE

1.1 Development Path for Agile Coaching

1.2 The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset

1.3 The Agile Coaching Mindset

2. COACH AS FACILITATOR 2.1 Foundational Facilitation Skills

2.2 Conducting a Facilitated Session

2.3 Facilitating Collaborative Meetings

2.4 Skillfully Facilitating the Agile Practices

3. COACH AS PROFESSIONAL COACH 3.1 Foundational Professional Coaching Skills

3.2 The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for

Action

4. COACH AS MENTOR 4.1 Key Mentoring Skills

4.2 Mentoring Agile Role Transitions

5. COACH AS TEACHER 5.1 Key Teaching Skills

5.2 Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks

6. COACH AS TEAM COACH 6.1 Foundational Team Coaching

6.2 Describing Team Development

6.3 Coaching the Journey toward High

Performance

6.4 Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the

Team

6.5 Handle Organizational Impediments

7. SET BOUNDARIES FOR AGILE COACHING 7.1 Coaching Alliances and Contracts

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BUSINESS VALUE ANALYSIS

& PRODUCT OWNERSHIP

COURSE OVERVIEW

Being an effective product owner or business

analyst on an agile team is a critical role. You

are responsible for collaborating with

stakeholders to decide what to build and then

work with the development team to describe

and prioritize the requirements. This is often

the most challenging role on an agile

team. Attend this class to get a deep,

experiential understanding of the role, tools,

and techniques to become a more effective

product owner.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Relevant roles include Business Analysts,

Product Owners, Product Managers,

Business Subject Matter Experts, or anyone

aspiring to these roles. Also, anyone with a

curiosity about agile approaches to value-

driven software delivery will benefit from this

certification.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. PRODUCT OWNERSHIP AS AN AGILE DISCIPLINE AND CRAFT

1.1 Product Ownership Maximizes Value

1.2 Levels of Product Ownership

1.3 Role Scope and Diversity

2. SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS FOR BUSINESS

VALUE ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT

OWNERSHIP

2.1 Thinking Skills 10

2.2 Behaviors

2.3 Value Leadership

2.4 Defining Enterprise Value

3. SEEKING VALUE

3.1 Determining Value in the Initiative

3.2 Value Context Around Initiatives

3.3 Communicating Value

3.4 Value Beyond Initiatives

4. THE DISCOVERY PROCESS

4.1 Understanding Stakeholders

4.2 The Bigger Picture

4.3 Analyze to Determine Value

4.4 Analyzing Beyond an Initiative

4.5 Exploring the Solution

5. THE CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY OF VALUE

5.1 Building for Discovery vs. Building for

Delivery

5.2 Managing Artifacts

5.3 Discovery Beyond an Initiative

5.4 Enabling Valuable Delivery

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BUSINESS AGILITY – ICP BAF

COURSE OVERVIEW

People at every level and in practically every role in

today's organizations are required to focus on

customer delight & bring innovation and continuous

improvement into their work. This is a hard

challenge and one that requires limbering up

muscles we often haven't used for many years. This

highly experiential set of learning outcomes equips

participants with new knowledge, tools, and

techniques to implement immediately. The ICAgile

Certified Professional in Business Agility

Foundations (ICP-BAF) is intended to jumpstart the

organizational and individual transformation

towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary

to enable organizational agility in today's innovative

business climate will find the Business Agility

Foundations course compelling. Although this is a

generalist certification and an entry point to several

of ICAgile’s tracks, it is not intended to be a direct

substitution for the ICAgile Certified Professional

credential. Those already holding the ICP are likely

to find this course compelling, especially if they are

on a journey towards business agility outside of a

software development context.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. SETTING THE SCENE FOR BUSINESS AGILITY 1.1 Awareness: The Need for Business Agility

1.2 Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of

Purpose

2. ENABLING BUSINESS AGILITY

2.1 New Ways of Thinking

2.2 New and Differentiating Behaviors

3. IMPLEMENTING AND SUSTAINING BUSINESS

AGILITY

3.1 Frameworks, Tools and Techniques

3.2 Business Agility as the New Normal

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AGILE PROGRAMMING:

HANDS-ON (TDD) AND

(BDD)

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Getting great results from Agile methodologies is

dependent more than just Scrum or Kanban, or any

of the well-known processes. These results only

come when you pair a good team process with great

technical practices like Test Driven Development

and Behavior Driven Development. Bring your

laptops, set up your IDE, and roll up your sleeves for

this class - it is TOTALLY hands on. In this class,

you will learn and experience these amazing skills

by doing it. Practice writing your tests first, refactor,

and do it again. Not only will you do this for a new

project, but we have some legacy code for you to

put under test also. Then, we will jump right in and

use the same red-green-refactor loop with human

readable/writable tests in Gherkin so that you can

work with your non-coding teammates to build the

right thing.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Agile Developers, Programmers, Development

Managers, Technical Team Leads or other team

members involved in development or who would like

to increase their agile programming knowledge.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. AUTOMATED TESTS 1.1 Unit Testing

1.2 Readable Tests

1.3 Test Coverage

2. REFACTORING 2.1 Code Smells

2.2 Refactoring with Existing Tests

2.3 Dealing with Legacy Code

3. DESIGN 3.1 Architecture

3.2 Design-In-The-Large

3.3 Simplicity - Simple and Good Design

3.4 Patterns

3.5 Design for Automated Testing

3.6 Technical Debt

4. TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT 4.1 TDD

4.2 BDD

5. ACCEPTANCE TESTING 5.1 LIVING DOCUMENTATION

5.2 ATDD

6. COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT 6.1 Collective Responsibility

6.2 Pair Programming

6.3 Technical Leadership

7. THE BUILD PROCESS 7.1 BUILD TOOLS AND VERSION CONTROL

7.2 CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

7.3 CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

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TRAINING CATALOG

AGILE TESTING: BECOME

AN AFFECTIVE TESTER ON

AGILE TEAM

COURSE OVERVIEW

Agile teams are sometimes a scary perspective for

testers. Small iterations, whole teams, automation,

and a whole new set of ways to work; where do you

fit as a tester on an Agile team? How does your role

and responsibilities change? In this class, we will

delve deeply into what it means to be a tester on

such a team. We cover concrete practices and

approaches such as behavior driven development,

test automation, and the importance of test data as

well as understand how all of this fits together with

the test automation pyramid and the Agile testing

quadrants. Attend this class to get yourself ready to

be an effective tester on an Agile team.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This certification will be most relevant for Agile

testers or aspiring agile testers with a passion for

collaboration and software quality along with a

desire to learn and practice agile testing techniques.

Relevant roles include Testers, Test Managers,

Analysts, and Developers with an interest in testing.

COURSE DURATION: 3 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

1. AGILE TESTING MINDSET 1.1 Overview of Agile Testing

1.2 Mindset & Culture

2. TESTING TECHNIQUES 2.1 Categories of Testing

2.2 Collaborating with Developers

2.3 Example Driven Development

2.4 Feature and Story Testing

3. AGILE TESTING PROCESS 3.1 Roles and Responsibilities

3.2 Test Strategy and Planning

3.3 Successful Delivery

3.4 Test Environments and Infrastructure

3.5 Working on Distributed Teams

4. TEST AUTOMATION 4.1 Test Automation Strategy

4.2 Continuous Integration

4.3 Automating Story and Feature Testing

4.4 Automation Support for Integration and

System Testing

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CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER

COURSE OVERVIEW

This two-day workshop will empower you with in-

depth knowledge of Scrum and its application to

complex project problems. You will earn the

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation

awarded by the Scrum Alliance; the most widely

recognised network of agile software

development professionals in the world.

You will gain direct experience with Scrum and

learn about the context from which the framework

emerged. Through direct experience and deep

understanding of the intentions of Scrum, you will

have confidence to apply the techniques

effectively in your particular project situations.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile

Project Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring

coaches, Product Owners, Business

Analysts, and Team Leads or Team Members

who are interested in learning more about Scrum

and leading Agile projects.

COURSE DURATION: 2 FULL DAYS

COURSE OBJECTIVES

▪ Experience Scrum through high-energy

simulations

▪ Explore cultural values that enable Scrum

▪ Identify problems that will benefit from

Scrum

▪ Evaluate and challenge traditional

management paradigms

▪ Relate Scrum to agile methods such as

XP, DevOps, Lean and Kanban

▪ Gain insights into motivation, teams,

coaching, customer-supplier

collaboration, contracts, risk management

& organizational change

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CERTIFIED SCRUM

PRODUCT OWNER

COURSE OVERVIEW

This two-day workshop will empower you with in-

depth knowledge of Scrum and its application to

complex project problems. You will earn the

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) designation

awarded by the Scrum Alliance; the most widely

recognised network of agile software development

professionals in the world.

You will gain direct experience with creating,

managing and prioritising business initiatives using

the Scrum framework. Through direct experience

and deep understanding of Scrum, you will have

confidence to apply the techniques effectively in

your particular project situations.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile

Project Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring

coaches, Product Owners,Business Analysts, and

Team Leads or Team Members who are

interested in learning more about Scrum and

leading Agile projects.

COURSE DURATION: 2 FULL DAYS

COURSE OUTLINE

▪ Practice creating shared project goals &

company vision.

▪ Explore company values essential for

innovation.

▪ Practice stakeholder facilitation

techniques.

▪ Explore customer-supplier collaboration

techniques.

▪ Apply estimating, planning and project

tracking techniques.

▪ Practice requirements gathering and

business analysis skills.

▪ Gain insights into team motivation, agile

contracts, risk management &

organizational change.

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CERTIFIED SCRUM

DEVELOPER

COURSE OVERVIEW

Upon successful completion, delegates can obtain

technical requirements for the Scrum Alliance Certified

Scrum Developer® (CSD) designation. With over 1 million

members, the Scrum Alliance is the most established and

recognised Agile certification authority and network of

Agile practitioners in the world.

The course is taught using an iterative and incremental

approach, whereby the same techniques and principles

are visited repeatedly within the context of several

hands-on exercises.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone seeking first-hand experience in software

engineering techniques that are essential for Scrum

teams to succeed will benefit. This includes technical

business analysts, Scrum Masters, project managers,

developers, technical testers, and architects.

COURSE PREREQUISITES

Delegates are expected to have basic knowledge of

object-oriented programming as well as at least 1

month of hands-on experience with an object-

oriented programming language for example C# or

Java gained at some point in their career – even as a

student.

COURSE OUTLINE

On completion of the Certified Scrum

Developer® course, delegates will be able to:

▪ Apply 12 Extreme Programming

techniques

▪ Apply the principles and values of the

Agile Manifesto to new situations

▪ Apply Test Driven Development and

Behaviour Driven Development

techniques

▪ Design and set up Continuous Integration

▪ Apply Agile techniques to large projects

involving distributed teams

▪ Quantify code quality and apply

refactoring

▪ Extend Agile principles to software

architecture

This course follows the Scrum Alliance Certified

Scrum Developer® syllabus. The hands-on

approach to this course ensures that, more than

60% of this course is comprised of labs and

technical exercises.

COURSE DURATION Course should be consumed over 3 full days.

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TRAINING CATALOG

INTRODUCTION TO THE

SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is the most popular

methodology for scaling up software development

operations and gaining maximum utilization of your

people and resources. SAFe is a collection of popular

movements, frameworks and mindsets and practices,

such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, DevOps,

Lean, Continuous Delivery and System Thinking, along

with some new roles and meetings which attempts to tie

them all together in one unified model.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion, attendees will be able to

describe the popular frameworks that make up SAFe,

their origins and how they support each other. Attendees

will also be able to describe the various versions of SAFe

and the unique practices in each of them.

By the end of this course attendees will have a shared

vocabulary of SAFe terminology and the confidence to

participate in discussions regarding it application.

Attendees will also have adequate background

knowledge which will allow them to evaluate SAFe, and

to tailor SAFe to create their own customised

frameworks for their own circumstances.

COURSE OUTLINE

This course will incorporate hands on activities and

discussions. The course is structured but the

sequence of topics will largely be driven by the

questions and discussions from the attendees.

The main topics to be discussed and explored during

the course are:

▪ Agile Software Development and its Origins

▪ Scrum

▪ Kanban

▪ Extreme Programming

▪ Product Planning and Roadmaps

▪ Requirements gathering techniques

▪ DevOps

▪ Lean and Value Streams

▪ Continuous Delivery

▪ SAFe roles

▪ Framework creation

▪ The need for Scaling

▪ The role of Software Architecture in Scaling

▪ At least two case studies where SAFe was

attempted

This course is taught by trainers who are qualified in

the latest and most effective training techniques.

These trainers also have real-world experience with

SAFe and experience in designing and applying other

scaling techniques and governance models.

COURSE DURATION Course should be consumed over 2 full days.