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Agility Foundations

What is Agile? What are the foundational principles? Learn about Scrum, Kanban, and how the core principles of Agile are applied to digital product development. In this course, you will gain an understanding of:

• Agile Values and Principles 
• Social Contracts – The Glue of Agile 
• Key Agile Roles 
• Scrum Overview 
• Agile Requirements 
• Visualizing Work 
• Writing User Stories 
• Estimation and Planning

Who should attend:

The Foundations of Scrum Mastery course is suitable for existing Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project managers, and others assuming the role of an Agile Team facilitator.

Duration: 2 Days, 10 AM - 4 PM

Foundations of Product Ownership

Overview:

While the role and responsibilities of the Product Owner can be described simply enough, very little is said about the day-to-day practice of those fulfilling the role. If you are a new Product Owner, you may be wrestling with competing demands for time and information from your team and stakeholders. Or perhaps you have been a Product Owner for a while. If so, are you working long hours trying to keep up with the work? Either way, join us to learn the tools to help maximize your potential.

This workshop will teach you how to handle the complex responsibilities of a great Product Owner including: how to manage and prioritize product backlogs utilizing business value and other industry prioritization methods, plan releases, track progress, estimate business value, drive a Sprint Review, effectively prepare and participate in Sprint Planning and learn how to scale Scrum projects.  Leave with the skills and renewed excitement to generate business value and fully leverage your Scrum team.

Who should attend:

The Foundations of Product Ownership course is suitable for existing Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, Team leaders, Portfolio Managers, Program Managers and those working with Products.

Duration: 2 Days, 10 AM - 4 PM

Foundations of Scrum Mastery

Overview:

No matter how long you have been practicing Scrum, Foundations of Scrum Mastery is the next few pieces of the puzzle. It is a true immersion into the world of a Scrum Master in a SAFe environment. We will explore facilitation, teaching, modeling, and coaching to drive measurable results. We take the time to utilize techniques that help the Delivery Team, Product Owner, and the organization succeed.

The class is full of real-world examples from the participants’ experiences and coaches through practical tools and techniques that can be implemented immediately at your workplace. The course is a deep dive with hands-on activities and exercises to demonstrate key concepts .

Who should attend:

The Foundations of Scrum Mastery course is suitable for existing Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project managers, and others assuming the role of an Agile Team facilitator.

Duration: 2 Days, 10 AM - 4 PM

LACE Explained: Business Agility

What is Business Agility? How can a business be Agile? In this foundational course we will explore concepts from the world of Agile software development and examine how they are being applied to a multitude of disciples, and learners will work together to identify processes issues that Agile methodologies and practices can mitigate.

Who should attend:

Anyone who is interested in the Business Agility buzzword. Business teams who are interested in the adoption of agility practices.

Learners will:

1. Understand what is Business Agility
2. Recognize the benefits of adopting Business Agility
3. Explore the application of Agile Practices for Business Teams
4. Discuss Business Agility implementation within CMS

Duration: 2 Hours

LACE Explained: CCSQ LACE Team Dashboards

Understanding Agility Metrics

The CCSQ LACE dashboard is available for all Scrum and Kanban teams within CCSQ. For those unfamiliar with Agility Metrics, this short session will include a walkthrough of the team dashboard, an overview of each dashboard element, and how to set up the dashboards.

This session will also help learners interpret and understand the stories the dashboard elements tell, and how to leverage the dashboards to ask the right questions to help accelerate the maturity, health, and speed of delivery of your programs.

Who should attend:

Program leaders, product managers, scrum masters, and anyone else with a vested interest in elevating team performance

Duration: 1 Hour

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LACE Explained: DevOps

Have you ever wondered what people are talking about when DevOps comes up? You know the buzzwords: Continuous integration, CI/CD pipeline, automated deployments, etc. The DevOps explained session is an overview of attributes, benefits, and practices of the culture of DevOps, and will help you understand participate in conversations with teams and stakeholders about DevOps.

Who should attend:

The DevOps Explained session is appropriate for anyone who wants to know what DevOps actually is, understand the practices and its impact on software quality, and how it is one of the critical skill sets of software agility.

Duration: 2 hours