Formation SAFe® for Teams

Target group:

IT Director, Project Manager, Technical Team Leader, Analyst, Software Developer, Tester

Learning objective:

The purpose of this training is to acquire knowledge and practice of the workshops  aspects of Kanban and Agile foundations.

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.
 
The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.
 
You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

 

This course is created for people who need to combine Agile (notably SCRUM), with Lean and Kanban togather to manage their projects.

It combines the worlds of product design and software design.

 

Avez-vous du mal à mettre en œuvre Agile dans votre organisation ? Le changement est-il trop normatif ? Vos équipes sont surchargées et moins productives mais toujours trop résistantes pour un changement révolutionnaire ?

Choisissez la « Voie alternative vers l'agilité » et mettez en œuvre une méthode de changement Management évolutive et humaine qui ne change pas votre processus mais l'améliore.

La méthode Kanban fournit des conseils pragmatiques, exploitables et fondés sur des preuves pour un changement évolutif réussi. Cela commence par ce que vous faites maintenant et respecte les rôles, responsabilités et titres de poste actuels. Cela permet aux organisations de faire évoluer progressivement leurs processus métier, de définir et d'utiliser des indicateurs pertinents pour mesurer les progrès et de réduire considérablement les risques associés aux programmes de changement complexes.

Si votre équipe est débordée, Kanban peut vous aider à reprendre le contrôle de votre travail. Kanban est une nouvelle technique permettant de gérer dynamiquement votre processus et de révéler les goulots d'étranglement.

Cette formation fournit les compétences et les connaissances dont vous avez besoin pour appliquer Kanban dans votre travail et apprendre à déterminer sur quoi travailler maintenant, sur quoi laisser à plus tard et sur quoi retirer définitivement de la liste de tâches.

Résultats d'apprentissage

Ce cours d'une journée enseigne les bases de la Méthode Kanban® et sert de niveau d'entrée et de point de départ vers une voie alternative vers l'agilité.

Les participants doivent se familiariser avec la méthode Kanban. Ils doivent être capables de concevoir et de mettre en œuvre un tableau Kanban de base. Ils doivent être capables de comprendre les types d’éléments de travail et les risques associés à des éléments de travail spécifiques. Ils doivent être familiers avec une variété de conceptions et de styles de tableaux Team Kanban et savoir comment choisir la conception la mieux adaptée à leur contexte. Ils doivent être conscients de la feuille de route de la formation ainsi que de la valeur et des avantages qui en découlent à chaque étape de la « voie alternative vers l’agilité ».

Qui devrait être présent

Ce cours est conçu pour tout professionnel faisant partie d'un environnement de développement de produits ou de connaissances et souhaitant découvrir comment Kanban peut contribuer à améliorer les environnements de travail. Kanban fonctionne dans plusieurs fonctions d'une organisation, depuis les cadres supérieurs cherchant à adopter Lean Management jusqu'aux membres des équipes de livraison désireux d'améliorer leurs pratiques de travail. Les participants précédents à nos cours ont occupé des rôles tels que :

Postes de direction (CxO) Chefs de programme et de projet Chefs de produit, propriétaires de produits et analystes commerciaux Scrum Membres de l'équipe Scrum Maîtres, chefs d'équipe et agents de changement Développeurs et testeurs de produits et de logiciels Coaches et praticiens agiles (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.) Autres rôles tels que professionnels RH et Finance

JIRA is a Java based web application that provides project and issue tracking for improving the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles behind Agile and Kanban
• Use Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira to fit the needs of their organization
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Who should attend?

This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers and customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

This course is also known as SCRUM awareness training.

Who should attend?

This course has been created for managers, executives and other decision makers who want to know how to calculate the benefits of implementing the methodology or want to understand what their team is doing.

It is also suitable for customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

This course is for: Product owners, managers, or anyone interested in Agile planning and estimating techniques.

The course, Scrum Product Owner (SPO), utilizes a combination of presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises explaining and demonstrating through practice. It illustrates what it is like to take on the role of an Agile team. The course covers all aspects of a product owner's involvement in an Agile product's life-cycle, such as gathering requirements rapidly, writing user stories, estimating story points, tracking, release planning, reporting, forecasting, scaling, and so on.

This course has been created for test managers, quality assurance staff, testers, software developers, project managers and management in order to explain how the Agile project management frameworks (notably SCRUM) deal with testing.

At the end of the course, each of the delegates will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (it can be an actual client application if available)

The course is designed both for participants from beginners to advanced. 

The course involves presentations, discussion & practical exercises.

SCRUM is currently the most popular method of managing the process of developing software, counted among the agile methodologies. The course aims to familiarize participants with the methodology SCRUM step by step.

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard graphical language for modeling and documenting software systems. It can be used to represent different aspects of a system such as structure, behavior, interaction, and requirements. UML can help product owners and business analysts to communicate and collaborate with developers, testers, and stakeholders in a clear and consistent way.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level product owners and business analysts who wish to use UML notation to perform business and system analysis in the Scrum methodology.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use UML notation to model and document business processes, use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Use UML notation to model and document system architecture, components, classes, objects, and interactions.
• Use UML notation to model and document system behavior, state, and activity.
• Use UML notation to model and document system requirements, constraints, and assumptions.
• Use UML tools and diagrams to facilitate and support the Scrum process and artifacts.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in using the Waterfall model and how people have traditionally tried to deal with its shortcomings - including, but not limited to, Agile approaches.

The aim of the 1st day is to give an overview of these approaches enabling you to decide what might suit them in your environment.

The 2nd day looks at project management techniques and good practices that have been identified from Agile, and which can be applied in a Waterfall or Agile context.

This course is very much structered towards a workshop approach to enable delegates an opportunity to practise the Scrum and Agile skills.

This two-day course teaches the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale.

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Agilist (SA). Associated Certification: SAFe Agilist (SA)

This two-day course prepares current Scrum Masters for their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a SAFe® implementation. The course covers facilitation of cross-team interactions in support of the program execution and relentless improvement. It enhances the Scrum paradigm with an introduction to scalable engineering and DevOps practices; the application of Kanban to facilitate the flow of value; and supporting interactions with architects, product management, and other critical stakeholders in the larger program and enterprise contexts. The course offers actionable tools for building high-performing teams and explores practical ways of addressing Agile and Scrum anti-patterns in the enterprise. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (ASM).