EDUCATION & TRAINING

Agile N2N offers both public and private classes in subjects that help individuals, teams, and organizations begin or continue their Agile journeys. Each course contains an appropriate mix of education (theory) and training (application).

Private Courses
We recognize that every team and every organization is in a unique environment and has a unique Agile journey. To help these teams and organizations, our private courses may be customized. To do this, we meet with the organization’s Agile sponsors and others to understand the organization’s vision and current state, the course objectives, and the students’ needs.

COURSES

Agile Essentials

Gain understanding of Agile mindset/culture, value, principles, characteristics, and behaviors. Covers “Why” the business needs to be agile.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Stakeholders

Topics Covered:

  1. Agile Mindset
  2. Agile Values and Principles
  3. Agile Behaviors and Characteristics
  4. Techniques that support Agile Mindset
  5. Servant Leadership
Scrum Essentials

Explore the Scrum framework. Review the roles, events (planning, daily touch point, review, and retrospective), practices and metrics.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner

Topics Covered:

  1. Agile Artifacts & Definition of “Done”
  2. Product Backlog and refinement
  3. Sprint Planning & Estimating techniques, such as Planning Poker
  4. Holding an effective daily touch point meeting
  5. Visibility through Information Radiators, such as Scrum Board
  6. Sprint Review with stakeholders
  7. Release Planning, such as Preparation and Inputs & Outputs
  8. Sprint Retrospective
  9. Metrics, such as velocity, cycle time, throughput, value delivery
Scrum Master Role

Learn the role of Scrum Master, including how to implement and apply Scrum, expected behaviors, techniques, and practices to be effective.

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Attendees: Scrum Master

Topics Covered:

  1. Role of Scrum Master
  2. Scrum Master and Product Owner partnership
  3. Scrum Master as a Coach
  4. Developing High Performing team
  5. Metrics, such as velocity, cycle time, throughput and value delivery
Product Owner Role

Learn the role of the Product Owner. Includes expectations, how to effectively work with customers and other stakeholders, and learn techniques & successful practices for working with the Delivery Team.

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Attendees: Product Owner

Topics Covered:

  1. Role of Product Owner
  2. Developing and managing Requirements
  3. Writing effective user stories
  4. Building and Prioritizing a Product Backlog
  5. Business Value
  6. Stakeholder Management
User Story Workshop

Take the team through actual business scenarios. Use progressive elaboration to deliver a product.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner

Topics Covered:

  1. Prioritization and Minimal Viable Product
  2. Story Boarding
  3. User Story writing techniques
  4. Epics
  5. Acceptance Criteria
  6. Story Refinement, such as Story Splitting
  7. Estimating
SecDevOps

Expand the Agile mindset into Security and Operations to accelerate the time to market through Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, QA Team, Scrum Master, Operations Team, Security Team

Topics Covered:

  1. Mindset
  2. Continuous Integration
  3. Continuous Deployment
  4. Test Automation
  5. Integrated Tools and Practices
SAFe®

Demonstrate how a team of teams can scale planning, execution, review and improving together without compromising the flexibility of Scrum.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Stakeholders, Operations Team

Topics Covered:

  1. Concept
  2. Planning
  3. Execution
  4. System Increment demo and review
  5. Inspect and Adapt
Jira

Provide a basic knowledge of Jira as a planning & tracking platform, and a basic understanding of Jira administration.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner

Topics Covered:

  1. Jira Overview
  2. Navigating Jira
  3. Managing Projects
  4. Managing Versions
  5. Managing Issues
  6. Managing Sprints
  7. Managing Fields and Screens
  8. Issue Search
  9. Dashboards
  10. Rapid Boards
Agile Foundational Practices

Learn a set of foundational practices to integrate the Agile Mindset into an existing product development environment. For organizations experimenting with Agile and those using a hybrid approach.

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Attendees: Delivery Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Stakeholders, Operations Team

Topics Covered:

  1. Chartering
  2. Product Owner
  3. Information Radiator
  4. Daily Touch Point Meetings
  5. Collaboration Tools
  6. Retrospectives and Reviews

What our students are saying

The 3 reasons why I would recommend Agile N2N for Agile Training, Coaching and Agile Roll-out are Provides a great baseline level of knowledge about Agile Development in a short period of time (1 day). The material provides practical and actionable information of how Agile can be applied to development teams. The friendly staff at Agile N2N are extremely knowledgeable and experienced in helping clients navigate Agile transformations within their organizations. I would rate the overall training and learning as 9 on a scale of 1-10 , 1 being lowest and 10 being the highest. I only put down a 9/10 due to my earlier comment regarding brain overflow. And a 10 doesn't really exist anyway.

Rob Klein, President

Xenon Digital Workshop, Inc
The one-day Agile Boot Camp overall was excellent. … I found the activities very helpful. “Passing the coins” was an excellent activity to emphasize agile concepts. Discussions during the boot camp were helpful in learning more about the agile challenges in the industry today. Instructors were knowledgeable, willing to share information and demonstrated agile practices. I would recommend Agile N2N for Agile Training, Coaching and Agile roll-out based on their staff expertise, the practical experiences they bring forth and their passion for promoting Agile.

Jayanthi Raman, Senior Project Lead

Nokia
Wow! Kanban, Scrum, Scaled Agile and all things Agile…Just attended a great class delivered by the consultants at Agile N2N. The class, aimed at project managers and business managers who are making the transition from PM to Scrum Master and Product Owner, was packed with great real-world insight. Thanks Agile N2N!

Gayle Whitmer, PMP, ITILv3F

I am very satisfied with the overall training I received at the boot camp. It was very well organized and informative. I gained Knowledge Confidence and feel Motivated. The training was very clear on delivering the process, allowed open discussion to learn from each other and share insights. I will definitely recommend Agile N2N to other because of all the reasons I mentioned above

Urvi Shah, Project Manager

Entrepreneur