Training “Agile and Scrum: in Simple Words About Complicated”

 

Agile, Scrum, Kanban - these terms are gaining popularity from year to year as flexible project management methodologies, proving their effectiveness, are gradually accessing all areas. And this is not surprising, because it can be used effectively in any field, not just IT. Do you want to understand the substance of each of them and successfully use in your company?

Agile is the foundation for the efficient team workflow that ensures results. Thanks to its principles, this method, introduced in IT, has already covered all activities. Because of adaptability, interaction of self-organized teams and prompt response to changing conditions of the modern environment driven by Agile, companies are able to form their own distinctive philosophy and style.

 

This training is for you if you:

  • are a middle manager, without specialized IT education
  • work in areas of rapid and dynamic change,
  • are related to the IT industry, being the end user and/or customer of IT services
  • want to know how it works


Training program


1.    Evolution of organizations

  • Organization models according to Frederic Laloux (from primitive societies to the industrial era)
  • Dysfunctions of hierarchical organizations

2.    Operational work of the IT industry

  • History of ITIL
  • IT services lifecycle

3.   Software development

  • Software development life cycle
  • Project management models

4.    Emergence of flexible approaches in project management

  • What preceded Agile and why it became successful
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Gallop research
  • Green and Turquoise organizations

5.   Scrum as one of the most common approaches in flexible methodologies

  • General description of Scrum framework
  • Scrum goals and values
  • Ways
  • Planning in Agile
  • State of Agile Review

6.   DevOps tools and approaches

  • What is DevOps
  • Goals and values of DevOps
  • Three ways of DevOps
  • Role of culture in DevOps approaches

7.   Where to start:

  • How to choose the starting stream of value creation
  • Basic information about working in the value creation stream
  • VSM and Kata improvements
  • Design of the organization and its architecture

 

Coach: Oleg Lukutin - Scrum Master, PSM I, PSM II, PSPO I, Certified LeSS Practitioner. Agile couch. Experience at DevOps as Head of the RD DevOps Laboratory.

 

Experience of work with various teams and projects - from a small home network of one hundred subscribers and own team of five people to the national operator corporation and 28 distributed cross-functional teams throughout Ukraine in the company with more than 3,000 employees.

 

 

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