About the course
This course are a collaboration with BDD and is held by their trainers.
As the Agile approach is widely established at the team level, there is a growing need to scale up and unleash the power of many teams delivering together.The challenge has been about managing resources for projects and letting project managers coordinate deliveries. In a large-scale Agile setup, the teams can instead work from a common backlog and coordinate the work together. In this way, an optimal flow is achieved based on the best business prioritization.
Summary
This is a full-day course for those of you who work, or will soon work, Agile on a large scale. The purpose is to give all team members a practical overview of the responsibilities they are expected to take. The course complements most Agile training that focuses more on why, values, principles, and offer certification. Sometimes it is good to start with this course, get started, and then take a certification course.
The course is primarily based on the well-known frameworks Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It means a stable base and the same vocabulary that most organizations use. Through clear examples and fun exercises, the participants gain useful knowledge of the entire development flow.
Through the concept “Training from the back of the room,” the participants will be involved in a learning process that creates insight and lasting knowledge. All course modules have been designed to include theory, practical exercise, dialogue, and reflection in accordance with our training concept.In most organizations, the English concepts of the frameworks are used. Therefore the course material is in English. During the course, we will speak Swedish or English depending on what we agree on in class.
During this four-day training, (+ 1.5h preparation session + optional extra in-depth / certification support of 1.5h), you will learn to lead a Lean-Agile transformation of the entire company based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and it's underlying principles as Lean , System Thinking, Agile Development, Product Development Flow and DevOps.
After this course, you will have a good understanding of Business Agility and how it can become competitive in an age of digitalization. We will discuss how to establish teams, technical agility and how to organize ourselves according to how we deliver value to our customers.
We will also learn how to plan and execute PI and how to coordinate multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). We will explore the importance of being customer focused and how to apply “Design Thinking” to achieve this in our Agile product delivery. We will also go through what a Lean Portfolio Management means. The course combines theory with many practical exercises and discussions.
