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Agile Ways of Working: Scrum and Kanban in Practice

Learn to work in an agile team: the values and principles, Scrum and Kanban in practice, planning and estimating, and agile beyond software.

  • Format Online, self-paced
  • Scope 5 modules and a capstone
  • Duration About 8 h
  • Cost Quote on request

About this course

The course covers agile values and principles, Scrum, Kanban, planning and estimating in agile teams, and agile beyond software. The capstone is a board and a working agreement for your team or a case team.

  • Practice on real tasks and an applied assignment
  • Graded final assessment

A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment is submitted.

Content

  1. Module 1

    Agile Values and Principles

  2. Module 2

    Scrum

  3. Module 3

    Kanban

  4. Module 4

    Planning and Estimating in Agile Teams

  5. Module 5

    Agile Beyond Software

  6. Module 6

    Capstone: A Board and a Working Agreement

Apply it in a workshop

A half-day with an expert, live online or in person, that puts this course to work on your team's own cases. The course is the pre-work; the workshop is where it gets applied.

Who it is for

  • Teams in and outside IT
  • Career-changers

Fee and registration

Quote on request

Price Tell us which Skills courses and how many learners, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.
Quoted on request
What a license covers Any license can be used on any Skills course: you choose the course when you assign it to a named learner.
One learner on one Skills course
What you need Skills course licenses sit on top of user licenses: a learner has to be a user on the platform.
A TechClass subscription
Access A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes. Unused licenses stay valid for 12 months from purchase.
12 months from assignment

How to get started

  1. Request a quote

    Tell us the Skills courses and the number of learners. We come back with a quote for the licenses and can walk you through the courses in a demo.

  2. Add your people

    Every learner needs a user license on TechClass. Skills course licenses are added on top.

  3. Assign a license to each learner

    Your admin assigns a license from the pool to each named learner on this course. The learner then has 12 months to complete it, at their own pace.

Education organizations and continuous learning departments: a plan of their own, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation. Contact us to discuss your program.

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Questions, answered

Agile Ways of Working: Scrum and Kanban in Practice FAQ

Per learner, per course. You buy Skills course licenses as a pool, on top of your user licenses, and your admin assigns one to a named learner on whichever Skills course they need. A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes.

Skills course licenses are quoted on request. Tell us which courses and how many learners you have in mind, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.

Yes, with one license for each course. Licenses come from the same pool, so any license can be assigned to any Skills course, and all the licenses in one order count towards the volume price.

About 8 hours of guided learning, in modules, at the learner's own pace. Access lasts 12 months from the day the license is assigned.

Yes. A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment has been submitted.

A piece of real work that puts the skills to use. An employee does it on their own job and team; a learner without a suitable workplace does it on a provided case company. The learner checks it against a rubric, and a manager can review it.

No. Every Skills course stands on its own and restates what it relies on, so a learner can start with it directly.

The course is the same for companies and education organizations. A plan for continuous learning departments, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation.

English, at this stage.

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Learn to work in an agile team: the values and principles, Scrum and Kanban in practice, planning and estimating, and agile beyond software.

Full table of contents

Agile Ways of Working: Scrum and Kanban in Practice

6 modules · 20 sections

Module 1 Agile Values and Principles

  1. 1.1 The Agile Manifesto
  2. 1.2 Iterations, increments and feedback
  3. 1.3 When agile fits and when it doesn't
  4. 1.4 Agile alongside traditional plans: hybrid in practice

Module 2 Scrum

  1. 2.1 Roles, events and artifacts, per the Scrum Guide
  2. 2.2 The product backlog and refinement
  3. 2.3 Running a sprint
  4. 2.4 Reviews and retrospectives that change something

Module 3 Kanban

  1. 3.1 Designing a board
  2. 3.2 Flow and WIP limits
  3. 3.3 Flow metrics
  4. 3.4 Explicit policies and service expectations

Module 4 Planning and Estimating in Agile Teams

  1. 4.1 User stories and acceptance criteria
  2. 4.2 Relative estimation
  3. 4.3 Release and sprint planning
  4. 4.4 Forecasting with the team's own data

Module 5 Agile Beyond Software

  1. 5.1 Agile in marketing, HR and operations
  2. 5.2 Working with stakeholders who are not agile
  3. 5.3 Several teams, one goal
  4. 5.4 Common failure modes, and how to avoid them

Module 6 Capstone: A Board and a Working Agreement