Agile Product Management - Growth Marketing Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in exploring the Waterfall model and understanding how practitioners have historically addressed its limitations, including but not limited to, Agile approaches.

The aim of Day 1 is to provide an overview of these various approaches, enabling you to determine which might best suit your specific environment.

Day 2 focuses on project management techniques and best practices identified from Agile methodologies, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Abundant exercises and practical practice.
• Hands-on implementation within a live laboratory environment.

Course Customization Options

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

This course centers on equipping business analysts with the skills needed to thrive in Agile project environments. Participants will learn how to effectively collaborate with the development team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development process. The curriculum includes a simulated project where attendees practice handling common real-world scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in Botswana (online or onsite) is aimed at engineering and design professors who wish to understand, apply, and teach modern software development practices relevant to systems engineering, civil engineering, design, and architecture disciplines.

The iSQI Agile Essentials course offers an internationally recognised qualification designed for professionals involved in agile projects who wish to become proficient in an agile environment. This encompasses Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Directors, and Management Consultants. The course consists of eight sections and guides participants through the entire lifecycle of an agile project, from release planning and drafting user stories to the iteration review (showcase) and retrospective. The first day emphasises key principles (55% theory, 45% exercises), while the second day focuses heavily on practical application (40% theory, 60% exercises).

Course Objectives

• Understand the principles behind the Agile manifesto and its approach to software development
• Recognise the roles within an agile team
• Comprehend how to contribute as an agile team member to quantifiable requirements
• Implement Whole Team quality methods to ensure acceptance criteria are met
• Appreciate the importance of effective Iteration Reviews and how to contribute to continuous improvement through retrospectives

Agile Software Testing involves a set of testing practices that deliver timely and ongoing feedback on software quality issues, adhering to the principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) entails developers within a team merging their work multiple times throughout the day.

This course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers essential testing concepts within the framework of Agile (Scrum) development, utilising Crispin and Gregory's Agile Testing Quadrants model as a guide to examine modern Agile testing principles and practices.

In this course, you will master the concepts, principles, and techniques of Agile Team Facilitation, which are essential for guiding teams to higher levels of maturity. In an Agile environment, effective collaboration and productive team meetings are vital for success. The Agile Team Facilitator plays a critical role in helping teams move towards self-organisation. You will develop the facilitation mindset required to plan and lead collaborative sessions that drive teams toward better outcomes and maturity. This course acts as a foundation for becoming an Agile Coach, emphasising both skill development and mindset transformation. Discover group facilitation tools and techniques to engage participants and achieve specific goals in meetings and workshops.

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers essential test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and employs Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine modern Agile testing principles and practices.

Target Audience

This course is designed for development teams seeking to enhance their testing practices in an Agile environment.

It is also appropriate for individuals aiming to pursue testing as a specific career path and serves as a suitable prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

Objective:

This course empowers Business Analysts to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources, thereby enhancing their organization's business agility. This is achieved by aligning with target architectures and responding to evolving market demands.

Over the course of two days, delegates will learn to model business processes and resources to align with shifts in goals, strategies, and impacted capabilities within the context of target architecture. Leveraging key performance elements such as strategies, tactics, KPIs, and business capabilities, participants will acquire the skills to create vision-centric business process and resource maps. Furthermore, by utilizing appropriate BPMN and UML notations tailored to their specific context, they will learn how to adapt these models to changing strategies, tactics, and policies.

This instructor-led, live training in Botswana covers the concepts, tools and techniques needed to carry out continuous integration of your software projects in an Agile environment. Participants carry out a series of hands-on exercises throughout the course to apply their knowledge in real situations. Interaction among instructor and participants is encouraged. Real-world cases are discussed and specific issues and questions are addressed and resolved in class.

While JIRA Software is a robust project management solution, users often concentrate more on the software itself rather than the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led live training reveals the synergy between Jira and Confluence, demonstrating how their combined capabilities help teams successfully deliver products and projects. Participants will learn to leverage these tools to enhance efficiency in managing user requirements, testing, and communication, all within a centralized environment.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban and Scrum), planning, dependency tracking, the integration between Jira and Confluence, reporting, essential fields, custom fields, issue types, screens, and filtering techniques.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Establish Scrum or Kanban projects
• Configure Jira for effective project management
• Handle issues with efficiency
• Design necessary screens for various issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and comprehend their interplay
• Execute basic and advanced searches and analyses
• Produce and evaluate reports vital for both the team and management

Lean is a methodology focused on maximizing value while minimizing waste in processes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level banking and process management professionals who wish to apply Lean and Agile tools to improve efficiency in managing requirements, projects, and operational processes.

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

• Understand and apply Lean principles in the context of banking processes.
• Use Lean tools to optimize requirements gathering and project execution.
• Implement and manage Kanban boards for effective workflow management.
• Identify and eliminate waste in banking and service-oriented processes.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on application of Lean and Agile tools in case-based scenarios.

Course Customization Options

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

The PAQ is a three-day, experiential training programme designed to prepare candidates for the certification exam, with a strong emphasis on developing practical skills that can be directly applied in the workplace.

The exam is structured as a 'hands-on' assessment. Candidates are provided with a product backlog release, which includes user stories, relevant design documentation, and a 'multi-drop' application pre-loaded with defects. Participants receive detailed instructions outlining the expectations for the practical assessment and are given the opportunity to produce the required work products. Each assessment includes one or two additional scenario-based questions requiring written responses (with a maximum of five questions in total) covering various competencies. These written answers are marked alongside the responses to the product backlog release by an independent assessor. The assessment duration is 2.5 hours.

This Leading SAFe Agilist certification helps you to be a major stakeholder in your organization’s success. The certification not only allows you to execute and deliver value through Agile Release Trains but also to lead a Lean-Agile transformation, which is why it is highly valued in various industry sectors.