Mastering Agile Software Development A Complete Self-Assessment Guide
You’re under pressure. Deadlines are tight. Stakeholders expect fast delivery. Your team is already stretched thin, and yet the feedback keeps coming: too slow, too rigid, too many bottlenecks. You know agile is the answer - but right now, it feels more like a buzzword than a breakthrough. Maybe you’ve tried Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe, but something’s still off. Processes feel inconsistent. Teams are siloed. Release velocity is unpredictable. You’re not failing - but you’re not thriving either. And in today’s tech-driven market, standing still means falling behind. What if you could cut through the noise and pinpoint exactly where your agile practice is strong - and where it’s holding you back? Not with guesswork, but with a proven, systematic framework used by top engineering leads, product managers, and scrum masters across Fortune 500 tech teams. Mastering Agile Software Development A Complete Self-Assessment Guide gives you that framework. It’s the only self-assessment system designed to take you from vague uncertainty to complete clarity - and from there, to measurable, board-ready improvements in team performance, delivery speed, and stakeholder confidence. One engineering lead at a UK fintech used this guide to audit her team’s agile maturity in just 12 days. She identified hidden workflow inefficiencies costing 3 weeks per sprint. After targeted optimisations, her team delivered the next major release 28 days ahead of schedule - a move that directly contributed to securing Series B funding. This isn’t about theory. It’s about tangible, repeatable outcomes. And it’s not reserved for elite teams. If you can manage a backlog, run a standup, or own a project, this system will show you how to elevate your impact. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Flexible, Risk-Free, and Built for Results This program is self-paced, with immediate online access the moment your payment is confirmed. There are no fixed start dates, no rigid schedules, and no time-consuming sessions to fit into an already packed calendar. You progress on your terms, from any device, anywhere in the world. Learn on Your Time, Keep Your Access Forever
Most learners complete the full self-assessment system in 4 to 6 weeks while working full-time. Many apply the first insights to their current sprint within 72 hours of starting. Because this is a self-directed guide, you’re free to move faster or slower based on your priorities. You receive lifetime access to all course materials, including future updates and enhancements released at no extra cost. As agile frameworks evolve, your guide evolves with them. This is a long-term asset, not a one-time event. Access Anytime, Anywhere - Even on the Move
The platform is fully mobile-friendly, with responsive design that works seamlessly on phones, tablets, and desktops. Whether you’re reviewing sprint metrics on your commute or auditing team rituals between meetings, your progress syncs automatically. Personalised Support with Real Expert Guidance
You are not alone. Throughout your journey, you’ll have direct access to instructor-led support through structured Q&A channels. Responses are typically provided within 24 business hours, ensuring clarity without delays. This isn’t automated chat - it’s real guidance from certified agile practitioners with over a decade of industry experience. Prove Your Mastery with a Globally Recognised Credential
Upon successful completion, you earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a credential trusted by over 120,000 professionals worldwide and recognised by hiring managers across the US, EU, APAC, and the Middle East. It’s shareable on LinkedIn, embeddable in your portfolio, and verifiable through our global registry. No Hidden Costs. No Risk. Just Results.
Pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees, subscriptions, or surprise charges. What you see is exactly what you pay. We accept all major payment methods including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - secure, encrypted, and processed instantly. If at any point during the first 30 days you find the guide doesn’t meet your expectations, simply reach out for a full refund. No forms, no hassle, no questions asked. Your investment is 100% protected. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access credentials and full course instructions will be sent separately once your materials are prepared, ensuring a smooth and secure onboarding experience. “Will This Work for Me?” - The Real Answer
This system works even if you’re not leading an agile transformation. Even if your team resists change. Even if your organisation labels itself “agile” but operates in silos. We’ve had product owners use it to reclaim sprint control, developers apply it to streamline CI/CD workflows, and project managers leverage it to gain executive visibility - all without formal authority. With over 94% of past participants reporting measurable improvements in team throughput, cycle time, or stakeholder alignment, the results speak for themselves. One scrum master in Sydney used the assessment to align three disconnected squads - reducing sprint debt by 41% in two months. This is risk-reversal at its strongest: you gain lifetime tools, a respected certification, and immediate clarity - all with a full money-back guarantee. There’s no downside, only upside.
Module 1: Foundations of Agile Principles and Mindset - Understanding the Agile Manifesto and its four core values
- The 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto applied to modern software teams
- Contrasting agile vs. traditional waterfall project management
- Identifying organisational signals that indicate a need for agile change
- The role of feedback loops in accelerating software delivery
- Psychological safety and its impact on agile team performance
- How agile reduces business risk through iterative delivery
- Recognising agile anti-patterns in early-stage adoption
- The importance of business-IT alignment in agile environments
- Building a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Module 2: Agile Frameworks Comparison and Selection - Scrum: roles, events, artefacts, and rules explained
- Kanban: visual workflow, WIP limits, and flow efficiency
- Extreme Programming (XP) and its engineering practices
- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) for domain-rich systems
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) and timeboxing
- Scaling agile with SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, and Scrum@Scale
- Selecting the right framework based on team size and complexity
- Hybrid models: combining Scrum and Kanban effectively
- Adapting frameworks for compliance-heavy industries
- Measuring framework fit using objective self-assessment criteria
Module 3: Core Roles and Responsibilities in Agile Teams - Product Owner: backlog management and stakeholder liaison
- Scrum Master: facilitation, impediment removal, and coaching
- Development Team: self-organisation and collective ownership
- Agile Coach: internal vs. external roles and engagement models
- Product Manager vs Product Owner - distinguishing scope and focus
- Engineering Lead and technical stewardship in agile squads
- UX and design integration within sprint cycles
- QA role evolution in continuous delivery pipelines
- Business Analyst transformation in agile settings
- Executive sponsorship and leadership accountability
Module 4: Backlog Management and User Story Crafting - Creating a product vision and roadmap alignment
- Defining epics, features, and user stories
- INVEST criteria: writing truly independent, negotiable stories
- User story mapping for end-to-end workflow visualisation
- Splitting large stories into manageable tasks
- Applying acceptance criteria using Gherkin syntax
- Prioritisation techniques: MoSCoW, Kano, Value vs Effort
- Refinement practices for healthy backlog hygiene
- Managing dependencies across multiple teams
- Backlog transparency and stakeholder communication
Module 5: Sprint Planning and Iteration Execution - Sprint goal setting and alignment with product vision
- Capacity planning and team availability assessment
- Story point estimation using Fibonacci sequences
- Planning poker and alternative consensus-based techniques
- Velocity tracking and trend analysis
- Commitment-based vs. forecast-based sprint planning
- Daily standup structure and effectiveness metrics
- Managing interruptions and unplanned work
- Task board design and update discipline
- Sprint burndown and burnup chart interpretation
Module 6: Agile Ceremonies and Event Facilitation - Sprint Planning: agenda, timeboxing, and outputs
- Daily Standup: focus on progress, impediments, and alignment
- Sprint Review: demonstrating value to stakeholders
- Sprint Retrospective: structured formats for honest feedback
- Retrospective anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Facilitation techniques for psychological safety
- Using silent brainstorming and dot voting effectively
- Formatting retrospective findings into action items
- Tracking retrospective follow-through and impact
- Adapting ceremonies for remote and hybrid teams
Module 7: Metrics and Agile Performance Measurement - Lead time and cycle time measurement and optimisation
- Throughput tracking across sprints and quarters
- Work in Progress (WIP) analysis and its business impact
- Escaped defects and production incident trends
- Team happiness and sustainability indicators
- Release frequency and deployment success rate
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in production systems
- Customer satisfaction tracking in agile delivery
- Balancing leading vs lagging indicators
- Avoiding metric gaming and vanity metrics
Module 8: Agile Estimation and Forecasting Techniques - Relative estimation vs absolute time-based planning
- Planning poker facilitation and best practices
- T-shirt sizing for high-level effort categorisation
- Three-point estimation and confidence intervals
- Using Monte Carlo simulations for release forecasting
- Confidence sliders and risk-adjusted forecasting
- Aligning estimation outputs with stakeholder expectations
- Reducing estimation fatigue through lean refinement
- Introducing no-estimation models for mature teams
- Transitioning from estimation to flow-based forecasting
Module 9: Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines - Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Understanding the Agile Manifesto and its four core values
- The 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto applied to modern software teams
- Contrasting agile vs. traditional waterfall project management
- Identifying organisational signals that indicate a need for agile change
- The role of feedback loops in accelerating software delivery
- Psychological safety and its impact on agile team performance
- How agile reduces business risk through iterative delivery
- Recognising agile anti-patterns in early-stage adoption
- The importance of business-IT alignment in agile environments
- Building a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Module 2: Agile Frameworks Comparison and Selection - Scrum: roles, events, artefacts, and rules explained
- Kanban: visual workflow, WIP limits, and flow efficiency
- Extreme Programming (XP) and its engineering practices
- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) for domain-rich systems
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) and timeboxing
- Scaling agile with SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, and Scrum@Scale
- Selecting the right framework based on team size and complexity
- Hybrid models: combining Scrum and Kanban effectively
- Adapting frameworks for compliance-heavy industries
- Measuring framework fit using objective self-assessment criteria
Module 3: Core Roles and Responsibilities in Agile Teams - Product Owner: backlog management and stakeholder liaison
- Scrum Master: facilitation, impediment removal, and coaching
- Development Team: self-organisation and collective ownership
- Agile Coach: internal vs. external roles and engagement models
- Product Manager vs Product Owner - distinguishing scope and focus
- Engineering Lead and technical stewardship in agile squads
- UX and design integration within sprint cycles
- QA role evolution in continuous delivery pipelines
- Business Analyst transformation in agile settings
- Executive sponsorship and leadership accountability
Module 4: Backlog Management and User Story Crafting - Creating a product vision and roadmap alignment
- Defining epics, features, and user stories
- INVEST criteria: writing truly independent, negotiable stories
- User story mapping for end-to-end workflow visualisation
- Splitting large stories into manageable tasks
- Applying acceptance criteria using Gherkin syntax
- Prioritisation techniques: MoSCoW, Kano, Value vs Effort
- Refinement practices for healthy backlog hygiene
- Managing dependencies across multiple teams
- Backlog transparency and stakeholder communication
Module 5: Sprint Planning and Iteration Execution - Sprint goal setting and alignment with product vision
- Capacity planning and team availability assessment
- Story point estimation using Fibonacci sequences
- Planning poker and alternative consensus-based techniques
- Velocity tracking and trend analysis
- Commitment-based vs. forecast-based sprint planning
- Daily standup structure and effectiveness metrics
- Managing interruptions and unplanned work
- Task board design and update discipline
- Sprint burndown and burnup chart interpretation
Module 6: Agile Ceremonies and Event Facilitation - Sprint Planning: agenda, timeboxing, and outputs
- Daily Standup: focus on progress, impediments, and alignment
- Sprint Review: demonstrating value to stakeholders
- Sprint Retrospective: structured formats for honest feedback
- Retrospective anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Facilitation techniques for psychological safety
- Using silent brainstorming and dot voting effectively
- Formatting retrospective findings into action items
- Tracking retrospective follow-through and impact
- Adapting ceremonies for remote and hybrid teams
Module 7: Metrics and Agile Performance Measurement - Lead time and cycle time measurement and optimisation
- Throughput tracking across sprints and quarters
- Work in Progress (WIP) analysis and its business impact
- Escaped defects and production incident trends
- Team happiness and sustainability indicators
- Release frequency and deployment success rate
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in production systems
- Customer satisfaction tracking in agile delivery
- Balancing leading vs lagging indicators
- Avoiding metric gaming and vanity metrics
Module 8: Agile Estimation and Forecasting Techniques - Relative estimation vs absolute time-based planning
- Planning poker facilitation and best practices
- T-shirt sizing for high-level effort categorisation
- Three-point estimation and confidence intervals
- Using Monte Carlo simulations for release forecasting
- Confidence sliders and risk-adjusted forecasting
- Aligning estimation outputs with stakeholder expectations
- Reducing estimation fatigue through lean refinement
- Introducing no-estimation models for mature teams
- Transitioning from estimation to flow-based forecasting
Module 9: Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines - Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Product Owner: backlog management and stakeholder liaison
- Scrum Master: facilitation, impediment removal, and coaching
- Development Team: self-organisation and collective ownership
- Agile Coach: internal vs. external roles and engagement models
- Product Manager vs Product Owner - distinguishing scope and focus
- Engineering Lead and technical stewardship in agile squads
- UX and design integration within sprint cycles
- QA role evolution in continuous delivery pipelines
- Business Analyst transformation in agile settings
- Executive sponsorship and leadership accountability
Module 4: Backlog Management and User Story Crafting - Creating a product vision and roadmap alignment
- Defining epics, features, and user stories
- INVEST criteria: writing truly independent, negotiable stories
- User story mapping for end-to-end workflow visualisation
- Splitting large stories into manageable tasks
- Applying acceptance criteria using Gherkin syntax
- Prioritisation techniques: MoSCoW, Kano, Value vs Effort
- Refinement practices for healthy backlog hygiene
- Managing dependencies across multiple teams
- Backlog transparency and stakeholder communication
Module 5: Sprint Planning and Iteration Execution - Sprint goal setting and alignment with product vision
- Capacity planning and team availability assessment
- Story point estimation using Fibonacci sequences
- Planning poker and alternative consensus-based techniques
- Velocity tracking and trend analysis
- Commitment-based vs. forecast-based sprint planning
- Daily standup structure and effectiveness metrics
- Managing interruptions and unplanned work
- Task board design and update discipline
- Sprint burndown and burnup chart interpretation
Module 6: Agile Ceremonies and Event Facilitation - Sprint Planning: agenda, timeboxing, and outputs
- Daily Standup: focus on progress, impediments, and alignment
- Sprint Review: demonstrating value to stakeholders
- Sprint Retrospective: structured formats for honest feedback
- Retrospective anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Facilitation techniques for psychological safety
- Using silent brainstorming and dot voting effectively
- Formatting retrospective findings into action items
- Tracking retrospective follow-through and impact
- Adapting ceremonies for remote and hybrid teams
Module 7: Metrics and Agile Performance Measurement - Lead time and cycle time measurement and optimisation
- Throughput tracking across sprints and quarters
- Work in Progress (WIP) analysis and its business impact
- Escaped defects and production incident trends
- Team happiness and sustainability indicators
- Release frequency and deployment success rate
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in production systems
- Customer satisfaction tracking in agile delivery
- Balancing leading vs lagging indicators
- Avoiding metric gaming and vanity metrics
Module 8: Agile Estimation and Forecasting Techniques - Relative estimation vs absolute time-based planning
- Planning poker facilitation and best practices
- T-shirt sizing for high-level effort categorisation
- Three-point estimation and confidence intervals
- Using Monte Carlo simulations for release forecasting
- Confidence sliders and risk-adjusted forecasting
- Aligning estimation outputs with stakeholder expectations
- Reducing estimation fatigue through lean refinement
- Introducing no-estimation models for mature teams
- Transitioning from estimation to flow-based forecasting
Module 9: Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines - Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Sprint goal setting and alignment with product vision
- Capacity planning and team availability assessment
- Story point estimation using Fibonacci sequences
- Planning poker and alternative consensus-based techniques
- Velocity tracking and trend analysis
- Commitment-based vs. forecast-based sprint planning
- Daily standup structure and effectiveness metrics
- Managing interruptions and unplanned work
- Task board design and update discipline
- Sprint burndown and burnup chart interpretation
Module 6: Agile Ceremonies and Event Facilitation - Sprint Planning: agenda, timeboxing, and outputs
- Daily Standup: focus on progress, impediments, and alignment
- Sprint Review: demonstrating value to stakeholders
- Sprint Retrospective: structured formats for honest feedback
- Retrospective anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Facilitation techniques for psychological safety
- Using silent brainstorming and dot voting effectively
- Formatting retrospective findings into action items
- Tracking retrospective follow-through and impact
- Adapting ceremonies for remote and hybrid teams
Module 7: Metrics and Agile Performance Measurement - Lead time and cycle time measurement and optimisation
- Throughput tracking across sprints and quarters
- Work in Progress (WIP) analysis and its business impact
- Escaped defects and production incident trends
- Team happiness and sustainability indicators
- Release frequency and deployment success rate
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in production systems
- Customer satisfaction tracking in agile delivery
- Balancing leading vs lagging indicators
- Avoiding metric gaming and vanity metrics
Module 8: Agile Estimation and Forecasting Techniques - Relative estimation vs absolute time-based planning
- Planning poker facilitation and best practices
- T-shirt sizing for high-level effort categorisation
- Three-point estimation and confidence intervals
- Using Monte Carlo simulations for release forecasting
- Confidence sliders and risk-adjusted forecasting
- Aligning estimation outputs with stakeholder expectations
- Reducing estimation fatigue through lean refinement
- Introducing no-estimation models for mature teams
- Transitioning from estimation to flow-based forecasting
Module 9: Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines - Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Lead time and cycle time measurement and optimisation
- Throughput tracking across sprints and quarters
- Work in Progress (WIP) analysis and its business impact
- Escaped defects and production incident trends
- Team happiness and sustainability indicators
- Release frequency and deployment success rate
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in production systems
- Customer satisfaction tracking in agile delivery
- Balancing leading vs lagging indicators
- Avoiding metric gaming and vanity metrics
Module 8: Agile Estimation and Forecasting Techniques - Relative estimation vs absolute time-based planning
- Planning poker facilitation and best practices
- T-shirt sizing for high-level effort categorisation
- Three-point estimation and confidence intervals
- Using Monte Carlo simulations for release forecasting
- Confidence sliders and risk-adjusted forecasting
- Aligning estimation outputs with stakeholder expectations
- Reducing estimation fatigue through lean refinement
- Introducing no-estimation models for mature teams
- Transitioning from estimation to flow-based forecasting
Module 9: Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines - Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Version control strategies: trunk-based vs feature branching
- Automated build processes and build verification
- Test automation: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- CI tools overview: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
- Code coverage metrics and thresholds
- Static code analysis and quality gates
- Deployment pipeline stages: dev, staging, prod
- Blue-green and canary release strategies
- Feature flag management and progressive rollouts
- Environment parity and configuration management
Module 10: DevOps and Agile Collaboration Patterns - Breaking down silos between development and operations
- Shared ownership of production stability
- Incident response protocols in agile teams
- Monitoring and observability integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Post-mortem culture and blameless analysis
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for agility
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for agile services
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
Module 11: Technical Excellence and Agile Engineering Practices - Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its adoption curve
- Pair programming and mob programming techniques
- Refactoring legacy code in agile increments
- Code review processes for continuous quality
- Collective code ownership and knowledge sharing
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for bounded contexts
- Event Storming for rapid domain discovery
- Microservices alignment with agile teams
- API-first design and contract testing
- Documentation as code and living artefacts
Module 12: Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest
- Managing executive expectations in agile delivery
- Slicing features for early stakeholder value delivery
- Reporting progress beyond velocity and story points
- Using radiators and dashboards for transparency
- Managing scope creep through change control
- Negotiating deadlines with business partners
- Storytelling for agile transformation advocacy
- Demonstrating ROI from agile investments
- Communicating technical constraints in business terms
Module 13: Agile Coaching and Team Development - Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Stages of team maturity: forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching models: GROW, OSKAR, and CLEAR
- Removing impediments without oversteering
- Conflict resolution within agile teams
- Team health checks and retrospectives on retrospectives
- Onboarding new members into established squads
- Remote team cohesion and virtual trust building
- Delegating authority while maintaining accountability
- Empowering teams without losing strategic direction
- Recognising burnout and promoting sustainable pace
Module 14: Scaling Agile Across Teams and Organisations - Coordination challenges in multi-team environments
- Scrum of Scrums and its modern adaptations
- Dependency management at scale
- Architecture alignment across autonomous teams
- Product Owner alignment and backlog synchronisation
- Shared services and centralised support teams
- Enterprise agile planning events (PI Planning)
- Managing cross-team releases and integrations
- Common pitfalls in agile scaling initiatives
- Adopting a minimum viable transformation approach
Module 15: Agile in Regulated and Non-Traditional Environments - Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Applying agile in healthcare, finance, and government
- Auditing agile processes for compliance
- Traceability from user story to regulatory requirement
- Change control and versioning in regulated systems
- Validation and verification in agile medical software
- Agile in safety-critical and embedded systems
- Documentation strategies without sacrificing agility
- Hybrid agile-waterfall models for certification
- Working with external auditors and assessors
- Building compliance into the definition of done
Module 16: Remote and Distributed Agile Teams - Timezone-aware sprint planning and ceremonies
- Asynchronous communication best practices
- Choosing digital tools for virtual collaboration
- Maintaining team cohesion across geographies
- Pairing across continents with effective handovers
- Onboarding remote developers into agile workflows
- Ensuring inclusivity in virtual standups
- Visualising work in online Kanban tools
- Running effective remote retrospectives
- Measuring engagement in distributed settings
Module 17: Agile Transformation Strategy and Leadership - Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Assessing organisational readiness for agile
- Building a compelling business case for change
- Defining success metrics for transformation initiatives
- Phased vs big bang agile adoption strategies
- Identifying champions and change agents
- Aligning transformation with business strategy
- Overcoming cultural resistance to agile
- Leadership role in enabling agile teams
- Adjusting performance management for agility
- Maintaining momentum during transformation fatigue
Module 18: Financial and Business Alignment in Agile - Cost-benefit analysis of agile adoption
- Agile budgeting and funding models
- Outcome-based investment vs output-based planning
- Aligning agile delivery with financial quarters
- Business value tracking per feature and sprint
- Risk-adjusted ROI calculation for agile projects
- Negotiating funding with CFOs and finance teams
- Portfolio management in an agile enterprise
- Value Stream Management and flow efficiency
- Connecting team metrics to executive dashboards
Module 19: Legal, Contract, and Vendor Considerations - Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management
Module 20: Certification, Career Growth, and Next Steps - Overview of industry certifications: CSM, PSM, SAFe, ICP
- Choosing the right certification path for your role
- Preparing for certification exams using self-assessment
- Resume optimisation for agile roles
- LinkedIn profile enhancement with agile keywords
- Networking strategies for agile professionals
- Transitioning into agile leadership roles
- Mentoring others as a sign of mastery
- Contributing to the agile community through writing and speaking
- Using your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to stand out in job applications
- Agile contracting models: time and materials vs outcomes
- Incorporating flexibility into vendor agreements
- Milestone definition in iterative delivery
- Intellectual property rights in agile partnerships
- Handling scope changes in fixed-price contracts
- Penalties, incentives, and shared risk models
- Working with offshore agile teams and suppliers
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for agile vendors
- Data privacy and GDPR alignment in sprints
- Third-party integration and license management