Agile Methods
Units: 6
Businesses must compete in new ways for growth and relevancy, driven by rapidly expanding digital innovation and complexity. As a result, organizations have become reliant upon an ability of their people and leaders to embrace continuous change for strategic gain while delivering continuous, incremental value.
This explains the shift industry is making to Agile Methods; replacing outdated ways of organizing and managing software development and delivery. In this course we learn the history of agile methods, we explore Kanban, DevOps and, more deeply, the Scrum Framework, as it is the most popular and sits at the root of most every enterprise framework used to “scale agility” throughout large organizations.
Who this course benefits:
Many are in pursuit of playing strategic Product Owner and Scrum Master roles, as well as supporting roles in Product management, development and deliver - if this is you, this is a course you really must consider - speak to your student network about the value it brings in your career goals.
Agile Methods is the perfect course for entrepreneurially-minded professionals having career aspirations within any departmental functions (such as Product Management, Product Development, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.) and wanting to learn through practical application how organizations deliver continuous value and embrace continuous change.
1. Students will gain hands-on skills and experience applying Agile Values and Principles, and lightweight ways of working using Scrum and Kanban during this course - both are popular agile approaches in high demand with today's employers!
2. Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking and applied problem solving against a complex holistic system of agile values, principles and practices, and challenges of scaling to the enterprise.
3. Students will learn the strategic business drivers and benefits of agile methods, and the inherent complexities companies experience while adopting and scaling agile to the enterprise.
4. Learning Scrum by using Scrum; through effective Teaming, and Leading Teams we learn what is required for results, how to amplify and accelerate.
5. At the end of the course, Students have the OPTION to purchase (at a student discounted rate) certification exams from Scrum.org. These professional certifications in the areas of interest relevant to what we’ll have learned in this course are Scrum Master, Product Owner and/or Kanban Certifications. See Scrum.org website for details about content, preparation, pricing, and all other matters. NOTE: While we do not “teach to the exam” in this Agile Methods course, we do learn in ways that aim to increase your probability of earning your certification. Final note, these option certification exams have nothing to do with your grading, nor your grade performance during our Agile Methods course.
Required Heinz (Pittsburgh-Based) Courseware in support of these objectives:
No Pre-Requisites.