Agile Foundations I - getting to Done

Course details

Got projects? This course gives you the practical techniques you can use to get your work done - for software, or beyond. We offer two ways to learn.

1. Watch our videos
2. Visit our live coaching and discussion sessions most Thursday nights at 5:30PM Pacific (8:30 PM Eastern) at http://join.me/agiledimensions via telephone or headset. (See http://www.meetup.com/agile3d for our schedule). We also meet in Sococo for sessions starting on June 5th.

Our next live session is Thursday, June 12, 5:30 pm Pacific. Contact AgileBill for Sococo and Trello setup info.

Thursday means Learning Agile!

Along the way you will check off formal learning objectives in the ICAgile family of certifications (http://www.icagile.com). You can learn for free by watching most videos in this course in 'preview' mode. Earn more PMI-ACP(sm) Agile prep hours through our live coaching and discussion sessions. Learn for free! But if you pay for this course (to cover our recording fees) you will earn a formal ICAgile Professional certification. This opens the way for follow on expert tracks in your role. What is really cool is you can get credit for each weekly topic as you go.

So if you don't care about certification come for the learning. If you want formal certification and don't mind an online format then this class may be perfect for you.

Learn for free. Cert for fee.

Along the way you will learn to

• Build the right thing
• Reduce risk
• Deliver while your competitors are still planning
• Delight your customers with quality and satisfaction.

No matter the size of your projects, these Agile project management concepts from Kanban, Scrum, will help make your projects more efficient. We will even highlight any differences you may need to consider for larger projects.

When you purchase and complete this course you get formal ICAgile credit. But you can simply learn by watching most of the videos for free.

This course is a little different than what you are used to. Watch 10 minute videos as homework before class. Our live sessions will do exercises and discuss the topic.

About the Designer

"AgileBill" has over 20 years of experience in project management, software engineering and training. He holds more than 11 certifications including PMI-ACP, SPC, CSP, ICE-AC, and IGQI. He is an enterprise agile coach and is currently pursuing a masters degree in education technology. Feel free to interact with Bill via the question facility. We will have some live group sessions each month, but most of the learning is from the material included in the class for you to review at your own pace.

Standards

The follow-on course, "A502 Agile Foundations II" ads modern techniques for building quality in, discussions how new leaders foster teamwork, and reviews the values you have learned to complete your ICAgile Professional certification requirements.

This course aligns with agile project management standards from PMI, the Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, and books on enterprise size projects to give you education hours needed to apply for the PMI-ACP examination. If you have an existing PMI certification, this course grants you 6 class B PDUs.

• This course aligns with concepts you need to know to study for the PMI-ACP(R) exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). It provides 3 contact hours of training you need to apply for the PMI-ACP exam as well as Class B PDUs to help you maintain your existing PMP or PMI-ACP certifications.
• This course aligns with the Scrum process as described by the Scrum alliance and they Agile Atlas. It provides 3 class E (other) hours you can use to pursue your CSP certification.
• This course aligns with material described in the Agile Extensions to the Business Analayst Body of Knowledge (Agile Extensions to the BABOK).
• This course aligns with Scaled Agile Framework(tm) concepts presented in the book "Agile Software Requirements" by Dean Leffingwell. It does not give you any certifications in SAFe(tm) however.
• This course closely aligns with material for the ICAgile Professional certification offered by the International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile). This course combined with Agile Foundations II will help you earn an ICAgile Professional certification (ICP). Specifically, this course includes the objective areas from
  - Stakeholder Inclusion
  - Value Driven
  - Planning and Adapting
  - Process Adaptation

Materials

This course will use video, articles, discussions, and activities hosted in udemy. Textbooks are optional, but the following are recommended:

• For a short and simple read consider "The Elements of Scrum" by Chris Sims.
• For doing Agile in enterprise settings consider "Agile Software Requirements" by Dean Leffingwell and "Essential Scrum" by Kenny Rubin.
• To prepare for the PMI-ACP(R) exam consider PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths.

Online resources are also available including the Agile Atlas.

Schedule

This course is self paced, but one module per week is recommended. This helps you stay in sync with the discussion forum and optional live sessions. The five modules in this class will take 9 hours of total time over a 5 week period.

Assignments

To complete this class you will plan a realistic project. Each course module will guide you through a portion of the process.

Rubric

Each step of your project will be graded on a scale designed for each practice you learn. on a scale of one through 10, a 5 represents basic skill, 7 is good, 9 is excellent, and other numbers may be used as appropriate. If you do well you will earn an electronic badge to boast of your accomplishment!