Agile Training in Manchester

This instructor-led, live training in Manchester (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level Release Train Engineers (RTEs) who wish to deepen their understanding of their role and improve their skills. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE).
• Learn how to facilitate Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and drive continuous delivery.
• Develop skills in planning and executing Program Increment (PI) events.
• Gain expertise in managing risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Acquire techniques to foster relentless improvement and Agile transformation.

This instructor-led, live training in Manchester (online or onsite) is aimed at marketing executives who wish to understand how to leverage Agile frameworks to optimize growth marketing strategies, create customer-centric products, and achieve scalable growth. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key frameworks used in agile product management.
• Analyze the potential demand for new products and services.
• Learn how to price new products and techniques for tuning value.

This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in using the Waterfall model and how people have traditionally tried to deal with its shortcomings - including, but not limited to, Agile approaches. The aim of the 1st day is to give an overview of these approaches enabling you to decide what might suit them in your environment. The 2nd day looks at project management techniques and good practices that have been identified from Agile, and which can be applied in a Waterfall or Agile context.

This course focuses on the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. Course participants will learn how to cooperate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master as well as with the Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will go through a mock project practising common scenarios.

The iSQI Agile Essentials course is an internationally recognised qualification, Aimed at anyone involved in agile Projects and wants to become familiar with working in an agile environment. This includes Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Directors and Management Consultants. The course is comprised of eight sections and takes participants through the lifecycle of an agile project from the release planning and writing user stories to the iteration review (showcase) and retrospective. The first day focuses on the key principles (55% of the day on theory, 45% exercises), the second is dominated by practical application (40% theory, 60% exercises). Course Objectives

• Value the principles behind agile manifesto and its approach to software development
• Appreciate the roles within an agile team 
• Understand how to contribute as an agile team member to quantifiable requirements
• Apply 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 is a series of testing practice that provides feesback to software quality issues in a timely and continuous manner following the principles of agile development.
Continuous Integration (CI) refers to all developers in a team merging their work several times a day.

This course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory's (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

TDD, or Test Driven Development, is an approach to developing software where coding, testing, and design occur in tandem throughout the software development cycle. Agile is a broader process and management approach to software development that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning. In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to write high-quality C applications using a TDD and Agile development approach. Participants will put their knowledge into practice by carrying out a series of hands-on exercises to create a well-designed and well-tested C application. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure development and testing tools needed to carry out TDD
• Design, develop and unit test a C application using a TDD approach
• Apply planning and management practices of Agile development

Audience

• Developers
• Project managers

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

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

This 5 day course is for developers who wish to write high quality iOS applications in Swift. This is a hands on course which involves writing a number of increasingly complex high quality applications. Delegates will need to have an Apple copmputer with the latest version of OS X and Xcode installed. Delegates wishing to run applications on real devices, rather than emulators, will need to be registered with Apple as iOS developers and have their devices registered.

Overview This 2-day course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory’s (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing. Intended Audience This course is intended for development teams who want to improve their testing practices in an Agile context. It is also suitable for those intending to pursue testing as a specific career and is a suitable pre-requisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

Objective: Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs. This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.

Objective: This training course aims at helping product managers, products owners, business analysts, system architects and developers understand how to efficiently Manage Requirements on the basis of the product vision till guiding developers accurately in implementing them. More in detail, this course aims at assisting product managers in better defining the value propositions of their products on the basis of strategies and stakeholder needs. Business Analysts and product owners understand how to describe requirements of the product backlog then discover appropriate epics and user stories of the system while contributing to the required value creation. Along interactive case study exercises, participants learn how to describe in detail such requirements in order to validate correct understanding of needs and prepare system acceptance tests. Thus, only using a very common and productive UML profile, they learn to structure requirements in order to communicate efficiently with architects and developers through an iterative requirement gathering process. Audience:

• Product Managers
• Product Owners
• Business Analysts
• Anyone interetsted in the Requirements Management Process

This instructor-led, live training in Manchester 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.

JIRA Software is a powerful tool for Project Management and people tend to focus more on the tool than the method itself. This instructor-led, live training introduces the participants to the power of Jira and Confluence, working together to serve the only purpose of helping the team to deliver successfully the product / project. The team will learn how to properly use these tools to be more efficient handling User Requirements, Testing, Communication, centralized in one place. Will be studied JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning and dependencies, Jira/Confluence linkage, reporting, important fields and custom fields, issue types, screen & filtering. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create a Scrum or Kanban project
• Configure Jira to manage the project properly
• Manage issues effectively
• Build the necessary screen to handle issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand their interaction
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports necessary for the team and the management

PAQ is a 3 day experiential exam preparation training course with a focus on honing practical skills that can be implemented back in the workplace. The exam takes the format of a ‘hands-on’ assessment where candidates are given a product backlog release which includes user stories, associated design documentation plus a ‘multi-drop’ application seeded with defects. Candidates will be given instructions as to what is expected of them during the practical assessment and the opportunity to create the work products required. Each practical assessment will contain 1or 2 additional scenario-based questions requiring written answers (up to 5 questions in total) that cover a selection of competencies. These written answers will be marked along with the answers to the product backlog release by an independent assessor. Assessment duration is 2.5 hours.

"SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification Training" is a two-day course that enables you to acquire the skills necessary to effectively manage the delivery of value in a principles-based enterprise Lean. Participants will learn the principles of Agile Release Train (ART), Program Increment planning, writing Epics, and how to effectively fulfill the roles of Product Owner and Product Manager. The training also covers topics related to Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture, enabling participants to effectively integrate into processes and continuously improve ART.

This two-day course teaches the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale. You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Agilist (SA). Associated Certification: SAFe Agilist (SA)

This two-day course teaches teams who are part of an Agile Release Train (ART) how to work in an Agile environment using Scrum, Kanban, and XP. The teams will learn how to become Agile Teams, build their backlog, and plan and execute iterations. Agile teams learn about their ART and their role in it, planning, executing, and improving with other teams. This class prepares teams to run a Program Increment (PI), including all meetings at the Team and Program level with a specific focus on the upcoming PI planning. Attending the class prepares participants to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Practitioner (SP). After this course, you should be able to:

• Apply SAFe to scale Lean and Agile development in your enterprise
• Know your team and its role on the Agile Release Train
• Know all other teams on the train, their roles and the dependencies between the teams
• Plan iterations
• Execute iterations, demo value, and improve your process
• Plan Program Increments
• Integrate and work with other teams on the train