FCA: Agile Foundations

FCA Agile Foundations

Whether you’re new to agile or a seasoned professional, this self-paced, interactive course will arm you with everything you need to succeed with Agile. Earn your ICAgile Certified Professional upon successfully completing this course.

Course curriculum

1. FCA Welcome
2. Agile Foundations Introduction
3. Student Workbook
4. Introduction to the Learning Environment
1. Agile History & Background
2. Origins of Agile
3. What is Agile?
4. Reflecting on Agile History & Origin
1. Agile Manifesto
2. 12 Principles
3. Applying the Agile Manifesto
4. Reflecting on the Agile Manifesto
1. Understanding the Agile Mindset
2. Examples of the Agile Mindset
3. Establishing the Agile Mindset
4. Interaction - What order would you choose?
5. Wrapping up the Agile Mindset
6. Reflecting on the Agile Mindset
1. Agile Beyond Software Development
2. Agile in Context
1. Retrospective #1
2. Action Plan for Section 1
3. Knowledge Check for Section 1
1. Introduction to Scrum
2. Scrum 3-5-3
3. The Scrum Master
4. The Product Owner
5. Team Members
6. Reflecting on Scrum
1. What Makes Teams Awesome?
2. Developing Soft Skills
3. Activity - Getting started with Soft Skills
4. The Sprint
5. The Product Backlog
6. Communication Barriers
7. Sharing Knowledge
8. Physical Work Environments
9. Reflecting on What makes teams awesome
1. Collaboration Techniques
2. Empowered Teams
3. T3 - Fist of Fives
4. Activity: Fist of Fives
1. Retrospective #2
2. Action Plan for Section 2
3. Knowledge Check for Section 2
1. Sprint Zero
2. Release Planning
3. Activity: Build a Release Plan
4. Who is the Customer?
5. Interaction: Who is the Customer?
6. Reflecting on Getting Started
1. Backlog Refinement
2. T3 - Dot Voting
3. User Stories
4. Other Backlog Item Types
5. Interaction - User Story 1
6. Interaction - User Story 2
7. Interaction - User Story 3
8. User Story Writing
9. Activity - User Story Writing
10. User Story Examples
11. TIP - Splitting User Stories
12. DoR & DoD
13. Reflecting on Backlog Refinement
1. Getting Involved
2. Discussion: Getting Users Involved
3. Do they really like it?
4. Activity: Net Promoter Score
5. Reflecting on Getting Feedback
1. By my Estimation
2. Activity: Affinity Estimation
3. Velocity Explained
4. Activity: Velocity
5. Planning Poker
6. Reflecting on Estimation
1. Sprint Planning
2. T3 - What Is My Team Capacity?
3. Sprint Backlog
4. Detailing Stories
5. Reflecting on Sprint Planning
1. Retrospective #3
2. Action Plan for Section 3
3. Knowledge Check for Section 3
1. Introducing Flow
2. What are WIP & WIP Limits
3. More on Kanban
4. Task Switching
5. Activity: Multitasking Exercise
6. Daily Standup
7. Burndown Charts
8. Activity: Create a BurnUp Chart
9. Continuous Integration
10. Applying Continuous Integration
11. Cost & Benefit of Frequent Delivery
12. Activity: Reducing Risk
13. Reflecting on Running a Sprint
1. Built in Quality
2. Sprint Review
3. The Increment
4. Activity: Empirical vs Planned
5. Sprint Retrospective
6. Activity: Product Adaptation
7. Scrum 3-5-3 Review
8. Activity: Scrum 3-5-3 Review
9. Reflecting on Delivery
1. Retrospective #4
2. Action Plan for Section 4
3. Knowledge Check for Section 4
1. Agile Foundations Close-Out
2. Final Exam
1. Class Celebration

About this course

$299.00
111 lessons
4 hours of video content

FCA Agile Foundations

Course curriculum

Agile Foundations

Agile History

Manifesto & Principles

Agile Mindset

Beyond Agile & Context

Reflecting on Section 1

Introduction to Scrum

What Makes Teams Awesome?

Collaboration Techniques

Reflecting on Section 2

Getting Started

Backlog Refinement

Getting Feedback

By my Estimation...

Sprint Planning

Reflecting on Section 3

Running a Sprint

Delivery

Reflecting on Section 4

Final Wrap-Up

Congratulations

About this course