SAFe® for Teams Training Course

This two-day course is ideal for IT professionals eager to explore the Waterfall model and understand traditional strategies used to address its limitations, including Agile methodologies.

The first day provides an overview of these approaches, helping you determine which might best fit your organizational environment.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile, which can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

Business analysis is the process of studying, understanding, and defining business needs in order to develop solutions that meet those needs. It is a key element in the change management process within an organization and in designing new business solutions. Business analysis aims to ensure that technological, process, or organizational solutions meet business goals and requirements. It is a crucial component in ensuring the effectiveness of projects and organizational changes by guaranteeing that implemented solutions are appropriate, feasible, and fully aligned with business requirements.

The "Scrum for an Advanced Scrum Master + PSM II Preparation" training is aimed at experienced Scrum Masters who wish to expand their competencies, gain a deeper understanding of how Scrum works, and become true leaders in an agile approach. The course includes an interpretation of the Scrum Guide aligned with the vision of Scrum.org, which is crucial in the context of the PSM II exam. Participants acquire practical knowledge about complexity, the empirical approach, the value of Scrum, and the role of the Scrum Master as a leader. Additionally, the course prepares for the PSM II exam, based on the latest version of the Scrum Guide.

This course emphasizes the business analyst's role in ensuring success within Agile projects. Participants will learn how to collaborate effectively with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Customer to facilitate the development process. The training includes a simulated project where attendees practice handling common scenarios.

Target audience:

IT Directors, Project Managers, Technical Team Leads, Analysts, Software Developers, and Testers.

Learning outcomes:

This training aims to provide participants with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience regarding the workshops, Kanban principles, and the foundations of Agile methodologies.

This course is designed for professionals who need to integrate Agile methodologies (particularly SCRUM) with Lean and Kanban to effectively manage their projects.

It bridges the gap between product design and software design.

Who is this for?

Designed for IT professionals eager to implement Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development management, this two-day course is particularly beneficial for project managers, team leaders, developers, and stakeholders who wish to actively engage in the development process.

This course is designed for test managers, quality assurance teams, testers, software developers, project managers, and organizational leadership to clarify how Agile project management frameworks—particularly SCRUM—address testing processes.

By the conclusion of the course, each participant will have designed and executed a test plan for a sample application (which may be a real client application if available).

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers foundational testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Target Audience

This course is designed for development teams seeking to enhance their testing practices in an Agile environment.

It is also suitable for individuals aiming to pursue testing as a specific career path and serves as a prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This instructor-led, live training in Brazil (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level professionals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Scrum and pass the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification exam.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Master the fundamentals and concepts of Scrum.
• Gain core competencies to handle internal and external distractions in project development.
• Master the ins and outs of all Scrum ceremonies.
• Gain proficiency in executing Scrum.
• Take the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification Exam with confidence.

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

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is an intensive two-day program that blends instruction, collaborative discussions, and a fully immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method assists individuals, teams, and organizations in managing and enhancing the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method offers practical, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for achieving successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current practices and promotes gradual improvement while respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles, while also encouraging leadership at every level. This approach allows organizations to evolve business processes incrementally, establish and utilize relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly mitigate the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

Upon completing this course, you will possess a solid understanding of Kanban principles and general practices, along with the skills necessary to confidently apply Kanban within your organization.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
This course is ideal for anyone involved in product development or knowledge work, including but not limited to:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

JIRA is a Java-based web application designed to provide project and issue tracking capabilities to enhance the agility of software development processes.

During this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organizations.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the core principles behind Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Utilize Jira to create and manage Kanban projects
• Customize Jira configurations to align with organizational requirements
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

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

Kanban is a workflow management method.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at both beginner-level and advanced-level participants. The knowledge and tools provided can be applied in your daily work to optimize workflow efficiency.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Increase the number of work items completed per unit of time.
• Reduce the time required to complete work items.
• Improve work predictability (providing better answers to "When will it be done?").
• Manage flow metrics (throughput, lead time, work in progress, work item age).
• Use flow charts (Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, Work Aging Chart).
• Utilize statistical forecasting methods, such as Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreement.
• Design a Kanban System in a methodological way (STATIK).
• Understand Little's Law, which describes the nature of value flow.

Are you facing challenges implementing Agile within your organization? Is the approach too rigid? Are your teams overloaded and less productive, yet too resistant to embrace a revolutionary change?

Choose the "Alternative Path to Agility" by implementing an evolutionary and humane Change Management Method that enhances your processes without altering them.

The Kanban Method offers pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current practices and respects existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles. This enables organizations to gradually evolve business processes, define and utilize relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you regain control of your work. It is a technique for dynamically managing your process and exposing bottlenecks.

This training equips you with the skills and knowledge to apply Kanban in your work, helping you determine what to prioritize, what to defer, and what to remove from your to-do list entirely.

Learning Outcomes

This 1-day course teaches the basics of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry point and starting phase for an alternative path to agility.

Attendees will become familiar with the Kanban Method. They will be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board, understand different work item types and the risks associated with specific work items, and familiarize themselves with various Team Kanban board designs and styles. They will know how to select the design best suited to their context, and they will be aware of the training roadmap and the value and benefits at each step on the "alternative path to agility."

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional involved in product development or knowledge work who is interested in discovering how Kanban can help improve working environments. Kanban applies across multiple functions of an organization, from senior staff members looking to adopt Lean Management to delivery team members seeking to improve their working practices. Previous attendees have held roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals