Course Tutor(s)

Stuart Young

Innovation lead & trainer

Stuart is a professional live illustrator with extensive traditional/ Agile Project management experience and a deep-rooted appreciation for Agile Principles and Methodologies. He has harnessed his creative skills to translate concepts and processes into engaging visuals during workshops, events and conferences. With international notoriety within the Agile Community, Stuart has provided his services at various Scrum Alliance Global Gatherings/ Retreats. In addition he has illustrated at an endless list of popular Agile conferences such as the Agile Testing Days in Berlin, the Lean Agile Scotland Conference and the London Lean Kanban event. By combining both creative and analytical skills Stuart contributes to team visioning/ planning workshops and retrospectives by offering captivating visuals that crystallise ideas and learning. When he’s not coaching, delivering training and live illustrating, Stuart is running a number of ‘Innovation through Visualisation’ workshops to support individuals to gain the confidence to draw and collaborate effectively. The newly gained skills assist teams to solve problems and map ideas with the use of graphic metaphors and additional visualisation techniques. Stuart joined Radtac in 2015 where he continues to assist individuals, teams and organisations with an array of visualisation services.

Course Content

Topics Covered are:

• History and culture
• Value-Driven development. Scrum, Kanban and Lean
• Team building
• Customer and User Involvement
• Planning and Adapting

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of:

• Key differences between Agile approaches and traditional project management approaches
• Scrum, Kanban and Lean Frameworks
• The need for investment and trust in people
• New forms of customer engagement
• Plan for the short term, iteratively and to continuously improve

Audience

This course is ideal for those looking for an introduction to Agile, this accredited ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) course delves into the fundamental underlying values, principles and practices used on Agile projects, explaining how they work and why. It lays a solid foundation for applying Agile to any aspect of work, while providing practical outcomes that can be immediately put to use.

Pre-requisites

This course does not have any pre-requisites.

Course Preparation

This course does not have any pre-course preparation.

Certifying Bodies & Exams

This course is accredited by ICAgile, watch the "Your ICAgile Story" presented by Ahmed Sidky, president of ICAgile who introduces your ICAgile-Accredited Class, how to claim your ICAgile certification, and continuing your Agile learning journey with ICAgile's Expert Certifications.

On successfully completing this course, participants will receive ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) certification.

What You Receive

Two-days high quality instruction from one of our experienced ICAgile accredited trainers. Also included are:

• Course Materials
• ICAgile certification
• Refreshments before and during the course are provided, including a two course lunch, breakfast and snacks. (public scheduled courses only)
• Radtac Community membership including face-to-face and virtual networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, access to industry experts, special offers and invitations to special events

Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
Attendees may be eligible to apply for Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) towards their CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) through the Scrum Alliance.

PMI Professional Development Units (PDUS)
Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDUs towards their continuing education requirements with PMI

Online Details

We use Zoom video conferencing to host our live online courses via a virtual classroom. We recommend that before registering participants run a zoom test meeting and check system requirements to ensure they are able to connect. Participants will also use our digital workspace, Mural and our Agile Tools Mobile app for collaboration with the class and completing exercises for the duration of the course. You’ll find links below to test and explain requirements for each of these tools.

Zoom requirements

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux

Zoom test meeting

https://zoom.us/test

Mural requirements

https://support.mural.co/en/articles/2113688-technical-requirements-to-run-mural

Agile Tools Mobile App

https://www.radtac.com/resources/agile-tools-mobile-app/

On registration full information will be provided via joining instructions to each partcipant with instructions on how to acess the virtual classroom and additional tools.

Still unsure? Talk to our team of friendly learning advisors, they are here to assist before, during and after your class if you have any questions.