Become an Agile Coach in 2024 | Mindset, Frameworks, Skills

Learn to plan, build, and deliver successful products | Master Scrum, Kanban, and more Agile frameworks in 2024

Created by: Masha Ostroumova
Enterprise Agile Coach

Created by: Agile Apothecary

What Will I Learn?

• The foundations of Agile, including principles, product development processes, and different types of users and user research
• The key components of product work, from user stories and product backlog to planning, prioritization, estimation, and reviewing
• Specific Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Xtreme Programming, Lean Startup, and Scaled Agile, and how to tailor these frameworks to suit the needs of you
• How to work effectively with a team, including analyzing product, process, and team health, approaching Agile transformation, and fixing various problems
• The most popular software tools used in Agile, including Jira, Asana, Trello, and Monday
• How to assess and improve the Agile maturity of a team using a unique Agile Maturity scorecard.
• Understand, analyze and improve metrics related to team's outcome, output and health
• Plan product work, create user stories, manage backlog and do product experimentation
• Work with "difficult" teams and individuals: prevent and resolve conflicts, conduct Agile transformation when the team is resistant to change
• Manage Agile projects and facilitate Agile ceremonies, meetings, workshops and games
• The difference between Agile and waterfall, advantages and disadvantages of both approaches
• Agile principles and values
• The difference between Agile coach and Scrum Master
• Study the user, identify user type and build user persona
• The difference between MVP and prototype
• A/B testing and introduction to statistical analysis
• Definition of user story, acceptance criteria, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready and INVEST criteria
• Agile product planning stages, product vision, planning cycles, OKRs and daily planning
• Estimation, story points, velocity and predictability measurements
• Work in progress concept, Little's law, throughput rate and cycle time
• Prioritization techniques: value vs cost, weighted average, Kano method
• Retrospective meetings and product review
• Communication tools and how to resolve communication-related issues
• Measuring product success and net promoter score

Requirements

• Basic understanding of software development process
• No prior experience with Agile is required

Target audience

• Project and product managers
• Product team development members
• Agile coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Aspiring Agile coaches