Agile Product Management - Growth Marketing Training Course

This two-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in mastering the Waterfall model and exploring how practitioners have historically addressed its limitations, including the adoption of Agile methodologies.

The primary goal of Day 1 is to provide an overview of these various approaches, helping you determine which might best suit your specific organizational environment.

Day 2 focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile principles, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied within both Waterfall and Agile contexts.

This course centers on the business analyst's role to ensure success in Agile projects. Participants will learn how to collaborate effectively with the development team, the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development process. The curriculum includes a simulated project where attendees can practice handling common scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in Greece (online or onsite) is aimed at engineering and design professors who wish to understand, apply, and teach modern software development practices relevant to systems engineering, civil engineering, design, and architecture disciplines.

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 practices that provide feedback on 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 offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers essential testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory's Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine modern principles and practices of Agile testing.

In this two-day course, you will gain a concise introduction to Agile software testing. The curriculum covers fundamental testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants framework to examine modern Agile testing principles and practices.

Intended Audience

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

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

Objective:

This course empowers Business Analysts to master the efficient modeling and validation of business processes and resources. The goal is to enhance organizational agility by aligning with target architectures and responding to evolving market demands.

Over two days, participants will learn to model business processes and resources to ensure they remain adaptable to shifting goals, strategies, and capabilities within the target architecture. By leveraging key performance drivers—such as strategies, tactics, KPIs, and business capabilities—delegates will develop a vision-centric business process and resource map. Using the appropriate BPMN and UML notations tailored to their professional language, they will acquire the skills to adjust these models in response to changing strategies, tactics, and policies.

This instructor-led, live training in Greece 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 robust instrument for Project Management, yet practitioners often place excessive emphasis on the tool itself rather than the underlying methodology.

This instructor-led, live training reveals the synergistic power of Jira and Confluence, demonstrating how they collaborate to achieve the ultimate goal of enabling teams to successfully deliver their products or projects. Participants will learn to leverage these tools effectively to streamline User Requirements, Testing, and Communication, all centralized within a single platform.

The curriculum covers JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning and dependencies, the integration between Jira and Confluence, reporting, key fields and custom fields, issue types, as well as screens and filtering mechanisms.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be capable of:

• Setting up a Scrum or Kanban project
• Configuring Jira for optimal project management
• Managing issues with efficiency
• Designing the necessary screens to accommodate various issue types
• Creating workflows and boards, while understanding their interplay
• Executing basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generating and reviewing essential reports for both the team and management

Lean is a methodology designed to maximise value whilst minimising waste within processes.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets intermediate-level banking and process management professionals who wish to apply Lean and Agile tools to enhance efficiency in managing requirements, projects, and operational processes.

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

• Understand and apply Lean principles within the context of banking processes.
• Utilise Lean tools to optimise requirements gathering and project execution.
• Implement and manage Kanban boards for effective workflow management.
• Identify and eliminate waste in banking and service-oriented processes.

Course Format

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Numerous exercises and practice opportunities.
• Hands-on application of Lean and Agile tools in case-based scenarios.

Course Customisation Options

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

The PAQ certification offers a 3-day experiential exam preparation course focused on refining practical skills applicable to the workplace.

The exam is a ‘hands-on’ assessment where candidates receive a product backlog release containing user stories, relevant design documentation, and a ‘multi-drop’ application seeded with defects. Instructions outline expectations during the practical assessment, allowing candidates to produce the required work products. The exam includes 1 or 2 additional scenario-based written questions (up to 5 in total) covering various competencies, marked alongside the backlog release by an independent assessor. The assessment lasts 2.5 hours.

The "SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification" training is a two-day course designed to provide the skills needed for effective value delivery in a Lean enterprise. Participants will learn about the Agile Release Train (ART), Program Increment planning, Epic creation, and how to effectively perform the roles of Product Owner and Product Manager. The training also covers topics related to the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture, enabling participants to integrate effectively into processes and continuously improve the ART.

This instructor-led, live training session in Greece (available online or onsite) is designed for experienced Release Train Engineers (RTEs) who wish to deepen their grasp of their role and enhance their professional capabilities.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

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

This two-day course provides an in-depth exploration of the Lean-Agile principles and practices underpinning the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

Participants will learn how to deliver and release value via Agile Release Trains, establish an Agile Portfolio, and spearhead Lean-Agile transformations at an enterprise level.

You will develop a robust understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and learn to apply SAFe principles and practices to empower Agile teams, programs, portfolio management, and the coordination of extensive Value Streams. Attendance prepares you for the certification exam to become a SAFe® Agilist (SA). Associated Certification: SAFe Agilist (SA)