Summary
This course will help you understand what ‘agile’ really is, it’s origin, possibilities and limitations. You will also learn how an agile mindset can be used in a changing market.
You will learn how to focus on key concepts and methods as well as how to adapt an agile mindset and how to use agile techniques.
Although the ‘Agile’ concept was originally created to make the processes of software development more dynamic, effective and customer/stakeholder oriented it is now regularly used in the pharmaceutical industry. Both agile and scrum fit well into a complex, innovative and explorative workday.
Keywords
- Agile
- Scrum
- Improvement
- Empirical process control
Course leader(s) & Lecturers
- Jakob Christensen VernerCourse leaderAgile Coach & Partner
Better Change
IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
Agile and Scrum applies well to complex, innovative and research work. This course is for everyone who wishes to explore agile approaches to their work, team and company.
What you will learn
- The origins of agile – discussion of described values and principles
- To differ from where the agile mindset potentially can help you and your company – and where you are likely not to benefit from adapting the agile mindset
- Understand the Scrum framework and how it can support your agile mindset
- Understanding of the roles, artefacts and events in Scrum
What your company will get
- An employee who understands how to benefit from adopting an agile mindset, trigging faster results and give structured, constructive feedback to the overall plans, products and people
- Benefits of continuous improvement based on empirical process control
- An employee who understands the importance of transparency, inspection and adaption in the empirical process
Course calendar
DAY 1
- Introduction
- Myth vs. facts
- Agile Values and Principles
- Empirial Process Control • Push vs. Pull
- Team Dynamics
- Agile Roles
- Scrum In a nutshell
DAY 2
- Daily scrum
- Scrum framework
- Product backlog and vision
- Sprint planning
- The Sprint
- The Review
- Retrospective
- Policies
- Refinement
- Finalizing the course and consolidating learnings
Registration
Registration deadline9. Nov 2021
Course information
Literature
Prior to the course you will get access to mandatory and optional readings via your personal Atrium log-in.
Please familiarize yourself with the mandatory readings before starting the course.
Examination
There is no exam for this course.
This course is a part of this programme
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Lecturers
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