Digital Delivery Basics
Understanding the intent of the agile manifesto is the key to effective digital delivery
Our Digital Delivery Basics course provides an understanding of how teams need to work together to build digital product and services with a hands-on approach into how agile teams work.
It provides provide a concise and robust understanding of the intent of the agile values and principles, it examines why traditional approaches for delivering products and services often fail to deliver value to users and organisations, and why taking an agile approach typically delivers better results, especially for digital product and services.
Being agile is about changing the way we approach solving problems, complex or otherwise. It's not about applying a framework method or technique, but rather a change of mindset that aligns with agile values and principles.
Who's it for?
Our Digital Delivery Basics course, is suitable for anyone who needs to be part of or engage with a digital delivery team.
It's for anyone new to agile, anyone who needs to understand what being agile is about. It's for individuals, teams and leaders.
It's even suitable (or perhaps most especially important) for anyone who has learned an agile framework or method but is struggling to make it work.
This is not a technical software development course, but rather a course that will help you understand the most efficient way to develop digital services that deliver real value to users.
Why should I attend?
Unlike most other basic agile training that tries to tell people how to be agile, we engage with our delegates by challenging the way they currently work and think, explaining what it means to be agile so that they can decide for themselves what they need to do to be agile. We show them examples of how they can be agile through the use of appropriate tools and techniques.
This course covers the bare bones of agility - the intent of the manifesto. We help you think differently with an agile mindset to solve problems, work better with others, understand what value means and where to spend your energy.
It covers the things that everyone should know about agile.
What topics does the course cover?
Start with being agile - We start the course by being agile. We run an exercise with everyone that demonstrates some of the key aspects of being agile.
Why agile - A key aspect of being agile is that it is evidenced-based. So we should question, challenge and understand why an agile approach to developing digital services tends to deliver better results than traditional approaches.
Developing Digital Products: Scrum overview - Scrum is used widely to help us work in an agile way. It provides a development framework that is a good starting point to understand how to develop digital services.
Scrum in practice -The theory is all well and good, but nothing consolidates learning better than having a go. This session sees the cohort role up their sleeves and start being agile.
Understanding iteration - Following the practical session on putting scrum into practice, we reflect on the activity, focusing on the effect that scrums iterative approach has on development and the opportunities it presents.
Agile Manifesto - Despite comprising just 4 values and 12 principles, working in a way that aligns with them isn't always as easy as first it seems. Being agile is about really understanding the intent of the values and the principles - this session digs deep to provide that understanding and why being agile helps us work efficiently and deliver value.
Influencing the working culture - By the end of the day the potential of agile starts to be realised. We end the day by exploring the effect of agile ways of working on working culture.
Course delivery details
1 day, remote or in-person
£200 - £255 (ex VAT) per delegate
We offer our standard public Digital Delivery Basics course, as a 1 day, in-person or fully remote (online) course.
Our face-to-face course is normally run in Sheffield or London, but we do sometimes run our course in other locations if it suits all of the course delegates - just let us know your preference.
Running the course face-to-face allows us to demonstrate many of the topics we cover using a variety of activities, workshops and games.
Our remote (online) course covers the same topics as our face-to-face course. We have adapted some of the activities so that we can deliver them remotely, but they are not identical.
Our online course has shorter lessons and activities. Our adapted online face-to-face activities are slightly more directed than when we run them face-to-face. We've also found that online learning tends to feel much more intensive so we build in more, but shorter breakout slots.
The price of our online Digital Delivery Basics course is £200 (excluding VAT) per delegate.
The price of our face-to-face Digital Delivery Basics course is £255 (excluding VAT) per delegate. The price of our face-to-face courses includes refreshments during the day and a buffet grazing lunch.
We can also run this course privately for your organisation. It requires a minimum of 6 delegates, with a maximum of 12.
The price to run the course privately is £1050 (excluding VAT).
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