Agile methods in enterprise environment – Spotify, SAFe

Who are the intended participants?

• IT managers
• Business managers
• CIOs
• Project managers
• Analysts
• Developers
• Architects

Programme

• Agile approach to product development, differences compared to waterfall approach
• Lean-agile values, lean-agile principles
• Agile@scale - team, programme, portfolio
• Most widely used agile frameworks in enterprise environment - Spotify model, SAFe
• Roles: in addition to the standard team level roles, we will explain the roles of business owners, product managers, system architects, enterprise architects, Epics owners, Leanportfolio management, system roles
• Organisational groupings - squads, tribes (agile release train), chapters, quilds
• QBR/programme increment planning - how to plan increments across programme portfolios, dealing with interdependencies between teams
• Granularity of requirements, their purpose and interdependency - epic - features - use stories
• Continuous integration approach, incl. DevOps, release
• System demo - software variants for presenting the outputs of each iteration
• Innovation as a basis for future development - how to address an area for which typically no time is left in the standard waterfall concept
• Architecture solutions in an agile environment.

How will you benefit from the course?

You will:

• gain skills and learn the principles of agile thinking in an enterprise environment
• learn about the most common mistakes in agile transformation
• understand the complexities of implementing an agile framework in an enterprise environment
• learn how to visualise requirements using the KANBAN board and link requirement types
• streamline team collaboration methods.