Agile Basic Training

Agile
Basic
Training

A One Day
Essential
Skills Building
Workshop

Agile as Practical Work Tools

Agile is a culmination of management wisdom from old and new times, and a lot of Agile is nothing new. Likelihood is that many elements of Agile is already practiced at work. The essence of this workshop is to help participants build new habits around their already Agile way of working.

Takeshi Yoshida

Chief Coach & Founder

Lifecycle Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)

PSM II, PSPO, Scrum.org

Bio

The Workshop

Target Audience

Working professionals of all functions who are new to Agile. The course will be conducted in plain, non-techy English.

Outcome

Participants will walk away with a good grasp and basic how-to handling of the latest Agile frameworks.

Contents

Lean Startup, Design Thinking and Scrum.

Modality

Activity Based Learning (learning by doing). Lecturing will be kept at a minimum, and participants will be going through many exercises involving a lot of brain spilling talking, post-it scribbling, flip-board doodling, paper crafting, ball throwing, LEGO® fiddling and roll playing.

Duration

One day.

Program (example)

Morning Program

What is Agile?
What is Lean Startup?

Activity 1: Min Specs exercise

What is Scrum?

Activity 2: Sprint ball game

Afternoon Program

What is Design Thinking?

Activity 3: LEGO® city building exercise

How might we Agile teamwork?

Activity 4: Positive Deviant Behavior exercise

What, So What, Now What?

Activity 5: Closing exercise

Lead Coach

Takeshi Yoshida, Chief Coach & Founder, Lifecycle Pte. Ltd.

As a former banker turned serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of industry experience, Coach Takeshi conducts workshops and training programs for multinational corporations and large regional enterprises, including at his MBA alma mater INSEAD, alongside managing a portfolio of startup projects. Takeshi is a Professional Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSM II, PSPO, Scrum.org), and is a prolific writer with a large following on Medium and LinkedIn Pulse.