Our training can kickstart, refresh, and grow your understanding of agile.
No matter your level of experience, our training can support your agile journey and is a great opportunity for fun and productive team-building.
OUR APPROACH
We use agile to teach agile and encourage teamwork and conversations to help embed the learning.
Our training includes a mix of theory and facilitated discussions, supported by real-life stories and practical activities.
Each participant is given an iPad with our Agile CoLab mind-map app for the duration of the course.
We don’t use powerpoint, instead delivering the training content interactively through a series of flipcharts.
We build concepts with you and take photos to embed them into the course material ready for your use back at work. Photos are a great way to bring back memories of our conversations and exercises.
All Agile CoLab coaching and training material is created by our coaches and issued under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.
We encourage you to use the training material in your workplace.
OUR COURSES
We offer a variety of training courses to suit your needs. Some help you get started, while others provide a deeper level of learning.
Please get in touch if you’d like to talk about the right course for you.
This highly interactive course introduces participants to the fundamentals of agile and the mindset required for a more agile way of working.
We explore the Agile Manifesto and Principles, and Modern Agile, to gain insight into why we want to use agile thinking. We work through key elements of two of the most popular agile frameworks (Kanban and Scrum), and learn practical techniques for visioning as well as stakeholder and product backlog management. Participants gain a common agile language and practical ideas for applying their learning.
At the end of the course, active participants will be accredited with the internationally recognised ICAgile Professional Certification. This is their gateway to more advanced specialist ICAgile certifications if they wish to further their knowledge.
This intense course is designed for participants with little or mixed Scrum experience. It is a worthy investment for those who want to fast-track their understanding, and explore Scrum in a fun and practical way for effective use on their next project. Participants learn how to use Scrum to achieve rapid delivery of high quality outputs, all within both tight timeframes and a constantly changing world of business priorities.
This training course also prepares you for a leadership role within the Scrum team, and provides the option to formally test your knowledge by sitting the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification assessment from scrum.org
PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT OWNER
2 DAYS
This highly interactive course is for Product Owners, who already have a basic understanding of agile and product ownership, and want to explore the role more deeply. The course reinforces the value focus of the Product Owner role in the context of the agile principles, and introduces core product management techniques that position participants to successfully lead their agile project teams.
It is expected that participants already have some Product Owner experience, or alternatively have attended an Agile Fundamentals course.
This training course provides the option to formally test your knowledge by sitting the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification assessment from scrum.org
This 1-day course provides an introduction to 4 key Agile Scaling Frameworks; SAFe, LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), Scrum at Scale and Nexus. Within the course, we explore each framework by examining their key characteristics, the agile practices used, the team composition and essential roles, the level of leadership engagement required from leadership, and the impacts on the organisation. We’ll go through the factors that drive the need for scaling and equip you with the ideas on how to make an informed decision when selecting a suitable scaling approach for your organisation.
Achieving effective agile scaling becomes much easier when you choose the most appropriate framework for your organisation.
The course is particularly targeted at leadership but is relevant to anyone exploring scaling options for their organisation before committing to a particular framework.
AGILE FOR LEADERS
1/2 DAY
Our Agile for Leaders workshop is for senior executives and leaders wanting to fast-track their understanding of agile so they can effectively engage with key customers and support their agile teams.
We have designed the workshop as a small interactive group experience to provide each executive with the opportunity to actively engage with the real-life agile experiences discussed within the learning structure of the workshop.
AGILE 101
1/2 DAY
This agile awareness workshop kick-starts our learning programme and is for anyone looking to learn about agile and how it might apply to them. It’s a mix of theory, practical activities and facilitated discussions. We focus on introducing the benefits of using agile, developing an agile mindset and personal agility while building a common agile language. We recommend continuing your agile learning journey afterwards.
LEARNING LABS
1 & 2 HOUR SESSIONS
Our agile learning labs are a great way to spread the agile word, plant agile seeds and encourage a growth mindset.
Each informal session tackles one topic and is a mix of theory and interactive learning to embed the key learning outcome. The number of sessions is limitless and the topics are targeted to the needs of the organisation.
AGILE INTRODUCTIONS
1 DAY
This fun course provides an introduction to the benefits and challenges of changing to agile. We explore two key frameworks (Kanban and Scrum) to help participants learn the language and the importance of the agile mindset.
Participants will experience the benefits of agile ways of working, discuss the differences between the two frameworks, and have a practical mindset for choosing an agile approach to suit their work.
DEVOPS INTRODUCTIONS
1 DAY
This 1-day course introduces the underlying values, principles and practices of DevOps. We explore how to start implementing DevOps within your context and cover key topics like Continuous Delivery Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Security and Site Reliability Engineering.
This course is targeted at those needing to have a wider understanding of DevOps to do their job but will be of particular interest to developers and testers.
SERVERLESS PROGRAMMING
1 DAY
This highly-interactive modular course is for developers and architects who want to gain an understanding of serverless programming and how to set it up for their organisation. The course covers both the theory of serverless technology and then practically implements the theory through using AWS Lambda functions during the course.
OUR TRAINERS
Agile CoLab trainers are professional trainers and practitioners, who couple real-world experience with agile principles and frameworks. We love learning from the people and organisations we train, and feed real-world learning back into our training courses reflecting up-to-date trends, challenges and technologies.
We empower you to transform yourself, your teams and your wider organisation.