Agile Essentials
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Course overview
About Agile Essentials
Agile Essentials modules:
- What is Agile?
- The Agile Team
- My Performance on an Agile Team
- Working on an Agile Team
- Agile Practices
- Agile Evolution
- Agile Beyond Software: Applying Agile to Diverse Fields
Build your core knowledge by understanding exactly what agility is and under what circumstances it can support organizational strategy and goals. Whether you're leading your company to deliver more value with enhanced adaptability or working as a member of a team, Agile Essentials equips you with everything you need to know to execute agile practices in support of your objectives.
Time: 5 hours
Format: On demand
Credential: Microcredential
Prerequisites: None
What you'll get: 5 hours of on-demand learning and a badge to showcase your new skills. Course content consists of written material, images, flash cards, and other interactive experiences.
Who Should Take Agile Essentials?
Whether you’re looking to upskill your employees or enhance your own agile skills and knowledge, the Agile Essentials course provides the training needed to support faster time to market, improved engagement and alignment, and adaptability that leads to outpacing the competition.
- Anyone who wants to build agile work skills
- Team members
- Executives and leaders
- Managers
- Directors
- Professionals from any industry and job function (marketing, healthcare, logistics, product design, and more!)
- Anyone who wants to add an in-demand qualification to their resume
Agile Essentials is ideal for the complete beginner as well as more seasoned agile practitioners because you'll discover the latest insights and applications. You'll learn about agile principles through today's lens, agile frameworks, and when agile can be beneficial to delivering products or services.
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
Train your team!
Interested in purchasing this course for more than one person? We can help.
Take Agile Essentials for a foundational understanding of what agility means in the context of product development and how it can be expanded to any field of complex work (including government, healthcare, education, marketing, and others).
Equip your workforce with these in-demand skills or complete the course as an individual to supercharge your resume and credentials.
You'll receive the digital microcredential badge plus a two-year renewable membership with Scrum Alliance when you successfully complete Agile Essentials.
Along with a profile listing in our professional directory, membership includes discounts to global and regional Scrum Alliance events, access to User Groups, and access to the Comparative Agility improvement platform.
Scrum is one of the most popular product development frameworks, as well as Kanban, Extreme Programming, and Lean.
Much more than implementing a framework or series of rigid steps, agile is a way of thinking, behaving, and approaching problems. Agile Essentials explores this definition of agility so an entire organization can adopt agile from the top down, making it possible to pivot, adapt, and stay ahead of the competition.
There are no prerequisites for Agile Essentials. Dive into the concepts and walk away with new skills to drive results at any organization or enterprise.
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Train teams or boost your own skill set with Agile Essentials.