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This online self-paced course introduces the most common Agile methodologies and frameworks, including Agile's 4 primary values, 12 principles and 5 phases of its project management model. Participants will explore key activities for managing a project using Agile, such as developing a project charter and a product vision, using appropriate types of contracts, and favouring simple over comprehensive forms of project documentation.
Agile Project Planning
This online self-paced course examines critical planning activities in Agile such as creating personas and wireframing, as well as iterative methodologies for prioritizing project requirements as part of a release plan. Participants will learn about common Agile estimation techniques such as story points, wideband delphi and affinity estimation.
Agile Project Scheduling and Monitoring
This online self-paced course presents Agile's time-management processes for monitoring and tracking progress, as well as key risk management strategies and quality testing frameworks in Agile. Participants will learn about managing projects using Agile project scheduling activities like setting work-in-progress limits and implementing project buffers.
Agile Stakeholder Engagement and Team Development
This online self-paced course offers insights into the characteristics of agile project teams and team leaders, and recommends strategies to help improve team performance and cohesion. Participants will learn about communication tools and developmental mastery models in Agile, as well as the benefits of using facilitation techniques like games to foster collaboration and cooperation.
CSPS Digital Accelerator Program
The program consists of a series of facilitated workshops, meet-ups, and events spread over a 6-month period designed to prototype a human-centred solution to a current business problem. Through a combination of practical interventions, peer learning, coaching and mentoring, participants will develop and apply design, product management, and Agile methods to address and advance a business problem faced by their organization.
Cultivating Enterprise Agile
This online self-paced course examines the benefits of cultivating agile thinking across an organization, exploring the critical success factors and key steps involved in creating an agile enterprise. Participants will learn how to implement enterprise agility by overcoming common obstacles and selecting planning tools that support an agile organization.
Developing and Supporting an Agile Mind-set
This online self-paced course explains the importance and benefits of developing an organizational culture that is agile and open to change. Participants will learn the characteristics that distinguish an agile mindset from a fixed mindset, and ways to encourage and build an enterprise that is responsive to change.
Digital in Practice
This course provides a high-level overview of the Government of Canada Digital Standards, which constitute the cornerstone of the government's shift to digital and to becoming more agile, open and user-focused. Participants will consider the positive impacts of the government's digital standards on the everyday work of public servants and explore ways to adapt to new digital realities and mindsets.
Next session: April 26, 2024 | 2 more dates
Embracing an Agile Culture for Business Growth
This online self-paced course presents the benefits of adopting Agile methods and an agile mindset within an organization, as well as the right conditions for making this change. Participants will learn about the leadership styles that promote organizational agility, and ways to measure the success of their organization's transition to Agile.
Hacking Our Way to an Agile Organization
Adopting new perspectives, new ways of doing things and new ways of thinking is a lot like hacking. Guest speaker Tanya Snook will talk about why hacking is important and discuss ways that the public service can start being agile right now, including ways to hack our work, our teams, our organizations and, most importantly, ourselves.