Course: Agile for Beginners

In order to be successful using Agile, a growth mindset is necessary. To understand what this means, let’s first contrast a fixed mindset with a growth mindset. The fixed mindset …

As we have mentioned before, teamwork can’t just be switched on. It takes time for a new team to ‘gel’ and an important part of this is understanding group dynamics …

Planning is an inevitable part of our daily lives, and each scenario requires a level of planning. Just think of some of your day-to-day activities. How much planning actually goes …

Heart of Agile and Modern Agile both came into existence because the creators looked to what has become of Agile since 2001. Heart of Agile Heart of Agile was developed …

Crystal is an Agile framework focusing on individuals and their interactions, as opposed to processes and tools, and is a direct outgrowth of one of the core values articulated in …

Kanban is one of the most popular frameworks used in Agile development and is originally a method for scheduling work, which was developed by Toyota as part of the company’s …

Extreme Programming also emerged in the early 1990s and is typically associated with Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries. Most would not believe Chrysler created this method with its …

Scrum is probably the most widely recognized framework for Agile. It was invented by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and emerged in the early 1990s. According to the Scrum Guide, …

The term servant-leadership was first made popular by Robert Greenleaf in 1970, but the idea can be traced as far back as Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching from the 5th …

So we ended the previous step, by asking the question how do you move from a fixed to a growth mindset? There are a number of techniques you can apply, …

In this step, we will start off by looking at the differences between an agile approach and a predictive approach to projects. Predictive frameworks These frameworks have been around for …

The 12 principles described in the manifesto are important for understanding the Agile mindset. You have already been introduced to the four values of the Agile Manifesto, but the principles …