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T A A A UNIVERSITYTRAINING &
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2020
ABOUT USThe Agile Advisor is a global firm, comprising of consultants and information professionals. We have offices in more than 5 countries, speak multiple languages, and represent several nationalities.Our clients reflect our global nature.
We serve a broad mix of government, private-,public-, and social-sector organizations. Our firm is designed to operate as one.We are a single global partnership united by a strong set of values, focused on client impact.
Around 70% are in Africa,
10% in the America,
10% in Europe
10% in the Middle East and Asia.
T H E A G I L EA D V I S O RA F R I C A
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T H E A G I L EA D V I S O RA F R I C A
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The Agile Advisor Africa is the change agent to help you transform your workplace using Agile Methodologies, also transform your teams and entire workplace using Agile Values, Principles and Practices.
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OUR FACULTY
Abiodun Osoba has over 20 years experience in telecommunications, banking, retail, wholesale, technology, startups and software industries. She is the CEO of The Agile Advisor Canada & Nigeria and has over 14 years of experience working in Agile environments. Provided executive Agile coaching in 3 countries (trained over 200 staff in Agile fundamentals, Scrum & Kanban) and successfully led digital programmes in 3 countries. Starting as a technical contributor, then moved on to the roles of a Business Analyst, Project/Program Manager and now as an Enterprise Agile Coach/Executive Coach/Organization Coach and a Leadership Team coach for several client organizations. Abiodun is dedicated to innovation and operational excellence and facilitates the continuous improvement culture so important to The Agile Advisor. Abiodun has written over 50 articles on Agile Advice. She is an Agile Facilitator/Trainer. CSM, CSPO, SA, CAL1, Certified Agile Coach. Abiodun is a graduate of the University of Abuja, Nigeria, Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School. She is actively involved in the Agile community and is an organizer of several meet ups in Canada and Nigeria.
Abiodun
OSOBATRAINER/COACH
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Tunde is a certified ICT professional with a BSc in Accounting. He has acquired certifications in Agile Mindset, Project Management (Prince2), IT service Management (ITIL V3), Microsoft, CISCO, CSM, CSPO, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master and Scrum@Scale.
He is a result driven seasoned professional with nearly 15 years hands-on experience in Networking, IT Support, IT Service Management and IT Infrastructure as a whole. He is highly skilled at maximizing available resources to achieve core business objectives for value realization.
Tunde has an energetic, hardworking, goal oriented personality and strongly believes in team building to achieve the best for the benefit of all stakeholders.
Tunde
GIWATRAINER/COACH
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Obi is a highly experienced DevOps consultant with over 15 years of extensive IT Architecture and Management experience in a variety of market sectors, he has an in depth understanding of Cloud Architecture and Technology in conjunction with their related markets and strategies,marking himself as accomplished professional in designing, implementing and configuring a wide v a r i e t y o f Te c h n o l o g i e s s u c h a s M i c r o s e r v i c e s , C l o u d Architecture Integration, Application Development and Systems Solutions methodologies. Obi is currently focused on helping clients embrace Cloud Technologies showing them how it works and why it matters.
Obi
IKEGULU
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Having worked across a number of industries, including government, energy, gambling and finance, Hardish is a very adaptable engineer with a breadth of knowledge. Starting his career as a data engineer, he quickly found a passion for DevOps. He has worked with an array of companies to build cloud landscapes and introduce containerisation solutions. He is AWS certified and a certified kubernetes administrator.
Hardish
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A Digital Product expert with demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry for over 11years. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Customer Service, Banking, Sales, Change Management and Product Management. Extensive Background in E-business and Digital Payments: with experience in cards and payment tokens, product development, ideation, penetration Strategy and new market development. Strong product management professional, as well as a disruptive thinker with Post Graduate Certificates focused on Strategic Marketing and Disruptive Strategy from Cornell University and Harvard Business School (Online) respectively.
Itohan
IYALLATRAINER/COACH
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Worked in a combination of strategic and operational roles for startups and established businesses able to build and develop high functioning teams and stakeholder engagement. A skilled in Negotiation, Business and Project Planning, Analytical Skills, Team Building, and experienced in managing complex teams and leading organizational change. Customer focused, hands-on, flexible and love a challenge. Now looking to leverage skills and experience gained to support teams and organizations to win in executing their delivery pipeline and on their agile transformation journey.
A delivery focused Enterprise Coach, IC Agile accredited trainer and Digital Transformation Lead, with 20 years experience of managing complex projects, and portfolios and multi-disciplinary teams across sectors within an iterative environment.
Ady
DIKETRAINER/COACH
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Ibukunoluwa Oyeleke is a seasoned certified Agile Coach with expertise in software development and seamless digital transformation from waterfall to Agile. She is a very intentional Agile evangelist and a key digital transformation leader with over 10 years with Agile and QA Engineering background in Web, Desktop and Mobile testing with expertise in agile methodologies (including Scrum and Kan ban), software development (quality assurance), Requirement gathering (business analysis), and Resource management.
IbukunoluwaOyeleke
TRAINER/COACH
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A Certified Scaled Professional Scrum Master and Agile Coach/Product Leader, with over 12 years’ experience in leading cross-functional and distributed Nexus team of varying sizes, delivering valuable and customer-centric software products across Banking, Telco, Fintech and travel industries. Has track records of coaching, mentoring and building high performing Scrum teams; consistently delivering potentially releasable integrated increments of done products at the end of each sprint. Especially, successful in leading enterprise agility using Scrum framework/DevOps practices; and empirically measuring impact, using Evidence based Management approach, across the four (4) Key Value Areas (KVAs) of Unrealized Value, Current Value, Ability to Innovate and Time to Market.
Ayorinde
AKANDETRAINER/COACH
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Femi is a well established and empirical Information Technology Servant-Leader Consultant with over 20 years continuous successful years experience in delivering IT solutions. A successful Change Agent who thrives on disrupting mind sets to embrace a new way of thinking and working. His focal point on delivery is geared towards the coaching and training within the Agile & DevOps space. He is a Certified DevOps Trainer, Certified DevOps Coach, Certified Scaled Scrum Expert, Certified SAFe Agilist (CSA/SA), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Agile Leader and a Certified Scrum @ Scale Practitioner.
Olufemi
SONUGA
TRAINER/COACH
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Gene is an enterprise transformation agent: trainer, coach, mentor.-Experience in various domains of product development and customer value delivery.-Specialize in senior, mid-level and team-level, agile coaching, mentoring and facilitation.-Lean and system thinker, challenger of organizational structure and culture-Help organizations and individual teams to improve practices and processes of day-to-day operation-KAIZEN culture and Creative Economy supporter-Frequent speaker, presenter and facilitator of agile community eventsSpecialties:-Agile Transformation, lean thinking, organisational waste management-Organizational and Cultural changes-Agile Training, Coaching, Mentoring-Scrum Mastering, -Agile Product Management-Scrum, Kanban, Lean Certifications:-Certified Agile (Enterprise & Team) Coach (CEC-CTC)-Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)-Friendly Scrum Trainer (LSFT)-Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practitioner (CLP)-Certified in Scrum @ Scale (CSaS)-Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)-Certified Scrum Master(CSM)-Certified Project Management
Gene
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T H E A G I L EA D V I S O RA F R I C A
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OUR TRAINING& WORKSHOPSAs an organization, we train individuals and organizations
by presenting to them hands on experience on the use of Agile practices and tools. We offer a list of workshops below:
1– Product Vision Board Workshop
2– User Story Workshop
3– Scrum Master Workshop
4– Product Owner Workshop
5- Agile Leadership Workshop
6– Transition to Agile Workshop
7– Agile Estimation and Planning Workshop
8– Agile Scaling Workshop
11– Introduction to Agile and Scrum
9– Introduction to AWS DevOps, CI/CD, Cloud Security, Cloud Principles
10– Introduction to Azure, DevOps CI/CD, Cloud Security, Cloud Principles
12– Effective User Stories with Behavior Driven Development
13– Enterprise Agile Coach Workshop
14– Advanced Agile Practitioners Workshop
15–Remote Coaching for Teams
ABOUT USPRODUCT VISION WORKSHOP
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Our approach is on experience and not just the theoretical knowledge. We look to use the specific techniques best-suited to the individuals and organizations. We will cover the importance of a product vision bringing a newlife and how to create a good product vision board.
BENEFITS
· Produce a vision and strategy which translates into the development of a product vision board.
· Ensure the Product Owner has a clear vision
of the product agreed with stakeholders.
· Business Canvas Model
· Product Canvas
AUDIENCE
· Product Managers
· Product Owner
· Marketers
· Entrepreneur
· Product Executives
OUTLINE
· Product Strategy Foundations
· Product Discovery and Strategy Validation
· Product Life Cycle and Product Strategy
· Agile Product Roadmaps
· Roadmap Planning and Roadmap Reviews
· Product Portfolio Management
COST
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OUR CERTIFIEDTRAINERS AND COACHES
Sho-Silva Nosa opens the line of communication between students, clients, customers, and businesses to get projects done. With over 16 years in both public and private sectors, Sho has experience in management consultation, team building, professional development, strategic implementation, company collaboration, Business analysis and an Agile coach. Sho has managed projects at Central Bank of Canada, Toyota Canada, and Innovation Canada, where he was the lead Agile analyst on Salesforce implementation. Sho-Silva holds a BA from University of Calabar and IT degree from York University and a current PSM 1, PSM 11, PSPO 1, AGILE LEADERSHIP (PAL 1) certification ®Scrum.org, ICP-ACC (Agile Coaching) @ Icagile.com
Sho-Silva
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ABOUT USUSERSTORY WORKSHOP
CLASS DESCRIPTION
The Agile Advisor Africa runs User Story writing workshops to allow Agile Team to better be able to make use of this technique and to avoid some common pitfalls.
The User Story workshops begin with the theory and background on the concept of User Stories – The most popular and useful Agile requirements capturing technique. User stories are an Agile way of handling customer requirements without having to elaborate formalized requirement documents and w i thout hav ing the corresponding administrative overload in the managing and maintaining of them.
One of the most important aspects of moving to Agile is understanding “stories”. It takes practice to write good stories, and this exercise allows you this practice.
BENEFITS
· We will run through the theory of User Stories
· Develop a case study and apply this learning
on the clients real projects
· Handle Customer Requirements
· Spikes
COURSE CONTENT
· User Stories Work
· Epic
The course content is designed to be flexible to suit different needs.
Core Course Outline:
· What is a User Story and how to write one (how it is different from requirements· User Story mapping
· Agile Recap
AUDIENCE
· Product Owners
· Product Managers
· Business Analysts
· Requirements Engineer
· UX Designers
· Project Managers
COST
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WORKSHOPS
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WORKSHOPS
SCRUMMASTERWORKSHOP
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Scrum is the agile development process that allows teams to deliver usable software periodically throughout the life of the project, evolving with new requirements as the project proceeds.Scrum Master Workshop will give you a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum methodology while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a Scrum Master.This workshop will help review and understand the critical characteristics a Scrum Master must have to succeed, get to the heart of the matter with Scrum, coaching and team productivity.
OBJECTIVES
· Learn the details on Scrum roles: Team Member, Product Owner, Scrum Master
COURSE CONTENT
· The “Art of the Possible”
· Product Integrity
· Customer Expectations
· Running the SCRUM Project
· Agile Estimating and Planning
· Team Dynamics Audience
AUDIENCE
· Product Owners
· Product Managers
· Business Analysts
· Gain an understanding of the foundational/ critical concepts of Scrum with our certified Scrum Trainer instructional program
· Understand how to apply empirical thinking to your project work
· Learn how a team’s productivity can be adjusted to account for its composition
· Appreciate the importance of organizational agreement on software readiness
· Discover how conflict resolution plays a critical role in Scrum
· Work on real-world Scrum project live in the classroom
· Learn, Practice and utilize the Scrum Framework
· Gain a detailed understanding of how to know when software is “DONE”
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AGILELEADERSHIPWORKSHOP
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Agile Leadership workshop explores the values and principles of Agile and how they relate to the Leadership Environment. Leaders will explore classical management in an Agile World and learn the concepts of Lean Thinking and Agile Methods. The class also does a deep dive into Agile Leadership and how to best support teams as they grow in an Agile Environment. It also explores how to influence culture so that there is a good environment for Agile to thrive. Leaders leave this class with actionable next steps to take back to their existing work environment.Leaders are the most powerful factor in influencing an organization’s success, this workshop will provide an understanding of why Agile is important in an organization and how leaders can move the Agile innovative forward.
Agile Leadership is the ability to lead through a wide range of circumstances, particularly new, changing and inexact situations.
OBJECTIVES
· Lead your organization into the future by identifying and enhancing business
COURSE CONTENT
· Agile overview and Benefits
· Scrum Overview
· Leading in an Agile Environment
· Discuss each piece of the Scrum Framework - its purpose and interaction with other pieces of the framework
· Increase the effectiveness of your organization’s Lean and Agile initiatives
· Develop your emotional intelligence to overcome resistance to change
· Align and amplify contemporary leadership prin- ciples under the Agile leadership model
· Identify the rights, responsibilities and interactions of each role in Scrum – Team member, Product Owner, Scrum Master and Stakeholder.
· Define the Agile mindset and identify at least three key mindset shifts required to effectively lead and manage Product Owners and Scrum teams.
· Identify at least three challenges an organization might face when undertaking Scrum beyond a single team.
AUDIENCE
· Product Owners
· IT Managers
· Entrepreneurs
· Business Stakeholders
· Product Executives
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TRANSITIONTO AGILEWORKSHOP
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This is an experiential, hands-on workshop. We will address many of the core Agile practices in the workshop, first by discussing them and then by practicing them. We will build projects and use feedback and coaching as team members to simulate what a project might look and feel like as a more Agile project
COURSE OBJECTIVES
COURSE CONTENT
· Problems moving to Agile techniques
AUDIENCE
· Program Managers
· Functional Managers
In this workshop, we will work through a project, both planning and implementing it. We’ll debrief how the project proceeded and what you perceived worked well and what was not quite what you expected. We’ll also talk about your changing role, and how to make Agile work for you, your team, and your organization.
· Elicit problems participants are dealing with now
· Showing how to modify any lifecycle to use Agile practices
· Release and iteration planning
· Technical practices
· Management practices
· Team working
· Team practices
· Standup meetings
· One-on-ones and when to use them, including a short piece on feedback and coaching
· Variety of activities to try the practices
· Project Managers
· Technical Leads· Senior Managers
COST
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TRAININGS
PRODUCTOWNERTRAINING
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Product Ownership remains one of the greatest challenges in any business, it involves the ability to continually produce a product or service which attracts customers. To enable you perform continuous improvements on your products and services. This interactive masterclass provides a range of simple, yet incredibly powerful ways that industry leading organizations use to be significantly more effective.Getting the product owner role right, and applying product owner practices in the right way is not only crucial for creating successful products, but also for making a Scrum transition a success.
OBJECTIVES
· Apply impact Mapping to an existing Product back- log to visualize all the work
· Use an impact Map to communicate product strategy * WHY are we doing this, * WHAT impact are we trying to deliver via what features
COURSE CONTENT
· Scrum and Product Management
· Traditional Product Management vs. Scrum
COST
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AUDIENCE
· Product Managers
· Use the Impact Map to determine what is strate- gically valuable and what isn’t
· Use Story Mapping to design the flow of the product
· Develop and communicate a business-focused release plan (using both of the above)
· Structure User stories effectively
· The product owner’s prerequisites for starting the first sprint
· Scrum strengths and limitations
· The Product Owner Role· Collaborating with the team and Scrum Master
· Scaling the product owner role
· The Product Backlog
· Sprint Meetings
· Product backlog grooming
· Release Planning
· Understanding the Scrum release planning techniques
· Use of release burndown chart to track and forecast the project progress
· Estimating product backlog items and determining velocity
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TRAININGS
AGILESCALING
TRAINING
DESCRIPTION
Agile Scaling is a set of organization and work overflow patterns intended to guide enterprise in Agile Practices, this workshop provides a facilitated environment for the audience to consider the issues unique to their organization and shape the path of Agile Scaling successfully.
OBJECTIVES
COURSE OUTLINE
· How to align all teams with management, executives and stakeholders
· How to coordinate all agile teamsAUDIENCE
· Scrum Masters
your executive’s Product vision with the Product roadmap and then to the many different working Agile teams.
The objective of this workshop is to have your organization understand how the agile methodology fits into portfolio, program and project management, how executives and managers role’s change and how to scale agile across your organization successfully. Learn how to align
Also, understand how to do this with distributed teams, which is more common than not. This w o r k s h o p g i v e s b e s t p r a c t i c e s , b u t largeorganization usually need additional hands on coaching to scale agile successfully.
· How to deal with distributed teams
· How does an enterprise work in a hybrid agile methodology, using both Waterfall and Agile?
· Product Owners· Team· Product Managers
· Executives· Stakeholders
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COST
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TRAININGS
AGILE ESTIMATION
TRAINING
DESCRIPTION
During the workshop you will utilize the real-life practices you can apply immediately to collect accurate estimates, construct robust plans and set appropriate expectations with your stakeholders around cost, scope and date. After this workshop, you and your teams will be able to accurately answer “When will it be done?” with confidence and conviction.
“How much is it going to cost? What will I get? And when will it be done?”These three common questions are familiar to any software team. While Scrum and Agile teams operate a bit differently than teams managed with a traditional, phase-gate approach (aka waterfall), they still need to offer up a coherent and defensible answer to these basic inquiries from the business.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
· Identify the difference between an estimate, a target and a commitment.
· Describe the major influences on a estimate and how errors enter an estimate
COURSE CONTENT
· Iteration Planning
· The Problem and Our Goal
· Differentiate between situations when counting, computing or replying on expert judgement is the best path to an accurate estimate
· Practice two estimation techniques common for Scrum Teams
AND PLANNING
AUDIENCE
· Product Managers
· Story Points and Ideal Days
· Estimating the Product Backlog
· Release Planning
· Topics for Multi-Team Projects
· Scrum Masters
· Product Masters
· Team Leader
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T H E A G I L EA D V I S O RA F R I C A
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