Course overview
Agile is a highly effective framework that’s transforming the way organisations operate and deliver value to their customers. This course explores the techniques needed to run, and ensure the success, of agile projects and supports students in real life applications of agile working practices.
This course will help you discover the benefits of sprints, stand-ups and scrums, as well as how to foster continuous improvement by designing effective project retrospectives. You’ll gain insights into efficient project management using lean thinking, and how to create organisation wide agile change.
This course is an ideal first step for anyone looking to understand Agile methodologies and the benefits that Agile can bring to modern organisations. It covers all the fundamentals as well as the practical flair to immediately apply what you learn into the workplace.
What you'll learn
Master the techniques to run agile projects and teams. Manage sprints, stand-ups and scrums, and foster continuous improvement by designing effective project retrospectives. Make ‘lean thinking’ your best friend, and make projects hum.
You’ll learn to:
- Identify key difference between traditional and agile business
- Prepare teams and projects for an effective agile approach
- Design and implement relevant visual management techniques
- Prepare, plan and execute agile meeting methodologies, such as sprints and scrums
- Design and deploy effective retrospectives
- Explore key agile methodologies including lean, kanban and extreme programming
- Implement feedback for continuous improvement in agile environments
- Monitor and evaluate agile improvement and plan for agile change across your organisation
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- 6 weeks
- Weeks 1-5: 5-8 hours
- Week 6: 8 hours
Entry requirements
No entry requirements.
Course features
Skills-focused
We’ve built this program with leading companies who have transformed and thrived in a changing workforce. We’ll start with the fundamentals, then you’ll build real-world strategies that can be immediately applied back in the workplace.
Make industry connections
Sometimes it’s what you know … but sometimes it’s who you know. And we know a lot of people. We’ve partnered with leading digital companies realestate.com.au and Tigerspike to make sure our courses give you the targeted, industry focused learning and endorsement needed to future-proof your career.
Collaborative learning experience
Studying online doesn’t mean you’re doing it in isolation. You’ll be joining a dynamic learning community of professionals, with 1-1 mentorship from experts in the field.
Subjects
- What is Agile?
- Agile benefits
- Agile fluency
- Key agile frameworks
- Agile tools
- Lean change management
- Agile goals and purpose
- Delivering value
- Clarifying change expectations
- Collecting and using feedback
- Agile improvement
- Implementing Agile change
- Scaling Agile
- Project reflection with peers
- Tap into industry experts
- Further exploration on emerging trends
About RMIT Future Skills
Our online short-courses have been designed by industry experts. We have partnered with leading employers from key businesses such as Tigerspike, jtribe, Bilue, Stone & Chalk, Accenture, Paper Giant and REA Group. It’s a chance to learn from the best in the business. Half the battle is who you know, and we know a lot of people.
