How to use Agile to get more done: tools and training

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9 March 2021

How to use Agile to get more done

Here’s our latest selection of news, tools, tips and ideas for ways you can make a bigger impact every day.

  • Agile training that inspires you to make a difference
  • Agile risk management guide
  • Four Agile tools for reducing project risk
Boost Agile coaches Rebecca and Ruka delivering the online Agile Professional Foundation course.

Boost Agile coaches Rebecca and Ruka delivering our online Agile training

Agile training that inspires

The best way to get a sense of what our online Agile training offers is to hear from the people who have done it.

“It has really lit a fire under me”

Hamish Stuart from the Office of the Auditor General finished the course feeling inspired.

“It was so, so good – it has really lit a fire under me (in a very good and necessary way), and got me thinking about a whole lot of things from a fresh perspective.

“Gosh, those four days went fast – your ability to generate a group state of easy flow, while holding minute-to-minute awareness and keeping everyone on task and absolutely focussed was incredible.

“This was a model of excellent facilitation – and truly compelling content, with so many extremely transferable concepts.”

“An absolutely fantastic, fun-filled, action-packed, informative 4-day course”

For Sandi Faulconbridge from the National Library, the connection with Rebecca and Ruka, the Agile coaches who run the sessions, was a crucial part of the course.

“Thank you for your support and coaching during these sessions,” she said.

The course has already set her up to start making a difference at work.

"Wow! That was an absolutely fantastic, fun-filled, action-packed, informative 4-day course. I have learnt so much from participating...and already have lots of ideas of how to share this,” she said.

The deets

When: 9 – 12 noon, 19 – 22 April

How: Via Zoom

What: ICAgile-certified interactive Agile foundation workshop

Why: Develop the Agile mindset that lets you consistently deliver more impact, more often.

Learn more or book now

Agile team managing project risk via prioritisation and tansparency.

Reducing risk with Agile — 4 key tools

In Agile, there are four key tools for managing risk:

  1. Effective prioritisation
  2. Reducing batch size
  3. Increasing transparency
  4. Limiting working in progress

By delivering the highest priority work in short iterations, we can get valuable working software in front of customers as soon as possible. We then base future work on how customers actually use the software, inspecting and improving our product, processes and progress with every successive iteration.

By basing your risk management on knowns rather than unknowns, you only do the planning and risk mitigation that’s essential.

Agile risk management risk model. Click to learn more.

This model shows how different Agile approaches mitigate different risks, with each approach primarily affecting one of the areas identified, as well as influencing the others.

Check out our summary guide to see why Agile is the best way to manage project risk, and how to put it into practice.

Project risk management with Agile — summary guide  →

How to put the tools to work

Pie chart showing that prioritisation mainly mitigates risks around Value and Cost.

Effective prioritisation

Prioritisation cuts the risk of delivering low value software. And as you only work on what’s needed, you control costs.

Prioritise effectively  →
Pie chart showing that the main risks you can mitigate using transparency are around quality and value.

Increase transparency

Increasing transparency reduces the risk of producing work of poor quality and helps to ensure that the project is delivering value.

Increase transparency  →
Pie chart showing that the main risks you can mitigate by limiting work in progress are around time and quality

Limit work in progress

Cutting work in progress reduces the risk of missing deadlines and also increases the quality.

Limit work in progress   →
Pie chart showing that the main risks that reducing batch size mitigates are around cost, time

Reduce batch size

Reducing batch size reduces the risk of cost and time overruns while also increasing quality.

Reduce batch size  →
Our next Agile Professional Foundation runs on 19 – 22 April
Get the skills to deliver more value, faster.

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