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Agile Delivery
High-performance agile — deliver wow with teams that scale.
Δ Process
Duration
2 days
Hours
10 hours (5 hours/day)
Delivery
Online, live cohort or private team
Who it's for
Engineering, product and delivery leaders
The hook
Agile is not a ceremony schedule. It is the shortest possible distance between a customer truth and a shipped change.
Intent · Install an iterative delivery system that shortens release cycles, exposes risk early, and holds up as headcount grows.
Take this if
Six signals you are leaking this value
01
Can we ship faster? Nobody knows
02
Releases are long, painful and dated
03
Teams burn out between launches
04
Failure risk surfaces at the end
05
No customer buy-in before build
06
Scaling teams multiplies coordination, not output
About the course
Agile is a mindset and cultural change that is customer-driven. It lets you absorb volatility by adapting to customer value with iterative development, minimising risk and speeding go-to-market.
The essence: iterative and incremental, collaborative, self-organising teams, high-value products, cost-effective and timely.
2026 additions: AI-assisted delivery (agentic coding, review and test generation), DORA metrics as the honest scoreboard, trunk-based flow, and platform/DevEx thinking as the scaling unit.
Tools you will use
- Scrum board design
- Uncertainty funnel
- DORA dashboard spec
- Release risk register
Prerequisite
Curiosity to learn something new — and a team that ships.
Curriculum
What we cover, hour by hour
01 · Agile intro
- What agile is — and the manifesto behind it
- Iterative development vs waterfall
- The management mindset and the transition phase
- Team culture and pressure points
02 · Scrum teams
- Designing and managing scrums; FDD basics
- Stakeholders, responsibilities and rituals
- Scrum boards and scrum of scrums
- Distributed and async team patterns
03 · Backlog management
- Product vision and backlog hygiene
- Theme, epic, feature, story, sub-story
- T-sizing and the uncertainty funnel
- Prioritisation: $100 test, MoSCoW, KANO, weighted average
04 · Sprints and release
- Sprint backlog, standups, obstacle boards, look-ahead
- Release plan, release trains, risk-to-ship
- Customer demos and acceptance criteria
- DORA metrics and AI-assisted delivery loops
Key takeaways
- How to implement agile without cargo cult
- Cultural transition mechanics
- Scrum, XP and Lean in practice
- Backlog, grooming and story pointing
- Sprints, rituals and burnout prevention
- Release planning and iterative development
You leave with
- Delivery operating model
- Ritual calendar
- Backlog structure
- Metrics dashboard spec
Measured value
The numbers this course is meant to move
| Metric | Target |
|---|---|
| Deployment frequency | Weekly or better |
| Lead time for change | < 5 days |
| Change failure rate | < 15% |
| Sprint predictability | > 80% |
Run this with your team
Cohort seats or a private team session — 10 hours (5 hours/day), delivered online and applied to your own venture.
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