IndigoCube, an internationally certified consulting, training, and software provider, has developed a new agile training course in response to the challenges being experienced with agile adoption in South Africa.
The two-day course is aimed at management and development teams in large enterprises. The first day investigates the various agile practices, the value of each and the best way to adopt agile processes. The second day consists of a project simulation where students complete an agile adoption exercise.
David Peters, principal consultant at IndigoCube, with over 35 years of related international industry experience, says some three-quarters of enterprise agile adoption projects fail.
“Some of the main factors for this high rate of failure are culture, change management, and companies trying to shoehorn agile processes into waterfall environments and mindsets,” says Peters. “With the right up-front education, those organisations can bypass the expense and lost time and immediately extract proper business value from the proper application of agile processes.
“Our approach is a break from what we are seeing in the market, where companies are trying to 'force' a specific agile methodology,” says Peters. “We also go through the agile maturity model with students, leading them through the process of adopting agile, and becoming increasingly agile over time before we investigate the practices themselves in more detail.”
The course draws on Scrum, XP and OpenUP to give managers from enterprises a pragmatic understanding of agile processes and how to effectively incorporate them into their organisations.
Peters says the new course from IndigoCube was designed for enterprises to address critical questions when selecting a process:
* What business problems do I have with my software development processes?
* What do I do to get the most value from the work I put in to correct them?
* What agile process (or combination) will best suit my environment?
Peters notes: “We used to talk about people, process and technology. But when it comes to the agile development environment you need to add team, management, and culture because those aspects are heavily impacted.”
Share