Agile is a Mindset which adopts tools and techniques that help you develop better products. By reducing waste in the development process, your products will more effectively meet your business and customer needs. SoftEd's Agile experience and knowledge is unrivalled and this is reflected in our agile curriculum and MasterClasses. We can help identify the right training pathway for you and your team and offer coaching and mentoring to assist you on your journey.

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Learn about the entire
project or product lifecycle
to provide your organisation
with advice, techniques,
practices and guidelines
within a four-phased
approach; Concept, Initiate,
Deliver & Deploy and Close.
Adaptive Software
Development ensuring
the project ‘solves the
right problem’
Scrum and XP focusing on
‘creating the right solution’
Kanban for continuous
flow of validated value.
A Lean governance
framework adaptable to
your organisation’s
environment.
We draw from:
Our Agile curriculum instils the values and principles of the Agile
Manifesto so that you and your organisation can BE Agile.
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. Eliminate waste . Maximise value . Solution alignment . Transparency .
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Goal:
Is this idea worth
pursuing
What does the cost-benefit
analysis say?
Does it make business sense
to proceed to the next phase?
Should we do this at all?
• Discovery
• Desired Outcomes
• Identify Stakeholder
Goals
• High Level Capabilities
• Invention
• High Level Design
• High Level Estimates
• Plan & Proposal
Idea
Capability
List
Desired
Outcomes
Project
Charter
CONCEPT
CLOSE
Lessons
Learned
Project
Charter
Business
Benefits
Realised
Test
Cases
Retrospective
Iteration
Showcase
Deploy to
Production
Release
Plan
Project
Charter
Set-up
Deliver
Done
Enough?No
Yes
Planning
and Kick-off
Iteration
Zero
Prioritised
Backlog
Working
Solution
Updated
Documentation
Production
Handover
DELIVER & DEPLOY
Goal:
To confirm the feasibility of
the product and carry out
more in-depth design and
planning for development
Desired
Outcomes
SMART
Goals
Initial
Backlog
Release
Plan
Project
Charter
Definition
of DONE
Project
Charter
Capability
List
INITIATE
• Hear the Voice of
the Customer
• Story Identification
• Story Prioritisation
• Story Estimation
• High Level Solution
Design
• Release Planning
• Initiate wrap-up