Agile Foundation Courses — The Uncommon League

Agile Foundational Courses for Groups

Agile Foundational courses are designed for anyone interested in using Agile on their team or are currently working in an Agile environment. Learn modern and collaborative techniques and skills to be an effective Agile team member.

Explore events, roles, and the overall flow of Scrum within Agile. These hands-on courses provide a deeper understanding of writing user stories or cards, organizing those cards in the product or sprint backlog by estimating, prioritizing, and elaborating user stories and cards. Understand the key metrics used on Agile and Scrum to show progress and measure productivity.

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All the courses on this page can be customized or modified to meet your specific training goals for your team. Our Account Management Team and Instructors are here to help you build a training solution that is uniquely successful.

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Course Descriptions

The courses in this section are also offered publicly for individuals and are also available in group training.

Group Discounts: Interested in having your team take these courses publicly? We offer a wide range of group discounts. Email us to find out more.

  • This course covers the fundamentals of the Agile framework process and roles. We will explore the principles, values, and Agile manifesto to understand Agile's guiding principles. We will dive into understanding Agile terms and concepts, understand the scrum process, ceremonies within the scrum process, variations of the scrum process, and explore the scrum leader, product owner, and team member roles.

  • This course goes into detail about each scrum role. It includes non-traditional Agile roles like Business Analyst, Product Manager, Project Manager, Tester, and Quality Analyst. We'll go deeper into each scrum ceremony and discuss how each role interacts with the ceremony. This course also shows students new approaches to successful sprinting.

  • This course helps you write compelling user stories by identifying the attributes and guidelines for writing better user stories. Discover techniques to write effective User Stories (Cards), acceptance criteria, establish a definition of done, understand the definition of ready, ensure the minimum viable product is present in all user stories (cards), ensure user stories (cards) are right-sized, working with user stories (cards) in backlogs, and more.

  • Learn to manage and organize User Stories (cards) in a Story Map for planning and estimating, utilize the story map to feed the product backlog, understand how to use the story map for prioritization, create a story map backbone that is meaningful for the product, and using story maps for backlog refinement. We will explore how to prioritize cards and user stories effectively while balancing each sprint's different types of cards (new capability, bug fix, research, etc.).

  • Learn collaborative techniques for estimating cards or user stories in the product or sprint backlog. Learn the best approach to estimating to plan a sprint or release more accurately. Understand the 5 levels of Agile panning and how to apply them. Learn how to use a roadmap to prioritize cards for sprints.