ICAgile Certified
Designed for those looking for an introduction to Agile, this course delves into the Agile mindset and the fundamental underlying values, principles and practices used on Agile projects, explaining how they work and why. It lays a solid foundation for applying Agile to any aspect of work, while providing practical outcomes that can be immediately put to use.
ICAgile Certified
For project managers who are either working in or moving to an Agile environment and want to understand how to successfully deliver projects in an Agile context. This course helps develop the core components of the Agile Project Manager role as distinct from the traditional Project Manager.
ICAgile Certified
This course is ideal for Agile team leaders or aspiring team leaders with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practise coaching. Relevant roles include Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Iteration Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches, Product Owners, analysts and anyone with the desire to harness the power of coaching.
ICAgile Certified
This ICAgile-certified course is part of a specialised journey for HR/People professionals looking to adopt Agile thinking and ways of working. Through experimentation, using new tools and most importantly new ways of thinking, People professionals can support their organisation to succeed in today’s rapidly-changing environment.
ICAgile Certified
Are you able to address the dysfunctional behaviours you see preventing your team from achieving maximum success? How easy is it for you to achieve consensus among your team to make faster decisions? This two-day workshop will empower you with very in-demand Agile facilitation skills and techniques you need to enhance productivity among your teams.
Assurity Certificate
Scrum Jumpstart is a comprehensive, practical, two-day Scrum course that will give you the skills to start a Scrum project. It covers all the basics you need to be able to start using Scrum immediately, including the frameworks, mechanics and roles of Scrum. It also teaches how to use Scrum in the real world via a mix of modules of theory and its application on a real project.
Access to PSM I assessment
The Professional Scrum Master course is specifically targeted at Scrum Masters, although the lessons are applicable to anyone in a role that supports a software development team’s efficiency, effectiveness and continual improvement. If you are responsible for the successful use and/or roll-out of Scrum in a project or enterprise, this is likely to be a good fit.
Access to PSM I assessment
Advanced Scrum Master is an advanced course helping students understand the stances that characterise an effective Scrum Master and servant leader while diving deep into how they serve the Development Team, Product Owner and organisation. Attendees will learn the related practices and skills to have the right types of conversations and how to apply them to become better Scrum Masters.
Access to PSM I assessment
The Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) programme teaches people how to maximise the Return on Investment (ROI) and optimise the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of products and systems. Agile Product Ownership today requires more than knowledge on how to write a User Story or manage a Product Backlog. Professional Product Owners need to have a concrete understanding of everything that drives value from their products.
Required training for those seeking certification as a Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA)
Leading SAFe 5.1 gives insights into mastering business agility to thrive in the competitive market. Attendees explore the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and design thinking approach to Agile product delivery. You will also develop an understanding for implementing a Lean Portfolio Management function in your enterprise.
Attending this course prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe Government Practitioner (SGP).
During this two-day course, attendees will learn the principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains and what it means to lead a Lean|Agile transformation in a government agency.
Assurity certificate
Is your team struggling to understand the work they have. Would you like to become more predictable with your delivery? Would you like to make improvements based on data and not guesses? Or even work at a more sustainable pace? Then this is the course for you.
Fundamentals of Design Thinking
Assurity Certified
This course takes you through customer-centric activities and frameworks that help discover customers’ hidden and latent needs to define the problem to solve. We take you on a journey through our proprietary tools designed to purposefully turn moments of customer friction into opportunities for disruptive growth.
Assurity certificate
For anyone seeking comprehensive, practical coverage of the key aspects of modern business analysis. Business analysis is about delivering business value and creating a shared and common understanding. But how does a BA manage this in a world of constantly changing requirements and priorities?
Our online courses replicate the physical interactions you’d experience in a classroom environment and offer a rich and engaging learning experience.
If you’re not 100% satisfied with the online format, you can join the next available in-person class at no extra cost.
We also include a one-hour, face-to-face, post-training session to ensure that all the learning outcomes have been achieved.
Immerse yourself in a classroom environment at one of our centrally located offices in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
All our courses can be run privately at your organisation. Private classes allow us to tailor the training to your needs and create a more rewarding team experience.
Contact our Education Team for details.
Our courses are developed and taught by active practitioners ensuring what you learn actually works.
Pragmatic Agilist, Pragmatic Agile
Jacob is an experienced entrepreneur and Agile coach. He has worked in his own and other businesses to help them grow and develop high-value work through the application of Agile, Lean Start-up and other modern business techniques.
Jacob has worked with a wide range of businesses across Asia-Pacific and the United States, from very small (1 team) to very large (400+ team) Agile transformations with both software/IT and non-IT teams, in industries including Ecommerce, Finance, Healthcare, Mobile, Gaming, Telecommunications, and Advertising.
Jacob is passionate about empowering and motivating people, with a constant focus on business value, to ensure not only are we delivering high quality work, but the right, most valuable work as well.
Learning Experience Manager
Lorna is an outstanding learning and capability development professional with experience in delivering end-to-end training solutions across several industries both here and abroad.
With over twenty years in the business, Lorna remains passionate about all things learning and works to the mantra – learn first to make change happen.
Lorna co-designed our Agile in HR course, drawing on her experience as a Scrum Master / Product Owner for several non-IT projects.
Principal Innovation Consultant
Akshay is fascinated by how things work and perpetually curious about designing better experiences for people. Naturally gifted in maths, physics and science, Akshay’s career began studying medical electronics engineering in India before completing a masters in engineering management at The University of Auckland.
With extensive global experience in the technology and software industries, Akshay is not content with the boundaries of traditional engineering disciplines. His curiosity has led him to focus on user experience and understand the impact of design on people’s lives. This has included extensive study in behavioural psychology and the nature of human decision making to drive the development of our customer-centric service offering.
Akshay has worked across various industries and organisations in New Zealand and likes to combine left and right brain perceptual thinking to form a unique bridge between customer insight and technology delivery.
Akshay can help you rapidly find clarity from ambiguity and is comfortable working at both speed and scale.
Client Solution Manager
Nigel is passionate about building quality software and enjoys coaching organisations to improve the flow of their software delivery.
Having developed software for a wide range of industries, from low-level device drivers to web applications, he now focuses on helping clients transform how they deliver and operate software and infrastructure.
Through a combination of people focus and technical nous, I've helped teams change their culture and adopt practices to deliver better business outcomes faster.
Client Solution Manager
Chris has a wide range of experience in agile software delivery and coaching businesses to successful outcomes.
He has a passion for helping people grow, talking about code, and making things better.
Having earned his chops at the start of the dot-com era, he was Agilified by some of the first generation UK eXtreme Programmers and then worked in the teams from Sky Broadband, when the London style of Test Driven Development (TDD) emerged.
Client Solution Manager
Amanda leads the Assurity Business Analysis Practice and is responsible for designing and developing Assurity Business Analysis go-to-market services.
She has more than three decades of experience in Business Analysis and has worked with global clients from a broad range of industries. Amanda’s vast Business Analysis knowledge puts her in high regard with clients and the team she leads. Her ability to add value and offer solutions makes her a highly sought-after asset for any project.
Amanda is also an accomplished trainer in Lean Business Analysis and is an IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional.
Client Solution Manager
As a strategic thinker and established senior leader, I bring a sense of purpose and infectious energy, rallying all parts of the organisation around designing and delivering value and exceptional customer experiences.
With over twenty years of experience in design, innovation & digital delivery, I deeply understand human-centred design and agile methodologies and how to scale and embed them within an organisation. In addition, I have a demonstrated history of developing and implementing business growth strategies, including product offering development, go-to-market strategy, solutioning expertise, and leading the internal capability building of practices.
As an experienced management consultant, I work with C-Suite and senior stakeholders in complex environments to create value for both customers and the organisation. In addition, I have expertise in stakeholder engagement, and as a qualified facilitator, coach and change management practitioner, I can draw the best out of people and teams.
Specialist industry experience in consultancy, CX, innovation, transport, technology, ways of working, education, finance, product design, retail & wholesale.
Principal Consultant
Leading delivery of business optimisation solutions and projects across the government, agriculture and financial sector.
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