Education

Gain the skills and expertise needed to thrive in a fast-changing technology environment.

Trainer-leading-agile-course

Outcome-based education

Get hands-on, practical education from expert consultants who work in the industry for a living.

10K+

professionals trained and certified since 2005.

100/100

Net Promoter Score for customer satisfaction.

Our Courses

Agile: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training

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.

LEARN MORE
Agile Training
Lean Business Analysis

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?

LEARN MORE
Agile Training
Specification By Example

Assurity certificate

Learn how to build valuable, high-quality software, collaboratively. Specification By Example (SBE) is a collaborative approach to building valuable, high-quality software. SBE aligns your development team using realistic examples instead of abstract statements as the focal point for discussing, discovering, documenting, implementing and testing requirements. SBE is particularly successful for managing requirements on large-scale projects of significant domain and organisational complexity.

LEARN MORE
SBE Training

Online or in-person, you get real-world results!

Online learning with 100% satisfaction guarantee

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.

In-person learning

Immerse yourself in a classroom environment at one of our centrally located offices in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.

Private classes

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.

I learned a lot in this course. I wanted to understand better the Agile Practices we use in my current role and apply it to the work I do. I believe this course achieved that.
Uasi Ahokovi – People Lead, Xero
Jacob did a great job of making the course interesting, fun, and engaging. He has a wealth of knowledge, and I appreciate him sharing it with us. Our course moved online due to lockdown, which was a better experience than I’d expected.
Laurence Wood – Squad Lead, Arlo
Jacob and John delivered a great course, with on-point content, involving engaging exercises to keep a virtual session on its toes. Thank you!
Louise Hasselholdt – Business Analyst, Southern Cross Pet Insurance
The course content was on point. Jacob, our facilitator, was great. Excellent facilities and catering all made for a great couple of days.
Matthew Earles – ANZ
I found the course well managed and very informative, and the instructor kept my attention during the whole course. The instructor shared a lot of his experience, which I appreciated.
Course Attendee – Technology Sector
Both Kay and Bartwin were great facilitators, and I appreciated how they delivered the course online. Great job!
Rick Mardon – IT Senior Support Specialist, AsureQuality

Experts in business and training

Our courses are developed and taught by active practitioners ensuring what you learn actually works.

Jacob Creech

Pragmatic Agilist, Pragmatic Agile

Read Bio

Lorna Proctor

Learning Experience Manager

Read Bio

Zoe Newton-Clark

Senior Business Analyst

Read Bio

Chris Pollard

Client Solution Manager

Read Bio

Yvonne Bishop

National Practice Manager – Business Value

Read Bio

Nisha Parthiban

Business Analysis Consultant

Read Bio

Padmini Agnihotri

Principal Consultant

Read Bio

Jacob Creech

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.

Lorna Proctor

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.

Zoe Newton-Clark

Senior Business Analyst

Zoe developed a passion for business analysis when introduced to it through Assurity’s Graduate and FreshStart Programme. After a few years in the test analysis space, she decided to transition from testing to business analysis, and she quickly became a competent senior business analyst.

With strong analytical and interpersonal skills honed through various customer-facing, leadership, and educational roles, alongside an IT background, she excels in challenging situations and embraces the opportunity to try new things to assist others.

One of the aspects she loves most about working as a business analyst is the ability to learn from and collaborate with a wide range of people. She enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively. Eager to continue learning and contributing as a Senior Business Analyst on client sites, she is passionate about her professional growth.

Chris Pollard

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.

Yvonne Bishop

National Practice Manager – Business Value

Yvonne is an analysis professional with extensive experience delivering business analysis and building analysis practice within project teams, programmes, business groups and organisations across both the private and public sectors.

She loves creating perspectives to help businesses deliver better business outcomes. She does this through analysis to understand, grow and change the business capability required to digitise, automate and manage the future delivery of business services.

Alongside enabling the design and building of future business capability, she enjoys helping people understand their individual strengths and how these contribute to the capability required to run digitally transformed organisations.

Nisha Parthiban

Business Analysis Consultant

An inquisitive and enthusiastic professional with over 7 years of experience in Business Process Engineering, Business Analysis, Real-time Analysis and software implementation.

Nisha has a strong background in Business Process Management and Improvement, excellent stakeholder and time management skills, and a proven track record for achieving set goals on time.

Padmini Agnihotri

Principal Consultant

Leading delivery of business optimisation solutions and projects across the government, agriculture and financial sector.

Ready to maximise your potential?

Want to know more?

Want to be inspired?

Want to learn?

Want to get in touch?

Share on Facebook
Share on LinkedIn
Share on Twitter
Share on Instagram
Follow on YouTube