SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager with POPM Certification Training Course

This intensive two-day course is designed for IT professionals seeking to understand the Waterfall model and explore traditional methods for addressing its limitations, particularly through Agile approaches.

On the first day, participants will gain a comprehensive overview of these methodologies, empowering them to determine which approach best fits their specific organizational context.

The second day focuses on project management techniques and best practices derived from Agile principles, demonstrating how they can be effectively integrated into both Waterfall and Agile environments.

This course is designed to equip business analysts with the skills needed to thrive on Agile projects. Participants will learn how to effectively collaborate with the development team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development process. The training includes a simulated project where participants practice handling common scenarios.

The iSQI Agile Essentials course is an internationally recognised qualification, aimed at anyone involved in agile projects who wants to become familiar with working in an agile environment. This includes Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Directors and Management Consultants. The course is comprised of eight sections and takes participants through the lifecycle of an agile project from the release planning and writing user stories to the iteration review (showcase) and retrospective. The first day focuses on the key principles (55% of the day on theory, 45% exercises), the second is dominated by practical application (40% theory, 60% exercises).

Course Objectives

• Value the principles behind agile manifesto and its approach to software development
• Appreciate the roles within an agile team
• Understand how to contribute as an agile team member to quantifiable requirements
• Apply Whole Team quality methods to ensure acceptance criteria are met
• Appreciate the importance of effective Iteration Reviews and how to contribute to continuous improvement through retrospectives

This instructor-led, live training in Slovakia (online or onsite) is designed for marketing executives who wish to understand how to leverage Agile frameworks to optimize growth marketing strategies, create customer-centric products, and achieve scalable growth.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Comprehend the core frameworks utilized in Agile Product Management.
• Evaluate the market demand for new products and services.
• Master pricing strategies for new products and techniques for optimizing value.

Agile software testing encompasses a set of practices designed to provide timely and continuous feedback on software quality issues, aligning with agile development principles.

Continuous Integration (CI) involves team members merging their work multiple times throughout the day.

This course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers foundational test concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and employs Crispin & Gregory's Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine modern principles and practices of Agile testing.

This two-day course offers a concise introduction to Agile software testing. It covers fundamental testing concepts within the context of Agile (Scrum) development, utilizing Crispin & Gregory’s Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to examine modern principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for development teams looking to enhance their testing practices within an Agile environment.

It is also appropriate for individuals aiming to pursue testing as a dedicated career path and serves as a prerequisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

Objective:

This course supports Business Analysts in mastering the efficient modeling and validation of business processes and resources, thereby enhancing their organization's agility. It focuses on aligning with the target architecture and responding to evolving market demands.

Over the course of two days, participants will learn to model business processes and resources, enabling them to adapt to shifts in goals, strategies, and impacted capabilities within the target architecture. By leveraging key elements of business performance—such as strategies, tactics, KPIs, and business capabilities—delegates will learn to create a vision-centric business process and resource map. Furthermore, they will discover how to use appropriate BPMN and UML notations to adjust these models in response to changing strategies, tactics, and policies.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovakia covers the concepts, tools and techniques needed to carry out continuous integration of your software projects in an Agile environment. Participants carry out a series of hands-on exercises throughout the course to apply their knowledge in real situations. Interaction among instructor and participants is encouraged. Real-world cases are discussed and specific issues and questions are addressed and resolved in class.

JIRA Software is a powerful tool for Project Management and people tend to focus more on the tool than the method itself.

This instructor-led, live training introduces the participants to the power of Jira and Confluence, working together to serve the only purpose of helping the team to deliver successfully the product / project. The team will learn how to properly use these tools to be more efficient handling User Requirements, Testing, Communication, centralized in one place.

Will be studied JIRA projects, Confluence spaces, workflows, boards (Kanban & Scrum), planning and dependencies, Jira/Confluence linkage, reporting, important fields and custom fields, issue types, screen & filtering.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create a Scrum or Kanban project
• Configure Jira to manage the project properly
• Manage issues effectively
• Build the necessary screen to handle issue types
• Create workflows and boards, and understand their interaction
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports necessary for the team and the management

Lean is a management philosophy centered on maximizing value creation while minimizing waste across processes.

This instructor-led live training, available both online and onsite, is designed for intermediate-level professionals in banking and process management who aim to leverage Lean and Agile tools to enhance the efficiency of requirement management, project execution, and operational workflows.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Comprehend and apply Lean principles within the context of banking operations.
• Utilize Lean techniques to streamline requirement collection and project delivery.
• Deploy and manage Kanban boards to facilitate effective workflow control.
• Detect and remove waste in banking and service-oriented processes.

Course Format

• Engaging lectures paired with interactive discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical applications.
• Practical implementation of Lean and Agile tools through case-based scenarios.

Customization Options

• For tailored training solutions, please reach out to us to make arrangements.

The PAQ program is a three-day immersive training course designed to prepare candidates for the certification exam. It emphasizes the development of practical skills that can be directly applied in the workplace.

The examination format is a 'hands-on' assessment. Candidates are provided with a product backlog release that includes user stories, accompanying design documentation, and a 'multi-drop' application intentionally seeded with defects. Detailed instructions regarding the expected outcomes of the practical assessment are provided, along with the opportunity to produce the required work products. Each practical assessment also includes one or two scenario-based questions requiring written responses (with a maximum of five questions in total) covering various competencies. These written answers, along with the results of the product backlog release, are evaluated by an independent assessor. The assessment duration is 2.5 hours.

The Leading SAFe Agilist certification empowers individuals to become pivotal stakeholders in their organization’s success. Beyond enabling the execution and delivery of value through Agile Release Trains, this certification qualifies professionals to spearhead Lean-Agile transformations, making it highly prized across various industry sectors.

Develop the skills required to facilitate the continuous delivery of value within a Lean organization. Acquire the capabilities needed to fulfill the role of SAFe Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile Release Train (ART) by driving value through Program Increments. Explore how the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps culture support the ongoing enhancement of the ART.

Apply Lean principles to decompose Epics into Features and User Stories, refine these artifacts, manage both Program and Team backlogs, and plan and carry out Iterations and Program Increments.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovakia (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level Release Train Engineers (RTEs) who wish to deepen their understanding of their role and improve their skills.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE).
• Learn how to facilitate Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and drive continuous delivery.
• Develop skills in planning and executing Program Increment (PI) events.
• Gain expertise in managing risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Acquire techniques to foster relentless improvement and Agile transformation.