Agile

Modern Agile

Embrace modern agile methodologies with Vidya LLC's comprehensive training course. Move beyond Scrum and SAFe to cultivate a collaborative, adaptive, and outcome-driven organizational culture for successful product development.

Description

It's been two decades since the Agile Manifesto, and its impact runs so deep that every project claims to be agile. There's a backlog. The team mumbles through pointless standups where no one sits, because hey, that's the price of innovation. Deep down you know there's nothing agile about it. The rituals just paper over waterfall with an agile facade. Sound familiar?

Modern Agile teaches you to move past performative ceremonies and build products instead of languishing in projects. Outcomes matter most. How you get there depends on your culture, market, and people, and you will learn the keys to delivering the highest quality software in the least time for the least money.

What makes this course different

In tech, consultants often turn valuable ideas into confusing or meaningless buzzwords to make money, and "agile" is the clearest example. No one captures this better than Ron Jeffries, a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, whose disgust with the "Agile Industrial Complex" runs so deep that he now advises us Developers Should Abandon Agile. His target is the machinery rather than the principles: the heavyweight derivatives like Scrum and SAFe, the pointless certifications, and worst of all, the unhappy engineers and bad software they produce.

Now here we are asking you to pay us and to trust us to help you be agile.

We won't sell you a one-size-fits-all approach, because there isn't one. Instead, we will show you many techniques for optimizing delivery, share what the highest performing organizations in and out of tech have in common, and help you decide which practices fit you, so you become high performing in a way that is uniquely yours.

Collaborating software engineers
What You'll Learn

Course Syllabus

About 10 hours total across three lessons of 3 to 4 hours each. Run them on three separate days or pair them into longer blocks.

1

Lesson 1: Leadership, Communication, Trust, and Psychological Safety

3 hours

Build the leadership, trust, and psychological safety that real agility depends on.

  • Simple Rules
  • A Helping Hand
  • Don't be Square
  • Guardrails
  • Decentralized Decisions
  • The Technological Maestro
  • Listening
  • Embracing Bad News
  • No judgment. No Blame
2

Lesson 2: Relentless Feedback

4 hours

Turn relentless feedback into working software with small batches, fast tests, and DevSecOps.

  • Smaller is Better
  • Mistake Driven Development
  • Building the Right Thing: The Minimum Viable Product
  • Context and Core
  • Building the Thing Right: Developing Fast
  • Emerging Architecture and Software Design
  • Eliminating Waste
  • Testing Fast, Testing Right
  • Deploying Fast with DevSecOps
  • DevSecOps
  • Mature Optimization
  • Resisting Ceremony
3

Lesson 3: Metrics

3 hours

Measure what matters with outcomes over outputs and metrics that drive continuous improvement.

  • Measuring the Right Things
  • Giving Developers SPACE
  • Outcomes vs. Outputs
  • Architecture Maintainability
  • Code Maintainability
  • Infrastructure Maintainability
  • Testing and the Pitfalls of Code Coverage
  • Security, Performance, and Accessibility
  • Culture
  • Continuous Improvement
Meet Your Guide

Your Instructor

Course instructor Neil Chaudhuri

"I have worked on many agile projects using Scrum and SAFe over the years, so I know what works and what doesn't in the real world when you want to deliver real products to customers. I've given talks and interviews on how to avoid pointless process and instead find a rhythm that will help you feel productive and happy."

Neil Chaudhuri
Course Instructor

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