Understand what Agile really is — values, principles and empiricism — and why adaptive delivery beats predictive planning under uncertainty. Learn to spot fake agile and redesign real IT work around inspect-and-adapt.
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What you'll learn
- Explain the Agile values, principles and the three pillars of empiricism
- Describe why adaptive delivery outperforms predictive delivery under uncertainty
- Distinguish genuine agility from "fake agile" that only changes the vocabulary
- Redesign a predictive IT plan around inspect-and-adapt
- Produce a one-page Agile operating principles card for your team
Syllabus
Why Agile, and What It Really Is
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The Agile Manifesto — values and principles
Empiricism — the Engine of Agile
The three pillars — transparency, inspection, adaptation
Predictive vs empirical — two ways to plan the same project
Applying Agile to Real IT Work
From Gantt to iterations — redesigning a delivery approach
Case study — the portal told to "just add sprints"
Making Agile Stick
Your Agile operating principles card
Common traps and how to avoid fake agile