After this course you can make agile principles work in business functions beyond IT. You will know how to foster an agile culture, align work with business value and expand agility across a growing organisation so it does not fade after the first push. The four topic areas of the EXIN exam run through the course. It suits professionals, managers, agile coaches and change leads who have already worked with Scrum or Kanban and want to take agility further across the whole company.
What you’ll take away.
- Apply agile values and principles to business areas outside software development
- Deliberately foster an agile culture and guide teams and managers through change
- Align work consistently with business value, prioritise it and steer it through feedback
- Evaluate approaches for expanding agility across an organisation and sustaining it
Your training in detail
- Who is it for?
- Professionals and managers in agile organisations or in companies going through an agile transformation, agile coaches, Scrum Masters with a wider remit and people who lead change programmes.
- Prerequisites
- Hands-on experience with agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban. A foundation certificate such as EXIN Agile Scrum Foundation can help; EXIN's certification page does not list any mandatory prerequisites.
- Format & planning
- Standard length: 2 training days. A different length can be arranged for companies.
Agenda: from understanding to application
Our independently developed agenda proposal. Focus areas, lab environment and scope are agreed before booking.
The agile mindset: values, principles and what they mean for business functions
Facilitating agile culture: the role of leadership, collaboration and dealing with resistance
Optimising business value: prioritisation, feedback loops and an outcome focus
Expanding agility: going beyond single teams and aligning across departments
Sustaining agility: structures, measures and continuous improvement
Practical assignments and exam preparation: format, sample questions, review
You analyse an area of your own organisation, identify what blocks agile working and draw up a plan of small steps for that area to work in a more value-driven way.
Exams, licences & credentials
The course prepares you for the EXIN Agile Business Professional exam. According to EXIN it has 30 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, closed book, and the programme includes practical assignments. The exam and fees are included only if the offer confirms this explicitly. EXIN issues the certificate. It is not an official EXIN course unless the offer says so explicitly.
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Your learning content
These objectives describe the training topic. The specific syllabus, dates and trainer are agreed before booking; the written offer is binding.
Frequently asked questions
How does this differ from Scrum courses?
Scrum courses focus on how one team works. This course is about establishing agility in business functions and across several departments.
What does the certification involve?
According to EXIN, a 30-question multiple-choice exam with a 67 per cent pass mark. The programme also includes practical assignments. EXIN publishes the exact current conditions.
Does EXIN Agile Business Professional: extending agility across the whole organisation include a certificate?
The course prepares you for the EXIN Agile Business Professional exam. According to EXIN it has 30 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, closed book, and the programme includes practical assignments. The exam and fees are included only if the offer confirms this explicitly. EXIN issues the certificate. It is not an official EXIN course unless the offer says so explicitly.