Agile and Scrum courses

Who gives certified Scrum Master certification courses in New Zealand?

Lumify Work offers courses in Agile and the Scrum executional approach to help organisations work faster and smarter.

We provide the most popular Scrum courses such as Scrum Master, as well as Scrum Product Owner and more. Lumify are an authorised training partner of SCRUM Study.

We are an Elite Partner of the DevOps Institute.

We have been an Accredited Training Organisation with Gold status for PeopleCert courses and certifications for over 10 years. Our courses include PRINCE2, ITIL, MSP, AgileSHIFT, MoP, and P3O.

And we are an Accredited Training Organisation for APMG courses and certifications.

You can access these Agile courses and Scrum training at our Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch campuses. Lumify Work New Zealand offers flexible delivery modalities with Lumify Anywhere, too. These modalities include Traditional classroom delivery (Instructor-Led Training or ILT), Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT, Hybrid VILT delivery, Online/Self-paced learning, Seminars, Webinars and Blended learning.

In Agile & Scrum, what event helps in monitoring and controlling?

If you've ever attended daily or every other day 10-15 minute meetings, your team may be practising or adapting the agile philosophy. In agile scrum, daily Scrum meetings help in monitoring and controlling.

These meetings are also called “daily standups” and are facilitated by the Scrum Master or team leader. Each person in the team is allocated about two minutes to report on the same agenda:

1. What they completed

2. What they will work on

3. And any roadblocks

This helps the team identify if they need to set up another meeting to recalibrate to or solve roadblocks.

Other events that support monitoring and controlling include sprint planning meetings every two weeks and retrospective reviews at the end of a project.

Risk and issues management are also central to the monitoring and controlling phases of the project management process. Daily standups, sprints and retrospectives give each team member a voice and allow the group to improve with every project.

Explore and practice risk and issues management when you book and sit Agile and Scrum training in NZ.

What training can a CIO take to learn about Agile?

Regardless of your product, service or industry, the need to embrace technology through digitisation and virtualisation makes every organisation a technology company. 

This means investing in digital skilling for end users and advanced ICT training for technical experts within the team. Another requirement for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) is to embrace the agile mindset. Learn more from McKinsey & Company's "How to Become an Agile CIO."

Typically, CIOs oversee a company's information and communication technology. Policy and practice development, planning, budgeting, resourcing, and training are included. 

But in an Agile organisation within a landscape that demands speed, the CIO role is redefined into three key responsibilities. We share Agile training courses you can take in person or online to equip yourself with the skills to take on what's expected of you in the role.

• Technology architect/visionary - CIOs are called to build the organisation's IT strategy and analyse how different technologies can benefit or improve existing business processes. 
  
  The Agile Service Manager (CASM) course by the DevOps Institute introduces IT leaders to the application and integration of agile thinking into service management processes, design and improvement. 
  
  The Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®) courses help students understand the concepts, benefits and risks of Agile Development.

• Knowledge and talent driver - Besides hiring the right team members, a CIO is expected to set key performance indicators and build the team's capabilities through training and mentorship. 
  
  Leaders can build their own expertise through these courses from the fundamentals to Practitioner or Master Level: Agile Programme Management (AgilePgM®), Agile Project Management (AgilePM®)training, SAP Agile Project Delivery, Scrum Overview, Scrum Master certification and Scrum Product Owner.
  
  They can tap into courses focused on hiring the right team member like a Recruitment and Selection course.

• Problem solver - CIOs need to help their teams address roadblocks while providing guidance and feedback to the output. Courses focused on working with teams through transformation can equip you with the skills to do so. These include AgileSHIFT® and Scrum Training for Teams.

Deloitte's CIO Journal shared observations about Agile software development to help CIOs leverage this iterative and fast-paced mindset. We focus on a few of these observations that resonate with many of our clients and the courses that can help you address these.

1. Agile can be contentious. While the Agile and Scrum methodology is clear, it allows people to adapt it to their needs and interpret it in their context. This creates its fair share of debate. By focusing on "improving business outcomes," Agile teams can position themselves better when presenting to the rest of the company and other stakeholders.

2. Automation can reduce missteps. Automated and, ideally, end-to-end software testing should be integral to the development cycle rather than at the 11th hour before going live. Leaders should also ask teams about automation and testing before starting the project. For this, you can look at Business Applications or Web and Application Development courses

3. Iteration produces better outcomes. A case people make about the Waterfall method or other traditional projects is that you only deploy once everything has been reviewed and included. In reality, this means the market would have changed during this period. To this, we say that Agile project management is test and data-driven. It addresses priorities based on what's known at the time, allowing the team to pivot once you get more data. The Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®) courses offer an understanding of how AgileBA processes can guide the planning, analysis, elicitation and control of successful Agile projects. Data Analytics & AI courses can support Agile teams with reporting and data gathering to inform continuous improvement.

4. Communication is essential. Whether through daily collaboration between stakeholders or through dividing milestones in a project like you would divide stories into chapters, or even through understanding business user stories. Empathy and constant feedback are critical to a project's success. Professional Development courses focused on communication and empathy can strengthen your team.