Multiple frameworks in one course.

• Rather than teaching one framework in isolation, you explore both Scrum and Kanban and learn when each approach is the right fit for your context.

Applied, case-based learning

• Lecture, demonstration, discussion, and hands-on assignments are woven together throughout the sessions.

Flexible for working professionals.

• The course is delivered part-time, with supplementary on-demand content, to fit around your busy schedule.

Live-interactive cohort.

• Weekly live online sessions, (three 4 1/2 live classes), bringing together professionals from across industries, making peer discussions and connections as valuable as the content.

Immediately applicable tools.

• Leave with practical tools, visualizing workflow, structuring sprints, limiting WIP, and running agile ceremonies effectively.

Certificate pathway.

• Work towards the complete UBC Sauder Agile Leadership Certificate and continue building advanced, agile frameworks and skills.

Impact on your organization, team or business:

• Accelerated time to value: Incremental delivery means working product reaches users sooner, enabling earlier feedback and faster course-correction rather than waiting until the end of a long project cycle.
• Reduce waste and rework: Lean-agile practices surface misalignment early, before costly rework accumulates. WIP limits and flow management keep teams focused on completing work rather than starting new work.
• Improve cross-functional collaboration: Agile frameworks establish clear roles and shared ceremonies that break down silos, aligning business, technology, and operations teams around shared goals and transparent progress.
• Increase responsiveness to change: Empirical process control and short feedback loops let teams adapt to shifting priorities and market conditions without derailing entire programs, a critical capability in fast-moving sectors.

Module 1

Making the Case for Agile

• An introduction to agile principles
• The Agile Manifesto: four values and twelve principles
• Limitations of traditional waterfall delivery
• Industries and contexts where agile thrive
• The business case for adopting an agile framework
• Trends accelerating agile adoption beyond technology

Module 2

Lean Thinking and Agile Foundations

• Origins of Lean and its relationship to agile
• Incremental and iterative delivery
• Eliminating waste and maximizing flow
• Empirical process control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation
• Key elements of agile delivery

Module 3

• Scrum: an iterative agile framework
• Kanban: a flow-based agile method

Module 4

Agile Teams in Practice

• How agile project management and engineering practices combine
• Agile team structures and cross-functional collaboration
• Choosing the right agile approach for your context
• What to expect from high-performing agile teams
• Agile at scale: when a single team isn’t enough
• Getting started: steps toward an agile transformation

Curriculum may be subject to change.