Module 1: The Agile Mindset: Values, Principles, and the Manifesto

• What Is Agility? The Mindset Behind the Method
• The Origins of the Manifesto: Snowbird, 2001
• The Four Values: What Agile Chooses to Favor
• The Twelve Principles: Turning Values into Behavior

Module 2: Agile Principles and Mindset Foundations

• The Agile Manifesto: Four Values in Practice
• The Twelve Principles as Working Guidance
• The Agile Mindset versus the Plan-Driven Mindset
• Empiricism: Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation

Module 3: From Waterfall to Agile: Predictive versus Adaptive Delivery

• The Predictive Paradigm: How Waterfall Delivers
• Where Predictive Delivery Breaks Down
• The Adaptive Alternative: Iterative and Incremental Delivery
• A Structured Contrast: Predictive versus Adaptive

Module 4: Scrum Framework: Roles, Artifacts, and Events

• What Scrum Is: Empiricism and the Shape of the Framework
• The Scrum Team: Three Accountabilities
• The Sprint and Its Events
• Scrum Artifacts and Their Commitments

Module 5: Kanban and Lean for Flow Optimization

• Lean Roots: The Toyota Production System and the Seven Wastes
• The Kanban Method: Principles and Practices
• The Science of Flow: Little's Law and Flow Metrics
• Limiting Work in Progress: Pull, Policies, and the Board

Module 6: Backlog Management, User Stories, and Agile Estimation

• The Product Backlog: A Single, Ordered, Emergent Plan
• User Stories: The Three Cs, INVEST, and Acceptance Criteria
• Ordering the Backlog: Prioritisation and Refinement
• Why Estimate Relatively: Story Points and the Cone of Uncertainty

Module 7: Designing Hybrid Delivery Models

• Why Hybrid, and Why Now: The Case for Blended Delivery
• The Delivery Spectrum: From Predictive to Adaptive
• The Design Dimensions of a Hybrid Model
• A Method for Designing a Hybrid Delivery Model

Module 8: Blending Waterfall and Agile: Practical Hybrid Patterns

• A Pattern Language for Hybrid Delivery
• Water-Scrum-Fall: The Hybrid Most Teams Already Run
• Component-Split Patterns: Dividing Work by Its Nature
• Governance-Overlay Patterns: Agile Inside Stage-Gates

Module 9: Managing Scope, Time, and Cost in Agile Environments

• The Iron Triangle and Its Agile Inversion
• Managing Scope: The Backlog as a Living Contract
• Managing Time: Timeboxes, Cadence, and Release Planning
• Managing Cost: Stable Teams and the Economics of Delay

Module 10: Agile Metrics, Velocity, and Delivery Forecasting

• What Makes a Metric Useful: Outcomes over Outputs
• Velocity: What It Is and What It Is Not
• Flow Metrics: Cycle Time, Throughput, WIP, and Work-Item Age
• Visualising Progress: Burndown, Burnup, and Cumulative Flow