master degree in agile methods la salle campus barcelona

Master in Agile Methods

Receive training and provide maximum value in your organization with Agile Method Applications. In full digital transformation, these methods allow rapid adaptation of new products and services

Nid: 350
Syllabus

Foundations & Inception (5 ECTS credits)

  • Best-known principles and methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban and XP).

  • Facilitators and obstacles.

  • Inception and agile project conceptualisation, agile prioritisation, user stories, product backlog, prioritisation techniques.

Scrum and Kanban (5 ECTS credits)

  • Agile estimation and planning, Scrum framework, retrospectives, Kanban, agile metrics, physical agile tools, information radiators.

People and teams (5 ECTS credits)

  • People management, conflict management, motivation and incentives, shared facilitation, agile hiring, graphic facilitation.

Agile Product Management (5 ECTS credits)

  • Design thinking, Lean Start-up, OKR & Agile Product Management.

Agile Engineering (5 ECTS credits)
  • User Experience and prototypes in Agile.
  • Agile ALM, eXtreme Programming, Software Craftsmanship, agile testing.
  • BDD and TDD. Test-guided development (acceptance and units).
  • How to work with legacy code and reduce technical debt.

Enterprise Learning & Personal Efficiency (5 ECTS credits)

  • Agile Kaizen, Practice Communities, Open Spaces, Talent development, gamification.

  • Productivity and personal learning in Agile (efficiency).

Lean Thinking & Agile Management (5 ECTS credits)

  • Lean and scaling with Kanban.

  • Visual Management Framework (VMF - Agile for any area - Out of technology).

  • Agile-Lean Management.

Coaching and Culture (5 ECTS credits)

  • Team coaching, high-performance team building, leadership. 

  • Types of business culture, organisational change management.

Continuous Transformation (5 ECTS credits)

  • Enterprise continuous improvement.

  • Agile deployment in organisations, agile contracts.  

  • Enterprise Software Development & DevOps.

Agile Scaling (5 ECTS credits)

  • Scaling (LESS, Spotify, Nexus, Safe), de-scaling and corporate self-organisation (reinventing organisations, sociocracy 3.0, Liberating structures, etc.), distributed teams.

  • Impact Mapping, Product Portfolio Management, Road-mapping, Budgeting for Agile.

End-of-Master’s Project (10 ECTS credits)
  • During the master’s, students will draw up a practical case of introduction and application of Agile at a company, including the organisational transformation, methods and culture. Students will be organised into multidisciplinary teams using Scrum.