Agile Fundamentals for Civil Servants
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £4,500+VAT for up to 16 people.
For:
Civil servants at any grade who are new to agile, Policy professionals who work with delivery teams
Agile training for UK civil servants
Courses in agile delivery, product management and service design, written for people who work in government. Your trainer works in a central government department today.
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Courses written for how government works
Most agile training is written for startups and technology companies. Teams in government work under spending approvals, ministerial priorities, dependencies on other departments, the Service Standard and the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework.
We build every course around them. Chris Preece teaches every one. He works in a central government department today and has over 25 years of delivery experience in the public and private sectors.
Our Courses
We teach online and in person. Open dates appear on each course page when we set them, and we run any course for your whole team on a date we agree with you.
Government Agile Delivery Manager Training
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £6,950+VAT for up to 12 people.
For:
Delivery Managers and people who want to become one, Scrum Masters in government
Government Product Manager Training
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £6,950+VAT for up to 12 people.
For:
Product Managers and people who want to become one, Product Owners in government
User-Centred Design for Government Teams
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £4,500+VAT for up to 16 people.
For:
Delivery Managers who work with UCD teams, Product Managers bringing user research into their work
Kanban and Flow Management for Government
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £4,500+VAT for up to 12 people.
For:
Delivery Managers and Delivery Leads, Team leads managing several workstreams
Agile Team Performance in the Public Sector
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £4,500+VAT for up to 16 people.
For:
Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters, Team leads who are responsible for how their team performs
Navigating Complexity in Government
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £2,750+VAT for up to 16 people.
For:
Delivery Managers and Product Managers, Policy professionals dealing with uncertainty
Agile Across the GDS Service Standard
For your team
We run it on a date we agree with you. £4,500+VAT for up to 16 people.
For:
Delivery teams preparing for service assessments, Delivery Managers who present at assessments
Find the courses for your role
- Delivery managers Flow metrics, team performance and service assessments.
- Product managers Prioritising, working with policy colleagues and preparing for the PSPO I exam.
- Service owners Service assessments, forecasting and team performance.
- Policy professionals What a delivery team does and what it will ask of you.
- A whole team Any course for your team alone, on a date we agree with you.
Guides to agile delivery in government
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The 14 points of the Service Standard and what to show a panel
GDS sets 14 points that a government service team has to meet. Here is each one in GDS's own words, with what a team shows the assessment panel.
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Discovery, alpha, beta and live: what each phase is for
Government services go through discovery, alpha, beta and live. This guide sets out what the team does in each phase and what it has to show before the next one.
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How to prepare for a service assessment
At a service assessment a panel spends about four hours checking a service against the Service Standard. This guide covers booking, who to bring, what the panel asks and what each result leads to.
Why government teams choose us
Taught by someone who does the job
Your trainer works in a central government department today, where he coaches senior civil servants and trains delivery teams. He teaches from that work.
Mapped to the capability framework
Each course maps to one or more Government Digital and Data roles, such as delivery manager, product manager, service owner, business analyst and user researcher. The skills you practise are the ones your department uses for career progression.
Government examples in every exercise
Every exercise and discussion uses a government scenario, such as a service assessment, a spending approval, governance across departments or a ministerial priority.
Optional professional certification
On two of our courses you can add a PSM I or PSPO I exam voucher, so you can sit a recognised exam after training written for government.
Small groups
Each course has between 8 and 16 delegates. You work through exercises and talk about your own team's problems, and you leave with tools you can use in your own team.
RM6219 approved supplier
We are on RM6219, the Learning and Training Services DPS that Government Commercial Agency runs. Your procurement team can call off our services through it, and we accept purchase orders and invoices.
Train your team
Browse the courses, or tell us what your department needs and we will suggest a course for your team.