Hands-on Training with Agile Workshops

ThoughtWorks Studios offers a comprehensive training curriculum in Agile management and development practices. Our courses are available in instructor led and self-paced formats, in order to serve geographically distributed teams. ThoughtWorks Studios can tailor courses to match the needs of your business.

Training & Workshops

Our Agile Coaches will work with your team to perform a skills assessment and develop a customized learning plan for your organization. Customized training can range from 1-5 days of instruction. Below is a list of some of our most popular offerings. For more resources, please visit our Training Community.

Development Team

Agile Business Analysis Practices, (3 days)

A BA in the fast-changing, iterative and customer-centric Agile world? This three-day, highly-interactive workshop hones requirements gathering and analysis skills specific to the Agile context.

Agile Development Practices, (3 days)

Using real-world examples and hands-on labs, this three-day workshop provides an overview of Agile Extreme Programming (XP) engineering practices with a focus on practically implementing them

Agile Fundamentals, (2 day)

In this 2-day workshop, you'll learn not just the principles of Agile, but gain a core understanding of the thinking behind the terms.

Agile Quality Analysis Practices, (3 days)

Take a deep-dive role into the role of testing on Agile projects, engineering best practices, Agile-specific test artifacts, test automation and incremental testing with this three-day highly interactive workshop.

Continuous Delivery with Go, (2 days)

Get a hands-on immersion into Go to optimize its ability to provide real-time visibility and control of your build, deploy, test and release process with this two-day workshop.

Introduction to Continuous Delivery, (1 day)

Understand the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, on-demand releases of high-quality functionality to users. We take the unique approach of moving back from release through testing and development, analyzing each stage with a focus on improving collaboration and automation

Application Lifecycle Management with Mingle, (2 days)

This two-day workshop not only provides practical methods to optimize Mingle at your organization, but also provides an overview of Agile and Lean delivery methodologies and various stages of project tracking from ideation through delivery and support.

Business Agilty Review, (5 days)

Get an objective assessment of your team's agile maturity with recommendations for improving your agile maturity. This holistic review is based on interviews and observations of the team's work practices, development processes and collaboration with business and stakeholders.

Agile Coaching (varies)

Our experienced agile practitioners immerse themselves in a team to foster a learning environment and gently guide team members in process and discipline in a targeted area for a time-boxed period to help teams more fully realize the benefits of agile development.

Twist Immersion (5 days)

Get the most out of Twist with two days of standard training for Twist, followed by 3 days of hands-on product coaching in the team's environment

Mingle Immersion (5 days)

Get the most out of Mingle with two days of standard training for Mingle, followed by 3 days of hands-on product coaching in the team's environment

Go Immersion (5 days)

Get the most out of Go with two days of standard training for Go, followed by 3 days of hands-on product coaching in the team's environment

Agile Inception Workshop, (3 days)

Benefit from tried-and-tested techniques and practical approaches to conduct a successful inception phase to discover all requirements that need to be developed for the project.

Agile Object-Oriented Bootcamp (10 days)

An intensive two-week hands-on workshop designed for Java developers who want to gain a deeper understanding of the power of object-oriented programming practices.

Automated Functional Testing with Twist (2 days)

Create and evolve functional test suites, write tests that can be understood by the whole team, and effectively group and organize large test suites with this immersive two-day workshop.

Business Team

Agile Fundamentals , (2 day)

In this 2-day workshop, you'll learn not just the principles of Agile, but gain a core understanding of the thinking behind the terms.

Agile Adoption for Executives (half day)

Agility is a business imperative, not just a technological one. Make the most out of your Agile adoption with a focus on the business perspective with real-world examples and practical techniques.

Leadership in the Agile Enterprise, (half day)

Building upon the recent work done by Jim Highsmith while partnering with key executives in a number of large organizations, we invite you to join us for a half-day hands-on workshop that explores the leadership traits necessary to transform your organization from “doing agile” to “being agile”, and how to use agile methodologies throughout your enterprise.

Continuous Delivery for Executives, (half day)

In this tutorial we provide insight into the main challenges that IT organizations have in keeping up with the demands of business and will discuss how these issues can be resolved by improving the frequency, quality and value of software releases.

Agile Introduction For Product Owners, (half day)

In this interactive workshop, we will introduce and detail guidelines to apply principles of Agile methodology to Product development, with a focus on the role and responsibilities of the Product Owner.

Agile Project Management Practices, (3 days)

This three-day hands-on workshop outlines the roles, responsibilities, activities and accountabilities of key leadership roles in an Agile project. This workshop is certified by PMI for Professional Development Units.

Application Lifecycle Management with Mingle, (2 days)

Business Agilty Review, (5 days)

Agile Inception Workshop, (3 days)

Benefit from tried-and-tested techniques and practical approaches to conduct a successful inception phase to discover all requirements that need to be developed for the project.

Automated Functional Testing with Twist, (2 days)

Create and evolve functional test suites, write tests that can be understood by the whole team, and effectively group and organize large test suites with this immersive two-day workshop.