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Agile Mastery Unleashed: A Transformative 3-day Journey in Business Agility

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Agile Mastery Unleashed: A Transformative 3-day Journey in Business Agility

Elevate Your Agile Game – Explore, Build, Transform is a three-day workshop designed for intermediate learners to deepen their business agility skills. Engage in hands-on projects like building a toy motor car and innovative methods like Lego Serious Play. You’ll master agile principles, Lean Systems Thinking, and Design Thinking, enhancing your ability to lead teams and drive organizational success.

Key Benefits

This course equips you with the tools to navigate fast-paced industries, making you a valuable asset in technology, finance, and more. Elevate your career prospects with skills in rapid prototyping, strategic problem-solving, and innovation, positioning yourself for higher responsibility roles and job upgrades. 

Unique Skills:

  1. Process Improvement and Optimisation 
  2. Continuous Process Improvement 
  3. Process Improvement 

Programme Structure

Day 1

Module  

Content  

Methodology/Activities  

Understanding the Landscape 

  • Kickoff and Introductions: Ice-breaking session with a quick introduction to the goals and structure of the workshop. 

  • The Need for Agility in a VUCA World: Explore the drivers of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in modern business environments. 

  • Core Values and Principles of Business Agility: Interactive session on how foundational values and principles underpin agile success. 

Facilitator-led 

Interactive discussion and tactile activities. 

Building the Agile Framework 

  • Empowering Agile Teams: Discussion on the composition of effective teams and the importance of empowerment and autonomy. 

  • Driving Customer Value through Continuous Learning: Techniques for shifting focus from outputs to outcomes and creating customer delight. 

  • Vision and Purpose: Workshop on crafting a compelling vision and aligning team efforts towards a shared goal 

 

Day 2

Module  

Content  

Methodology/Activities  

Cultivating an Agile Mindset 

  • Developing a Growth Mindset with Lego Serious Play: Hands-on session using Lego to model and understand growth vs. fixed mindsets. 

  • Navigating Complexity: Introduction to complex adaptive systems and their relevance to business agility. 

  • Overcoming Blind Spots and Cognitive Biases: Tools and techniques to identify and mitigate personal and organizational blind spots. 

Instructor-led 

Tactile activity using Lego Seriousplay 

Group discussion and sharing. 

Behavioural Dynamics in Agility 

  • High-Performance Questioning: How to use powerful questions to foster a culture of inquiry and insight. 

  • Visualizing Value and Eliminating Waste: Techniques for making value visible and tangible within organizational processes. 

  • Polarity Management: Interactive exercise on managing paradoxes and optimizing outcomes through ‘both/and’ thinking. 

 

Day 3

Module  

Content  

Methodology/Activities  

Agile Frameworks and Tools 

  • Lean Thinking and Systems Dynamics: Simplifying processes and focusing on value creation through systems thinking. 

  • Introduction to Lean Startup and Design Thinking: Applying rapid prototyping and iterative design to business processes. 

  • Kanban and Continuous Improvement: Practical session on implementing Kanban to manage workflows effectively. 

Instructor-led 

Engagement in Agile Sprint 

Group discussion 


Who Should Attend
This programme is suitable for Project Managers, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Software Engineers. 

Schedule & Venue

 

Date(s): 22 to 24 July 2025
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Venue: NTU@one-north campus, Executive Centre (Buona Vista)

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Registration Closing Date: 
1 July 2025

Note: NTU reserves the right to change the date, venue, and mode of delivery due to unforeseen circumstances.

Certification
Upon course completion and fulfilling all requirements, participants will be awarded an NTU e-Certificate of Completion, demonstrating their proficiency in the essential areas of the course. 

 

Fees and Funding

Standard Course Fee: S$3,270.00

SSG Funding Support

 Course fee

Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes

 

BEFORE funding & GST

AFTER funding & 9% GST

Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding)

S$3,000.00

S$981.00

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

S$381.00

SCs aged ≥ 40 years old
SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES)
(Up to 90% funding)

  • Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
  • NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.

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Faculty and Industry Trainer

Theyagu, Daniel

Mr Daniel Theyagu is a training consultant and performance evaluator since 1989. He has designed and delivered customised training for many organisations ranging from small and medium enterprises, multi-national corporations and the public sector. His participants have come from various countries including: Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mauritius, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, France, USA, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Daniel is well known in his field as a highly humourous and innovative trainer who engages his participants actively and assist them in realising the returns of investment for the course they attend. His participants include, doctors, lawyers, judges, senior government official, military personnel, students and job-seekers.

His area of specialty includes the following:

  • Leadership and Learning Organisation
  • Critical and Creative thinking
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence
  • Crisis and Conflict Management
  • Speed Reading and Memorisation Technique for Professionals
  • Negotiation Strategies
  • Personal and Organisational Competency-based Training

Daniel is the author of the following books:

  • Thinking Critically using the Sun Tzu Art of War Techniques
  • Extremely Busy People Guide to: Read Faster! Memorise Better! Think Clearer
  • Gravitating Towards Success
  • Making Memory Work For You
  • Guide to Success in Studies for Mature Students
  • Developing True Leadership Potential