Co-founder Sam Derby leads our consultancy and business development work. An experienced director, governor and senior manager, Sam is particularly interested in digital transformations in education, including culture change and agile methodologies. He is an experienced trainer, coach and mentor, and developed the content for Agile Principles in Practice for Educational Content Delivery.
What inspired you to create this course?
Many organisations that are not solely digital are interested in how ‘Agile’ might apply to them and their working practices. Many others are highly sceptical. At Oriel Square, we use the manifesto and principles of Agile to inform best practices in project leadership and personal effectiveness. We believe that the manifesto is a good starting point for the management of any project, not just software development.
All our training is tied to our active experience and expertise: we practise what we teach. As an experienced director, governor and senior leader, my time at Pearson – where I worked across PD, qualifications, digital and publishing – established the foundation of my knowledge, and have applied what I’ve learnt to create this course.
Why should busy publishing professionals join this course?
It is true that in our Agile Principles in Practice for Educational Content Delivery course we tinker with the manifesto a tiny bit, but there is a lot that applies to working with educational content. This course has been designed to give you an understanding of the principles of agile methodologies, and then dive deep into editorial and design processes.
If you’re working in content, digital, editorial, publishing, design or UX/UI teams in education, understanding agile methodologies will help you lead your team to build effective processes and rituals to deliver value more effectively to customers.
“Sam provided engaging well-run sessions and a great deal of relevant experience.”
Course delegate
Can you share key learnings from this course?
By the end of this course, you will understand and be able to use and communicate:
- the agile manifesto and the principles behind it
- how they can help you to maximise your personal effectiveness and leadership
- how agile processes and tools are best applied in an educational content and services organisation
- how to work with development teams using SCRUM or other sprint-based iterative frameworks
- Using Kanban for content development
You will benefit from an engaging, in-person and collaborative learning experience, with access to follow-up advice. Book today to take advantage of early-bird pricing.