ISTQB Agile Foundations
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Course Overview
Among the future skills that leaders will need in the turbulent years ahead, critical thinking – increasingly known as agile thinking – is the game-changer that will make you feel like the future has arrived already. As an approach to leadership and problem-solving, agile thinking can lead to near immediate benefits such as disrupting groupthink, managing cognitive limitations, finding certainty, and freeing your creativity. It’s not a Jedi mind trick, but it might be the next best thing.
What is agile thinking?
Agile thinking is the ability to break out of old habits in decision-making and problem-solving, and rely instead on more effective mindsets such as creativity, collaboration, and a scientific sense of analysis. Leaders skilled in agile thinking flexibly jump – or ‘toggle’ – between these mindsets, maintaining a swift and effective sense of agility in flipping between various strategies when tackling a problem.
Why is agile thinking important?
Future skills are important amid ongoing change and uncertainty. Geo-political instability, technological breakthroughs, and the climate emergency will demand an agile, flexible approach to the challenges that businesses are likely to encounter through the 2020s and into the 2030s. Challenges demand creative solutions, which aren’t always easy to come by. When problems are hard to predict or define, conflicting interpretations, competing strategies and human vulnerabilities can feel like a dizzying journey into the Upside Down.
