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Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute ideas and produce work using structured Agile work practices.
This unit applies to individuals who are required to apply existing expertise to generate and contribute ideas to progress work in iterations, monitor their own capabilities and capacity, and commit to team accountability for the work.
This unit applies to any organisation that is implementing structured Agile processes.
Agile is typically applied in contexts where the solution or outcome is not known, or in constantly changing environments, and where the customer can reasonably use and critique the ‘product in progress’.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

1.

  • 1.1 Identify progress of project and team tasks from visual board
  • 1.3 Identify team members and their roles
  • 1.4 Recognise work to be done and respond to signals for work that is ready to begin

2.

  • 2.1 Contribute ideas to planning and determining criteria for iterations and prioritisation of work within project direction and goals
  • 2.3 Identify and evaluate options for action to meet criteria
  • 2.4 Identify possible improvements and solutions to challenges within project work
  • 2.5 Report on own progress and likely impact on project in team meetings
  • 2.6 Monitor and communicate about metrics for project
  • 2.7 Contribute to review of progress and outcomes against criteria

3.

  • 3.1 Discuss project goals and progress with team members to identify complementary and common expertise
  • 3.3 Provide support and input to others to achieve work tasks
  • 3.4 Apply communication techniques to support open discussions

4.

  • 4.1 Monitor own capabilities, capacity and progress on tasks
  • 4.2 Communicate accurately about own capacity and progress
  • 4.3 Identify learnings from completed work

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• contribute ideas and produce work in at least 2 iterations of planning, development and review of a solution, product, feature or service.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• Agile values and principles as they apply to own work
• Agile practices and concepts including:
• planning and release of work in increments and iterations
• principles and practices of Scrum
• incremental planning and development processes
• customer feedback loops
• metrics and criteria for work iterations
• communication techniques that support:
• respect for others
• safe place to make suggestions, review and learn from doing
• asking for and offering assistance
• giving and taking constructive feedback.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources
• modelling of industry operating conditions.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

  • {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to\xa0interpret visual signals\n• Oral communication skills to\xa0communicate and negotiate about team activities, capacity and progress\n• Numeracy skills to\xa0monitor metrics and estimate capacity\n• Learning skills to\xa0monitor\xa0own\xa0capabilities and\xa0identify learnings from completed work.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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Last updated from training.gov.au: 07 April 2026