Course Details
Course Details
What You'll Learn
Topic 1: Introduction to Agile Software Development
- Schedule meeting to Agile software development team
- Picking tools for Agile software development
- Organize briefing on Agile software development standards and protocols
Topic 2: Scrum and DevOps Frameworks
- Agile principles for software development - Scrum frameworks
- Agile practices for software development – DevOps
- Refactor to improve software efficiency
Topic 3: Agile Software Engineering Techniques
- Version control
- Programming languages and API
- Software tools for CI/CD and DevOps
- Extremely Programming (XP) and DevOps
Topic 4: Task Automation
- Kanban for developers and handling bugs during testing
- Continuous integration and automated pipeline
Assessment
- Written Exam
- Practical Exam
Course Info
Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Funding Eligibility Criteria
Self-sponsored learners (individuals)
- Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents aged 21 and above.
- Up to 50% course fee funding. Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above receive up to 70% under the Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES).
- Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can pay the remaining fee with SkillsFuture Credit.
Company-sponsored learners
- Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents who are direct employees of the sponsoring company.
- Up to 50% course fee funding, or up to 70% for employees of SMEs (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) and for Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above. An SME has no more than 200 employees or an annual turnover of no more than $100 million.
- Employers can also claim Absentee Payroll funding for employees who attend during working hours.
- Eligible companies can offset their out-of-pocket fees with SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC).
Conditions for all funded learners
- Attendance is taken digitally with Singpass for every session, including the assessment.
- You must complete the course and pass all assessments (assessed as Competent).
- If these conditions are not met, the funding is clawed back and the learner or employer pays the full course fee.
- 9% GST is charged on the full course fee before funding.
- Promo and discount codes cannot be used on funded courses.
- Any balance after funding can be paid in cash, with SkillsFuture Credit, with PSEA (Singapore Citizens with a PSEA), or partly reimbursed by UTAP for NTUC members.
How to Apply SkillsFuture Credit Claim for Individuals
Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit (base tier) to pay the course fee after funding. The $4,000 mid-career top-up cannot be used for this course.
- Register for this course as self-sponsored and tell us you will use SkillsFuture Credit. Do not pay the amount you plan to claim.
- We email you an invoice showing the course fee after funding.
- From 60 days before the course starts, and no later than the course start date, log in to MySkillsFuture with Singpass and click Claim credits.
- Click Submit a Claim and search for this course by its course code, TGS-2023018990.
- Select your class start date, enter the course fee payable after funding and the amount of credit to claim, then upload the invoice (PDF, JPG or PNG, under 4MB).
- Review, accept the terms and click Agree and Submit. The credit is paid directly to us; processing can take up to 14 working days.
Changing or withdrawing: cancel the claim on MySkillsFuture at least one day before the course starts. If your class date changes, cancel the claim and submit a new one with the new date.
How to Apply SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)
SFEC helps companies pay for employee training. The current SFEC ends on 30 November 2026, and a redesigned SFEC starts on 1 December 2026.
Current SFEC: classes ending on or before 30 November 2026
- Eligible companies received a one-off $10,000 credit, notified by letter to their Corppass administrator. Eligibility generally required at least 3 Singapore Citizen or PR employees and Skills Development Levy contributions.
- SFEC covers up to 90% of the company's out-of-pocket course fee after other subsidies.
- Check your company's SFEC eligibility and balance on EnterpriseSG.
- Register your Singapore Citizen or PR employee for a class that ends by 30 November 2026, as company-sponsored, and pay the course fee after funding.
- Your employee attends and completes the course. We submit the attendance and assessment results to SWDA.
- No separate claim is needed. SFEC is calculated automatically once the course fee grant is approved and is paid quarterly to your company's IRAS GIRO or PayNow Corporate account.
Any unused balance of the current SFEC expires on 30 November 2026.
Redesigned SFEC from 1 December 2026
Companies with at least 3 resident employees receive a fresh $10,000 in an online SFEC wallet that offsets out-of-pocket fees upfront at enrolment, instead of reimbursing them afterwards. SWDA has not yet published the support rates and claim steps; see OurWorkforce or our SFEC guide.
How to Apply UTAP (NTUC Members)
NTUC members can claim 50% of the unfunded course fee under the Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP), capped at $250 a year (aged below 40) or $500 a year (aged 40 and above). The cap is shared with UTAP claims for AI tool subscriptions.
Eligibility: you must be an NTUC member paying full membership fees, with your membership paid up before and during the course and when you claim. The course must not be fully paid for by your employer or another source.
- Make sure your NTUC membership is paid up before the course starts.
- Register for this course with us and pay the course fee after funding and SkillsFuture Credit.
- Attend at least 75% of the course and sit all assessments.
- Within 6 months after the course ends, go to the NTUC U Portal, open UTAP under E-services, log in with Singpass and choose Course Fee Claim.
- Enter the nett course fee you paid (after all subsidies and SkillsFuture Credit, including GST), and upload your invoice or receipt and your certificate or result slip (PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 5MB each).
- NTUC usually pays the claim within 4 weeks of submission.
Read more in our UTAP guide.
How to Apply PSEA
Singapore Citizens with a Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA), which stays open until around the year you turn 31, can use it to pay the course fee after funding for PSEA-approved courses. You can also use a sibling's PSEA after your own has been used up.
- Check that this course shows the PSEA tag on its MySkillsFuture page.
- Check your PSEA balance on MOE's Student Finance System with Singpass.
- Download and complete the PSEA withdrawal form, then submit it to us.
- We submit the withdrawal request to MOE. You (and your sibling, if you are using their account) authorise it in the Student Finance System. Nothing is withdrawn without this authorisation.
- MOE pays us directly. If you have already paid, we refund the amount covered by PSEA.
More details: MOE PSEA overview.
Appeal Process
If you disagree with an assessment decision, you have the right to appeal.
- When the assessor gives you feedback, say whether you agree with the outcome. If you agree, you and the assessor sign the Assessment Summary Record; if you disagree, do not sign it.
- Discuss the decision with the assessor or the assessment manager first.
- If you are still not satisfied, tell the assessor you intend to appeal. The assessor records this in the feedback section of the Assessment Summary Record and informs the assessment manager.
- Lodge your appeal within 7 days, giving your reasons, using the Candidate Appeal Form. The assessor can help you write and lodge it.
- An Assessment Appeal Panel reviews the information from you and the assessor and makes a decision. A record of the appeal and its outcome is kept.
- You will be told the outcome within 2 weeks of lodging the appeal. The panel's decision is final.
Job Roles
Job Roles
- Software Developer
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- DevOps Engineer
- QA Engineer
- Release Manager
- IT Operations Manager
- Continuous Integration Specialist
- Software Architect
- Infrastructure Automation Engineer
- Application Developer
- Configuration Manager
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Application Release Coordinator
Trainers
Trainers
Patrick Oh brings an engineer's discipline and a consultant's view of governance to Agile delivery in IT. He worked for years as an automation design engineer before becoming a management consultant, and he is now a Singapore Certified Management Consultant, listed by TUV SUD as a certified consultant and working with SG Venture Consulting. As a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) consultant, he implements and audits various ISO management systems, including quality and environmental management systems, ISO 14064 greenhouse gas accounting and internal audit. He also provides solutions design and performance management consulting, corporate compliance advice and Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) consultancy, which he has offered for more than 13 years, and he is CIPM (IAPP) certified. Patrick writes on management topics, including an article arguing that Agile is largely a rebranding of long-established project-management best practice he had applied as an engineer and consultant.
That perspective helps learners in this course see Scrum, DevOps and their supporting practices as ways of applying sound engineering and project discipline to software delivery. Patrick guides them through organising an Agile software development team, picking suitable tools and briefing the team on standards and protocols, then through Scrum frameworks, DevOps practices and refactoring to improve software efficiency. As learners explore version control, APIs, CI/CD tooling, Extreme Programming, Kanban for developers, handling bugs during testing and automated pipelines, he draws on his automation engineering background to emphasise repeatability, clear specifications and early detection of defects. His governance and audit experience adds a perspective that IT teams often overlook: how traceability, controlled change and documented standards make fast delivery safer and easier to manage. Learners finish able to plan and run IT projects with Agile methods while keeping quality and control firmly in view. He also highlights how Agile teams can document decisions lightly but sufficiently, so that speed does not come at the expense of accountability, and he relates each practice to realistic IT project situations that learners are likely to face.
Dr. Siva (Prof. Dr. S. Sivanesan) is a Singapore-based governance, risk and compliance specialist with more than 30 years of experience and a strong background in technology governance. His work covers IT governance, technology risk and cybersecurity aligned with ISO 27001 and NIST, user access management and data protection, as well as governance and board advisory, enterprise risk management (ERM), internal controls and audit, and sustainability and ESG governance and reporting. He also leads business process reengineering and streamlines policies and procedures. He has worked with boards, regulators, financial institutions, the public sector and charities across Asia, and is a keynote speaker on AI and governance, risk culture and the future of internal audit. He holds a Doctorate in Governance, Risks and Sustainability from EIMT, a Masters in Business Systems and a Bachelor of Economics (Accountancy) from Monash University, and a Specialist Diploma in Sustainability Reporting from Temasek Polytechnic. His professional credentials include CIA, CISA and CRISC, and he is ACLP-certified in Singapore and an HRDC-accredited trainer in Malaysia.
This WSQ course on mastering agile project management for IT projects covers Scrum, DevOps, version control, CI/CD pipelines and task automation, and Dr. Siva approaches these topics from the perspective of technology risk and IT governance. He helps learners understand why standards and protocols for an agile software team matter, and how practices such as version control, automated testing and continuous integration also act as controls that improve quality and traceability. His cybersecurity and user access management experience adds a practical dimension to choosing tools and running automated pipelines, where access rights and the protection of code and data must be managed carefully. His process reengineering background supports the topics on refactoring, Kanban and handling bugs during testing, encouraging learners to remove waste and keep workflows simple. Learners leave able to plan and deliver IT projects with agile and DevOps practices while keeping technology risk visible and under control.
Praveen Dayal is a senior IT leader and project management specialist with extensive global experience in banking, finance, manufacturing and technology. He holds international certifications including PMP, PMI-ACP, ASM, CISA, CISM and CRISC, and his career spans senior leadership roles leading large-scale IT projects, digital transformation programmes and enterprise system implementations. As an ACLP-certified trainer, he has delivered Agile and Scrum-focused programmes that help IT and business professionals adopt iterative, value-driven ways of delivering projects.
In WSQ - Mastering Agile Project Management for IT Projects, Praveen applies that experience to software delivery. Learners organise an agile software development team, choose tools and set standards and protocols, then study Scrum and DevOps practices, refactoring, version control, APIs and the software tools behind CI/CD. The course also covers Extreme Programming, Kanban for developers, handling bugs during testing, and continuous integration with automated pipelines. His pragmatic, structured approach uses real-world case studies and simulations to show how agile frameworks apply to IT projects and enterprise change, and his risk governance background helps participants keep quality and control in fast release cycles. Learners leave able to deliver IT projects with agility, efficiency and business alignment.
Choong Sin Fatt is an Agile and Design Thinking strategist with extensive experience in software engineering, consulting and organisational transformation. Over the past seven years he has specialised in guiding businesses to adopt Scaled Agile practices and integrate customer-centric innovation frameworks, and he has led software development, system integration and digital transformation projects. He is a certified Scrum Master, Product Owner and Design Sprint Facilitator, as well as an ACTA-certified adult educator, and is known for combining structured methods with agile innovation.
In WSQ - Mastering Agile Project Management for IT Projects, Sin Fatt equips learners with practical techniques for managing agile software projects from initiation to delivery. Participants set up an agile development team, select tools and agree standards, then apply Scrum and DevOps practices, refactoring, version control and CI/CD tooling. He covers sprint management, backlog prioritisation and team collaboration with tools such as Jira and Trello, as well as Extreme Programming, Kanban for developers and handling bugs during testing. Through experiential learning and case-driven discussion drawn from his engineering and consulting background, he helps participants master agile frameworks that foster transparency, speed and continuous value creation in IT environments.
Stephen Tan is an operations and supply chain management professional with more than 20 years of leadership experience in global organisations, including Symrise, Dragoco and Hewlett-Packard. He has managed large-scale projects, led cross-functional teams and implemented process improvements across multiple countries. Certified as a ScrumMaster (CSM) and Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), he has applied agile principles to streamline IT-enabled business processes and improve organisational performance. He holds an MBA in General Management and certifications in leadership and negotiation.
In WSQ - Mastering Agile Project Management for IT Projects, Stephen emphasises integrating agile methodologies into IT projects with a focus on stakeholder management, iterative delivery and value-driven outcomes. Learners organise an agile software team and its standards, then explore Scrum and DevOps practices, refactoring, version control, APIs and the tools that support CI/CD. They also cover Extreme Programming, Kanban for developers, bug handling during testing and automated pipelines. Bringing both strategic and operational perspectives, Stephen helps participants see how these engineering practices connect to business goals and the needs of stakeholders. Learners leave better equipped to lead IT projects effectively in a fast-moving digital landscape.
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