Course Outline
The 'Agile Project Management' training includes presenting the concepts and principles of agile project management, as well as presenting and practicing various agile project management practices related to:
- The full project cycle, i.e., from initiation, through planning and monitoring to closure
- Different agile approaches, such as Scrum and Kanban.
Training topics
Agile Project Management: basic concepts:
- Changes in the business and project environment leading to agile methods
- Principles of the Agile approach:
- Basic Agile principles
- ‘Being Agile’ and ‘Doing Agile’
- Review of Agile methods:
- Scrum, Kanban
- Lean
- Basic elements of the Agile approach
- Agile approach vs traditional project management: comparison
- Discussion of the possibility of applying the Agile approach in the projects of training participants
Main roles in an agile project:
- Product Owner:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Product Owner
- Product Owner in practice
- Project team:
- Characteristics of an agile project team
- Project team in practice
- Coach - Scrum Master:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Scrum Master
- Scrum Master in practice
- Agile roles in projects
- Discussion of agile roles in the projects of training participants
Initiating and planning an agile project:
- Initiating an agile project:
- Product vision
- Product roadmap
- Project charter
- Project planning: releases and iterations
- Project scope:
- Product backlog
- User stories
- User story and task estimation methods
- Other parameters necessary for agile planning
- Team velocity estimation methods
- Iteration planning
- Release planning
Monitoring an agile project:
- Iteration monitoring methods:
- Task board
- Burn-down chart
- Release monitoring methods:
- Story board
- Burn-down chart
- Agile project delivery practices:
- Daily stand-up meeting
- Product demo at the end of the iteration
- Iteration retrospective at the end of the iteration
Kanban method:
- Kanban principles and rules
- Kanban board and its information content
- Work in progress limit and Little’s Law
- Methods for ensuring workflow in the Kanban method
- Planning and monitoring projects in the Kanban method
Introducing Agile in a traditionally operating organization:
- Practical experience
- Analysis and discussion of the possibility of introducing the Agile approach
Retrospective – course summary
Requirements
The training is intended for project managers, team leaders, and managers responsible for managing projects, products, or services who are already working or plan to work according to Agile and wish to develop their organization in line with and according to Agile principles.
Testimonials (2)
Practice over theory, just the right level of detail, it was tweaked for our needs, let us think about how we can implement to our environment, lot of food for thought.
Barbara - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Course - Agile Project Management
The practicing part is a big part which is not very common, and this makes this training just perfect.
