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Course Outline
The "Agile Project Management" training covers the presentation of concepts and principles of agile project management, as well as the introduction and practice of various practices and rules of agile project management, including:
- The full project cycle, 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 principles of Agile
- "Being Agile" and "Doing Agile"
- Overview of Agile methods:
- Scrum, Kanban
- Lean
- Basic elements of the Agile approach
- The Agile approach versus traditional project management: comparison
- Discussion on the possibilities of applying the Agile approach in participants' projects
Main roles in an agile project:
- Product Owner:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Product Owner
- The Product Owner in practice
- Project Team:
- Characteristics of an agile project team
- The project team in practice
- Coach - Scrum Master:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Scrum Master
- The Scrum Master in practice
- Agile roles in projects
- Discussion on agile roles in participants' projects
Initiating and planning an agile project:
- Initiating an agile project:
- Product vision
- Product roadmap
- Project card
- Project planning: releases and iterations
- Project scope:
- Product backlog
- User stories
- Estimation methods for user stories and tasks
- Other parameters necessary for agile planning
- Team velocity estimation methods
- Iteration planning
- Release planning
Monitoring an agile project:
- Methods for monitoring iterations:
- Task board
- Burn-down chart
- Methods for monitoring releases:
- User story board
- Burn-down chart
- Practices for agile project execution:
- Daily stand-up meeting
- Product demo at the end of iteration
- Retro at the end of iteration
The Kanban Method:
- Principles and rules of Kanban
- Kanban board and its informational content
- Work-in-progress limits and Little's Law
- Methods for ensuring workflow in the Kanban method
- Planning and monitoring a project using the Kanban method
Introducing Agile in a traditionally operating organization:
- Practical experiences
- Analysis and discussion of the possibilities for introducing the Agile approach
Retrospective – training summary
Requirements
This training is intended for project managers, team leaders, and managers who manage projects, products, or services. It is designed for those who are already working or plan to work in an Agile environment and wish to develop their organization according to the principles and spirit of Agile.
14 Hours
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.
