Course Outline
The "Agile Project Management" training includes presenting the concepts and principles of agile project management, as well as presenting and practicing various practices and principles of agile project management concerning:
- The full project cycle, i.e., from initiation, through planning and monitoring to closing
- Different agile approaches, such as Scrum and Kanban.
Training Topics
Agile Project Management: Core Concepts:
- Changes in the business and project environment leading to agile methods
- Principles of the Agile approach:
- Core Agile principles
- “Being Agile” and “Doing Agile”
- Review of Agile methods:
- Scrum, Kanban
- Lean
- Core elements of the Agile approach
- Agile approach vs. traditional project management: comparison
- Discussion on the possibilities of applying the Agile approach in the training participants' projects
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 training participants' projects
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
- Methods for estimating stories and tasks
- Other parameters necessary for agile planning
- Methods for estimating team velocity
- 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
- Product Demonstration at the end of the iteration
- Retrospective at the end of the iteration
Kanban Method:
- Principles and rules of Kanban
- Kanban Board and its informational content
- Work in Progress (WIP) limits and Little’s Law
- Methods for ensuring workflow in the Kanban method
- Planning and monitoring a project in the Kanban method
Introducing Agile in a traditionally operating organization:
- Practical experiences
- Analysis and discussion of the possibilities of introducing the Agile approach
Retrospective – Training Summary
Requirements
This training is intended for project managers, team leaders, and managers managing projects, products, or services, who are already working or plan to work in accordance with Agile and wish to develop their organization in spirit 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.
