Planning and Managing Agile Projects

Enhance your project management skills and deliver high-value software with our 'Planning and Managing Agile Projects' course, ideal for IT professionals and project managers seeking to master Agile methodologies.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Plan and manage Agile projects using best practices.

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Implement Agile principles to minimize risk and ensure project success.

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Design self-managing teams for adaptable and efficient project delivery.

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Evaluate projects accurately using Agile metrics to align with business goals.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 3 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Managers
  • Executives
  • Project Managers
  • Business Analysts

Description

This 3-day course aims at introducing its attendees to the core values, principles, and practices of Agile. This course is a more elaborate version of the Certified Scrum Master training as it discusses how to plan and manage Agile practices, not only those in Scrum. The course also goes into greater depth about all the roles and responsibilities on the team and not just the ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles. The use of agile as an approach to managing projects has been increasing dramatically over the last several years. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2012, agile development methods will be used on 80% of all software development projects. PMI’s research has shown that the use of agile has tripled from December 2008 to May 2012. Therefore, PMI has developed a new certificate called the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). The PMI-ACP is positioned to recognize and validate knowledge of this important approach. The course outline is aligned with the new PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification credential that we anticipate will become a worldwide accepted standard for best practices for Agile PM like the PMBOK Guide and PMP recognition is for PM.

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Course Outline

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Introduction

  1. Why Agile?

  2. History & Mindset: Understand how the agile approach arose.

  3. The Agile Lifecycle

  4. Introducing Agile to the organization

  5. Roles and Responsibilities on an Agile project team.

  6. Establishing core hours - How will the team work during a day?

  7. How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations

  8. Planning and Managing Business Analysis Communication and Performance

  9. Agile and CMMI

Value Driven Delivery – Identify Stakeholders

  1. Value-Driven Development: Understanding agile development focus.

  2. Identify Project Success Criteria

  3. Establish your Agile team using RACI

Stakeholder Engagement – Envision the Product

  1. Setting expectations with stakeholders.

  2. Envision the Product vision with your product owner and stakeholders

  3. Document Business Functionality

  4. Document Technical Functionality

Tools and Techniques – Building the Scrum Task board

  1. Communications

  2. Planning, Monitoring and Adapting

  3. Scrum Task Board

  4. Agile Estimating

  5. Agile Analysis and Design

  6. Burndown Chart

  7. Team Velocity

  8. Soft Skills Negotiation

Initiate an Agile Project – Planning Releases

  1. Envision the Product and Project outcomes

  2. Project Chartering (Project Planning)

  3. Assemble the Agile project team

  4. Compile the Product Backlog

  5. Plan Sprints and Releases

  6. Establish the Project “time-box”

  7. Managing Personas on an Agile Project

  8. Creating and Managing Team Rooms

  9. Identifying and managing “Information Radiators”

  10. Planning in Agile Projects

  11. Tracking and monitoring activities

Estimating and Prioritizing Effort

  1. Planning Releases

  2. Establishing decision and acceptance criteria for user stories

  3. Planning Poker

  4. Prioritize themes and releases

  5. Estimating team velocity

  6. Preparing for change

Plan the Iteration (Sprint)

  1. Sprint Zero activities

  2. Elements of a successful Sprint Planning meeting

  3. Create a Sprint Backlog

  4. Creating user Stories for the Product Backlog

  5. Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements using 2-4 week Sprints

  6. Adapting a change-driven (Agile) Project plan

Running the Sprint - from Planning to Review and Retrospective

  1. Managing your Scrums

  2. Using Burndown charts to track progress

  3. Manage changes during the Sprint

  4. Prepare for the Sprint Review

  5. Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment

  6. Hold a Sprint Retrospective

  7. Update the product backlog

  8. Plan and Execute the next Sprint

Boosting the Team Performance

  1. Team Formation

  2. Team Empowerment

  3. Team Collaboration

  4. Team Commitment

  5. Coaching the Team

  6. Assist the team to detect and resolve problems

  7. Ensuring the integrity of Scrum Practices

  8. Verifying and validating using an Agile approach

Additional Information

  1. Useful books and links on Agile

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