Course Outline
The "Agile Project Management" training introduces the concepts and principles of agile project management, along with the presentation and practice of various agile project management methods and principles related to:
- The full project lifecycle, i.e., from initiation, through planning and monitoring, to closing.
- Various agile approaches, such as Scrum and Kanban.
Training topics
Agile Project Management: fundamental concepts:
- Business and project environment changes leading to agile methods
- Agile approach principles:
- Core Agile principles
- „Being Agile” and „Doing Agile”
- Review of Agile methods:
- Scrum, Kanban
- Lean
- Core elements of the Agile approach
- Agile approach versus traditional project management: comparison
- Discussion on the applicability of the Agile approach to the training participants’ projects
Main roles in an agile project:
- Product Owner:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Product Owner
- Product Owner in practice
- Development Team:
- Characteristics of an agile development team
- Development Team in practice
- Coach – Scrum Master:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Scrum Master
- Scrum Master in practice
- Agile roles in projects
- Discussion on 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 delivery practices:
- Daily stand-up meeting
- End-of-iteration product demo
- End-of-iteration retrospective
Kanban Method:
- Kanban principles and rules
- Kanban board and its informational content
- Work in progress (WIP) limits and Little’s Law
- Methods to ensure workflow in the Kanban method
- Planning and monitoring a project using the Kanban method
Introducing Agile in a traditionally operating organisation:
- Practical experience
- Analysis and discussion of the feasibility of introducing the Agile approach
Retrospective – training summary
Requirements
This training is intended for project managers, team leaders, and managers overseeing projects, products, or services who are already working or planning to work according to Agile principles and wish to develop their organisation in line with Agile values.
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.
