Agile Project Management

Introduction

The course for anyone interested in running, leading and managing Agile teams and projects.

Course Description

The aim of the course is to prepare you to appl agile techniques to your running/managing of Agile projects. Starting with a basic introduction to Agile, we cover the key project management aspects and then through a number of worked examples we create a detailed project, release and iteration plan.

Topic

• Background to Agile
• Overview of Agile
• Managing Requirements
• Principles of Agile Project Management
• Building & Running Agie Teams
• Running Agile Projects
• Estimation & Planning
• Offshore & 3rd Parties

Benefits

Completing this course will ready the project manager for ....

Audience

Managers, Project Manager, Programme Managers, Team leaders, anyone involved in leading or managing an agile team

Duration

2 Days

Prerequisites

Experience of working on IT based projects. Experience of team leadership and basic project management processes are useful although not essential.

Course Outline

• Background to Agile
  • Traditional Software Development
  • The Vicious Circle
  • Seven Wastes of Software Development
  • Change is inevitable
  • Harsh Realities
  • Cost of Change
  • The "Shunt" Effect
  • Predictability
  • Traditional Challenges
• Overview of Agile
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Values
  • Value Realisation
  • Proven Metrics
  • Agile Thinking
  • Ten rules of Agile Development
  • Industry Perspective
  • Myth Busting
• Managing Requirements
  • User Stories
  • Estimating,
  • Dividing and merging User Stories
  • Timeboxing and Prioritisation
• Principles of Agile Project Management
  • Release, and Iteration Planning
  • Project Roles
  • Responsibilities and Rights
  • responsibilities and team facilitation
  • Customer/Business User involvement
• Agile Methods
  • Documentation on iterative projects
  • Agile Business Analysis
  • Agile Testing
  • Daily Scrums,
  • Project reviews and Retrospectives
  • Agile Project Management Tools
  • Transitioning to Agile
  • People aspects of Agile
  • Agile Culture and team well-being
  • Recruitment, progression, succession and retention
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Gathering Metrics
  • Estimation
  • Traceability
  • What is a Deliverable?
    • Project Versus System Documentation
    • Choosing a Minimum Set for Agile Development
  • Quality Criteria
  • Quality Assessment of Deliverables
  • Understanding Partially Completed Deliverables
  • Choosing, Integrating and Implementing Tools
  • Change Management
  • Baselines and Promotion Strategy
  • Testing and build practices in agile development
  • Iterative and agile project management
  • Estimation, release planning and scheduling iterative projects
  • Tracking progress in iterative development
  • Large project tips
  • Coordinating team-of-team large project development
  • Agile offshoring and contracts
• Myths and Misconceptions
• Frequently asked question

Cost

£800 + VAT per delegate. Contact us for onsite costs
There is a maximum of 8 delegates per course

Further Information

To find out more about this course, enquiry about the next scheduled course, or discuss booking an inhouse course, email us at info@magneticreason.com or call us on +44(0)1484 866033