Course Outline
The 'Agile Project Management' course includes the presentation of agile project management concepts and principles, as well as the introduction and practice of various agile project management practices related to:
- The full project lifecycle, i.e., from initiation, through planning and monitoring, to closure
- 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
- Agile approach principles:
- Agile fundamentals
- “Being Agile” and “Doing Agile”
- Overview of agile methods:
- Scrum, Kanban
- Lean
- Core elements of the Agile approach
- Agile approach versus traditional project management: a comparison
- Discussion on the applicability of 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 user 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
- Burndown chart
- Release monitoring methods:
- Story board
- Burndown chart
- Agile project delivery practices:
- Daily stand-up meeting
- Product demonstration at the end of the iteration
- Retrospective at the end of the iteration
Kanban method:
- Kanban principles and rules
- Kanban board and its informational content
- Work in Progress (WIP) limits and Little’s Law
- Methods for ensuring workflow in the Kanban method
- Project planning and monitoring in the Kanban method
Introducing Agile in a traditionally operating organisation:
- Practical experiences
- Analysis and discussion of opportunities for introducing the Agile approach
Retrospective – course summary
Requirements
The course is intended for project managers, team leads, and managers overseeing projects, products, or services who are already working or plan to work according to Agile principles and wish to develop their organisations in line with Agile values and practices.
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.
