The training is intended for project managers, team leaders and managers managing projects, products or services who already work or plan to work in accordance with Agile and want to develop their organization in the spirit and principles of Agile.
The training provides answers to the following practical questions:
- What can be the role of project managers in an agile organization?
- How to transform an organization when the environment is favorable for it, and how to instill a way of thinking and smuggle key practices when we are surrounded by corporate procedures?
- How to involve the customer and end users in the process so that the recipient of the product receives what he actually needs, instead of what we thought he needed?
- How to increase the predictability of work, maximize return on investment and control constant changes in requirements to satisfy the client and not exceed the limited budget?
Participating in the training will allow participants to:
- Systematizing or expanding methodological and practical knowledge in the field of agile project management
- Learning good agile project management practices regarding the entire project lifecycle (from initiation, through planning, monitoring, to closing)
- Identification of those methods and techniques of agile project management that can be most widely used in projects managed by training participants
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 regarding:
- The full project cycle, i.e. from initiation, through planning and monitoring to closing
- Various agile approaches such as Scrum and Kanban.
Training topics
Agile Project Management: basic concepts:
- Changes in the business and project environment leading to agile methods
- Rules of approach Agile:
- Basic rules Agile
- "Being Agile" and "Doing Agile"
- Method overview Agile:
- Scrum,Kanban
- Lean
- Basic elements of the approach Agile
- Agile approach and traditional project management: a comparison
- Discussion of the possibility of using the Agile approach in the projects of training participants
Main roles in an agile project:
- Product Owner:
- Tasks and characteristics of an ideal Product Owner
- Product Owner in practice
- The 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 project roles
- Discussion of agile roles in the projects of training participants
Initiating and planning an agile project:
- Initiating an agile project:
- Product vision
- Product roadmap
- Project card
- Project planning: releases and iterations
- Project scope:
- Product backlog
- User stories
- Methods for estimating stories and tasks
- Other parameters necessary for agile planning
- Team speed estimation methods
- Iteration planning
- Release planning
Agile project monitoring:
- Iteration monitoring methods:
- Task board
- Burn chart
- Release monitoring methods:
- Story board
- Burn chart
- Agile project implementation practices:
- Daily meeting
- Product demo at the end of the iteration
- Retrospective at the end of the iteration
Kanban method:
- Kanban principles and rules
- Kanban board and its information content
- The work-in-progress limit and Little's Law
- Methods of ensuring workflow in the Kanban method
- Project planning and monitoring using the Kanban method
Entering Agile in a traditional organization:
- Practical experiences
- Analysis and discussion of the possibilities of introducing the approach Agile
Retrospective – summary of the training