Agile Essentials for Project Managers: Focus on Documentation and Team Practices - Bespoke

Morning Session
1. Agile Foundations

• Understanding the Agile Manifesto and Principles
• How Agile differs from traditional project management approaches
• The role of documentation in Agile

2. Planning in Agile

• Release Planning: Defining product vision, roadmaps, and release goals
• Iteration Zero: Setting up the project baseline (tools, team, architecture, initial documentation)
• Iteration Planning: Breaking down features into user stories and tasks
• Estimation Techniques: Story points, planning poker, and relative sizing

3. Agile Documentation Essentials

• Writing effective User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Documenting sprint goals, outcomes, and decisions
• Note-taking strategies for Daily Stand-ups and Sprint Planning

Afternoon Session
4. Quality and Testing in Agile

• Ensuring Team Quality: Definition of Done (DoD) and best practices
• Overview of Iteration Testing: Continuous integration, automated testing
• Tools for documenting testing outcomes and feedback loops

5. Review and Feedback Cycles

• Conducting effective Iteration Reviews (Showcase): Capturing outcomes and client feedback
• Retrospectives: How to document action items and lessons learned for continuous improvement

6. Documentation Tools & Frameworks

• Overview of tools that aid Agile documentation (e.g., Confluence, Jira, Trello)
• Frameworks and templates for efficient documentation within Agile teams

7. Final Takeaways and Q&A

• Summary of key Agile documentation practices
• Open forum for specific challenges in project documentation