Agile Project Management
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INTRODUCTION
Agile project management (APM) is an iterative approach to planning and guiding project processes. It breaks project processes down into smaller cycles called sprints, or iterations. Agile project management enables project teams in software development to work quickly and collaboratively on a project while being able to adapt to changing requirements in development. It also enables development teams to react to feedback quickly, so they can make changes at each sprint and product cycle. This course is designed for project managers who want to get better practical results with adaptive approaches to projects. Students in this course will be most successful if they have a foundational understanding of traditional project management tools and processes including project networks, budgets and schedules.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Appreciate how characteristics of effective teams influence effective adaptive project management
- Apply predictive project management techniques to integrate scope, time, resources and cost management into a dynamic, manageable plan
- Learn the rules and approaches to the implementation of the most widely applied adaptive project management framework
- Identify general considerations that are critical to setting up and applying the Scrum framework
- Critique the value of core practices performed to plan a Scrum sprint
- Apply the core practices performed in the execution of a Scrum sprint
- Evaluate core post-Sprint practices used for review and improvement purposes
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COURSE AUDIENCE
This course is made for:
- Associate Project Managers
- Project Managers
- IT Project Managers
- Project Coordinators
- Project Analysts and Project Leaders
- Senior Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Project Sponsors
- Project Team Members
- Project Management Professionals
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COURSE OUTLINE
DAY ONE:
Understanding Projects and Project Management
- Characteristics of Projects
- Fundamental Concepts of Project Management
- Setting-up for Success – The Charter
- Setting-up for Success – The Project Team
- Understanding Stakeholders
DAY TWO:
Predictive Project Management – Planning
- Product Scope Planning – requirements collection
- Project Scope Planning – establish work breakdown structure
- Schedule Planning – constructing the project timeline
- Schedule Planning – optimizing the project timeline
- Cost Planning – cost planning and estimation
- Cost Planning – establishing the project budget
DAY THREE:
Predictive & Adaptive Project Management – Control
- Risk Management – Risk Identification and Analysis
- Risk Management – Establishing Risk Response Approaches
- Managing Project Change
- Controlling Adversity through Effective Contingency Planning
- Controlling Progress through Earned Value Management
- Agile Values and Principles
DAY FOUR:
Adaptive Project Management
- SCRUM Foundations – Characteristic of Highly Effective Teams
- The SCRUM Framework
- Key Roles of Scrum – The Product Owner
- Key Roles of Scrum – The Scrum-master
- Key Roles of Scrum – The Self-organized Team
- Key Artifacts of Scrum
DAY FIVE:
Practical Considerations in the Application of SCRUM
- Sprint Planning Techniques
- Executing Iterations – The Scrum
- Continuous Learning Techniques through Project Retrospective
- Course and Techniques Review
- Contrasting Control Mechanisms of these Different Approaches
