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Agile Project Management Training Online - Accredited Provider

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Course Overview: Agile Project Management

This online Agile project management training course demonstrates how to apply Agile specifically to your projects.

Agile is simply to understand in principle. However, it is harder to do in the real world.

Delivering the potential benefits of Agile requires an understanding that Agile is not a method. It is a very different approach to the management of projects. For example, it changes the way developers interact with users and totally changes how the software development process is managed.

Being an approach rather than a method is a double-edged sword. There are few ‘rules’ and that raises many questions. This course highlights them and provides clear guidance.

One of the most important questions is how to combine Governance with Agile. This course also addresses this question.

Format of this online course

The course is highly interactive and practical.  It uses a real project(s) from your organisation as the basis of all practical sessions throughout the course.

Clearly, this is very different from simply talking about Agile principles and values.

Duration

1-day training course

Intended for

Anyone thinking of or planning to implement an Agile project management framework.

Agenda:Session:
Course Objectives:
  • To describe the difference between Agile and traditional methods
  • To demonstrate how to still retain clear Governance of projects
  • To demonstrate the real and significant benefits Agile can bring
What is Agile?
  • Origins and core principles
  • The difference to traditional methods
  • Why and how Agile project management works
  • Advantages over other methods
Focus on Outcomes and Benefits
  • Defining clear product benefits and priorities
The Business case
Teams
  • Devolved responsibility - self managed teams
  • Breaking down barriers one single team
  • Product Owner & Scrum Masters
  • Impact on key roles, e.g. BA and Testing
  • Principles and practices of communication in Agile
Summary level planning
  • Release Planning
  • Sizing the overall project
  • Determination of Sprint cycles
  • Matching Gates and Governance
Product backlog
  • Release planning
  • Who does it
  • Epics and User Stories
  • Prioritisation
  • How to identify and develop User stories
Sprint Planning
  • Product Backlogs and Sprint planning
  • Use of Velocity in Sprint Planning
  • Story points: how to define them and size them
  • Prioritisation of features and story points
  • Estimating e.g. where to use and not use Planning Poker
  • Comprehensive checklist for Sprint Plans
Inside Sprints
  • Daily stand-ups
  • Burn down charts
  • Testing
  • What complete means inside a Sprint
Key Visuals and How to Use them
  • The Project Board - beyond the Product Backlog
  • The Sprint Board
  • Getting a lot more out of Burn Down Charts
Governance in this environment
  • Matching formal Governance with this approach
  • Updated metrics and Gates
Case Studies focused on matching Governance
  • Multiple case studies will be discussed all from the commercial sector focusing on the Governance of multiple projects all being delivered using an Agile approach
  • Summary Implementation strategy & plan
Following this course:
  • you will understand Agile

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