Delivering Agile Projects

Why Agile?

Agile has become synonym with delivering results and embracing change. All part of what everyone should do in order to remain competitive nowadays.

This course gives you the ability to understand agile principles and concepts. You’ll be able to demonstrate to project stakeholders that the use of agile is among your project management skills, and you can apply its techniques based on the needs of your projects.

Benefits

Closing more project on time and within budget
Build a more intimate relationship with your customers
Create a result-oriented attitude of the team
Better identification and management of risks
Increased participation, ownership, and accountability from stakeholders
People feel more motivated and empowered
Increased efficiency of activities through process management
Knowledge and understanding of different methodologies used in top companies
Learning to be more organised and the role discipline plays in a project

Audience

Project managers
Team members (developers, testers, analysts, etc.)
Team leads and managers
Business people.

Agenda

Introduction to methodologies and standards
The agile value proposition
Agile vs. waterfall
Agile values and principles
Workshop “Productivity improvement”
Scrum (roles, artefacts, ceremonies)
Extreme programming (concepts, values, activities, roles, practices)
Lean (principles, managing waste, 5S)
Kanban (practices, pull system, bottlenecks, kanban board)
Agile teams (roles, servant leadership, empowerment, self-organizing teams, sharing information, building teams, conflict management)

Workshop “Managing an agile project”
Starting up a project (indicators, vision, personas)
Backlog management (collecting requirements, writing user stories, high level estimations, story points, definition of done, prioritization techniques)
Iteration planning (story level estimations, planning poker, task management)
Inspect and adapt (daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives)
Next steps in becoming more agile.

Languages

This course in available in English, French, German

Duration

3 days in classroom
Also available as online or virtual delivery