Agile Project Management Practitioner Preparation
Preparation for applying agile principles, practices, and tools in projects
Course Overview
Agile project management is a modern, flexible approach to project management. It allows you to break large projects down into more manageable tasks, which are tackled in short iterations or sprints. This enables your team to adapt to change quickly and deliver work fast.
Agile is a process by which a team can manage a project by breaking it up into several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement and iteration at every stage.
Agile Project Management Practitioner training course provides a thorough understanding of the agile process and extensive opportunities to practice implementing agile best practices throughout a project’s life cycle. You will learn about agile concepts such as the minimum viable product (MVP), project envisioning, team velocity, estimating and prioritizing user stories, how to manage risk, effective techniques to identify key stakeholders and their success criteria, and best practices for leading agile teams.
Course Objectives
At the end of training courses, you will be able to :
- apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile in a project situation
- appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
- produce and evaluate the content of Agile products produced during an Agile project in a given scenario
- apply the following Agile techniques in a project situation: facilitated workshops, MoSCoW prioritisation, iterative development, modelling and timeboxing
- identify the Agile techniques to be used for a given situation within a scenario
- understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles within a given scenario
- understand the mechanisms for control of an Agile project that are specific to an Agile project
- understand in outline how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
- describe the Agile approach to managing requirements and identify action to rectify problems with requirements within an Agile project from a given scenario
Course Audience
This course is designed for professionals who are involved in project delivery and seek to apply Agile principles, practices, and frameworks to improve project outcomes. It is particularly suitable for individuals preparing for Agile practitioner–level roles or certifications and those working in dynamic, fast-changing project environments.
The course will greatly benefit:
- Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers
- Agile Practitioners, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners
- Project Team Members involved in Agile or hybrid projects
- Business Analysts and Change Management Professionals
- PMO staff supporting Agile project governance
- Functional Managers overseeing project-based work
- Professionals transitioning from traditional (Waterfall) to Agile project management
Course Methodology
Course Outline
Day 1 : Introduction to agile project management
- What is Agile?
- Philosophy, Principles, and Project Variables?
- Roles and Responsibilities and delegation
- Preparing for Success
- Preparing for Agile Project Management
Day 2 : Life cycles and Objectives
- Life cycle and products
- Agile Project Management through the Lifecycle
- The Effective Use of the Products
- Deliver on Time - Combining MoSCoW and Timeboxing
- People, Teams, and Interactions
Day 3 : People and Roles
- Responsibility of each role
- How roles relate to life cycle
- How an Agile team works
- Differences between Agile and traditional team management
- Limits of empowerment
Day 4 : More Detailed Explanations of Control
- Quality
- Communications
- Risk Management
- Planning
- Project management
- Requirements, estimation, measurement
- Testing
- Parameters
Day 5 : More Detailed Explanations of Techniques
- Facilitated workshops
- MoSCoW
- Iterative development
- Modelling
- Timeboxing
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