AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT (APM)

Why Agile Project Management?

Agile Project Management focuses on continuous improvement, scope flexibility, team input and delivering essential quality products.  Agile methodology allows you to break large projects down into more manageable tasks called iterations.  Learn more during the course about why Agile Project Management is a preferred methodology for your organisation

What to expect from the course?

• Understand why Agile Project Management is so popular
• Understand Agile Project Management Values
• Understand Agile Project Management Principles
• Understand Agile Project Management Roles
• Understand Agile Project Management Life Cycle
• Learn about Scrums, Sprints and Kanban
• Learn about how Agile Project Management and PMBOK work together

Who Should Attend?

• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers
• Product Owners
• Project Managers
• Project Sponsors
• Project Team Members
• Scrum members
• Sprint members

COURSE CONTENT

DAY 1

Workshop introduction

• Workshop safety and logistics
• Introduction to the delegates and facilitator
• Workshop Objectives
• Workshop Agenda Overview

What is Agile Project Management (APM)?

• Definition of APM
• Key associated terms used in APM: Scrum, Sprint, Kanban
• APM Glossary

Agile Key Values

• Simplicity
• Communication
• Feedback
• Courage

Is APM for your organisation?

• Why use APM?
• Benefits of APM
• Pros and Cons of APM
• Agile Misconceptions

APM in relation to other PM approaches

• PMBOK
• Prince 2

DAY 2

APM 12 principles

• Satisfy customer
• Deliver frequently
• Welcome change
• Teamwork
• Empower team members
• Work face-to-face
• Working product is key
• Sustainable development
• Technical excellence and good design
• Simplicity
• Self-organising teams
• Reflective action

APM Roles

• Scrum Master
• Development Team Members
• Product Owner
• Stakeholders
• Agile Mentor
• APM Team characteristics

APM Roadmap to Value

• Vision
• Product Roadmap
• Release Planning
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective

Agile PM process overview

• Iterations
• User stories
• Daily Standup

DAY 3

How to implement Agile

• Step 1: Set your vision with a strategy meeting
• Step 2: Build out your product roadmap
• Step 3: Get amped up with a release plan
• Step 4: It’s time to plan out your sprints
• Step 5: Keep your team on track with daily standups
• Step 6: Sprint’s done? It’s time for a review
• Step 7: What’s next? Decide what to focus on in your sprint retrospective

Agile Project Management Artifacts

• Product vision statement
• Product roadmap
• Product backlog
• Release plan
• Sprint backlog
• Increment

Agile & PMBOK

• Scope
• Schedule
• Cost
• Quality
• Resources
• Communications
• Risk
• Procurement
• Stakeholders

DAY 4

Agile Project Management simulation day

• Delegates will be given a product requirement brief and will be required to perform a number of Agile Sprint sessions during the day as a practical test of the application of APM.
• Project brief
• Sprint 1
• Sprint 2
• Sprint 3
• Sprint 4
• Review of lessons learned from the day

DAY 5

APM video case study

• Delegates will watch a video of a real-world project and will work in teams to apply APM to the project
• Teams will make a short presentation of their interpretation of the project

Workshop closure session

• Workshop feedback from delegates
• Workshop certificate ceremony
• Formal close of the workshop