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Agile Project Management: Innovation in Action
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Development managers, project managers and leaders, product managers, technical leads, senior technical staff, portfolio managers, QA Managers, Technical managers.
Class Size Limit: 25 (Minimum 0)
Course Overview
This Agile Project Management course is designed to:
- Increase your ability to deliver innovative new products
- Incorporate speed and agility into your projects
- Develop a "customer voice" to identify and prioritize features
- Develop a project data sheet and tradeoff matrix as part of the chartering process
- Successfully manage a product feature/story list
- Plan and manage an overall product release and individual iterations
- Define the difference between project leaders and project managers and how to use that information to create teams that are both self-disciplined and self-organized.
- Incorporate collaborative decisionmaking skills within your team
Agenda
- The Vision of Agile Project Management
- The challenges of innovation
- A framework for Agile Project Management
- Identifying "Who" Players and Relationships
- Identifying all the stakeholders and their roles
- Defining the customer-developer interface for the project
- Determining "What" Product to Deliver
- Developing a product vision box and elevator statement
- Creating a project data sheet and trade off matrix
- Defining the role of product architecture in Agile development
- Planning an Agile Project
- Similarities and differences between traditional and Agile planning
- Gathering requirements and building a feature/story backlog
- Creating feature/story cards
- Moving from work breakdown structures to story breakdown structures
- Creating release, milestone, and iteration plans
- Using iteration 0
- Iteratively Deliver Features
- Conducting daily team integration meetings
- Utilizing key Agile technical practices
- Interacting with customers daily
- Displaying key project information
- Monitoring and Adapting
- Conducting customer focus group sessions
- Conducting project milestone retrospectives
- Conducting milestone technical reviews
- Creating project status review information
- Determining project adaptive adjustments
- Closing Projects
- Team Collaboration
- The six dimensions of collaboration
- Collaborative project management tools
- Collaborative Decisionmaking
- Framing project decisions
- Using a collaborative decisionmaking process
- Leadership-Collaboration Management
Cost:
$1,395 per attendee.