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 CALENDAR

date	location	trainer
To be announced

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.