Agile Overview
Training
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Training
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
1 Day
This half-day briefing is designed to be an informative overview of agile methods. It focuses on the most widely-adopted approaches to agile, exploring the principles and practices, whilst highlighting the benefits, risks and impacts of agile adoption. The briefing includes tips for introducing Agile into an organisation and identifies the support available.
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Course programme
- Background to agile methods, including The Spiral Model, Scrum, DSDM Atern, Feature-Driven Development (FDD), eXtreme Programming (XP) and Lean
- The Agile Manifesto
- Why use Agile?
- Agile philosophy and principles
- Agile techniques
- Characteristics of highly-effective teams
- Stakeholder priorities and roles
- Agile Leadership
- The Agile project life cycle
- Project Vision
- Project chunking strategies for early
- ROI Assessing project complexity
- Approaches to estimation
- Key control parameters in Agile
- Avoiding late design breakage
- Tracking project progress; velocity; cost of change
- Timeboxing and control
- Project sponsorship
- Engaging stakeholders and empowering teams
- Risks and benefits of Agile
- Injecting agility into a PRINCE2 / ITIL environment
- Understanding organisational change; overcoming resistance
- Creating and sustaining an agile culture
- Tips for introducing Agile
- Finding agile resources and support
Agile Overview