Agile Project Leadership

Training

Inhouse

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Duration

    2 Days

This course is designed to be a practical introduction to agile methods and to the management of agile projects. It provides delegates with the opportunity to learn agile techniques in a collaborative environment, using exercises, case studies, and examples to illustrate the principles being explored.

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Course programme

  • What are agile methods?
  • Why use Agile?
  • Background to agile methods (including Spiral Model, RAD, Scrum, DSDM, FDD, XP and Lean)
  • The Agile Planning
  • Model Educating stakeholders and empowering teams
  • Project tracking and reporting
  • The Agile Contract and managing sub-contractors
  • The risks and benefits of agile approaches
  • Organisational factors
  • The Project Suitability Filter
  • Characteristics of highly effective teams
  • Team communications, workspaces, decision-making tools Leading self-organising teams
  • Project Vision: Designing the Product Box (Highsmith)
  • Kick-off workshop; stakeholder priorities and roles
  • Planning iterations and prioritisation of features Assessing project complexity
  • Approaches to estimation: PNR curves; Brooks'' law 10 common estimating omissions
  • Handling risk: PMBOK; PRINCE2; Agile
  • Tailoring for risk
  • Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
  • Project chunking strategies for early ROI
  • Avoiding late design breakage
  • Tracking project progress; velocity; cost of change
  • Linear progression versus non-linear progression work
  • Meaningful metrics
  • Understanding organisational change; overcoming resistance
  • Framework for strategic and human change factors
  • Institutionalising change and creating sustaining cultures

Agile Project Leadership

Price on request