Agile Project Leadership
Training
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Training
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Methodology
Inhouse
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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