Introduction to Agile Project Management Methods

Agile project management methods are particularly suited to software development projects – including games and web-based developments and open source IT solutions in environments of uncertainty and constant change. Agile techniques are covered in this project management training course. The hands-on teaching from nti’s expert professional trainer will ensure that you leave the course with an excellent grasp of agile methods which can then be applied to your project manager’s repertoire of techniques and approaches.

• Deliver projects in short iterations
• Reduce risk using Agile concepts of prioritisation and velocity, ensuring that your team is always working on the thing that is of most value to the cleint and is within realistic budgets and timescales
• Reorder or add new priorities at the end of each iteration
• Deal with new and unexpected information and changes as projects progress
• Use the Agile concept of velocity to to help you and your team improve estimates and provide the psychological detachment from estimates that is essential for good negotiation
• Improve your negotiation skills to get the best deal for you and your client at every stage of a project
• Learn how to meet your expected deliveries
• Use strategies for introducing effective Agile methods into real-world workplaces

Lesson 1

Differing Approaches to Project Management - waterfall projects and big design up-front

Lesson 2

Iterative projects and incremental design - developing projects in terms of stories

Lesson 3

Prioritisation, demonstration and testing

Lesson 4

The role of the project manager in an Agile project