Course Summary
The Agile Project Management Training class equips you with the most popular Agile techniques for leading teams of people engaged in software development, product development, and all other forms of creative development. Most companies today that practice Agile use a blend of Scrum, Extreme Programming, PMI, and Lean practices to increase their time-to-market, quality, and deliver customer-valued features. In this Agile workshop you will gain the necessary skills and knowledge to start leading agile projects the very next day.
PMI PDUs: 14 Category 4
Duration
2 days.
Objectives
In this Agile Workshop you will:
- Apply lean thinking to reducing waste in your SDLC processes.
- Develop a facilitative leadership style that inspires the team.
- Write user stories.
- Write acceptance tests.
- Lead a sprint planning story selection & estimation workshop.
- Lead a sprint planning task estimation & commitment workshop.
- Lead daily stand up meetings (Daily Scrums).
- Create and use a task board (Scrum board).
- Create and use a sprint burndown chart.
- Create and use a release burndown chart.
- Prioritize the product backlog.
- Use continuous planning techniques to plan releases.
- Lead sprint reviews (demos).
- Lead sprint retrospectives (reflections/lessons learned).
- Develop an Agile Practices implementation plan.
- Apply techniques learned in class to manage change resistance
Audience
Everyone who currently practices or participates in traditionally managed projects that wants to learn a hyper productive and fun alternative that has been used by thousands of companies worldwide for almost a decade.
Instructor
An Agile practitioner since 2000, Scott Griffith is the founder and CEO of Agile Raven, Inc. as well as practicing Agile Coach who provides training, consulting and coaching services in Agile software development areas including Scrum project management and enterprise agile adoption. Scott is focused on helping individuals as well as companies adopt Agile practices and principles including Scrum, APM, XP, and Lean.
Scott has over 25 years experience in IT including New Product Development (NPD), New Product Introduction (NPI), and systems Engineering. In addition, he has extensive experience in managing offshore development and Project Management Offices (PMOs).
A former high tech industry executive, Scott has held leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard, Symantec, McAfee, VERITAS, Media Monitors, and HDL Marketing.
Outline
- Introduction to Agile
- Lean Thinking
- Scrum 101
- Agile Leadership
- XP Game (Planning & Estimating)
- Stand Up Meetings
- Tracking and Reporting
- Business Value Game (Release Planning)
- Sprint Review Meetings
- Implementation I: Planning Your Implementation
- Implementation II: Developing Your Sphere of Influence — The Art of the Possible
- Crafting your message: Dealing with entrenched processes and beliefs
- Patterns, Anti-Patterns, Tips & Tricks + Next Steps
Course Testimonials
I found the Agile Project Management class to be extremely informative and hand on. It not only introduces you to Scrum, but also covers Lean and XP methodologies. The presentation was clear and well organized. I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn about agile/lean project management methodologies.
