Agile Project Management

Agile is a flexible and interactive project management methodology that will fast track results for your business. Agile methods focus on flexibility and adaptability and works in tandem with Scrum, which lets you introduce agility to a project.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define the Agile values, principles and mindset

• Identify the key success factors for Agile projects

• Understand Agile team roles and responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative approaches to define project vision and identify customer needs

• Apply Agile project planning and adaptation techniques

• Monitor Agile projects and manage value-driven delivery

After completing this course, students will know how to:

• Describe Agile project management.

• Describe the Scrum methodology used to manage a project.

• Manage projects using the Scrum methodology.

• Understand the critical success factors to implement Agile.

Audience:

Project Managers, project team members or anyone new to projects or anyone in a project environment who is looking to learn a lean, yet structured, approach to project management and seeking to improve their knowledge of agile project management.

Prerequisites:

There are no particular requirements for this course.

Course Contents

Getting started with Agile project management

• Overview of Agile

• Describe the Values of Agile

• Describe the Principles of Agile

• Identify Methodologies of Agile

• Concept of value

• Aligning value to strategy

• Constraints and priorities

Managing projects with the Scrum methodology

• Estimating a Scrum Project

• Track Scrum Projects

• Communication in Scrum Projects

• Best Practices to Manage Scrum

Using the Scrum Methodology

• Identify Roles and Responsibilities in Scrum

• Implement the Scrum Process

Critical success factors to implement Agile

• List Risks in Agile Projects

• Myths About Agile

• List the Challenges in Agile

• List the Benefits of Agile

Budgeting & project reporting

• Agile budgeting

• Project progress reporting

Monitoring team performance

• Resolving conflict

• Measuring performance

• Development team members