Agile Project Management
Course Overview
Having a mix of Agile project management skill sets and tools will enable creating an environment that leads to success. This agile project management course will help delegates learn the skills, techniques, and mindset needed to manage projects using an Agile Approach. Project managers and team members at all levels must learn how to effectively apply this approach to maximize results. Agile project management has been found to product higher customer satisfaction in less time compared to more traditional, plan-driven agile project management methodologies.
Goal of Course:
This agile project management course in Dubai, UAE and SA will help delegates to learn how to manage an agile project from inception to closeout through providing hands-on experience in all areas of agile project management. The agile training includes practices for leading agile teams, understanding client needs, creating user stories, managing risk, identifying key stakeholders and their success criteria, estimating required resources, and prioritizing features.
During the agile project management course the delegates will be analyzing real-world examples and case studies, discuss projects, and review tools and templates to manage real projects.
Join our Agile project management course and unlock the skills needed to thrive in today’s dynamic project environments. By analyzing real-world examples, discussing projects, and reviewing tools and templates, you’ll gain practical insights that you can immediately apply to your own projects. Discuss with us the opportunity to elevate your project management capabilities and become a certified Agile practitioner.
Duration:
5 Days
Language:
English/ Arabic
Training Objectives
- Understand Agile project management
- Understanding of the agile process
- Practice implementing agile best practices throughout a project’s life cycle.
- Learn agile concepts such as team velocity, estimating and prioritizing user stories, how to manage risk, effective techniques to identify key stakeholders and their success criteria, and best practices for leading agile teams.
- Learn the key agile project management skills or attributes that all project managers should have
- Learn the Scrum methodology used to manage a project
- Understand the critical success factors to implement Agile, management
- Manage project portfolios
- Define a project’s vision and scope
- Develop an agile team
- Review, estimate, and prioritize user stories
- Create an iteration and release plan
- Identify and manage project risk
- Plan communication
- Plan and conclude an iteration
- Add or modify stories in the backlog
- Manage impediments
- Interface with teams that use other development methodologies
- Close out a project
- Apply agile practices to your organization
Module Outlines
Module 1: Getting Started with Agile Project Management
- What is agile? Overview of Agile
- Agile Concepts Overview
- Traditional Project Management Methodologies
- Agile Approach
- The Values of Agile
- The Principles of Agile
- Key Agile skills
- Agile and Traditional Project Management
- Characteristics of Agile projects
- Choice of Methodologies/Frameworks
- Importance of All Stakeholders Sharing an Agile Perspective
- Agile culture
- Role of the Project Manger
- Contracts and vendors
Module 2: Using the Scrum Methodology
- Identify Roles and Responsibilities in Scrum
- Scrum Methodology Elements and Terminology Overview
- Project (Product; Release) Initiation
- Scrum Planning
- Implement the Scrum Process (Scrum Sprint Planning and Executing)
Module 3: Managing Projects with the Scrum Methodology
- Scrum framework to implement Agile development
- Estimating a Scrum Project
- Track Scrum Projects
- Communication in Scrum Projects
- Best Practices to Manage Scrum
Module 4: Initiating the project
- Project Initiation Overview
- The right (and wrong) ways to initiate a project
- Understanding the project
- Project justification and benefits
- Provide Value-Driven Delivery
- Create Project Charter
- The boundary between a project and operations
- Form Project Team
- Creating a Shared Understanding
- Project vision
- Defining value
- Working with constraints
- Tools for discussing goals and capabilities
Module 5: Developing an agile team
- Agile Teams Overview
- Steps in building and leading project team
- Identifying Project team and resources
- Motivating and managing the Agile project teams
- Coaching and collaboration effectively
- Methodologies to Integrate with teams.
Module 6: Scrum Planning
- Agile Planning Overview
- Develop Epics and Stories
- Create Stories
- Non-Customer Facing Stories
- Personas and Extreme Personas
- Story Maps
- Estimating Stories
- Prioritizing Stories
- Create Product Backlog
- Create Product Roadmap
- Conduct Release Planning
- Create Parking Lot
Module 7: Agile Management Practices
- Delegation boards
- Cross-functional teams
- Building trust
- Monitoring risk burndown
- Burn-up charts
- Conflict resolution
- Continuous feedback
- Closing Agile projects
- Retrospectives
- Developing Agile requirements
Module 8: Critical Success Factors to Implement Agile
- Planning the project
- The project objective and scope
- The Work Breakdown Structure
- Defining dependencies and the network diagram
- Estimating required resources
- Prioritizing features
- Aligning the project schedule
- Establishing the project budget
- Defining Risks
- Identifying project Risks
- Assessing Risks probabilities and impact
- The project plan
Module 9: Other Agile Principles and Best Practices
- XP Principles and Best Practices
- Lean (LN) Software Development Principles and Best Practices
- Incorporating Scrum and Agile Practices into the Organization
Customized Learning
Leap To Success is offering a variety of learning options to meet current realities and can be adapted to suit your business needs. These options include variants of online, blended and on-site course formats.
Face To Face Learning
Enabling you to have a face to face interactive and engaging learning experiences led by renowned industry experts and thought leaders with extensive practical experience who will employ a variety of interactive learning techniques, including short high-impact videos, case studies, assessments, role plays, in addition to on-going support.
Virtual Learning Labs
Interactive online learning held in real-time using Zoom and are led by international subject matter experts who incorporate case studies, breakout rooms, guided practice, simulations and discussions to maximise your learning experience.
General Methodology
Similar to any L2S training program, this program offers an interactive learning experience in which will allow the delegates to reflect on their learning through an informative, indulging, and fun classroom experience. The design of the training session focuses on the following attributes.
- Concrete Experience: The delegates will learn by doing
- Reflective Observation: Reflecting on the newly experienced skill-set
- Abstract Conceptualization: Developing deeper understanding to the learned concepts
- Active Experimentation: providing the delegates with realistic tools that can be tested in the real life
Specific Methodology:
To effectively execute this program and to ensure that the end result is being achieved L2S specific training methodology in Agile Project Management is as explained in the below stages:
Stage 1: Designing the Training Event
During this stage L2S will be assessing the learning needs from the determined objectives. Simultaneously consider practicality. In addition L2S will consider the group’s learning style in order to identify which style of learning is most suitable.
Stage 2: During the training
The course design is based on interactive facilitation, training energizers, training videos, extensive role-plays, group discussions, group brainstorming sessions.
This course is designed for the full involvement of every participant through the use of:
- The practice and the theory of planning and managing agile projects using methodologies
- Skills practice sessions
- Group discussions
- Participant presentations
- Personal reflection
- Theory input
Stage 3: Post the Training
Post the training program delegates will be given an action plan along with a worksheet that includes the key learning points. Also L2S will design a Leader’s Tool Kit (LTK) for this particular module. The LTK helps the direct managers to evaluate the key learning points discussed during the training and allows the leader to monitor the progress of his/her employees post the training course.
Activities Brief:
Leadership in Action: How you think in Agile Projects and act by taking the right actions?
Agile Project Management is revered as one of the prominent methodologies introduced to practice modern day Project Management. It is also one of the recent and value-driven project management strategies to deliver high priority and high-quality work.
Agile methods promote a disciplined project management process that encourages adaptation and leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, a set of best practices intended to allow for rapid delivery of high-quality.
This is exciting learning resource. Challenging, enjoyable and instructive.
Learning Objectives
- To take on responsibility for a group
- To weigh up advantages and downsides of different options
- To demonstrate effective leadership
- To assess risk
- To adapt the requirements of change
- To meet designated objectives
- To adapt to lessons learnt through out the project.
Antarctic Challenge – How to plan a complex project?
In Antarctic Challenge, teams have to plan a complex project and present their findings in a way that will achieve results. Ideal for developing project planning and teamwork skills. Realistic, motivating, challenging!
Participants will learn:
- Break a project into bite-sized chunks
- To brainstorm in order to decide what information is required
- To establish the key factors around which to base plans
- To plan within given limits such as cost, weight and weather
- To manage time and resources (especially fuel)
- To co-operate with others and work as a team (and maintain morale)
- To collect and interpret data and information
- To review progress regularly
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