Agile Project Management

Course Overview

As technology requirements become more complex in today’s demanding workplace, applying a fast-paced, systematic solution becomes more necessary. This two-day course is designed to provide information technology (IT) professionals and project managers with an understanding of agile project management concepts, how agile methodology changes the project management framework, agile vs. traditional principles, and working a project from inception to completion through agile methods.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Introduce agile project management topics
• Discuss selecting project leaders
• Identify criteria for project selection
• Explain available agile software development methodologies
• Help create self-organizing project teams
• Learn to embrace change
• Carry agile project management into the future

Course Outline

Introduction to Agile Development

• Discuss agile software development
• Identify agile values and manifesto
• Explain the agile practices and terminology
• Define agile project roles
• Discuss agile project management
• Outline key drivers and concepts in agile project management

Pre-project Considerations

• Make an agile project manager selection
• Choose the appropriate agile projects
• Plan agile activities through the project management process groups

Agile Methodology Selection

• Outline five agile methodologies
• Discuss the differences between several models
• Choose the appropriate method for your project

Empowering the Team

• Discuss the characteristics and skill sets for a good agile project team
• Embrace new ways of looking at roles and responsibilities
• Identify tools for the team to use for risk management, network diagramming, estimating, and planning
• Determine what performance metrics will be captured by your agile team

Embracing Change

• Review a traditional change model
• Discuss why organizations resist change
• Introduce ways to overcome organizational resistance to change
• Explain why teams resist change
• Go over ways to overcome a team’s resistance to change

Our Agile Future

• Discuss current trends in agile project management
• Predict the future trends in an agile environment
• Identify opportunities to implement agile in business areas other than IT

Participant Prerequisites

This is an advanced course for participants who have mastered the basics of the PMBOK® Guide. Participants should have completed the Project Management Essentials course or the equivalent and have experience managing project teams.