Overview

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Traditional project management in an uncertain and complex environment is a significant challenge. Organizations need to provide customers with new quality products and services at an ever-increasing pace. One of the most common solutions is agile project management that accepts change and contains principles and tools that allow project teams to better deal with uncertainty, continuously deliver value and react quickly to change.
This workshop provides an overview of agile methods and tools that can be used in project management and day-to-day work.

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The main goal of the education is to familiarize development teams with the theoretical and practical principles of using agile practices in work organization with an emphasis on the most commonly used agile framework - Scrum.

For 2 days of training, participants will receive 14 educational hours for education in agile practices that can be used by PMI® certificate holders and/or as a prerequisite for applying for agile certifications.

 

Prerequisites

None

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Target Audience

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Beginners, but also experienced project managers, program managers, professional program associates, PMO managers, project team leaders, project team members, business analysts, solution architects, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Process Managers, EU Project Managers.

 

Objectives

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In this training you will master:

• Characteristics of different agile methods and the difference from traditional methods

• Agile values and principles

• Life cycle of agile design and product development

• Basic techniques of initiating and planning an agile project

• Most common techniques for monitoring the plan and overseeing agile projects

• Main characteristics, roles and mode of operation in the SCRUM framework

• Application of theoretical principles to practical exercises (product visualization, Scrum simulation)

• Application of agile principles in everyday work

 

 

Training outline

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This 2 day training’s framework is based on several key topics with practical workshop and will cover following topics:

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DAY 1

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Agile principles and methodologies

• Introductory team exercise – challenges and understanding of the agile mindset

• What is business agility and why is it important

• Agile values ​​and principles: Agile Manifesto

• Differences between agile and traditional methods

• Culture and environment for an agile organization

• The most common mistakes in agile transformation

• Agile methods and methodologies

• Documentation and most commonly used agile tools

• Context analysis: strategic and tactical scaling

• Identification of 5 phases of the agile model for product development

• Agile team organization – mindset, roles and responsibilities

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Initiating and planning an agile task/project

• The value and differences of planning and modeling

• Agile modeling: techniques, encounters, types, strategies

• Agile assessment techniques

• Related techniques for prioritizing requests

• Zones and types of planning

• How to plan interdependencies: types, sources, roles

• Management of interdependence between different teams (traditional, agile, lean)

• Planning concepts and tools

• Planning exercise – product vision

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Pragmatic reporting and metrics for agile teams

• Basic principles and understanding of metrics

• Metrics as a tool to improve team effectiveness

• For what purpose the metrics can be used

• Examples of generally applicable metrics

• Effective methods of measurement

• How organizations approach measurement

• Strategies for measurement

• How to select and design the metrics the team needs

• Practical exercise for reflection on metrics and reports in the organization

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DAY 2

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SCRUM

• Agile way of thinking in the context of Scrum

• Advantages of the organization in the Scrum framework

• Scrum framework

• Scrum values

• Pillars of empiricism

• Roles in the Scrum model

• Scrum events

• Definition and use of artifacts

• The role of traditional project managers in Scrum

• Retrospective

• Scrum process

• Agile practices for application in Scrum

• Scaling of an agile organization - examples of scaling methods

• Practical exercise: simulating a work task for multiple teams (scaling an agile organization)n​​
   

 

After training all participants will get:

• Original custom made templates of project documents used in presentation.

• 14 PDU / contact hours of project management education that can be used for PMI certification holders or prerequisite for PMI certification application.

• Certificate of attendance.

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Training is organized also as inhouse and you can book appointment via e-mail: tatjana@pm4you.eu.

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