Overview
In this Agile
Project Management training course you will learn advanced project management
skills to help you, the servant leader of your Agile teams, enable your team(s)
to deliver what your customers want faster and with better quality than ever
before! This is an advanced course for those who are already familiar with
agile methodologies who wish to take their skills in Project Management for
Agile Teams to the next level. All of the Agile Project Management practices in
this course are documented and cross referenced as part of the course materials
— allowing you to continue your study after the course!
This
course meets the requirements for the ICP-APM designation (ICAgile Certified
Professional in Agile Project Management).
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Understand Agile Project Management principles
and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer
satisfaction
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Acquire valuable insights into how you can build
trust and “empower and inspire” your Agile team
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Gain insight on how to establish transparency in
communication inside the team as well as with customers
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Learn techniques to develop teams into
high-performance Agile teams
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Gain powerful Agile Project Management skills
using Agile estimating techniques that will allow you to derive estimates
quickly and more accurately and aid you in iteration and release planning
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Combine the best methods from multiple Agile
Project Management methods to apply to your Agile team
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Establish a plan for incorporating Agile Project
Management practices into your specific work area
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Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to
successfully coach a new or existing Agile team
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Learn how to establish and communicate
appropriate expectations for your Agile team, including roles, responsibilities
and accountability
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Convert prioritization of requirements from a
point solution to a continuously evolving part of the Agile development process
Outline
Cutting Edge Ideas
This Agile Project Management workshop is based on
leading edge tools and techniques from many of those at the forefront of the
introduction of Agile and current thought leaders in the industry today. Every
ASPE instructor has been “in the trenches” as an Agile Project Manager and
Coach of Agile teams. Each instructor brings real-life experience to teach and
guide participants during the delivery of this course.
Specifically, this course will cover:
Class Exercise
In this exercise, we will discuss the project team in today’s environment and
the impact that knowledge work has had on the development industry. Views from
Drucker and select studies from leading industry whitepapers will be discussed
to help you gain an understanding of and how to work with development teams in
complex environments.
Class Exercise
In this exercise, participants will investigate project uncertainty and discuss
specific techniques to not only mitigate risk — but to leverage it! We will
look at different ways to view constraints and tradeoffs to share them with the
stakeholder.
Additionally, we will review different approaches the Agile Project Manager can
take to mitigate risk when dealing with budget, vendors and contracts.
Class Exercise
The case studies and discussion exercises in this section help the Agile
Project manager understand the difference between diagnostic and performance
metrics and how to utilize metrics in an Agile Framework. Participants will
discuss how understanding these types of metrics, applied to the individual,
team and project, will help the Agile Project Manager guide both the team and
the project in the daily work environment.
Class Exercise
The exercises in this section will provide participants with an overall view of
how to establish empowered teams quickly based on the organization of roles.
Exercises are designed to create an understanding of team dynamics. In
addition, case studies are used to examine the differences between Agile teams
and traditional teams. We will discuss a set of Agile project management
“tools” which teams can use as they work towards becoming a high performing
team. Additional exercises in this section cover trust and the three steps of
rebuilding trust as well as conflict and conflict resolution and how the Agile
project manager can help the team to develop trust and resolve conflict as it
arises. A final, interactive exercise for this section will challenge the
participants to put all of these tools and topics in place and work as a team
to meet the exercise objective.
Class Exercise
In these sections, the exercises will help the Agile PM focus on the delivery
of value and achieving customer/stakeholder satisfaction. We will discuss
theory and show the use of feedback loops in the value cycle and discuss as a
group how techniques like “trimming the tail” can be used to assist the team
and stakeholder.
A highly interactive team exercise will be used to teach participants the
concepts of continual planning and re-estimation how and why to make these
plans visible to the organization.
Class Exercise
The objective of the exercises in this section are to understand the importance
of and how to create stakeholder involvement in our projects. As a “live case
study,” teams will create an Agile “communication plan” and then, as a group we
will discuss the options for communication and collaboration which an Agile
project manager can utilize to create transparency and help create team
success.
- The Reality of Agile Projects
- Taking an Agile View
- Tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty
- Understanding where traditional practices fall
short
- Managing Constraints
- Strategically Leveraging Constraints
- Managing Tradeoffs to Enhance Quality
- Managing Risk
- Managing Budget, Vendors and Contracts
- Understanding Agile Team Performance and Metrics
- Measuring Team Performance
- Team Productivity Metrics
- Determining the Health of the Project
- Establishing and Empowering Teams
- Establishing Effective Teams
- Work with Project and Team Charters and Working
Agreements
- Creating an Empowered Team
- Servant Leadership and Building Trust
- Developing Team Members and Managing Resources
- Maximizing Value and Agile Planning &
Estimating
- Gain an Understanding of Adaptive Planning
- Learn How to Leverage your Plan to Deliver
Quality and Value
- Learn How Much to Invest Up Front
- Understand Progressive Elaboration
- Learn Continuous Planning, Collaboration and
Transparency of Estimation
- Review Estimating and Estimation Techniques for
an Agile Team
- Iteration and Release Planning Estimation
- Communication and Collaboration
- Creating Stakeholder Engagement
- Building Community
- Establishing Fluid Communication Planning
- Creating Open Information and Visible
Communications
You may cancel or reschedule up to 21 days prior to the start date of the class at no penalty. For any cancellation or reschedule requests within 21 days, the full course tuition is still due and not eligible for refund. Any paid tuition will be credited towards a future class and must be used within 12 months.
*Partner delivered courses may be subject to different cancellation terms
Delivered by ASPE, ICAgile Member Organization. The International Consortium for Agile has worked with experts around the world to develop an education roadmap of training and certification
for all specialties involved in Agile development.
This course, delivered by ASPE, ICAgile Member Organization has been approved and earns all students the Certified ICAgile Professional designation upon completion of the course.