In this Agile Project Management training course you will learn skills, techniques, and mindset needed to manage projects using an agile approach. During this session, we will demonstate how Agile is different from traditional project management through simulation, discussion and sharing first hand experiences.
At the end of this session, you might be able to compare your current process and see how you might want to adapt that to be more agile.
INTENDED FOR
This course is a basic course that will help attendees get a good understanding of the Agile methodology. This Agile training course is designed for those who would like to learn more about Agile. This may include project team members, project managers, project leads, technical leads, or QA testers or managers, particularly in software development or IT. It may also include team members in business roles such as product owners, business analysts, business experts, project sponsors, or other stakeholders.
Any organization in the process of adopting Agile that needs its team to go through formal Agile training should also benefit from sending team members to this course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
To be able to apply tools and techniques to develop the project.
To enhance efficiency and productivity through optimizing resource allocation streamline workflows.
To enhance team collaboration and communication
To use Agile techniques to plan, track, and monitor Agile projects, programs, and portfolios in order to increase stakeholders satisfaction
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1
09:00 – 09:15 Introduction and Icebreaker
09:15 – 09:45Penny Game: This activity is to encourage self-organization and demonstrate how a team is less productive when processing large work loads. It also teaches the team the difference between in the delivery speed of when a customer receives an iteration vs. the speed at which they would receive an entire product. [understand the differences between Water fall and A]
09:45 – 10:30 Presentation – What is Agile? Why’s Agile? Core Agile Concepts Overview. Agile Mindset
10:30 – 11:00“Wake up in the morning” Game – A quick way to understand the basic concept of Iterative Incremental Development. The core understanding that moving to small batches significantly improves speed, quality and risk management, helps you move from an all or nothing approach to a world of options.
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Agile framework
12:00 – 13:15 Break
13:15 – 14:00 Agile team Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Teams
14:00 – 15:00 Agile 12 Principles
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:45 The Paper Plane Game: To demonstrate the power of time-box or Sprint that makes the heartbeat of an agile framework like Scrum.
15:45 – 16:30 Scrum Methodology Elements and Terminology.
Day 2
09:00 – 10:30 Scrum Planning.
Agile Planning Overview
Create, estimate, Prioritize Stories
Create Product Backlog
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00 Scrum Sprint Planning and Executing
Daily Standup Meetings
Sprint Reviews
Progress Tracking.
Velocity Tracking.
Retrospectives
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:15 Lego Farm Animal Kanban game: This activity is to understand the principles of Lean & Agile by diving into Kanban in a quick and fun way that is hard to communicate through words alone. It teaches the participants how to get from an existing process to a Kanban system, how to visualize the system, and start modifying it.