Agile Project Management
Description
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
Since their creation, Agile methodologies have become popular with a wide variety of organizations and projects. Traditional Project Managers are making the transition to agile environments and this course addresses the need of those who work in contexts of elements and need to be agile. The objective of this course is to discover and explore these components, principles and processes in order to be an effective project manager in an agile environment.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Understand the agile landscape in project management and the differences between traditional and alternative approaches.
- Recognize Agile values and principles and how they complement the concepts of project management.
- Apply agile principles in the project management arena.
- Determine how the characteristics of a project dictate the right structure for project planning, management and control.
- Define the benefits of using an agile approach to manage projects.
- Recognize the fundamentals for establishing, managing and training agile teams.
- Apply continuous planning, collaboration and transparency techniques.
- Understand how to monitor and measure the agile project and the team’s performance.
REQUIREMENTS
There are no requirements for attending the course – general prior knowledge about project management is recommended.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Professionals who work in agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices;
- Aspiring project managers and project managers;
- It is also relevant to other key staff involved in the design, development and delivery of projects, including:
- Project Managers
- Business analysts
- Project Leaders
- Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Team Leaders
- Anyone wishing to develop knowledge in agile and hybrid approaches
LENGTH
21 hours
SCHEDULE
Work hours/ After-work
LANGUAGES
Portuguese / English
All materials in English
Curriculum
- M1: Introduction to Project Management
- Project / Program / Portfolio
- The Evolution of Agile and waterfall
- Relevant PM standards
- Process groups
- M2: Agile Principles
- Agile values
- Agile principles
- M3: Overview of the project life cycles
- Predictive / linear
- Interactive
- Incremental
- Adaptive / Agile
- M4: Agile approaches and methods
- Scrum
- Lean / Kanban
- Extreme programming
- Scrum hybrids: (Scrumban and Scrum / XP)
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
- M5: Approaches to scale Agility
- Scrum of Scrums (SoS)
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®)
- Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
- Disciplined Agile (DA)
- M6: Adopt an agile approach to project management
- The Agile Perspective of Projects
- Alignment of program strategy
- Project charter
- Team Creation and development
- Team charter
- Roles and Responsibilities
- M7: Role of the Agile Project Manager
- Flow management
- Implementation at the enterprise level
- M8: Agile project management practices and tools
- Agile analysis and design
- Value-based prioritization
- Estimate
- Planning, Monitoring and Adaptation
- Agile Communications
- Agile Measurement / Metrics
- Monitoring and Performance of the Agile Team
- Agile Development, Quality and Test Practices
- Agile Risk Management
- Process improvement
