Agile project management

How to develop a product quickly and flexibly? What organisational methods can we use to prepare for frequent changes and keep the project on track?

Agile project management offers proven methods to drastically reduce wasted resources, increase the motivation of project participants and manage the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects. Agile project management is now used not only in software development, but in all industries where innovation and close collaboration across disciplines is required.

This two-day course with extended content aims to provide participants with the knowledge of agile project management methods to successfully manage and respond to changes in the business environment, and to identify situations where agile project management methods are more effective than classical ones.

The course is primarily aimed at practising project managers and leaders, but it is also important that the external and internal environment of the project, i.e. project sponsors and project members, are familiar with agile project management techniques and approaches. In this workshop-style training, besides the theoretical background, we will share a lot of practical, best practice advice with our participants.

The course is delivered by experienced trainers with many years of Agile project management and support experience, as well as continuous involvement in sharp Agile methodology implementations and consulting. Having worked in environments ranging from small business to large enterprise teams, they have a wealth of practical best practice advice to share with participants.

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• For team leaders, project managers or IT project sponsors
• Company managers, project managers who buy IT development or services from agile companies
• Senior developers, operations or line managers working closely with IT software development teams
• Product manager or internal customer working closely with IT software development team
• IT software project managers and IT project portfolio managers
• Managers who will be involved in agile transformation or will be involved in agile IT
• A manager who will be working with an agile IT development team

The agile approach and methods
What methods and frameworks implement the agile approach? How has it evolved, what are its key principles? How are the lean approach and agility related? What are the key principles and values of agile?

Agile or classic, or agile and classic project management?
When solving which problems should agile project management tools be used? to use the agile project management tools? How does it differ from classical project management? Are they applicable be used together?

Value-based development management and the product backlog
Identifying value and loss in product development. The requirements and the product backlog. The role of creating a common language. Requirements articulating intentions and capabilities instead of requirements - the user story. Priorities and choice of implementation sequence, prioritisation methods.

The Scrum development framework
The Scrum team model and roles. The role and responsibilities of the Product Owner. Scrum Master role and responsibilities. Who are the team members? Scrum team morale role. The Scrum process model from planning to retrospective. Typical typical pitfalls when implementing and using Scrum.

Lean/Kanban
Identifying losses and achieving a lossless value stream. Flow. The pull principle. The pursuit of perfection. The Scrum and Kanban system system. The possibilities of using Scrum and Kanban together.

Controlled agile project management
How to fit an agile approach within strict time and cost constraints and time constrained projects? What metrics and controlling tools can be used?

No specific qualifications are required, but previous management experience or team work, project knowledge in a specific field (e.g. development) is an advantage.