COURSE 4170 | 2-DAY SESSION
Agile Project Management

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Learn to lead agile software projects that adapt to change & discovery, improve collaboration, drive innovation and deliver on-time business values:

How to:

• Create more realistic plans and schedules by leveraging history, team performance, and ongoing velocity
  
• Create projects that adapt to discovery and change with integrity and nimbleness
  
• Improve your soft and coaching skills - within your teams and with stakeholders
  
• Plan Agile Projects at three levels
  
• Change your style from a ‘Plan-Driven-Hope’model to an ‘Envision-Guide-Realize’model
  
• Estimate Projects using Wide Band Delphi techniques
  
• Leverage time boxed, feasibility targeted iterations to guide architectural evolution and manage technical risk
  
• Manage risk based on proactive analysis and visibility instead of reacting when it’s too late
  
• Incorporate Lean techniques into software Project Management
  

20 Immediate Benefits of Participating in this Workshop:

1. Learn how to blend aspects of Agility into your traditional projects
   
2. Learn the “key principles” behind Agile
   
3. Improve your coaching skills - learning how to provide feedback & guidance that drives improvement — the foundation of Agile Principles
   
4. Learn how to adapt from a plan-driven approach to include actual velocity-driven aspects into your planning and scheduling
   
5. Improve you communication skills within the team and to customers and stakeholders
   
6. Conduct project retrospectives and reviews that surface important changes for your projects
   
7. Learn how to make critical project adjustments, in real-time, that improve your schedule attainment
   
8. Discover how to adjust your PM style and approaches under various development methodologies
   
9. Improve your release readiness metrics so that you deliver on time and with higher visible quality
   
10. Gain a full understanding of Wideband Delphi and card-based collaborative planning approaches
    
11. Learn dynamic project tracking mechanisms that allow for ongoing predictive scheduling
    
12. Agile estimating techniques that can easily be used in traditional projects to great effect
    
13. Acquire techniques for ensuring technical viability and feasibility for your software projects
    
14. Learn how to serve as an agile change agent within your organization
    
15. Discover critical metrics and progress indicators to monitor within your teams
    
16. Improve your flexibility when adjusting PM techniques across different methodologies - Waterfall, RUP, and Agile
    
17. Gain insight into powerful facilitation and decision-making tools for coaches
    
18. How Lean Engineering techniques can be simply applied for great effect
    
19. Learn about “how much design is appropriate up front?”
    
20. Learn about the “Theory of Constraints”