COURSE 4170 | 2-DAY SESSION
Agile Project Management

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Creating Agile Projects — It’s more than a buzzword

Agile methods are taking the IT and software development worlds by storm. Why? Because they’re effective and they better align with the realities of software development projects-changing requirements, ever more challenging technologies, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your software projects.

Software Projects Require More Than Traditional Project Management Techniques.
This workshop focuses on bringing non-traditional methods to bear within your software projects. With projects consistently failing at a +60% level for the past 10 plus years, it’s clear that traditional techniques aren’t working all that well. We’ll explore how to blend traditional and non-traditional PM techniques to enhance your project success and delivery of real business value. We’ll examine Agility as it relates to estimating, planning, risk management, change and release management.

Improve Your Professional Skills — A Key Ingredient to Agile Success.
Today’s software teams require vastly different leadership and management skills from Project Managers to truly achieve success. You can’t simply tell everyone what to do. Instead, you need to be a strong coach, a change agent, and very effective at stakeholder management. Each method and discussion point brings home the fact that trying to drive success through planning simply doesn’t work. Instead, plans need to be actualized through the organization and team


Cutting Edge Ideas: This workshop is based on leading edge tools and techniques from some of the principles leading the Agile revolution. We'll explore concepts from:

• Agile Estimation & Planning - Cohn
  
• Agile & Iterative Development - Larman
  
• Agile Project Management - Highsmith
  
• Extreme Programming - Beck
  
• Lean Software Development - Poppendieck
  
• Retrospectives - Kerth
  
• Scrum - Schwaber & Beedle
  
  

One of the strengths of the course is that it serves as a learning springboard into further areas of Agile Project Management. A full reference resource list will be provided.

In-Class Practice Session Overview

This class is a stimulating combination of class interaction, case studies, group exercises and workshops. Each is designed to allow you to easily grasp new concepts and techniques. Specifically, you will cover:

• Examine risk and release readiness metrics across Agile methodologies
  
• Agile Planning at five levels
  
• Wideband / Planning poker release planning simulation
  
• Estimation techniques with Story points and Ideal days
  
• Scrum negotiation simulation for release content prioritization
  
• Coaching workshop focused on discovering your own personal “Coaching Style?”
  
• Self Directed teams and their interactions
  
• Monitoring and tracking Project status using Agile techniques like Burn down charts and measuring Velocity
  
• Efficient and Lean Engineering
  
  
  

ASPE has been reviewed and approved as a CPE training provider for the National Assoication of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). 12 CPEs are awarded upon full completion of Agile Project Management.