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Agile Project Management
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This workshop course teaches Scrum Masters and Product Owners how to drive agile software projects effectively. This course focuses on the specific concepts and techniques to scope, strategize, plan and execute agile projects or any other software projects with short release cycles..
   
Code P40
  Discipline Project Management
Duration 2 days
 
Course Information
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Audience

  Scrum Masters   QA/Test Managers      
  Product Owners     Development Managers        
  Project Managers                
               

at course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

»   Understand the roles in agile projects »   Plan iterations and Sprints
»   Understand the agile framework and processes   »   Drive effective Scrum meetings
»   Kick off an agile project   »   Deal with changes
»   Organize and scope work   »   Drive Sprint endgames
»   Establish and execute resource strategies   »   Perform effective tracking and reporting
»   Create and manage product and sprint backlogs   »   Perform Sprint and project reviews

prerequisites

»   Basic knowledge and experience with project management (e.g. course P10)

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Introduction to Agile Software Development
»   Fundamentals of the Agile approach
»   The Agile development life cycle
»   Scrum and Sprints
»   Roles and responsibilities
»   Communication and collaboration
Module 2: Agile Project Management Model
»   Agile process phases
»   Leadership-collaboration management
»   Adaptive teams
»   Achieving the adoption of an Agile culture
Module 3: Envisioning
»   Building a product vision
»   Creating a product architecture
»   Building project data
»   Organizing the team
»   Establishing the team's best practices
Module 4: Speculation and Elaboration
»   Building a product feature list
»   User stories and Product Backlogs
»   Feature specifications
»   Scope evoluation and project tradeoffs
Module 5: Sprint Planning
»   Release planning and Sprint Backlogs
»   Sprint Planning
»   Integration of defect fixing and test activities
»   Dependencies and conflict resolution
»   Estimating and resource leveling
»   Critical paths and schedule optimization
Module 6: Sprint Execution
»   The iteration/sprint kick-off
»   Workload management
»   Refactoring and frequent integration
»   Dealing with schedule delays
»   Change management
Module 7: Project Reporting and Monitoring
»   Project communication and visibility
»   Scrum meetings and status reporting
»   Quality management and user validation
»   Metrics and dashboards
»   Sprint review meetings

certificate

Students receive a SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

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