Agile Project Management Practitioner Course
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Agile Project Management Practitioner Course
Course Overview:
The course of this agile principles certification prepares participants to implement adroit techniques and ideas across projects beginning from the real-world scenario.
In particular, participants will be able to tailor Agile Lifecycles, create Agile artefacts and utilize techniques including led workshops, MoSCoW, workshops, iterative development, modeling, and timeboxing among others.
Also explanation of role definitions, responsibilities and control practices in implementation of projects under Agile method will be provided and the learners will see how to evaluate, estimate, and work out ways to ascertain progress.
This course is suitable for project managers, consultants and team leaders who are interested in improving their career in the agile project based environment.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the Agile Project Management Practitioner training courses, you will be able to:
- apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile in a project situation
- appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
- produce and evaluate the content of Agile products produced during an Agile project in a given scenario
- apply the following Agile techniques in a project situation: facilitated workshops, MoSCoW prioritization, iterative development, modelling and timeboxing
- identify the Agile techniques to be used for a given situation within a scenario
- understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles within a given scenario
- understand the mechanisms for control of an Agile project that are specific to an Agile project
- understand in outline how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
- describe the Agile approach to managing requirements and identify action to rectify problems with requirements within an Agile project from a given scenario
Who Should Attend?
Agile Project Management Practitioner training course, is ideal for:
- Consultants/contract staff operating in an AgilePM environment.
- Project Managers considering a career in an AgilePM environment.
- Anybody wishing to improve employment prospects in an AgilePM environment.
- Project managers, Program managers, IT managers, Team leads
- New and experienced project staff.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to agile project management
- What is Agile?
- Philosophy, Principles, and Project Variables?
- Roles and Responsibilities and delegation
- Preparing for Success
- Preparing for Agile Project Management
Life cycles and Objectives
- Life cycle and products
- Agile Project Management through the Lifecycle
- The Effective Use of the Products
- Deliver on Time - Combining MoSCoW and Timeboxing
- People, Teams, and Interactions
- Detail reviewed
People and Roles
- Responsibility of each role
- How roles relate to life cycle
- How an Agile team works
- Differences between Agile and traditional team management
- Limits of empowerment
More Detailed Explanations of Control
- Quality
- Communications
- Risk Management
- Planning
- Project management
- Requirements, estimation, measurement
- Testing
- Parameters
More Detailed Explanations of Techniques
- Facilitated workshops
- MoSCoW
- Iterative development
- Modelling
- Timeboxing
