COURSE 4170 | 2-DAY SESSION | Delivered in classes nationwide *OR* online
Agile Project Management

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Newly updated course! Learn to lead agile projects and deliver what your customers want faster and better than ever before!

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Embrace a model of continuous planning over simply following a plan
• Transform your project management style from “command and control” to “empower and inspire” with your team
• Create a cadence for the team and eliminate process distractions for a dramatic boost in efficiency
• Establish credible and achievable estimates using agile estimating techniques
• Communicate more transparently and reduce interruptions to your team
• Rapidly build trust with your customers through frequent and effective collaboration
  

Immediate Benefits of Participating in this Workshop:

1. Understand Agile principles and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
2. Acquire valuable insights into how you can “empower and inspire” your team
3. Gain insight on how to establish transparency in communication inside the team as well as with customers
4. Learn how to develop teams into high-performance teams; they will deliver amazing results for customers!
5. Through hands-on practice, gain powerful skills using estimating techniques that will allow you to derive estimates quickly and more accurately
6. Uncover the mystery of how the team can be more accurate by being less precise
7. Combine best methods from multiple Agile methodologies to apply to your team
8. Appreciate why knowing and collaborating with your customer will ALWAYS produce better results
9. Build trust with your team and your customer through consistent cadence of “common sense” best practices
10. Establish a plan for incorporating Agile practices into your specific work area
11. Recognize and avoid the pitfalls teams fall into when adopting agile practices
12. Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing agile team
13. Learn how to establish and communicate appropriate expectations for your team, including roles, responsibilities and accountability
14. React to and respond to change quickly and effectively seize competitive advantage for your customer
15. Understand and practice a model of continuous planning
16. Gain and maintain trust between your development team and your customer through a highly transparent prioritization practice
17. Convert prioritization of requirements from a point solution to a continuously evolving part of the development process
18. Learn why studies have shown Agile teams are significantly happier with their work – make this a reality for YOUR team
    
    

Why Agile?

The top four reasons teams are moving toward Agile:

• The ability to manage rapidly changing priorities
• Increased productivity of the team
• Enhanced quality of the product
• Accelerated time-to-market

Join the many teams that have realized these and many other benefits through adopting Agile methods.

Improve Your Professional Skills — A Key Ingredient to Agile Success

Today’s 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 a very effective communicator.

Agile Project Management and PMI

Agile is no longer a grassroots movement to change software development. PMI is embracing Agile, recognizing the significant positive impact it has had on delivering better results for customers.

Active Learning

This class is a stimulating combination of class interaction, active learning exercises, and group collaboration. Each is designed to allow you to learn through practice so you can readily apply what you have learned in your own workplace right away.

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Cutting Edge Ideas:

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

• Agile Estimation & Planning - Cohn
• Agile Project Management - Highsmith
• Extreme Programming - Beck
• Lean Software Development - Poppendieck
• Agile Retrospectives - Derby & Larsen
• The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility - Sliger & Broderick
  

Every instructor has been “in the trenches” as a Project Manager with Agile teams and will bring their experience to bear in delivering the class.

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:

• Understanding the enormous gains available by empowering Agile teams
• Reaching a common understanding of your customer and their needs
• Utilizing Planning Poker with Story Points to become a more accurate estimator
• Tangible effective methods of team based planning
• Creating transparent communication among and with customers
• Tips and techniques for Project Managers to inspire the team to better performance
• Prioritizing methods that will help the team build trust with customers
• Connecting all five levels of planning to create cadence for the team
• Establishing a roadmap for what you would like to apply to your team and how success with Agile can be achieved