Course Objectives
Managing Agile Projects - Virtual Learning
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define agile project management life cycle and understand the agile mindset.
- Explain the important concepts in agile project management and identify the differences between agile and non-agile projects.
- Identify agile planning techniques and implement adaptive planning on the agile projects.
- Identify techniques used to control agile projects to ensure successful implementation.
Target Audience
Personnel who have fundamental knowledge of agile project management. The course is also designed to provide basic understanding of the practices, tools, and techniques used to effectively manage agile projects. Meirc is assigned as a Registered Educational Provider (REP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI®). This course is worth 12 Professional Development Units (PDUs).
Target Competencies
- Project management
- Agile project management
- Team performance
- Value-added delivery
- Adaptive planning
Course Outline
- Agile principles and mindset
- The agile manifesto - the four values
- Traditional versus agile project management
- Agile methodologies:
- Scrum
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Agile leadership
- Basic concepts of agile projects
- Business case development
- Project charter
- Agile modeling
- Value-driven delivery
- Minimal value product
- Timeboxing
- Daily Scrums (standups)
- Agile planning
- Adaptive planning
- Progressive elaboration
- High level planning
- Feature workshop
- Creating user stories
- Prioritizing Schemes
- Sizing and Estimating Tools
- Story maps
- Product roadmaps
- Release planning
- Iteration planning
- Agile managing and controlling
- Building agile team
- Co-location
- Distributed team
- Information radiators
- Earned value metrics
- Burn-down chart
- Burnup charts