Agile Project Management
This course is designed to equip participants with the skills necessary for managing knowledge-based projects using agile methodologies.
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- Duration
- 5 days
- Group rate
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Course overview
This course is designed to equip participants with the skills necessary for managing knowledge-based projects using agile methodologies. Through interactive sessions, participants will learn essential tools and techniques for agile project management, which are crucial for passing the PMI-ACP® (Agile Certified Practitioner) certification exam
Training methodology
The course employs individual and group exercises to teach key agile project management activities. It also includes case studies, participant presentations, and group discussions, along with pre- and post-course testing.
Target competencies
- Project Management
- Agile Project Management
- Team Performance
- Value-Added Delivery
- Adaptive Planning
- Problem Solving
- Continuous Improvement
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define agile project management frameworks, processes, and methodologies, and understand the agile mindset and value-driven delivery.
- Apply agile tools and techniques in alignment with Project Management Institute (PMI) standards.
- Engage agile project stakeholders through active dialogue to identify potential issues, risks, and defects.
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of team members and build a high-performance agile team.
- Implement adaptive planning to help the team respond effectively to changes.
- Incorporate continuous improvement into agile projects through process analysis and tailoring.
- Prepare for and apply to take the PMI-ACP Exam.
Course outline
- Core principles of agile project management
- The Agile Manifesto and its four values
- Agile value proposition
- Comparing traditional and agile project management
- Agile methodologies:
- Scrum
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Lean Product Development
- Kanban
- Agile leadership
- Assessing and prioritizing value
- Prioritization schemes:
- MoSCoW
- Monopoly Money
- Dot Voting
- Kano Analysis
- Requirements Prioritization Model (Karl Wiegers)
- Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
- Agile contracting
- Continuous integration
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Principles of stakeholder engagement
- Agile modeling techniques
- Wireframes and personas
- Collaborative communication
- Critical interpersonal skills
- Participatory decision-making
- Agile team roles
- Building and maintaining high-performance teams
- Models of team development
- Training, coaching, and mentoring
- Creating collaborative workspaces
- Managing distributed teams
- Tracking team performance (e.g., burn charts)
- Progressive elaboration
- Value-based decomposition
- Timeboxing to control chaos
- User story (product) backlog management
- High-level planning tools (affinity estimating, t-shirt sizing)
- Story maps and product roadmaps
- Release and iteration planning
- Understanding and addressing problems
- Managing cycle time, Work In Progress (WIP), and throughput
- Threat and issue management
- Process tailoring
- Value stream mapping
- Conducting retrospectives
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
