Introduction:
Agile projects development approaches are critical for the success and sustainability of a business to lead and accommodate changes in all stakeholders’ requirements and change in priorities also.
In this training program, you will learn the agile mindset and the main distinction between traditional projects and agile development and delivering methodologies and frameworks. You will learn the different frameworks and methodologies in the lately trends and emerging practices in projects management.
Simply, agility and enterprise agile transformation indicates the readiness of corporates to lead changes not only accommodating changes.
Seminar Objectives:
By the end of the training program, participants will be able to practice:
The general framework, principles, values and concepts of different agile methodologies, agile frameworks, and agile environment of change-driven projects (agile environment projects).
- How to manage changes in change-driven scope projects and how to prioritize delivery.
- How to participate and engage all stakeholders involved in the project despite the continuous changes.
- Adaptive planning for project management.
- How to detect, predict and address problems in projects of change-driven scope.
- How to follow up and improve the performance of the work team.
- How to continuously improve in change-driven projects.
- In addition to the above, the hybrid project framework will be visualized during our study and training sessions in which the project development approach framework mixes the traditional “predictive” and agile “driven by changes” approaches.
Programme Outline:
DAY 1:
- Introduction
- Short brief on PMI-ACP (Projects Management Institute – Agile Certified Practitioner) certificate.
- Introduction to projects management: project – product – operations – project and product life cycles, relation between them and the need of agility in this regard.
- Importance of agile development approach in both projects management and business management environments.
- Different approaches of projects life cycle development.
- How to select or tailor the suitable project development approach.
- Importance of Agile methodologies in the reduction of project costs and dealing with threats. “Discussion of project costing levels and curves of cost of change in different project phases”.
- Benefits of agile in both projects management and business management.
- Importance of Agile methodologies in reduction of the phenomenon of “Gulf of Evaluation”.
- Tailoring of tools and techniques in both traditional and agile frameworks, and hence in hybrid frameworks.
- Organizational mindset to agile.
- Agile: less engineering, and more enabling.
- Opened Discussions.
- Discussions and session retrospectives.
DAY 2:
- Domain 1 Agile Principles and Mindset
- Agile Manifesto: main values of agile, and agile principles.
- Doing Agile & Being Agile.
- General overview of different agile methodologies and framework.
- Detailed study of SCRUM framework.
- Extreme Programming framework.
- Lean Management.
- Feature Driven Development (FDD).
- Test Driven Development (TDD).
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
- Development – Operation framework (DevOps).
- Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM).
- Servant Leadership in Agile Environment.
- Value – Driven Delivery
- Minimal Viable Product (MVP).
- Minimal Marketable Feature (MMF).
- Minimal Business Increment (MBI).
- Prioritization in agile.
- Balancing between Risks and Value in Agile.
- Prioritization Techniques in Agile.
- Discussions and session retrospectives.
DAY 3:
- Domain 3: Stakeholders Engagement
- Agile transformation and establishing a shared vision.
- Roles and responsibilities in stakeholders’ engagement.
- Definition of Done.
- Agile Modelling: Sample Screen Design – Use Case Diagrams – Sample Data Model – Wireframes – Personas.
- Knowledge sharing.
- Information radiators.
- Remotely Communication
- Agile Green Zone
- Workshops and Brainstorming.
- Collaboration games.
- Remember the future and pre-mortem techniques.
- Speed boat.
- Emotional Intelligence and Active Listening.
- Levels of Conflict and conflicts management.
- Decision Making Techniques: Simple Voting – Thumb Voting – Dot Voting – Fist of Five – Roman Voting – Highsmith Voting.
- Agile Chartering.
- Contracts in Agile.
- Discussions and session retrospectives.
DAY 4:
- Tracking Team Performance
- Agile team characteristics.
- Generalizing Specialists.
- Team Empowerment.
- Creating of Safe Place of Experiments.
- Encouraging Constructive Disagreements.
- Shu – Ha – Ri
- Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition.
- Tuckman Model of Teams Formation and Development.
- Training, Coaching, and Mentoring.
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Agile Team Space Characteristics: Colocation – Caves and Common – Tacit Knowledge – Virtual Teams – Digital Tools for Virtual Teams.
- Tracking Team Performance: Burndown Charts – Burn Up Charts – Team Velocity.
- Adaptive Planning
- Principles of agile planning.
- Cone of uncertainty.
- Progressive elaboration and Rolling wave planning.
- Value-based decomposition.
- Time Boxing
- Sizing and Estimating at all agile project levels.
- Stories slicing.
- Agile release planning and story mapping.
- Agile sizing and estimation techniques
- Types of iterations.
- Iteration planning.
- Daily planning.
- Discussions and session retrospectives.
Day 5:
- Problem Detection and Resolution
- Four themes in problem detection: Understanding problems – Detecting problems – Managing threats and issues – Solving problems.
- Technical debt and escaped defects.
- Cost of change.
- Lead time & cycle time.
- Cumulative flow diagram (little’s Law).
- Variance & trend analysis.
- Risk adjusted backlog.
- Resolve issues as early as possible is part of Agile mindset.
- Continuous Improvement
- Lessons learned in agile framework.
- Stacy complex model.
- Process analysis and optimization. Value stream mapping.
- Remember the future and premortem techniques.
- Reviews setup.
- Retrospectives setup and analysis.
