Agile Project Management Essentials

Course Objectives

Agile Project Management Essentials is designed for the project management and agile practitioners to ensure approved projects and programmes are adaptable to changes and deliver quick values to stakeholders and organisation. This course’s key benefit is to allow the project management and agile practitioner to explore the agile concept and methodologies to meet their project and stakeholder requirement in agility environment. The course covers both the principle and approach based on the Agile Practice Guide in the project environment.

During the course, the participant will explore the following:

• Agile Mindset, Manifesto and Principles,
• Agile Value-Driven Delivery,
• Stakeholder and Team Engagement in an Agile environment,
• Adaptive Planning,
• Addressing Impediment and
• Continuously Improvement and Adaptation.

Target Audience

This Agile Project Management aims to address the needs of those working in a project focused environment who want to be agile. It is useful to all candidates and competency levels ranging from highly experience project managers to those new to the industry.

Methodology

This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, practice examination questions, discussions and practical exercises.

Course Modules

Day 1

• Ice-Breaking & Introduction of the 21st Century Active Learning
• Introduction of Agile
  • Agile Manifesto o Agile Principles o Agile Mindset
  • The Different between Predictive and Agile Approach
• Agile Lifecycle and Methodologies
  • Agile in LEAN
  • Sprint methodology
  • Agile Approaches
• Value-Driven Delivery
  • Value Focus
  • Economic Consideration
  • Value Stream
  • Product Backlog
  • Agile Metrics and KPIs
• Reflect on Day 1 Learning

Day 2

• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Identify and Analyse Stakeholders
  • Involving and Engaging Stakeholders
  • Managing Stakeholders
  • Interpersonal Skills for Engaging Stakeholders
  • Servant, Adaptive, and Participative Leadership
• Team Performance
  • Forming a Team
  • Models for Managing Team
  • Situational Leadership
  • Empowerment and Collaboration
  • Agile PMO
• Agile Planning
  • User Stories
  • Velocity
  • Release Planning
  • Contract and Procurement
• Reflect on Day 2 Learning

Day 3

• Addressing Impediment
  • Managing Risks
  • Feedback
  • Quality Control
  • Solving Problem
• Continuously Improvement
  • Agile Reporting
  • Product, Process, and People
  • Retrospective
  • Lessons Learned
  • Agile Coaching and Mentoring
• Reflect on Day 3 Learning