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Agile Project Management with ScrumTechniques for Accelerated Software Development
Course: 918
Type: RealityPlus
Duration: 3 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Plan, manage and close a software development project in reduced time using Agile practices
- Minimize uncertainty and risk by applying Agile principles through the Scrum method
- Ensure your project delivers required functionality and adds value to the business
- Create an environment of self-management for your software development team
- Optimize your team's responsiveness to change through accelerated on-the-job learning
- Scale Agile practices for large projects and integrate them into the wider organization
Course Benefits Traditional software development can be a cumbersome process, dominated by uncertainty and risk. Agile and Scrum methods address this problem by promoting open collaboration and adaptability throughout the project life cycle. These methods focus on developing value-added software in short amounts of time. In this course, you learn how to apply Agile and Scrum techniques to manage software development projects.Who Should Attend Project and program managers, software architects, systems analysts, team leaders, developers and anyone interested in applying Scrum and Agile methodologies.Throughout this course, an evolving case study and experiential activities immerse you in an authentic Agile project management environment. Activities include:
- Simulating a three-iteration project from start to finish
- Meeting with a Product Owner to prioritize requirements
- Estimating product feature size
- Deriving the time span of projects
- Choosing features to implement in an iteration
- Running a stand-up meeting
- Measuring project progress
- Adjusting the project plan based on changed requirements
- Accelerating learning with tools and techniques for retrospection
Course 918 Content
- What is Agile?
- The myths and realities of Agile software development
- The Agile Manifesto
- How organizational patterns relate to Agile project management
- Prioritizing requirements through the Product Owner
- Differentiating the Scrum Master from a traditional project manager
- Shaping the self-managed development team
- Relating to external stakeholders
- Iterating development through 30-day cycles
- Developing a project vision with Sprints
- Time-boxing with Sprints and daily stand-up meetings
- Capturing requirements as User Stories
- Developing a Product Backlog based on business value
- Creating a Sprint Backlog from a list of requirements
- Plotting the remaining work with a Burn-down Chart
- Managing the expectations of sponsors and fund holders
- Estimating expected progress
- Demonstrating the business value of implemented functionality
- Preparing and prioritizing the product requirements
- Establishing the project road map
- Eliciting project information from the Product Owner
- Estimating feature size and complexity
- Selecting tasks for implementation
- Co-locating the development team
- Designing the project base room
- Protecting the development team from outside interference
- Making project progress visible and open
- Facilitating team learning to self-organize
- Empowering the team to control their own development process
- Micro-planning through daily stand ups
- Applying the rules for an iteration
- Identifying administrative responsibilities of the development team
- Measuring a project's velocity
- Controlling an iteration and increasing visibility with a Task Board
- Demonstrating functionality to the customer
- Gaining feedback from stakeholders
- Re-prioritizing requirements on the basis of experience
- Reflecting on lessons learned
- Disseminating acquired knowledge to the organization
- Negotiating the contract between the business and the Agile development team
- Establishing the relationship between the Product Owner and multiple customers or stakeholders
- The Scrum Master as manager-developer liaison
- Scrum roles in the larger context of planning
- Collaborating across Agile development teams
- Comparing hierarchical and self-organizing styles
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