The Agile Project Manager - Adapting practice to context
Learn the knowledge and skills to transition from traditional project experience into roles leading and supporting Agile and Lean delivery teams.
Description
Agile Project Management is a one-day course that provides a pragmatic approach to kickstarting your transition to Agile work practices.
The course focuses on a mix of concepts and frameworks and includes practical group exercises. Core topics include:
- Projects, success rates, and complexity
- How Scrum works
- How the planning and control of a project changes with Agile
- Impacts on roles and responsibilities
- How to estimate, plan at multiple levels, and report progress
- Lean and Lean Start-up concepts such as MVP, Validated Learning, Work in progress, and the impact of batch sizes on throughput and predictability
This interactive course is designed and delivered by practising project management and Agile consultants.
You will reinforce what you have learnt by using a combination of pre-reading, presentation, group discussion, and group exercises.
For groups of five or more, contact training@equinox.co.nz to discuss hosting a private course in-house at your place.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this event, you will be able to:
- Describe how and why Agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban work.
- Implement appropriate planning and reporting mechanisms in your context (Agile, or Hybrid Agile/PRINCE2).
- Facilitate common Agile events (refinement, sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retros).
- Work with your team to improve their performance over time.
- Help your organisation focus on throughput and flow.
- Apply this knowledge to run Agile or hybrid projects.
Outline
Participants will be given the chance to shape content on the day. Key topics included below
Why
- Project success rates
- Complexity
- Different control frameworks
What
- Scrum framework
- Scrum Master and Project Manager overlaps and gaps
- Scrum Events and Artefacts
How
- Agile estimation and planning
- Agile progress metrics and reporting
- Agile governance
Additional content (may be prioritised by attendees)
- Principles and Practices of Kanban
- Batch sizes, Flow, Work in Progress, Throughput, Bottlenecks, and Queues
- Calculating Cycle Time
- Portfolio Kanban
Audience
This course will equip attendees with the information and understanding to work as leaders in Agile environments effectively. The target audience includes;
- Project managers
- Programme managers
- Project co-ordinators
The course will also benefit those who manage or work with project managers in Agile environments to better understand how to work with project managers to deliver business value. This could include;
- Delivery leads
- Product owners
- Scrum Masters
Prerequisites
It is recommended that attendees have two or more years’ experience in IT project environments.