Agile Project Management (PM17)

In this course, you'll walk through a project using the agile project management methodology from conception to completion. You will learn and apply agile practices as you determine ways to make your own projects more agile.

Course Outline

Learn the agile methodology in this hands-on, skills-building course.

Agile software development methods differ significantly from traditional plan-based approaches, affecting how projects are planned and managed. In this course, you'll walk through a project using the agile project management methodology from conception to completion. You will learn and apply agile practices as you determine ways to make your own projects more agile.

Your role as the project manager of an agile project will look much different as you form and coach a self-directed team, facilitate continuous collaboration with your customer, embrace changing requirements, and deliver business value (production-ready software) to your customer early and regularly throughout the project.

Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.

What You'll Learn

• The agile lifecycle and how it differs from traditional lifecycle models
• The unique agile values, principles, and practices
• Envisioning (referred to as "Initiation" in The PMBOK® Guide)
• Incremental speculation (The PMBOK® Guide's "Planning" and "Re-Planning")
• Iterative exploring ("Execution" in The PMBOK® Guide)
• Adapting to what is learned (The PMBOK® Guide's "Monitoring and Controlling")
• Iterative closure ("Closing" in The PMBOK® Guide)

Who Needs to Attend

• Project Managers
• Program Managers
• IT Managers
• Team Leads

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Agility

• The Agile Lifecycle
• About Agility

2. Initiate an Agile Project

• Envision the Product and Project
• Assemble the Agile Team
• Compile the Product Backlog (Coarse-Grain Requirements)
• Plan Iterations (Sprints) and Releases
• Embrace the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan

3. Plan an Iteration (Sprint)

• Define Iteration Requirements
• Plan and Estimate Iteration Tasks
• Finalize the Iteration Plan

4. Build a Product Increment

• Coach the Team
• Immerse the Team in Status
• Communicate Status

5. Hold an Iteration (Sprint) Review

• Prepare for the Review
• Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment
• Hold a Retrospective

6. Adapt to Changes

• Update the Product Backlog
• Rework the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan
• Plan & Execute the Next Iteration

Hands-On Exercises

• Exercise 1: How Does Agility Differ From the Methods We Use?
• Exercise 2: Initiate an Agile Project
• Exercise 3: Plan an Iteration (Sprint)
• Exercise 4: Coach the Agile team
• Exercise 5: Hold an Iteration (Sprint) Review
• Exercise 6: Adapt to Changes

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Some project management experience is required. Experience managing software development or maintenance projects would be beneficial.

Certificates offered

- 28 PMI PDUs - 2.8 CEUs

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

Map & Reviews

Global Knowledge
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Global Knowledge Halifax
1809 Barrington Street
Suite 900
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada   B3J 3K8

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- do we get a certifiacate for completing the courseÉ - although the instructor did give us excercises to do I would have liked a few more - almost like a test, so that I made sure I retained and understood what was taught. I`m a learn to do by doing person and like the instrutor lead courses so I can have someone there to explain in my terms how things work. I`ll have to really use the online excercises to make sure Ì am confident when I need to do something in Excel.

Reviewed by Delores P. 2012

   

Should be time allocated for questions and answer

Reviewed by Vinod P. 2012

   

The instructor was excellent as was the hands-on learning approach. The only thing I took issue with was the fact that there were a lot of bilingual persons taking the course and they tended to ask questions in French, during this English class. The instructor was trying very hard to explain everything in both languages, but I felt that these students should have requested a French-speaking classroom setting if they wanted to speak French.

Reviewed by Sheila D. 2012

   

Very professional. Facility clean and comfortable.

Reviewed by Christine P. 2012

   

For the cost of this course, a hard copy of the course handout should be provided as the classes follows the handout word for word.

Reviewed by Caroline P. 2012

   

The facilities at Global Knowledge were great. The Instructor was very knowlegable and made it easy to learn the material. It was a very good experience:)

Reviewed by Tonia L. 2012

   

Note: We had 2 different trainers during this 3 day course. Course: Terminology should reflect North America and be consistent with our business lingo.

Reviewed by Harman M. 2012

   

Found the course very informative. I had little exposure to Sharepoint and learned a number of things I didn't know. Plan to take the next level of training

Reviewed by Michael R. 2011

   

A charged mannul would be provided for students to make notes whereever they think instructions are important as reminders

Reviewed by jinxiu z. 2011

   

The course is so expensive to be payed by oneself. In almost all the others participants their companies pay the fee.

Reviewed by Ricardo T. 2011

   

No course books were provided for us to take.

Reviewed by Hala M. 2011

   

Course was very detailed but more time would be helpful during workshops. An additional day would help lessen the course load.

Reviewed by Roydon F. 2011

   

should have discuss some case studies,,overall A+

Reviewed by Syed A. 2011

   

Our instructor was very knowlegable and he provided excellent real life stories.

Reviewed by Stephen W. 2011

   

The course was very relevant. I was able to apply the knowledge I aquired in the course to my job on the very next day. The only complaint I have is with the temperature of the room. It was freezing! Students has to wear a jacket or sweater. We were told the temp gage was shared with another classroom that was quite warm so they had turned the temp very low causing our room to be very uncomfortable.

Reviewed by Yasmine I. 2011

   

Given the cost of the course, the hardcopy of the manual should have been provided. It would have been useful to make notes alongside the material as we went along.

Reviewed by Jeff P. 2011

   

I am very disappointed with the handouts. I was told I could go online and download a copy of the manual, the problem is that I would like the printed copy of the manual. I chatted online with one of your technitian who was unable to help me. Then I was told someone would contact me by phone to help me. That never happened. When taking a training course, a person EXPECTS to leave the course with ALL the material.

Reviewed by Betty M. 2011

   

Great course provider, keep it on your roaster

Reviewed by Catherine G. 2011

   

Course content and labs were very good, everything worked as expected.

Reviewed by Francisco C. 2011

   

I really enjoyed this course and was surpised how ell everything was run...enjoyed the instructer very much (Par) and would like to take an other course with him. I wish we could have taken the work book home with us though!!!

Reviewed by gail h. 2010