Overview
The Agile Project Management Training course is a 2-day course aimed to help participants learn advanced project management skills and be the servant leader for their agile teams that deliver value to the customers. This is an advanced level course for participants already familiar with Agile methodologies who desire to take their project management skills to the next level. The course meets the requirements for the ICP-APM designation (ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Project Management).
What You'll Learn
- Understand Agile project management principles and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
- Acquire valuable insights into how you can build trust and ‘empower and inspire’ Agile teams
- Gain insight on how to establish transparency in communication inside the team as well as with customers
- Learn techniques to develop teams into high-performance Agile teams
- Gain powerful Agile Project Management skills using Agile estimation techniques that help derive estimates quickly and more accurately while aiding in iteration and release planning
- Combine best methods from multiple Agile project management methods to apply to your Agile team
- Establish a plan for incorporating Agile project management practices into specific work areas
- Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing Agile team
- Learn how to establish and communicate appropriate expectations to Agile teams, including roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
- Convert prioritization of requirements from a point solution to a continuously evolving part of the Agile development process
Curriculum
- Taking an Agile view
- Tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty
- Understanding where traditional practices fall short
- Strategically leveraging constraints
- Managing tradeoffs to enhance quality
- Managing risk
- Managing budget, vendors and contracts
- Measuring team performance
- Team productivity metrics
- Determining the health of the project
- Establishing effective teams
- Working with project and team charters, and working agreements
- Creating an empowered team
- Servant leadership and building trust
- Developing team members and managing resources
- Gain an understanding of adaptive planning
- Learn how to leverage your plan to deliver quality and value
- Learn how much to invest up front
- Understand progressive elaboration
- Learn continuous planning, collaboration and transparency of estimation
- Review estimating and estimation techniques for an Agile team
- Iteration and release planning estimation
- Creating stakeholder engagement
- Building community
- Establishing fluid communication planning
- Creating open information and visible communications
Who should attend
The Agile Project Management course is highly recommended for anyone considering the use of Agile methodology for software development and project management, such as –
- Project managers
- Analysts
- Developers
- Programmers
- Testers
- IT managers/directors
- Software engineers
- Software architects
- Software managers
- Testing managers
- Team leaders
- Customers/stakeholders
- Product owners/Product managers
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, completing the Foundation of Agile course would be beneficial.
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Certification
Upon completion of the course, participants get the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Testing (ICP-TST) certification. The ICP-TST certification focusses on Agile testing techniques and processes as well as the mindset and role of an Agile tester. It equips participants with the skills to ‘Agilize’ different types of testing on an Agile project and understand how to best collaborate on an Agile development cadence.
There is no official ICAgile exam associated with this course. The certification can be achieved only after completing the course successfully.
