Agile methods can be applied to any kind of development or change effort. They can help organizations in volatile and uncertain environments to survive and excel.
Agile is a simple yet incredibly powerful set of principles and practices that help teams deliver products, services and even organization changes in short cycles, enabling fast feedback, continual improvement, and rapid adaptation to change.
This workshop is for technologists, IT and other product development specialists, who want to discover how to apply agile to their projects.
This workshop will enable you to determine which projects can benefit from agile methods and how to quickly set up an agile team. Participants will be introduced to the basic principles and intentions of Agile project management and recognize the mindset and benefits of this approach.
Core Concepts
| Issues with Traditional Methods | Discussion - Issues with projects Why we are moving away from waterfall for many project types? Activity - Traditional Product Development Project |
| Why Agile? | Benefits of Agile Activity - Agile Product Development Project Agile Framework |
| What is a Release? | Product Roadmap & Release Themes Activity - Release Themes & Roadmap Release Planning Activity - Work Selection & Rough Effort Estimates |
| What is a Sprint? | Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews Sprint Retrospectives Daily Stand-ups and visual tracking tools Activity - Daily Stand-up (Timed Simulation) |
| User Stories | Who are the users and what do they value? Good and bad metrics of value Activity - Write User Stories / Identify Value |
| Getting work "Done" | Prioritizing User Stories by ROI Activity - Evaluate and Prioritize Features Real Agility - Drop, Add and Re-prioritize features Activity - Identify decision making criteria for Dropping, Adding, and Prioritizing Determining the Definition of Done (Factors influencing) |
Real Business Results
By completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Improve quality and customer satisfaction through collaboration with customers.
- Deliver value to customers better and faster than traditional methods.
- Quickly adapt to uncertainty and change
- Use minimum viable products to quickly test new ideas.
- Increase performance and engagement across teams.
- Streamline internal end-to-end processes.
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