Agile Project Management - Advanced: Reach the next level of agile project work

Agile mindset in practice

• What exactly is agile thinking?
• Typical pitfalls in agile projects.
• Agile values and principles in your project environment.
• War room, task board and other (technical) requirements in practice.
• Timeboxing and the 80:20 rule.

Agile roles

• Product Owner and Scrum Master: real tasks and responsibilities.
• How can teams really organise themselves?
• The frequently forgotten stakeholder.
• Rights matrix: Who is permitted to do what and who must inform whom, when and how?

Agile artifacts

• Understanding the customer request correctly.
• Setting up an agile project in just one day: Is it possible?
• SMARTe visualisation of project goals.
• The correct logic and efficiently prioritising the items in the product backlog.
• Developing good user stories.
• Pragmatically planning expenditure and resources.
• Iterative release planning and release burndowns.
• Appropriately applying the definitions of done and ready.

Agile events

• Is a kick-off necessary?
• Sprint planning I: How are items selected?
• Sprint planning II: How are tasks developed and estimated?
• Moderating daily scrum/stand-ups: How to manage it in 15 minutes.
• Permanent backlog refinement.
• Managing, visualising and documenting results.
• Dealing with errors and non-deliveries.
• Sprint review – without criticism, but with motivation.
• Retrospective – which processes should be examined more closely?

Tips for successful agile projects

• Dealing with deviations regarding budget, time, results.
• Dealing with major changes.

• You identify how agile methods can be applied effectively and efficiently.
• The various phases of agile projects are discussed during the training by means of simulations – with the focus on solutions for frequently occurring disruptive factors in practice.
• You identify how to productively implement the theoretical approaches to agile project management in practice.
• During the seminar you’ll have the opportunity to discuss your practical situation with the trainer and receive concrete tips and solution proposals.

After attending this seminar, you will receive confirmation that you have completed 13,00 PDUs.

Project managers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners from all sectors, team members, managers who set up and assess agile projects.

This is an advanced training and requires fundamental knowledge of agile project management and agile methods.