Agile Project Management - Basics: Project management method in a dynamic environment

 Basics

• Agile project management – an overview.
• Differences and additions to traditional project management methods.
• Phases of an agile project.
• Strengths and weaknesses of agile project management.

Prerequisites/conditions for agile projects

• Project environment.
• Values and principles.
• Demands on agile projects at a technical level in IT projects.
• Transferability of agile methods to projects outside the field of IT.

Agile methods

• Scrum, User Stories, Timeboxing, Increments, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chats and other agile approaches.

Adaptive planning and development

• Agile analysis and design.
• Procedures for effort estimation.
• Procedures for agile developments.

Project controlling

• Dealing with changes in a project.
• Stakeholder management.
• Identifying and eliminating problems.
• Risk management.
• Quality assurance.

The team as a key factor

• Conditions for agile teams.
• Responsibility, collaboration and commitment in agile teams.
• Effective team- and self-management.
• Communication in teams.

Continual improvement – project completion

• Tailoring – Adapting the process to your own needs.
• Knowledge management – The learning project management organisation.

• You become familiar with the approaches, methods and techniques of agile project management.
• You can apply the essential tools in practice.
• You can gauge their impact on the project and its environment.

After attending this seminar, you will receive confirmation that you have completed 12,00 PDUs.

(Prospective) project managers and sub-project managers in and outside the field of IT who would like to gain a well-grounded overview of the methods and techniques of agile project management.