Agile Project Fundamentals™ workshop brochure

AGILE PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS™

Respond quickly and react positively to change with a practical understanding of developing and delivering projects using Agile.

THE PROBLEM: Research shows that the majority of projects spend more time and money than estimated, and many also fail to meet customer needs accurately too. This means delivering poor customer value, and low confidence in project success.

THE SOLUTION: Agile project management is an approach specifically designed to address these challenges, repeatedly delivering an ever-more accurate solution to time/cost/quality in a way that ensure maximum value and project sponsor/customer engagement.

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?

Agile project management is a value-driven approach specifically designed to address the challenges of project failure.

Agile removes the complexity of delivering the whole project at one final point, by breaking the project down into short iterations that are identified, developed and tested frequently. It helps you to repeatedly deliver accurate, high-priority, high-quality and within budget solutions that are:

▪ Continually evolving – Reprioritisation is easier through multiple short-term plans that allow for interim changes.

▪ Delivered in ‘chunks’ – Challenges can be identified sooner, lessening the risk of building the entire requirement only to find costly and time-consuming faults.

▪ Increasing the value you add and stakeholder engagement –Stakeholders should be more involved, ensuring faster decision making and transfer of information

This workshop teaches you the fundamentals of Agile project management. It introduces Agile project management approaches, tools and techniques required to evolve their own ‘Agile’ project management toolkit.

UNDERSTAND AND IMPLEMENT

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AGILE:

▪ Enhancing productivity by delivering high-quality results with flexibility, speed and agility.

▪ Confidently using key Agile techniques.

▪ By designing a project team that supports Agile.

ENSURE ON-TIME DELIVERY:

▪ Adapting to, and embracing, changing project requirements.

PROACTIVE COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND PROJECT TRANSPARENCY:

▪ Engaging project stakeholders with the Agile approach.

▪ Configuring a typical Agile project management lifecycle to meet customer needs.

▪ Improving stakeholder relationships, client satisfaction and project value.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Anyone delivering a project, including:

▪ Project Managers experienced in ‘traditional’ methods, wanting to learn more about Agile projects or combine it with traditional methodologies like Waterfall

▪ Those who are new to project management wishing to learn more about Agile projects.

▪ Project team members who are already working in an Agile way, but who want to add more formality to their working methods.

▪ Those who want to get a better understanding of what Agile involves.

AGILE PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS™

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WORKSHOP OUTLINE: WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

Understanding Agile –

▪ Applying Agile principles

▪ Success factors.

Choosing Methodologies –

▪ Comparing Agile with traditional Waterfall methods.

The Agile Team –

▪ Typical project team structure.

▪ Exploring roles.

▪ Responsibilities.

▪ Human behaviours.

Practicing Agile Tools and Techniques -

▪ Prioritisation.

▪ Time-boxing.

▪ Iterative development.

This workshop focuses on the practical steps needed to run, or play a part in, an Agile project. Agile project managers are able to deliver maximum project value, on time, within budget, every time. You will be able to:

◼ Adapt – So that changing customer needs are easily accommodated.

◼ Focus – Maximising value for all stakeholders.

◼ Be in control – Giving confidence to the wider organisation.

◼ Deliver – Maintaining project momentum and allowing benefits to be realised early.

WHY ATTEND?

Agile is an alternative or addition to traditional project management methodologies. It is iterative, breaking down the project so that you can guarantee the on-time delivery of an acceptable product to the customer. This workshop teaches the secrets of how to keep this promise time after time, helping build personal and organisational credibility and success.

The workshop provides a useful ‘learning roadmap’ for anyone considering a professional qualification or looking for in-depth knowledge of key topics.

Train your Team Face-to-face and online delivery

In-house workshops are the ideal opportunity to train teams and whole departments within your organisation. Providing clarity of training focus and excellent team building opportunities. It reduces delegate travel, workshop cost and environmental impact as we train online or at your premises, worldwide.

Call us to enquire: +44 (0)20 3836 8640 or email info@indigobusiness.co.uk

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(per delegate) per 1 day workshop Based on 12 delegates