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BA07 - Implementing an Agile Project
What You'll Learn
After completing this course, students will know how to:
Plan, manage and close requirements for software development project in reduced time using Agile Scrum practices
Minimize project uncertainty and risk by applying Agile principles through the Scrum method
Ensure your project delivers required functionality and adds value to the business
Create an environment of self-management for your software development team that will be able to continuously align the delivered software with desired business needs, easily adapting to changing requirements throughout the process.
Learn how to apply Agile Scrum by measuring and evaluating status based on the undeniable truth of working, testing software, creating a more accurate visibility into the actual progress of projects.
Description
Many of today’s Project Management and Business Analyst Professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing on Agile development teams - only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied when using a traditional project management approach no longer work as effectively or at all. In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today’s Project Manager and Business Analyst must employ additional project management and business analysis tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects.
Who Should Attend
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with analysts, Quality and process engineers, technicians, managers; supervisors, team leaders, and process operators; anyone who wants to improve their Business Analysis skills.
Course Overview
Many of today’s Project Management and Business Analyst Professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing on Agile development teams - only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied when using a traditional project management approach no longer work as effectively or at all. In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today’s Project Manager and Business Analyst must employ additional project management and business analysis tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects.
Course Prerequisites
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Course Agenda
8 Title
Course Agenda
1
Introduction - Fundamentals of Agile
Why Agile?
Exercise 1a: Waterfall-Lean-Agile Simulation
History & Mindset: Understand how the agile approach arose.
The Agile Lifecycle
Introducing Agile to the organization
Roles and Responsibilities on an Agile project team. Understand the purpose, the concepts, the theory, and some applications around the importance of people as individuals providing value through working in teams.
Establishing core hours - How will the team work during a day?
How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations
Exercise 1b: How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations
Planning and Managing Business Analysis Communication and Performance Agile and CMMI
Exercise 1c: Case Study Project
Exercise 1a: Waterfall-Lean-Agile Simulation
History & Mindset: Understand how the agile approach arose.
The Agile Lifecycle
Introducing Agile to the organization
Roles and Responsibilities on an Agile project team. Understand the purpose, the concepts, the theory, and some applications around the importance of people as individuals providing value through working in teams.
Establishing core hours - How will the team work during a day?
How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations
Exercise 1b: How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations
Planning and Managing Business Analysis Communication and Performance Agile and CMMI
Exercise 1c: Case Study Project
2
Assembling the team – Scrum Roles
Value-Driven Development: Understand why agile development focuses so heavily on working products, its more general casting as "value-driven" development, with incremental, iterative and risk-driven approaches. Themes, theory and applications.
Exercise 2a: Identify the “Product Owner”
Identify Project Success Criteria
Exercise 2b: Review the Scrum Cheat Sheet
Establish your Agile team using RACI
Exercise 2c: Build the Scrum Team
Exercise 2a: Identify the “Product Owner”
Identify Project Success Criteria
Exercise 2b: Review the Scrum Cheat Sheet
Establish your Agile team using RACI
Exercise 2c: Build the Scrum Team
3
Define the Product and Project Vision
Envision the Product and Project outcomes
Exercise 3a: Review Agile Checklist
Project Chartering (Project Planning)
Assemble the Agile project team – what are their responsibilities?
Compile the Product Backlog (Coarse-Grain Requirements)
Discuss how to Plan Sprints and Releases
Exercise 3b: Product Vision – Goals and Strategies
Establish the Project “time-box”
Exercise 3c: Create a Release Plan
Embrace the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan
Managing different types of Personas on an Agile Project
Identifying and managing “Information Radiators”
Planning in Agile Projects – Common practices that work
Determine how the team will tracking and monitoring activities
Exercise 3c: Establish the Project Time-box
Exercise 3a: Review Agile Checklist
Project Chartering (Project Planning)
Assemble the Agile project team – what are their responsibilities?
Compile the Product Backlog (Coarse-Grain Requirements)
Discuss how to Plan Sprints and Releases
Exercise 3b: Product Vision – Goals and Strategies
Establish the Project “time-box”
Exercise 3c: Create a Release Plan
Embrace the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan
Managing different types of Personas on an Agile Project
Identifying and managing “Information Radiators”
Planning in Agile Projects – Common practices that work
Determine how the team will tracking and monitoring activities
Exercise 3c: Establish the Project Time-box
4
Tools and Techniques – Building the Scrum Task board
Communications
Exercise 4a: Discussion – Tools and Techniques for Scrum
Planning, Monitoring and Adapting
Scrum Task Board
Exercise 4c: Create a Scrum Task board – Identify work streams
Agile Estimating
Agile Analysis and Design
Burndown Chart
Team Velocity
Soft Skills Negotiation
Exercise 4a: Discussion – Tools and Techniques for Scrum
Planning, Monitoring and Adapting
Scrum Task Board
Exercise 4c: Create a Scrum Task board – Identify work streams
Agile Estimating
Agile Analysis and Design
Burndown Chart
Team Velocity
Soft Skills Negotiation
5
Estimating ad Prioritizing Effort
Planning Releases. Understand the value, the concepts, the theory and some applications for learning and adapting at all levels and on all topics (the product, the process, the team, and the organization).
Exercise 5a: Brainstorm Business Functionality
Establishing decision and acceptance criteria for user stories
Planning Poker
Exercise 5b: Estimate Effort (Coarse-Grain)
Prioritize themes and releases
Prioritize user stories
Exercise 5c: Confirm the Estimated Effort (Fine Grain)
Estimating team velocity
Preparing for change – Is the organization ready?
Exercise 5d: Hold a daily Scrum and update the Scrum Task Board
Exercise 5e: Conduct a Scrum or Scrums
Exercise 5a: Brainstorm Business Functionality
Establishing decision and acceptance criteria for user stories
Planning Poker
Exercise 5b: Estimate Effort (Coarse-Grain)
Prioritize themes and releases
Prioritize user stories
Exercise 5c: Confirm the Estimated Effort (Fine Grain)
Estimating team velocity
Preparing for change – Is the organization ready?
Exercise 5d: Hold a daily Scrum and update the Scrum Task Board
Exercise 5e: Conduct a Scrum or Scrums
6
Plan the Iteration (Sprint)
Sprint Zero activities
Elements of a successful Sprint Planning meeting
Create a Sprint Backlog
How to create a task board
Exercise 6a: Using the case study – Review Iteration Planning Checklist
Create a Sprint plan – Establishing Sprint success metrics
Exercise 6b: Discussion Sprint “Zero” Activities
Define the vision and Iteration Requirements
Estimating the level of effort (LOE) with the team
Creating user Stories for the Product Backlog -Guidelines to consider
The art of slicing user stories
Exercise 6c: Review the Sprint Plan
Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements using 2-4 week Sprints
Exercise 6d: Adapting a change-driven Project plan that works
Adapting a change-driven (Agile) Project plan that works – what are the key differences from traditional (waterfall) project plans?
Finalize the Iteration Plan and how the team will operate
Elements of a successful Sprint Planning meeting
Create a Sprint Backlog
How to create a task board
Exercise 6a: Using the case study – Review Iteration Planning Checklist
Create a Sprint plan – Establishing Sprint success metrics
Exercise 6b: Discussion Sprint “Zero” Activities
Define the vision and Iteration Requirements
Estimating the level of effort (LOE) with the team
Creating user Stories for the Product Backlog -Guidelines to consider
The art of slicing user stories
Exercise 6c: Review the Sprint Plan
Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements using 2-4 week Sprints
Exercise 6d: Adapting a change-driven Project plan that works
Adapting a change-driven (Agile) Project plan that works – what are the key differences from traditional (waterfall) project plans?
Finalize the Iteration Plan and how the team will operate
7
Running the Sprint - from Planning to Review and Retrospective
Managing your Scrums and setting expectations with your team
Exercise 7a: Using the case study – Review the Review Planning checklist
Using Burndown charts to track progress
Exercise 7b: Using the case study – Review the Review Retrospective checklist
Manage changes during the Sprint – What questions to ask
Prepare for the Sprint Review
Exercise 7c: Review of roles - Quiz
Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment
Hold a Sprint Retrospective - What is working and what needs to be improved upon during the Sprints
Update the product backlog - Rework the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan
Plan and Execute the next Sprint
Create an environment for continuous improvement – Product, Process and People
Exercise 7a: Using the case study – Review the Review Planning checklist
Using Burndown charts to track progress
Exercise 7b: Using the case study – Review the Review Retrospective checklist
Manage changes during the Sprint – What questions to ask
Prepare for the Sprint Review
Exercise 7c: Review of roles - Quiz
Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment
Hold a Sprint Retrospective - What is working and what needs to be improved upon during the Sprints
Update the product backlog - Rework the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan
Plan and Execute the next Sprint
Create an environment for continuous improvement – Product, Process and People
8
Additional Information
Useful books and links on Agile