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Agile Project Management - Basics

Get familiar with the Scrum approach and incorporate Agile planning tools into your project management to deliver value more efficiently.
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  • Duration: 2 days
  • Regular price: $970
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Course outline

Be an effective coach by delivering value quickly, iteratively and incrementally with the Scrum approach

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Duration : 2 days

This course qualifies you for 14 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).

This highly hands-on, interactive training provides an understanding of the best practices in agile project management, using the Scrum approach. Applying gained knowledge from lectures and discussions, participants will cover a complete cycle of the Scrum approach, from Sprint 0 to sprint retrospective, and benefit from trainer coaching.

Audience

Agile Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and development team members: beginner, intermediate or advanced

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

  • Recognize the success factors of the projects
  • Be able to manage a project effectively in agile mode using the Scrum approach
  • Acquire the common vocabulary

Teaching method

The participants will carry out a series of exercises/workshops and will benefit from personalized coaching from the trainer. Also, the latter will provide necessary explanations through lectures, exchanges and case-based examples

Contents

  • Definitions, values and principles
  • Predictive vs. adaptive approaches
  • The roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team
  • Initiating (Sprint 0): product vision, product backlog, planning poker, velocity and release plan / roadmap
  • Planning a Sprint: Sprint backlog, Definition of Done - DoD
  • Executing, monitoring and control of a sprint: daily scrums, burndown charts, task board (kanban) and impediment list
  • Closing a sprint: sprint review and sprint retrospective
  • Case study with exercises, workshops, simulations, role plays

Surround yourself with the best

Carl M. Gilbert
Carl M. Gilbert
Expert Leader
Carl M. Gilbert is a coach, mentor and project manager with more than 25 years of experience in project management, mainly in information technology. He has trained more than 25,000 people in project management (in traditional, agile or hybrid mode) all around the world. Carl M. Gilbert is an engineer and also holds a master's degree in project management from with a specialization in international project management. For 25 years, he has specialized in strategic consulting in project management, program management and portfolio management.