Agile Project Management Bootcamp Schedule
13.5 Hours – Three 4.5-hour Sessions
Learning Objectives
- Understanding of agile elements needed for planning to a budget and schedule
- Tools for consistent, adequate cross-disciplined agile project planning and alignment
- How to facilitate strong team commitment for consistently achieving iteration goals
- Agile project planning and estimating refinement
- Keeping agile projects on track for success
- Methods for progress visibility
- Effective use of agile project management tools
- Leveraging agile management tools for excellent stakeholder communication
- Thorough identification and agile mitigation of project risks
- Leveraging agile methods for completing projects faster and with better outcomes
- Facilitating team self-management and team ownership of ongoing improvements
Course Outline
Agile Project Management Overview
- Agile principles and frameworks
- Agile goals and challenges
- Differences between software and physical product agile development
- Key elements needed for complex cross-disciplined projects
- Agile organizational structures
- Case Study: Agile Use Cases, Overcoming Challenges and Benefits Achieved
Agile Roles, Teams and Responsibilities
- Key agile roles
- Agile team structures
- Software roles vs. physical product development roles
- Misconceptions about roles and agile activities
- Autonomous teams & what that means for management and team members
- Mapping traditional roles & responsibilities to agile teams
- Role mapping exercise
Product Owner and Agile Project Manager Roles
- Product Owner and Agile Project Manager collaboration
- Product Owner responsibilities & challenges
- Levels of product ownership
- Agile Project Manager key responsibilities & challenges
- Agile mindset and product vs. project mindset
- Cone of Uncertainty concept
- User story approaches, prioritization and progress tracking
- Agile requirements management
- Key role structure exercise
Agile Project Management Fundamentals
- Key agile project management concepts
- Cross-disciplined agile planning & execution
- Up-front agile planning elements
- Iteration planning approaches
- Agile leadership of sub-team details
- Project lifecycle models
- Lifecycle model exercise
- Best practices and why they matter
- Building your agile project management toolbox
Agile Project Planning
- Agile project planning elements
- Iteration planning tools & templates
- Key Value Streams
- Adapting agile methods for different project situations
- Initial risk identification & agile mitigation
- Project communication planning
- Facilitating team & stakeholder alignment
- Agile work and requirements breakdown refinement
- Project plan sizing exercise
- Quick-start Agile Project Planning Guide
Project Estimation Methods
- Overview of traditional and agile methods
- Top-down and bottom-up estimation
- Data-driven methods
- Opinion-based methods
- Collaborative estimation
- Best and worst case analysis
- Leveraging multiple methods for better estimates
- Estimation exercise
Agile Scheduling and Risk Management
- Agile scheduling methods & tools
- Agile critical path analysis
- Managing major and minor dependencies
- Agile risk management methods & tools
- Iterative risk mitigation
- Master risk register
- Case Study: Agile Risk Mitigation
Agile Iteration Execution
- Types of valuable iteration goals
- Commitment to iteration objectives
- Demonstrating visible progress
- Necessary and desirable stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder exercise
- Leveraging agile project management for rapid, optimal tradeoff decisions
- Retrospectives and iteration closure
Building a Culture for Agile Success
- What is agile success?
- Typical challenges to overcome
- Identifying issues & prioritizing effort
- Leadership roles & responsibilities for supporting success
- Agile leadership of an agile culture
- Case Study: Rapid Agile Transformation in a Large Enterprise
- Tracking continuous improvement
Registration
Workshop Fee: $1695 USD (10% discount for groups of 3 or more)
Early registration: $1355 USD (see below for deadlines)
Click desired session dates to register.
July 15-17, 2024, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time – Workshop Leader: Gary Hinkle (bio) – Early registration deadline June 25, 2024– Session Full
August 19-21, 2024, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time – Workshop Leader: Gary Hinkle (bio) – Early registration deadline July 29, 2024
October 7-9, 2024, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time – Workshop Leader: Gary Hinkle (bio) – Early registration deadline September 16, 2024
What’s included: Live instructor-led course, workshop materials, templates, Quick-start Agile Planning Guide, Traditional to Agile Role Mapping Guide, certificate of completion, facilitated action plan and one hour of follow-up coaching.
Online sessions are limited to 12 participants. Contact us to discuss private online or onsite workshops for your team.
Technology & Logistics: This course is hosted with Microsoft Teams video communications. Participants will need to use a computer and webcam.
Professional Development Units: 15.0 PDUs
For PMI credit, report as courses from other third-party providers.
What Clients Say
“Auxilium’s agile approach helped our teams make faster progress with better collaboration. We didn’t expect results to come so quickly!”
Gary has very effective programs and is an excellent facilitator. I would not hesitate to engage him or his company’s services again in the future.
Gary has a way of organizing and presenting complex ideas about project leadership that is easy to understand and inspirational. His teaching is based on experience and best practices. He distills concepts down to a practical core of recommendations that can be readily applied after the class.
I know Gary from his work as an engineering consultant at Niles Audio. During his tenure at Niles, Gary exhibited a very strong and deep knowledge of the engineering function and particularly the product development process.
Gary is one of those rare people that combines engineering expertise with exceptional administrative, people, and management skills. He adapted to unpredictable management decisions while leading diverse and often difficult personalities to achieve positive results.
A “10” in terms of content and presentation. I learned much in a short time.
I highly recommend Gary. He is a very skilled and professional trainer.
Let’s Make Things Happen
Contact us today for a complimentary consultation to discuss your group’s agile project management or engineering leadership development objectives.
