The purpose of this training is to teach participants modern project management and software development methodologies, with an emphasis on agile methodologies such as Agile and Scrum. Participants will gain practical skills and knowledge necessary for successful management projects in the context of rapidly changing requirements and uncertain technical risks.
Acquired skills
Hard Skills
Participants will have a deeper understanding of modern project management methodologies, which will help them improve the effectiveness of project management and achieve their goals.
Teamwork Skills
Participants will learn how to work in a team and focus on customer needs, which contributes to better product development.
Adaptibility
Having mastered the skills of requirements and backlog management, participants will be able to better adapt to the changing conditions and priorities of the project.
Effectiveness
Participants will know how to successfully implement Agile and Scrum in their organization and avoid common mistakes.
Cases
Participants will analyze real-world project management cases.
Successful examples of Agile and Scrum implementation in various organizations will be presented, including a description of the transformation of companies to switch to Agile.
Requirements and backlog management scenarios will be considered, including the creation of user stories, prioritization, and risk management.
The training program
- Review of the training program. Project management.
- Overview of terminology. An overview of the project management methodology.
- Flexible project management methodologies.
- The transition from the "golden triangle of management" to Agile
- Overview of the Agile methodology. Overview of the Agile process. Agile and Waterfall lifecycle models.
- The concept of Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
- Compliance with deadlines, budget and project quality in the face of constantly changing requirements and unpredictable technical risks.
- Principles and values of flexible development methodologies: iterativity and incrementality in software development.
- People orientation. Teamwork.
- SCRUM is a flexible management framework. SCRUM artifacts.
- SCRUM Practices and Roles: The Team. The product owner. Scrum master (responsibilities and responsibilities).
- SCRUM is an implementation process.
- SCRUM planning: long-term planning. Project planning. The Product Backlog. Evaluation of backlog items. Practice (Planning Poker). The velocity of the command. Metrics for managing the amount of work in a project
- Planning an iteration (sprint). Iteration (sprint) planning meeting. The iteration backlog. Decomposition of backlog items. Approaches to task assessment.
- Working within an iteration: Managing the flow of iteration tasks. The task board. Daily scrums. Typical mistakes.
- Closing an iteration: Demonstration-showing the results of the iteration to interested parties. Conducting a retrospective to improve the process.
- Requirements in Agile and the role of the Product Owner. The quality of requirements in Agile. Backlog and requirements management. Risk management and requirements management. The role and responsibility of the Product Owner.
- The process of collecting requirements. Collecting requirements in Agile. The start of the project. The concept/Product strategy. Roles (actors) and persons (personas).
- User stories. The concept of user Stories. Epic Stories, Technical Stories. The components of a good user story. Decomposition of user stories. Mapping of user stories (Story Mapping). The practice of creating an incremental backlog. Accounting for non-functional requirements. Prioritizing user stories.
- Synchronization of the work of several teams. Synchronization of the work of several Scrum of Scrum teams. Project portfolio management in the Scrum methodology. Principles of project portfolio management. The specifics of project portfolio management in Agile and Scrum. Design artifacts.
- Implementation of Agile. Managing customer expectations. Principles of Scrum implementation. How to implement Agile - practical recommendations. Pitfalls in applying Scrum. Errors in the implementation of Scrum. Transformation of the company for the transition to Agile.