Agile Project Management - Advanced

Agile mindset in practice

• What exactly is agile thinking?
• Typical pitfalls in agile projects.
• Agile values and principles in your project environment.
• War room, task board and other (technical) requirements in practice.
• Timeboxing and the 80:20 rule.

Agile roles

• Product Owner and Scrum Master: real tasks and responsibilities.
• How can teams really organise themselves?
• The frequently forgotten stakeholder.
• Rights matrix: Who is permitted to do what and who must inform whom, when and how?

Agile artifacts

• Understanding the customer request correctly.
• Setting up an agile project in just one day: Is it possible?
• SMARTe visualisation of project goals.
• The correct logic and efficiently prioritising the items in the product backlog.
• Developing good user stories.
• Pragmatically planning expenditure and resources.
• Iterative release planning and release burndowns.
• Appropriately applying the definitions of done and ready.

Agile events

• Is a kick-off necessary?
• Sprint planning I: How are items selected?
• Sprint planning II: How are tasks developed and estimated?
• Moderating daily scrum/stand-ups: How to manage it in 15 minutes.
• Permanent backlog refinement.
• Managing, visualising and documenting results.
• Dealing with errors and non-deliveries.
• Sprint review – without criticism, but with motivation.
• Retrospective – which processes should be examined more closely?

Tips for successful agile projects

• Dealing with deviations regarding budget, time, results.
• Dealing with major changes.