Agile project management - Advanced

Agile mindset in practice

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

Agile roles

• Product Owner and Scrum Master: real tasks and responsibilities.
• How can teams really organize themselves?
• The often forgotten stakeholder.
• Rights matrix: Who may do what and must inform whom when and how?

Agile artifacts

• Understand the customer's wishes correctly.
• Is it possible to set up an agile project in just one day?
• SMART visualization of project goals.
• The correct logic and efficient prioritization of the product backlog.
• Develop good user stories.
• Plan effort and resources pragmatically.
• Iterative release planning and release burndowns.
• Use the Definitions of Done and Ready sensibly.

Agile events

• Is a kick-off necessary?
• Sprint Planning I: How items are selected.
• Sprint Planning II: How tasks are developed and estimated.
• Moderating Daily Scrum/Standups: How to do it in 15 minutes.
• Permanent backlog refinement.
• Manage, visualize and document results.
• Dealing with errors and non-deliveries.
• Sprint Review - without criticism, but with motivation.
• Retrospective - which processes you should take a closer look at.

Tips for successful agile projects

• Dealing with deviations in terms of budget, time and results.
• Dealing with major changes.