Agile Training

Our Agile PMP ACP Training Encompasses The Following Points :

• Agile Principles and Mindset

Agile: Frameworks & terminology, Manifesto, Methods & approaches and Process overview, Kanban, Lean, Scrum, XP, Leadership practices & principles

• Value-driven Delivery

Define positive value, Agile contracting, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Customer-valued prioritization, EVM, Frequent verification & validation, Prioritization schemes, Incremental development, KPIs, Minimum Viable product, MMF, ROI, NPV, IRR, Software development practices - Continuous Integration, Exploratory & Usability testing, TDD, TFD, ATDD.

• Stakeholder Engagement

Understand stakeholder needs, Stakeholder involvement & Manage stakeholder expectations, Active listening, Agile chartering & modelling, Brainstorming, Communication Management, Levels of conflict & Resolution, Definition of Done, Emotional Intelligence, Information Radiators, Negotiation, Participatory Decision Models, Personas, Wireframes, workshops.

• Team Performance

Team: Formation, empowerment, collaboration & commitment, Adaptive leadership, Burndown & Burnup charts, Caves & Common, Developmental Mastery models, Osmotic communication, Tacit knowledge, Team space, Training, coaching & mentoring, Velocity.

• Adaptive Planning

Affinity estimating, Agile sizing & estimating techniques, Daily Stand-ups, Acceptance criteria, Estimating tasks & initial velocity, Fast failure, Iteration planning, Planning poker, product roadmap, Progressive Elaboration, Relative Sizing, Release planning, Rolling wave planning, Slicing stories, Spikes,  User stories, Story maps, Story points, User story Backlog, Value-based analysis and decomposition, Wideband Delphi.

• Problem Detection and Resolution

Prevent, identify and resolve threats & issues, defects tracking, managing risk and engaging the team in solving problems. Control Limits, Cost of change, Cycle time, lead time, Throughput, Risk severity, Risk-adjusted backlog, Risk burndown graph, Technical debt, Trend analysis, Variance analysis.

• Continuous Improvement ( Product, Process, People)

Agile Hybrid models, Kaizen, Process Tailoring, Systems thinking, Process Analysis, Value Stream Mapping, Project Pre-Mortems, Agile reviews, Retrospective, Fishbone Analysis, Team Self Assessments.

• What is Agile?
• Agile Software Development
• Agile Methodology
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Principles and how they relate to project management
• Introduction to various Agile frameworks like Kanban, Scrum, Lean and eXtreme Programming.
• Agile Benefits.

Managing change while also focusing on our primary responsibility: delivering the product, How we determine the project schedule and release plan, Identifying a team’s “velocity,” the team’s measure of productivity, in our efforts to more reliably predict when our product will be ready for production, The Five Levels of Agile planning and how they work together to ensure the team remains on schedule throughout the project, Using tools such as burn-down charts and task boards as strategic and tactical measures to closely monitor the team’s progress and make corrections as necessary.

How to conquer the battle over ‘Scope Creep’ once and for all, Consistently delivering what the customer truly needs and wants, not just what might have been initially planned for, Understanding complex environments and how complexity requires managing within the ‘Cone of Uncertainty’, Allowing the customer to always be in charge of the project scope, including making feature trade-off decisions when required.

How to ensure your product seeks to maximize ROI after delivery, Communicating to your customer the metric of work delivered against budget expended (earned value delivery), Methods for partnering with your customer to ensure that the value of what is being developed exceeds the investment it requires to complete.