Course description
In present times, organizations, in a bid to improve the management of their projects, have deviated from the traditional method of project management and sought the implementation of Agile, which is a suitable methodology for project management and product development. The Rcademy Agile Manager Training Course is designed to aid participants’ understanding of Agile, the pillar of software development and project management.
What are the responsibilities of an agile manager?
Usually, an agile manager has to supervise the ‘grey fields’ of agile or scrum teams in an organization. These grey fields include- team management, investment management, and management of the environment of an organization. Within these areas, crucial competencies are attached to an agile manager, including meta-competency, organizational change, internal partner management, supplier management and outsourcing, metrics and reporting management, portfolio management, agile team management, resource management, and performance management.
What is the health check for agile managers?
Specific questions managers are looking to ascend the agile managerial role need to respond to, which all sums up to the principle of inspect-and-adapt. Some of the health check questions for agile managers are:
- Whether as an agile manager, you are catalyzing organizational change, championing agile values, and propagating a culture of value delivery.
- Whether your team perceives you as a leader or manager? Whether you provide relevant roadblock removal in agile teams?
- How well do you distribute resources to improve value delivery? Do you strive for resource utilization?
- How do you motivate suppliers to deliver in an agile way?
- Does your outsourcing aid or destroy your agile teams?
- What metrics do you use to improve team performance and the decision-making of senior executives?
- How often does your organization make portfolio decisions based on value or adherence to a schedule or budget?
- Does your performance management system encourage high performance from team members?
- Do you aid internal partners in building lean processes to sync with agile teams?
The Agile Manager Training Course by Rcademy teaches participants who are managers and prospective managers how to inculcate agile project management skills in their organization and teams to improve product development within a bit of time. Also, this course covers the rudiments of agile and its certification to build participants’ skills and know-how that will boost software delivery and delivery predictability in their organization.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The Agile Manager Training Course is designed to aid attendees in achieving the following outcomes:
- Understand how to coach an agile team and overcome setbacks
- Learn about the agile project management approach, philosophy, values, and standards
- Identify risks of project delivery and how to use the DSDM agile approach
- Develop an agile project
- Identify suitable personnel for agile roles
- Develop and use agile strategies and requirement prioritization
- Evaluate increments and timeboxes for project tracking
- Learn how to communicate with business stakeholders
- Understand the benefits of agile techniques to senior management
- Plan a product map using an agile management approach for stakeholders
- Understand the standard tools for agile project management
Training Course Content
Module 1: Background to Agile
- Definition of agile
- Agile approaches for project management
- Agile philosophy
- The principles of agile
- Focus on business need
- Prompt delivery
- Collaboration
- Quality compromise
- Building from firm foundations
- Iterative development
- Constant and continuous communication
Module 2: Duties and Relationships of Agile Managers
- Duty overview of
– Project manager
– Business analyst
– Business ambassador
– Team leads
– Technical Advisor - Project managers and key relationships
– Project managers and technical supervisors
– Project managers and business analyst
– Project managers and team leads
Module 3: Categories of an Agile Manager
- Mentor
– Training team members
– Educating and communicating with stakeholders
– Adherence to agile practices
– Acting as a coach
– Encouraging team members - Coordinator
– Eliminating obstacles
– Coordinating collaboration - Negotiator
– Negotiating budgets and requisites
– Pushing back - Process adapter
– Agile practices customization
– Waterfall-agile implementation
– Syncing conventional management practice and agile
Module 4: Agile Lifecycle and Products
- Process of dynamic systems development method (DSDM)
- Agile lifecycle configuration
- Agile project manager and pre-project stage
- Feasibility of products
- Agile project manager and foundations
- Deployment
- Evolutionary development
- Post-project
Module 5: Agile Project Principles and Practices
- Agile refresh
– Process flow
– Governance regulation
– Agile chartering - Projects, programs, and portfolios
– Features of agile projects
– Contracts and suppliers
– Duties of project manager - Agile management practices
– Board delegation
– Conflict management
– Agile development
– Trust building
– Cross-functional teams
– Risk burndown supervision
Module 6: DSDM Project Planning
- Concept planning
- Concept testing
- Management and tracking of concepts
- Lifecycle planning
- Phase planning
- Early phases planning
- Evolutionary planning
Module 7: Time Boxing and Prioritisation
- Moscow
– Moscow’s relation to the timeframe
– Components of the planning process
– Moscow implementation - Decision-making on prioritization
– Tips for priority assignment - Timeboxing
– Style of timeboxing
– Duration of timeboxes
– DSDM timebox
– Free-format timebox
– Timeboxing tips - Team empowerment and change
Module 8: Agile Requirements and Estimation
- User tales and requirements
– User story card
– User story confirmation
– Constructed user tales - Estimation
– Dealing with uncertainty
– Estimation styles
– Lifecycle estimation
Module 9: People and Risk Management
- Individual and group interactions
- Efficient communication planning
- Team communication
- Collaboration
- Top tips for risk management
Module 10: Agile Methods
- Agile umbrella
– Scrum
– Extreme programming
– Crystal
– Kanban
– Learn
– DSDM
– FDD - Prescriptive or adaptive methods
- Daily stand-up simulation
- Agile vs waterfall
Course delivery details
This course is participant-oriented and designed to meet participants’ expectations and develop knowledge and skills. Practical strategies are employed to ensure the active and constant learning of participants. Also, this course is taught by professionals with good years of expertise and experience. The course modules are designed for in-depth, extensive, and relevant research on the subject matter.
The Rcademy Agile Manager Training Course includes practical and theoretical learning approaches by providing participants with lecture notes, slides, case studies, and real-life scenarios. Attendees will also engage in quizzes, mock sessions, and workshops, and a feedback platform will be created to confirm their optimal performance.
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