Agile Principles Applied To Other Project Approaches
Course Objectives
- This two-day workshop will equip participants to define proper strategy for a project, selecting or combining alternatives that go from pure waterfall through spiral, incremental, iterative to pure agile.
Course Topics
- How to incorporate agile principles in approaches that are not agile
- Using a weekly cycle nested in milestone cycles.
- Through a simulation exercise and working in teams, participants will use a schedule as a modeling tool that integrates:
- All the knowledge available to the team,
- Make decisions and commitments that have strong buy in and likelihood of achieving success.
Benefits
- Increase throughput and productivity from project teams, independently of what approach they use, particularly in milestone achievement
- Improve the quality of the information in project reports, as the schedule captures all the relevant information available to the team, reflecting the most likely scenario
- Helps leaders assist people to enhance their performance by providing them with feedback they are willing to accept and upon which they are able to act
- Increase motivation and job satisfaction, both in project managers and team members
- Increase compatibility across projects in a portfolio that uses different approaches to delivery, facilitating cross planning and portfolio management
- When delivered for a team starting a project, this workshop serves as an excellent team building exercise
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