Introduction to Agile and Lean Overview
Assuming no prior knowledge of agile or lean, this course will introduce the student to the underlying philosophies of agile and lean. Once the principles have been established, the student will be shown these in action by learning the practices associated with Scrum Project Management and Extreme Programming.
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Skill Level
Basic Concepts of Project Management -
Duration
- 1 Day
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Support
- Tutor on call
- Exam simulator
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Assessment
- 7.5
Course Description
- At the end of this workshop, the student will be able to:
- Describe the underlying agile and lean principles
- Manage software development projects using Scrum
- Supplement Scrum by using the twelve Extreme Programming techniques
- Relate the agile and lean principles to Extreme Programming and Scrum
- Decide if agile methods are appropriate for their organization / project
This is very much an introductory course and, as such, is ideal for someone who is new to agile and lean development. It will be of benefit to anyone who is considering an agile approach to managing their software development projects.
Agile Principles
- Four Principles
- Iterative vs Incremental Terminology
- Warning Discussion
Lean Principles
- Seven Principles
- Waste
- Identification exercise
- Discussion
Scrum Project Management
- Scrum Overview
- Definition of Done exercise
- User Stories exercise
- Estimation exercise
- Aligning Scrum with the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Discussion
Extreme Programming
- Twelve Practices
- Introducing the practices by outlining the steps involved in setting up a new project
- Coding Standards exercise
- Testing exercise
- Discussion
Are Agile Methods Right for You?
- References, Recap and Wrap Up
Agile has become somewhat of a buzzword and various misconceptions exist out there. This one-day introduction will be given by a Certified Scrum Master with many years of software development and project managemet experience. By the end of the day, you should realize if these methods would benefit your work or not.
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Hear what our students say...
As a small and rapidly growing company, the Velopi team helped our Senior Management team introduce a common terminology, develop the company’s project management model and processes and apply it to our resource management and planning of Client projects every day so that, as a Company, we succeed in delivering quality projects, on time and on budget to our Clients.”
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Meet the Team
Managing Director & Founder
Seamus Collins has led Velopi since he founded the company in 2007. He has developed Velopi into the internationally recognised specialist in Project Management that’s helped hundreds of companies accelerate their growth.
Senior Training Consultant
An excellent communicator, John has a proven track record of delivering training and analysing training needs of project management training and consultancy to a range of companies across the IT, Telecommunications, Finance and Life Science sectors.
Training Consultant
A learning and development professional for the past 10 years, consulting with a variety of well-known and successful organisations, Michael holds two Masters degrees, MA Learning & Development and MSc Project Management.
