Agile Project Management Essentials

Lesson 1

• What, Why and How of Project Management
• Waterfall vs Agile Methodologies
• Waterfall: cons and pros
- Stakeholder Analysis Toolkit

Lesson 2

• Agile: cons and pros
- Limitations
- Agile Evolution
• The Agile Iteration Workflow
• When and where to use it

Lesson 3

• Methodologies: Scrum, XP
• Scrum Workflow introduction
• Scrum Events
• Scrum Artifacts description
• XP Description
• XP values

Lesson 4

• What is Lean?
• Lean 5 Principles
• Lean Pros & Cons
• Methodologies: Kanban, Scrumban introduction
- Kanban flow introduction
- Kanban WIP Limit introduction

Lesson 5

• Requirements and Planning in Waterfall & Agile
• Planning in XP methodology
• Product Roadmap
• Product Backlog
- Prioritization Techniques
- Do’s and Don’ts
- Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Ms Project Video Tutorial (Armenian Language)

Lesson 6

• Requirements in Agile/Scrum
- User Stories
- Estimation Techniques
- Simulation of Writing a User Story
- Simulation of Complete Requirement
• Story Mapping
• Estimations types in Kanban
• Estimations best practices
• Wireframing – What is a wireframe? How to create usable
systems.
• Video tutorial of PlanItPoker tool(Armenian Language)

Lesson 7

• Budget Calculations
- Traditional Budgeting
- Agile Budgeting

• Risk Management
- Waterfall Risk Management
- Agile Risk Management
- Risk Management Toolkit/Templates

Lesson 8

• Acceptance Criteria
• Behavior Driven Development
- Given-When-Then structure
- Cucumber Technique
• Communication in Project Management
• Video tutorial on Reetro tool (in Armenian)
• Necessary Tools for Project Requirements Management (Video
tutorial in Armenian)
- Jira
- Confluence
- Trello

Lesson 9

• Teams and Roles in Scrum
• Implementation and iterations in Scrum
• Definition of Done
• Kanban Wip & Queue Limits
• Decision Making Tools
- Ishikawa/Fishbone Diagram
- SWOT Diagram.

Lesson 10

• Bottlenecks in Kanban and how to detect them
• Bugs & methods of handling them
• Scrumban meetings
• Scrum Metrics
- Sprint burndown charts
- Release burndown charts
• Metrics in Kanban
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
• Scaling Agile

Bonus:
As a practical work all the attendees will have to work on a test
Agile Project which will include:
• Backlog Creation
• Roadmap Creation
• Story Mapping
• Budget
• Jira Account creation & managing

EXAMINATION

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