Agile Methods
As budgets continue to shrink interest has increased in one area of project management thinking which is helping to reduce project costs while at the same time maintaining and creating new efficiencies.
Agile or Lean is the collective term for a group of techniques that achieve this by breaking the project scope development into manageable ‘iterations’ ensuring that each functional increment is approved serving to define and fulfill expectations in a more flexible environment.
Agile Workshop
This workshop aims to introduce participants to the basics of Agile techniques by looking at some of the established Agile Frameworks that have been developed since the early 90s such as Scrum and Atern.
- The limitations of the ‘Waterfall’ approach
- Agile methods: similarities and differences
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Customer/ User involvement
- Agile Requirements Analysis and User Stories
- Prioritisation
- Iteration Planning
- Agile Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Daily Scrums, Project Reviews and Retrospectives
- People and Cultural aspects of Agile
- The risks of Agile
- Transitioning to Agile
Target Audience
- Experienced Project Managers seeking an introduction to Agile techniques
- People working in an Agile project environment or thinking about applying Agile principles to an upcoming project.
