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Overview of Project Management: Agile and Waterfall
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Overview of Project Management: Agle and Waterfall provides a full day of practical training in critically important agile and waterfall project management concepts and techniques. Participants are shown how to support selection of the best projects; obtain stakeholder buy-in to project goals and approach; do sufficient planning to provide an effective guide to project action; develop an understanding of scope; minimize issues through proactive risk management; perform a successful product release, and more. Course material includes techniques designed to overcome common sources of project failure. In clear and simple language, this course explains how to successfully perform a project that can deliver Business Value. Course topics include:
- Sources of project success and failure
- Project and Product Lifecycles: Agile and Waterfall
- When to use Agile and Waterfall
- Realization of Business Value
- Identifying and managing stakeholders
- Establishing a strong project with a Project Charter / Agile Vision Doc
- Defining scope, schedule and budget (Waterfall)
- Product Backlog, MVP, Release Plan (Agile)
- Project procurement
- Resource Planning
- Change control and risk management
- Building quality into deliverables
- Status reports / Standup meetings
- Planning and executing an effective product release
- Using Project Close to lock in value
Who should attend
This course is ideal for functional managers, project team members, key project stakeholders, and anyone with project responsibility who needs a basic understanding of relative merit, advantages, and value of Agile and Waterfall.
Prerequisites
This course assumes minimal experience with project work.
Related Courses
For a more complete review of fundamental Project Management concepts see Project Management Fundamentals
Course Outline
Section 1: Introduction
- Sources of project failure
- Sources of project success
- Business Value realization is the goal
Section 2: Defining Project and Project Management
- Projects, programs, and portfolios
- What is project management?
- Agile and Waterfall
- Choosing the best project approach
- Business Value realization is the goal
- Projects depend on people
- Impact of effective Project Management
Section 3: Create a Strong Project Foundation
- Project Charter / Agile Vision Doc
- Stakeholder identification and analysis
- Triple Constraint: Waterfall and Agile
- How to develop good estimates
Section 4: Managing Scope
- Product versus Project Scope
- Requirements Development
- WBS / Scope baseline
- Product Backlog
- Iterative requirements development
Section 5: Schedule and Budget
- How to develop a Schedule
- Procurement
- Resources: Project Team / Agile Team
- MVP; Product Release Map; Kanban
- Budget and controlling cost
Section 6: Quality
- Quality drives value
- Quality Planning
- Quality Control (QC)
- Quality Assurance (QA)
Section 7: Managing Project Risk
- Risk and Issues
- Work of Risk Management
- Sources of risk
- RAID analysis
- The Risk Register
- Evaluating Risk
- Proactive Risk Response Planning
- Risk moniitoring and issues management
Section 8: Project Execution
- Communication planning
- Status reports and Standup meetings
- change Control: Waterfall and Agile/li>
Section 9: Release Planning
- Planning to optimize Business Value
- The need for Transition planning
- Management of Change
- Steps to a successful release
Section 10: Project Close
- Contract closure
- Administrative closure
- Retrospectives and continual improvement
This course includes 10 hands-on exercises and facilitated discussions that reinforce learning and retention. Course material is fully PMBOK® and BABOK® compliant.
Learning Approach
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, short exercises, group discussions and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
- We will build on whatever project experience you have while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future projects.
- If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
- You will receive a Participant Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
Why should I take this course?
- This course makes clear the importance of keeping realization of Business Value as a primary focus of the project.
- Project team members and stakeholders will discover a vocabulary and framework that lends structure and perspective to the experience they already have.
- Participants will learn the relative pros, cons, and value of the Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Licensing
Use this courseware to teach your students! This course is available under license to qualified Training Providers. Courseware materials include:
- Instructor slides
- Instructor manual with timing guide
- Participant guide
- Train the Trainer instruction
- Highly efective for virtual delivery
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Courseware-On-Demand or Contact Us
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All of our courses are fully compliant with the latest release of each relevant standards document such as the PMBOK® Guide, Standard for Portfolio Management, BABOK® Guide, and others.
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