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Project Management Fundamentals: Agile and Waterfall
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Project Management Fundamentals: Agile and Waterfall builds on our one-day PM course with additional hands-on training in core project management concepts and techniques. It extends basic PMI® concepts with supplemental, field-proven best practices that are designed to overcome common sources of project failure. Participants are shown how to establish a strong foundation for the project; obtain stakeholder buy-in to project goals; and execute the project to optimize post-project Business Value. Students have an opportunity to compare Waterfall and Agile concepts. Course topics include:
- Sources of project success and failure
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Projects as investments
- Planning to optimize Business Value
- Managing stakeholder engagement and expectations
- Defining scope: WBS / Product Backlog
- Developing useful estimates
- Working to budget and time targets
- Quality drives Value
- Minimizing issues through proactive risk management
- Project Change Control
- Management of Organizational Change
- Successful product release
- Administrative and contract closure
Who should attend
This course is ideal for new project managers, functional managers, project team members, and key project stakeholders. It can also provide a quick but in-depth look at Agile and Waterfall project management practice for anyone with project responsibility.
Prerequisites
This course assumes minimal experience with project work.
Related Courses
For a more in-depth study of critical Project Management concepts see:
Course Outline
Section 1. Introduction
- Sources of project success and failure
- Project Success Factors
Section 2. Core Concepts in Project Management
- Project, Program, Portfolio
- Projects create Value
- Projects as Investments
- Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- Choosing a project approach
Section 3: Working with Stakeholders
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Role of PM and BA
- The Agile team
- Collaborative Games
Section 4: Create a Strong Project Foundation
- Project Charter / Agile Vision Doc
- Qualify the Investment / Build Consensus
- Triple Constraint: Waterfall and Agile
- Waterfall and Agile estimation tools
Section 5: Managing Scope
- Product versus Project Scope
- Requirements Development
- WBS / Scope baseline
- Product Backlog
- Iterative requirements development
Section 6: Developing a Project Schedule
- Project Schedule in Waterfall
- Product Roadmap / Release Plan
- Managing agile projects to a deadline
Section 7: Project Budget
- Identifying Sources of Project Cost
- Estimating Cost / Building a budget
- Budgets in Agile
Section 8: Delivering Quality to Optimize Value
- Quality drives value
- Quality Planning
- Quality Control (QC)
- Quality Assurance (QA)
Section 9: 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
- Risk cost budget
Section 10: Change Control
- Sources of change
- change Control: Waterfall and Agile/li>
Section 11: Release Planning
- Planning to optimize Business Value
- The need for Transition planning
- Management of Change
- Steps to a successful release
- Optimizing post-project Business Value
Section 12: Project Close
- Contract closure
- Administrative closure
- Retrospectives and continual improvement
Learning Approach
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous 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 establishes the importance of keeping realization of Business Value as a primary focus of the project.
- New project managers will discover a vocabulary and framework that lends structure and perspective to the experience they already have.
- All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with important aspects of project planning and execution.
- Take this course and learn how to avoid many of the problems that project teams most often encounter.
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
- Written for classroom or virtual delivery
For more information, see
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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