Agile frameworks for Delivery (Scrum, XP, Lean, DSDM) helps handling in completing complex projects and innovative scope of work. Scrum help to prioritize large to-do lists into manageable tasks with improved teamwork, better communication, and faster results.
Agile for Delivery
Training Title: Agile for Delivery - 2 days
Objective
Topics Covered
Target Audience
Objective
Scrum, XP, Lean and DSDM are Agile frameworks for completing complex projects and innovative scope of work. Ex. Products / R&D / etc. Scrum help to Prioritize large to-do lists into manageable tasks with improved teamwork, better communication, and faster results. By using Scrum, you’ll become more Agile, discovering how to react more quickly and respond more accurately to the inevitable change that comes your way.
Topics Covered
The topics covered under this training / workshop are
- Introduction to Project Management
- Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Project Charter for Agile Project
- Agile Methodology
- Agile Principles
- Agile Frameworks and Terminology
- Agile Roles
- Scrum Basics
- Scrum Flow
- Scrum Artifacts
- Scrum Roles
- Scrum Meetings
- Scrum Roles
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Team
- Scrum Meetings
- Release Planning
- Backlog grooming
- Sprint Planning (Part 1 & 2)
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Scrum Artifacts
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Release Burn down chart
- Sprint Burn down chart
- Definition of Done
- Agile Metrics and Estimations
- Relative Sizing
- Story Points
- Wideband Delphi Technique
- Planning Poker
- Affinity Diagram
- Ideal time
- Velocity
- Cycle Time
- EVM
- Escaped Defects
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- Value Based Prioritisation
- ROI/NPV/IRR
- Customer Valued Prioritisation
- Compliance
- Relative Prioritisation
- Value Stream Mapping
- Minimum Marketable Feature
- Others
- XP
- Lean
- DSDM Atern
- Kanban
- Agile Contracts
- Agile in Distributed Environment (Onsite and Offshore)
- Agile and Compliance
- Simulations/Practical Exercises/Games
- Scrum Roles (Who does What)
- Daily Stand up
- Defining Personas
- Writing User Stories
- Agile Estimations
- Release Planning
- Value Based Prioritisation
Target Audience
The target audience for this training / workshop includes:
- Developers
- Scrum teams
- Product Owner
- Team Leaders
- Team members
- Technical leads
- Project Manager
- Delivery Manager
- Functional Managers
- Line Managers
- Business Analyst
- Program Manager
FAQS ON aGILE
Agile is a mindset or a different way of doing things. Agile provides the flexibility of starting with what we know and what we have. Agile helps in producing results by bringing people together.
Agile can be applied at an initiative level/special purpose as well as the organizational level.
– Initiative level/Special Purpose
. Launch a Product
. Develop software
. Start a Business
. Start a Branch
– Organization level
. Human Resources
. Marketing
. Sales
. Production
. Delivery
. Finance
. Customer Care
. Innovation
. Research & Development
. Learning & Development
To understand ever-changing customer needs and provide them as early as possible.
No, Agile practices such as Lean exist from the 1990s.
Scrum, Lean, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, DSDM (Atern), Crystal are few Agile practices or Agile frameworks.
Though there are different Agile Practices/Agile frameworks, all of them are based on 4 Agile Manifesto & 12 Agile Principles. We can do a quick assessment and recommend suitable agile framework/agile practice.
Few benefits of agile are Happy customers, More Business, Empowered teams, Faster decision making, Improved quality, Flexibility to change (as per market needs in VUCA world), Freedom to Innovate
All types of organizations are practising agile. To name few, Agile is used by Startups such as Uber, Airbnb, and Corporate such as Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Tesla
Agile practices are used in most of the industries. Few are automotive, software, banking, healthcare, real estate.
Agile is simple and easy to understand. However, many organizations face challenges in adopting agile. We recommend conducting a preliminary assessment of Organisational Agile maturity for better results.
The majority of Agile initiatives failed due to resistance, lack of cooperation among different departments, minimum/no involvement of Senior Management. Everyone across the organization should have a basic understanding of Agile principles. We recommend starting the training in the below sequence.
– C Suite with Senior Management/Department heads
– Training to Departments & Support Functions
– Training to Teams
This approach ensures everyone is aware of Agile principles and drive Agile transformation together
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