Agile for Products development helps to overcome & address the challenges faced at an early stage. This enables the customer focus on prioritizing the features of product and make them available as workable product to users.
Agile for Products
Training Title: Agile for Products - 2 days
Objective
Topics Covered
Target Audience
Objective
Agile frameworks will help to overcome common pitfalls of Product development such as Getting Ideas/Innovations Flow, Streamlining the Bubbling Energy, Balancing Passion & Profits. Organizations need to encourage Product Development teams and Business Analysts on adopting Agile methodologies to streamline the process and to produce maximum benefits. Concepts such as Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Product influence product success and improve ROI.
Topics Covered
The topics covered under this training / workshop are
Introduction to Agile Framework
• Agile Manifesto and Principles
• Agile Methodology
• Agile Frameworks and Terminology
• Agile for Business Analyst & Product Owner
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
• Ideal time
• Velocity
• Cycle Time
• EVM
• Escaped Defects
Value Based Prioritization
• Customer Valued Prioritization
• Compliance
• Relative Prioritization
• Value Stream Mapping
• Minimum Marketable Feature
Target Audience
The target audience for this training / workshop includes:
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Team members
- Technical leads
- Developers
- Project Manager
- Delivery Manager
- Functional Managers
- Line Managers
- Business Analyst
- Program Manager
- Senior Management
- Organizations who want to adopt Agile Delivery model
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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