Adaptive (AGILE) Project Management

Introduction:

Many projects executed by both private and public sector organizations fail to realize their expected outcomes. The reasons for this can be subtle. The best laid plans can be subject to small delays that are not suitable for control using a traditional change management system. In a volatile environment (which is increasingly the case in the modern business world), project plans need to be flexible and embrace change as being the norm rather than the exception.

A traditional view of successful projects is that they are highly dependent on well-defined and well-understood requirements acquired from all stakeholders. However, not all work environments are stable enough to enable effective prediction of all project requirements. In volatile situations where requirements change rapidly and stakeholder needs emerge during project execution, stakeholder value (and satisfaction) is best supplied through an adaptive management approach rather than traditional predictive techniques. 

Course Objectives:

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Appreciate how characteristics of effective teams influence effective adaptive project management
• Apply predictive project management techniques to integrate scope, time, resources and cost management into a dynamic, manageable plan
• Learn the rules and approaches to the implementation of the most widely applied adaptive project management framework – SCRUM
• Identify general considerations that are critical to setting up and applying the Scrum framework
• Critique the value of core practices performed to plan a Scrum sprint
• Apply the core practices performed in the execution of a Scrum sprint
• Evaluate core post-Sprint practices used for review and improvement purposes