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Agile Project Management

Agile Methods are a set of project management procedures that are particularly well suited to digital and web-based projects because they can deal well with constant and unexpected change. This course is a general overview of the system and provides an introduction to all the important Agile concepts and, through workshop activities, gives hands-on experience of how it feels to manage a project using this approach.

 

This is a one-day introduction to one part of the digital project management process. Project managers approaching this subject for the first time, or who require more depth, should also consider Managing Digital Projects, which covers the whole process in more detail.

 

Programme

• Introduction and warm-up activity
  • Waterfall project management approaches
  • Agile and iterative project management
• Why web/digital is different
  • Iterative approaches may be more appropriate for web projects
  • In-depth look at iterative development
• Stories
  • Development is planned in terms of stories
  • Story extraction activity
• Estimation
  • Using planning poker and other methods to estimate stories
  • Story estimation activity
• Prioritisation
  • Identify stories which are the highest priority
• Iterations
  • Identify a group of high-priority stories to implement within a short, fixed timeframe
  • Prioritisation and iteration identification activity
• Tests
  • How do you know when you’re finished?
  • Use of manual and automated tests to manage the iteration
• Test identification activity
• Velocity
  • Understanding the power and capacity of your teams and planning accordingly
  • Velocity calculation activity
• Meetings
  • What kind of meeting do you need to run an Agile project?
  • How are they structured? How are they run?
  • Daily stand-up meeting activity
• Role of the Project Manager
  • How does the role of the project manager differ in an Agile project?
  • What is their role? What are their responsibilities?

 

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone considering Agile methodology to project manage software and online development within publishing.

 

Project managers who need to do a course that goes into more depth should have a look at Managing Digital Projects – a three-day course that covers the whole process of managing a digital project in much greater depth.

Your tutor

Mark Stringer has been working as a software developer and project manager for the past fifteen years. He first worked on web projects whilst working at the pioneering internet publishing company Chadwyck-Healy in 1997. He has also worked at organisations such as IBM, Xerox, Cambridge University and the Bafta awardwinning web development company Soda Creative.

 

 

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.

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Dates: 8 September 2010

Price: £365+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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