Product, Project and Program Management

Applying Agile Practices

Overview

To continue encouraging the adoption and implementation of Agile, this course focuses on refining the application of Agile practices within the participants’ environments. A live case study learning approach enables participants’ learning to become real through its application to their current projects. An integrated combination of content and hand-on application ensures an engaging and highly interactive course.

Who Should Take This Course

Prerequisites

Experience working in a project environment. Knowledge of agile principles, terms, and concepts. Knowledge and exposure to Agile Project Management concepts (desired).

Audience

This course is suitable for business analysts, systems analysts, project team members and project managers currently using or transitioning to the agile methodology of project management and interested in increasing the effective implementation of user stories.

Why You Should Take This Course

Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Applying the Agile process to priority projects
  • Developing and managing users stories for projects
  • Managing requirements through estimation and prioritization of product backlog items
  • Using the Kanban to control work-in-process, manage quality, and show better results
  • Conducting sprint and release retrospectives for projects
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