Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to Agile Project Management
Establishing Agile Fundamentals
- Exploring the relationship between Agile, AgilePF and DSDM
- Contrasting traditional waterfall project management approaches with DSDM
- Integrating DSDM with best practice methods
- Outlining the eight principles that guide DSDM
Preparing for an Agile project
- Analysing the Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ)
- Accepting the DSDM philosophy
- Identifying a successful team style
Building the Foundations for an Agile Project
Completing pre-project activities
- Ensuring that the right projects are started and set up correctly
- Identifying important members of the team
- Planning the Feasibility Phase
Assessing project feasibility
- Confirming that a solution exists
- Creating an outline business case
- Defining the project organisation structure
- Planning the Foundation Phase
Setting firm foundations for an Agile project
- Integrating business, solution and management perspectives
- Establishing a Prioritised Requirements List (PRL)
- Defining project and solution standards
- Agreeing on roles and responsibilities
- Extending the outline business case
- Baselining a schedule of project activities
Evolving an Accurate Solution
Investigating and designing options
- Iteratively exploring detailed requirements and confirming viability
- Iteratively modelling solutions
- Refining the evolving solution to meet prioritised business needs
- Expanding and refining products
Incorporating DSDM project management techniques
- Timeboxing development cycles
- Controlling progress throughout the project
- Delivering a quality product to meet requirements
- Managing project risk
Deploying Solutions
Releasing to the business
- Achieving acceptance from stakeholders
- Planning the release
- Transferring ownership to the business environment
- Migrating products into live use
- Training end users and completing documentation
Closing the project
- Confirming that the benefits can still be delivered
- Formally closing the project
- Evaluating the project to support continuous improvement
Conducting post-project activities
- Assessing whether the project benefits have been achieved
- Comparing the results of the projects to the original business case
Foundation and Practitioner Exams
Preparing for the exams
- Gaining insight into the exam process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Practising with sample test questions
Foundation Exam (Day 2)
- Completing the necessary APMG paperwork
- Taking the foundation exam
Practitioner Exam (Day 5)
- Taking the practitioner exam