Learn to lead agile Software Projects that adapt to change & discovery, improve collaboration, drive innovation and deliver business value.

Agile methods are taking the IT and software development worlds by storm. Why? Because they're effective and they better align with the realities of software development projects, i.e. changing requirements, ever more challenging technologies, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your software projects.

Software Projects Require more than traditional project management techniques
This workshop focuses on bringing non-traditional methods to bear within your software projects. With project consistently failing at a +60% level for the past 10 plus years, it's clear that traditional techniques aren't working all that well. We'll explore how to blend traditional and non-traditional PM techniques to enhance your project success and delivery of real business value. We'll examine Agility as it relates to estimating, planning, risk management, change and release management.

Improve Your Professional Skills – a key ingredient to Agile success
Today's software teams require vastly different leadership and management skills from Project Managers to truly achieve success. You can't simply tell everyone what to do. Instead, you need to be a strong coach, a change agent and very effective at stakeholder management. Each method and discussion point brings home the fact that trying to drive success through planning simply doesn't work. Instead, plans need to be actualised through the organisation and the team.

Cutting Edge Ideas
This workshop serves as a learning springboard into further areas of Agile Project management. The workshop is based on leading edge tools and techniques from some of the principles leading the Agile revolution.

ScrumMaster Certification
This course also leads to ScrumMaster Certication.

We'll explore concepts from:

• Agile Estimation and Planning – Cohn
• Agile & Iterative Development – Larman
• Agile Project Management – Highsmith
• Extreme Programming – Beck
• Lean Software Development – Poppendieck
• Retrospectives – Kerth
• Scrum – Schwaber & Beedle

• Create more realistic plans and schedules by leveraging history, team performance and ongoing velocity
• Create projects that adapt to discovery and change with integrity and nimbleness
• Improve your soft and coaching skills – within teams and with stakeholders
• Plan Agile projects at five levels
• Change your style from a 'Plan-Driven-Hope' model to an 'Envision-Guide-Realise' model
• Estimate Projects using Wide Band Delphi techniques
• Leverage time-boxed, feasibility targeted iterations to guide architectural evolution and manage technical risk
• Manage risk based on proactive analysis and visibility instead of reacting when it is too late
• Incorporate Lean Techniques into software Project Management

ScrumMaster Certification
This course also leads to ScrumMaster Certication.

Interactive discussions, group exercises, case studies and workshops, we will cover:

• Examine risk and release readiness metrics across Agile methodologies
• Agile Planning at five levels
• Wideband / Planning poker release planning simulation
• Estimation techniques with Story Points and Ideal days
• Scrum negotiation simulation for release content prioritisation
• Coaching workshop focused on discovering your own personal 'coaching style'
• Self Directed teams and their interactions
• Monitoring and tracking Project status using Agile techniques like Burn Down Charts and measuring Velocity
• Efficient and Lean engineering