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Synopsis

This class provides an overview of Agile mindset and common methodologies for Agile project team and stakeholders. Participants will know the Agile approach to new product development. They will apply the basic knowledge of Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospectives, and learn to utilize the concepts of Inspection, Adaptation, and Continuous Improvement. If you need to bring values to customers or users during a significant change in an organization, Agile is definitely a good choice. There include strong communication skills during project initiation, planning, review and especially change requests.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the class, students will be able to:

1. Compare the Agile and Waterfall approaches
2. Know the basics of Agile Team Organization
3. Apply Agile project charter and high-level estimating principles
4. Create personas and user stories and requirements decomposition
5. Develop and manage a product backlog
6. Use information radiator on project communications
7. Manage iteration review and iteration retrospective

Course Outline

• What is Agile?
  • The Agile Value Proposition
  • Comparison of agile and traditional approaches
  • The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles

• Overview Agile methodologies and themes
  • Scrum overview
  • XP overview
  • Value driven delivery
  • Time boxes and prioritization
• Project Initiation
  • Project vision and initiation
  • High level estimation
  • Product backlog
  • Story maps and the product roadmap
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• Release Planning
  • Minimally marketing feature
  • Decomposing stories
  • Story maps for releases
  • Prioritization methods
  • Story points and velocity
  • Creating a release plan
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• During the Iterations
  • Agile process overview
  • Spikes and related roles
  • Planning meeting
  • Communication and team space
  • Daily stand-up meeting
  • Information radiators
  • The iteration retrospective
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• Agile teams
  • Tasks, roles
  • Leadership
• Reviews and retrospectives
  • Continuous improvement
  • Iteration reviews, retrospectives

Target audience

• For Agile project stakeholders,
  • refresh their knowledge, tools and techniques about Agile
  • prepare and participate Agile projects

Instructor’s Profile

Mr. Alex Sin PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI-PBA ®, ITSM® Manager, SAFe SPC®, ICP-ACC®, ATP Trainer (PMP)

Alex Sin is an independent consultant, comes 30 years of successful business experience, of which 14 years in IT services and 16 years in Learning & Development.

Alex Sin is a certified instructor in a number of areas including Management Development, IT Consulting and Project Management. Alex is certified as PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI-PBA®, ITIL/ITSM® Manager, SAFe(6)SPC, ICP-ACC well equipped with Methodology to deliver Consulting services. He is also a practitioner of MBTI® and DISC® well-known consulting tools.

Alex enriched his Project Management experience from large scaled projects like Libraries, EMSD and Companies Registry. Alex is the Vice President (2003-2023) of Project Management Institute Hong Kong Chapter. He used to take charge software development and the acceptance. He recently finished a virtualization project for a local telecom company. Alex offered important advice to internal system development including accounting, manufacturing, logistics and government industries. He regularly delivers Project Management related classes to the AP region and has trained more than 10,000 professionals.

Alex graduated from The University of Toronto with major in Computer Sciences.