At a glance
1 day
NZD $990 + GST
AUD $990 inc GST
including in-house delivery.
Agile For The Business
This course is designed to help business staff, both senior and lower level subject matter experts, understand what Agile is, its benefits and the impacts for the business.
This course will help in understanding what an agile project requires from the business to help it run effectively, and what one should expect to get from an Agile project. Since no project is ever just plain sailing, it will also highlight some of the potential pitfalls of an Agile project from the business perspective. It will also cover the key drivers and levers that business personnel could use to guide and steer an Agile project so that they get the outcome they want.
This course is part of the Agile Academy curriculum. Software Education is proud to be a founding partner of the Agile Academy.
Intended For
Any personnel in the business who have to interact with an Agile project in any way.
Prerequisites
None.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants wil have an understanding of how Agile projects work, the collaborative nature of effective Agile teams and how they can contribute to project success.
Content
Introduction
- Why change?
- Target benefits of Agile for the business and IT
- Agile values, principles and practices – a new way of working
- Agile approach and process
- Agile terminology review - feature, story, release, iteration
What are we trying to achieve?
- Change as an opportunity
- Collective wisdom
- How Agile projects respond to change
- Projects in a continuous learning environment
Business Roles and Responsibilities in brief
- What are the business roles in each of Concept, Initiate, Develop, Deploy?
- What are the responsibilities of each role?
- How is this different from traditional projects?
- Contributing to retrospectives
Focus on Requirements Definition
- How details need to evolve over time
- The cost of too much detail too soon
- Focus on Testing and Acceptance
- The business as a customer
- Staying hands-on
- Learning to say “good enough”
Impact for the business
- Resourcing impact (optimising for throughput)
- Cost (Budget) impact (total cost of ownership)
- Requirement impact
- Time impact
- Quality impact
Monitoring and Steering an Agile Project
- Adding, removing and changing stories
- Agile governance
- Staying focussed on added value
- Reporting - what’s velocity? What do we do with defects?
Pitfalls and smells
- Smells
- Tips
Method Used
Lecturing is kept to the minimum necessary. The material is presented as the basis for discussion and active participatory learning, with the presenter guiding the learning process.
