Agile Project Management for Non-IT Teams

Introduction to Agile

• Types of project life cycles

• Where Agile approaches work best

• History of Agile methodologies

Specifics and effects of Agile projects

• Being and Doing

• What is the “Agile mindset”?

• The Agile Manifesto – values and principles

Types of Agile practices

• Applying Agile Outside of Information Technology

• Kanban

• Scrum Overview

Scrum Practice

• Values as the Foundation of Scrum

• Scrum Roles

• Scrum Artifacts

• Key Scrum Activities

• Practice (business simulation)

Working with Scrum Teams

• Communication Principles

• Communication Effectiveness Model

• Organizing the workspace

• Team dynamics by Tuckman

• Evaluating team performance

• Practice (business simulation)

Management and its transformation in Scrum

• Operational Work and Change

• Leadership through service

• Continuous improvement

Planning in Scrum projects

• Levels of Planning

• User Stories

• Preparing the product backlog

• Project development roadmap

• Principles of conducting daily Scrum

• Practice (business simulation)

Summary

• Retrospective (practice)

• Q&A session