Course Outline
Day 1 - Managing Software Projects in a Waterfall Context
1. Introduction to Waterfall
a. Historical Context
- Winston Royce
- Background in manufacturing processes
b. Waterfall stages
- Requirements gathering
- Design
- Implementation
- Verification
- Maintenance
c. Waterfall challenges
- Handling change
- Distance between business knowledge and implementation
- Storing risk to late in the lifecycle
- Prioritisation of scope
d. Summary of reactions to Waterfall model
- Embrace – Waterfall approaches, eg SSADM
- Cope – V-Model
- Adapt – Incremental
- Reject – Agile
- Enhance – Lean
2. V-Model coping strategies for Waterfall delivery
a. Early verification and validation
- Cost of finding late
- Reviews and inspections
- Static analysis
b. V-Model test stages
- Unit/Unit integration
- System
- System Integration
- Acceptance
c. V-Model benefits
- Increased end-user involvement in verification
- Early risk mitigation
3. Adapting Waterfall with Incremental approaches
a. Types of Incremental approaches
- Pre-planned
- Parallel, RAD
- Evolutionary, RUP
b. Incremental delivery principles
- Product increments
- Proto-typing
- Timeboxing
c. Benefits of incremental delivery
- Increased user involvement in decision making
- Early return on investment
- Reacts to change
4. Rejecting the Waterfall model in favour of Agile
a. Agile Essentials
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Principles
b. Introduction to Scrum, the most popular Agile framework
- Iterative delivery
- Collaborative working
- Just in time documentation
- Adaptive planning
c. Benefits of Agile
- Increased user involvement throughout process
- Empowered development team
- Rapid return on investment
- Greater ability to react to change
- Reduce nugatory development
5. Enhancing Waterfall with Kanban delivery
a. Lean and Kanban
- History of Lean delivery
- History of Kanban
- Principle of reducing waste
b. Introduction to Kanban
- The Kanban board
- Managing work-in-progress
c. Benefits of Kanban
- Greater ability to react to change
- Rapid return on investment
- Reduce nugatory development
Day 2 - Agile Project Management Techniques
1. Empirical Process Control
a. Inspect
- Demonstration
- Retrospection
b. Adapt
- Adaptive planning
- Continuous improvement
c. Transparency
- Stakeholder involvement
- Contract negotiation
- Just in time documentation
2. Managing requirements
a. Backlogs
- Product
- Release
- Sprint
b. Backlog Items
- User Stories
- Defects
- Requirements specifications
c. Risk
- Adjusting Backlog for risk
- Risk burndown
3. Estimation and control
a. Timebox planning
- Release planning
- Iteration planning
- Daily communication
b. Prioritisation techniques
- MoSCow
- Value based
- Other techniques
c. Estimation techniques
- User story grooming
- Planning Poker
4. Delivery management
a. Iterative delivery
- Team velocity
- Rapid return on investment
b. Information radiators
- Scrum wall
- Burn-down chart
5. Team management
a. Associative leadership
- ScrumMaster as facilitator
- Role of the traditional project manager
b. End-user involvement
- The single decision maker - the Product Owner
- Communicating with stakeholders (Pigs and Chickens)
c. Empowered team
- Self-managing teams
- The role of the specialist within the team
- Managing split teams
Testimonials (5)
team exercises
Dan
Course - SAFe® for Teams
sharing experiences and sharing other materials not included in the package.
BRYAN SANTOS - Mizuho Bank Ltd - Manila Branch
Course - Agile Business Analysis
The theory, the examples, the excercices, the explanations.
bao thanh n guyen van - EDQM - Council of Europe - Conseil de l'Europe
Course - Agile Software Testing
I liked very much the mood and the peace of the trainer.
Daniel Iliescu - Provident Polska S.A.
Course - Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence
I really liked the balls exercise.