Agile Masterclass: Agile for Project Management

Description

Agile techniques are rapidly becoming the choice for software development where requirements are unpredictable or expected to change over time. This course will help you explore how working on an Agile project has benefits for your development team, your end-users, and your organization. Kanban is a popular framework used to implement Agile and DevOps software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work. Work items are represented visually on a Kanban board, allowing team members to see the state of every piece of work at any time. In this course, you will gain a good understanding of the basics of Scrum before progressing to more advanced topics. You will learn about the Scrum team, various Scrum events and artifacts, and how these come together in a successful project. You will learn the advantages and disadvantages of Scrum so you can use the right practices and tools for your project. All resources and code files are placed here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Agile-Masterclass-Agile-for-Project-Management

What You Will Learn

Understand the need for change in the traditional software development process
Understand Agile principles
Create user stories, themes, and epics
Identify the difference between product backlog and product roadmap
Understand the roles of a product owner and a scrum master
Find various inefficiencies in your process using the Kanban board

Audience

This course is for project managers, members of a project team, or other stakeholders on a project who want to learn about Scrum and Agile, as well as anyone who doesn't have any experience with project management approaches but is looking to get started. No prior knowledge of Scrum is required.

Approach

This course assumes zero prior knowledge about Scrum or Agile while helping you start right at the beginning and taking you through important concepts before diving into more advanced ones. It has clear explanations and provides resources that will be helpful to anyone interested in knowing more about Scrum and can start applying its various practices on the job.

Key Features

Demonstrate the ability to participate effectively in Agile practices for software development * Implement Scrum, Kanban, and extreme programming * Identify and address the most common problems encountered in adopting Agile methods

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Agile-Masterclass-Agile-for-Project-Management

About the Author

Monika Rawat

Monika Rawat has over four years of experience in the financial industry. She has worked with American Express as a product manager with an interest in product management and business strategy. She holds a software engineering and MBA degree. Monika has founded GenMan Solutions, which is a management and technology-based education company, which aims at providing in-demand and essential business-related courses for students and professionals, enabling them to accelerate their careers, transform into a leadership role, and internalize managerial thinking.

Course Outline

1. Welcome to the Course!

2. Agile Fundamentals

3. Key Agile Concepts

4. Agile Estimation

5. Introduction to Scrum

6. Scrum Team

7. Scrum Events

8. Scrum Artifacts

9. Advantages & Disadvantages of Scrum

10. Introduction to Agile Kanban

11. Extreme Programming (XP)