Agile in complex environments

Audience

Project and programme managers, Sponsors, Business Change Managers, team members and anyone who will be involved change projects

Background

Many companies are now pursuing an Agile development strategy in order to be more responsive to their customer’s needs and realise benefits much earlier. However., much of the material on Agile assumes a relatively simplistic ‘Agile-only’ scenario; there is little support for exploiting Agile alongside traditional approaches, using Agile within business transformation projects, working with suppliers  and with off-shore delivery. 

This course explains how you can get the best of both worlds: an ability to exploit the benefits of Agile while still retaining the control and scope of more traditional approaches.

Objectives

On completion, delegates will be able to:

• Describe the principles and benefits of  Agile approaches
• Recognise when Agile is and is not suitable
• Follow a proven technique for setting-up a project for success
• Demonstrate how to use Agile and more traditional methods together
• Integrating  Agile with Benefits Realisation
• Describe how to control combined traditional and Agile projects
• Describe how to use Agile  with third-party suppliers including off shore
• Begin applying the above  on real projects

Course Content

• An introduction to Agile : the Agile manifesto & principles
• Suitability filter : not everything should be Agile
• Setting up a project for success : Milestone Planning
• Delivery approach : Agile and traditional together
• Suppliers and Agile
• Governance approach : exercising control & staying agile
• Tracking and comms in a mixed-mode world
• Putting it all into practice

The course uses a real-life social scenario (not workplace related) to practice the techniques. The lecturers also draw on their personal experiences of using Agile and other approaches to illustrate how they do work together in the business environment

Duration

One day, in-house

Awards

n/a

Delivered by

This course is delivered in association with SMA

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