Agile for Creative & Digital Teams Training Course

Course overview

• As digital projects grow in complexity, user-centricity, and multi-faceted nature, managing them effectively has become more challenging.
• This is why digital teams are increasingly adopting Agile principles and methodologies to boost project success. According to the Standish Group, Agile-trained teams have a 23% higher project success rate.
• This immersive one-day Agile training course will teach participants Agile principles, ceremonies, and techniques to help them manage and deliver projects successfully within Agile environments, leading to better-managed projects, more efficient internal processes, reduced risk, and ultimately happier end-users.

Benefits

• Determine when an Agile approach is suitable for digital projects
• Grasp the essential terminology, principles, and ceremonies in Agile environments
• Learn how to manage projects from inception to completion using an Agile framework
• Compare popular Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and others
• Achieve the right level of stakeholder involvement
• Enhance collaboration across various disciplines within the project team
• Utilize Agile tools for planning, forecasting, and managing projects

Curriculum

Introducing Agile Principles

• Differences between Agile and other digital development approaches
• A review of the Agile manifesto
• Key Agile principles and terminology
• Exercise: delivering incrementally
• The various flavours of Agile: from Scrum to Kanban and more

Agile on Digital Projects

• Components of a typical web project - information architecture, design, user research, and coding
• Collaboration and feedback as key elements of delivery
• User-centricity and working with user stories
• Iterative development with sitemaps and wireframes
• Testing - when and how
• What does 'done' mean?
• Utilizing different team skillsets when running Agile projects
• Common challenges faced when applying Agile to digital projects
• Advantages of an Agile approach to digital projects
• When to use Agile (and when not to)

Running Agile Projects with Scrum

• The Scrum lifecycle
• Roles - Product Owner vs ScrumMaster
• Developing User stories
• Ceremonies - standups, sprints, retrospectives, showcases
• Estimation - T-shirt sizing and story points
• Artefacts - User stories, product backlog, sprint backlog
• Tracking progress - planning board and burn-down charts
• Hands-on running a sprint

Governance of Agile Projects

• The PM is dead - long live the PM
• What management wants (and needs) to know
• Project Manager vs ScrumMaster vs Product Owner: ownership and governance
• Managing and communicating scope, plan, progress, costs, risks

Who will benefit from this course?

• This Agile project management course is suitable for project managers, producers, designers, UX professionals, developers, or anyone working in creative or digital teams who want a better grasp of the framework, principles, and practices of Agile.