SessionFive018

Moving towards Agile Project Management

Johanna Rothman

Description

Your project's ship date seems short for the necessary work. Your requirements are sure to change. Everyone's pounding on you for even more features. So, you realize that a conventional waterfall lifecycle is unlikely to solve your problems. You'd like to try an Agile lifecycle, but your organization is suspicious of Agile techniques, or doesn't know how to cope with out the false assurance of a detailed Gantt chart. What can you do?

Without completely changing everything you do in your projects, you can take some steps to become more agile -- providing business value to your stakeholders and customers.

In this session, through practice, we'll develop a framework--based on the kinds of risks you typically encounter--for integrating selected agile practices into different types of projects.

Learning Objectives:

Illuminate key Agile practices.
Practice these Agile practices
Learn about frameworks based on project risk
Develop a framework project managers can use to select agile practices that fit their projects
Have fun working on projects

Constraints: requires at least 10 people so we can practice with a minimum of two projects. Upper bound of 40 people.

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Updated: Thursday, May 5, 2005