Manage dependencies between agile project management and iterative delivery and other initiatives.
Agile Project Management and Iterative Delivery Methodology
Turn agile project management and iterative delivery from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Projects involving agile project management and iterative delivery are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. A schedule for iterative delivery without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting the project and portfolio delivery capability and under-invest in testing it. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on agile project management and iterative delivery are used deliberately. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this strand of project and portfolio delivery and the judgement to adapt it. Participants test their assumptions about iterative delivery against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about agile project management and iterative delivery under scrutiny. Across sectors, teams that rehearse iterative delivery outperform teams that only plan it. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the practice within project and portfolio delivery survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Select indicators that show whether iterative delivery is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of agile project management and iterative delivery.
Set acceptance criteria for iterative delivery before work begins rather than after.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on agile project management and iterative delivery for senior management.
Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of iterative delivery.
Plan handover and benefit realisation for agile project management and iterative delivery.
Who Should Attend
Risk managers supporting agile project management and iterative delivery.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring iterative delivery.
Business change managers handling adoption of agile project management and iterative delivery.
Team leaders and supervisors who put iterative delivery into practice day to day.
Technical leads delivering work packages within agile project management and iterative delivery.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of iterative delivery current.
Course Modules
Agile project management and iterative delivery: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in agile project management and iterative delivery and what to ignore
- Set out the decisions in agile project management and iterative delivery that require sign-off and by whom.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when iterative delivery underperforms.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of agile project management and iterative delivery.
- Estimate iterative delivery using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Session 2Pricing every change to iterative delivery
- Confirm that contractual obligations around agile project management and iterative delivery are understood.
- Test the procedure for iterative delivery against a realistic scenario.
- Build reporting on agile project management and iterative delivery that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Manage supplier performance on iterative delivery against contract, not goodwill.
Iterative delivery: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring progress on iterative delivery honestly
- Map the handovers in agile project management and iterative delivery between functions and secure them.
- Set the change control process for iterative delivery and require cost and time impact.
- Define the decision gates for agile project management and iterative delivery and what evidence each requires.
- Agree the escalation threshold for iterative delivery in advance.
Session 2Recovering iterative delivery when it is behind
- Register the risks to agile project management and iterative delivery with owner, probability and impact.
- Review at each gate whether iterative delivery should continue at all.
- Define how the benefit from agile project management and iterative delivery will be measured after closure.
- Benchmark the organisation's iterative delivery against comparable operations.
Iterative delivery: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing iterative delivery before relying on it
- Archive the decision record for agile project management and iterative delivery so successors understand it.
- Review whether iterative delivery is aligned with the objectives of the project.
- Anticipate the objections agile project management and iterative delivery will raise and prepare the answers.
- Compare the cost of iterative delivery with the cost of its absence.
Session 2Estimating agile project management and iterative delivery without anchoring on the answer wanted
- Hold a lessons session on agile project management and iterative delivery while memory is accurate.
- Rehearse the briefing on iterative delivery that would follow an incident.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates agile project management and iterative delivery is under control.
- Build the competence framework that supports iterative delivery.
Iterative delivery: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where iterative delivery typically breaks, and why
- Measure progress on agile project management and iterative delivery by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Map stakeholders of iterative delivery by influence and current level of support.
- Define acceptance criteria for agile project management and iterative delivery in advance.
- Check that iterative delivery still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2Closing iterative delivery and capturing what was learned
- Verify six months later that changes to agile project management and iterative delivery have held.
- Prepare the recovery plan for iterative delivery before it is needed.
- Write the scope statement for agile project management and iterative delivery including explicit exclusions.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for iterative delivery.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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