First Steps Toward Agility: Incorporating Agile Practices in a Waterfall Environment with NK Shrivastava
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Formulate a strategy to introduce agile in their organizations.
- Explain the first steps to take toward becoming agile.
- Demonstrate agile practices that can be utilized by a waterfall team.
Description
Both predictive (waterfall) and adaptive (agile) methodologies have pros and cons and can be effective ways to structure a project. For teams that are not using an agile approach, there are still agile practices that can benefit them. Daily standups, retrospectives, and many other key agile practices and ceremonies can benefit even a waterfall team. For many, the most arduous part of transitioning to agile in a waterfall environment happens at the beginning—in the uncertainty of how to put the initiative into motion.
In this training, strategies and best practices to begin incorporating agile practices are revealed. Real-world experiences working with existing project teams are shared. By initiating practices, teams start to understand the agile principles and mindset and become better prepared to take the next steps on their agile journey. Specific agile practices and how to adapt each one to a traditional environment are covered.
AGENDA
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- Getting Started
- Benefits of Agility
- Agile Concepts: Values, Principles, and Practices
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Planning and Execution
- Summary/Q&A
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- First Steps Toward Agility: Incorporating Agile Practices in a Waterfall Environment
- Deep Dive for the Top 10 Agile Practices
- Maintaining a backlog
- Progressive elaboration
- Smaller iterations
- Daily standups
- Frequent reviews/demos
- Retrospectives
- Wireframes for user interface (UI) design
- Kanban boards
- Limiting work in process (WIP)
- Frequent customer involvement
- Taking First Steps
- Agile Tools
- Summary/Final Q&A
I absolutely enjoyed the training and learned a lot from it, I can see how the learnings can be applied at work and in my personal life. The trainer was excellent, engaging, knowledgeable and very patient with the class. Grateful for a good session.
December 2023 Attendee
Engaging group work, participatory group, and enthusiastic instructor.
October 2023 Attendee
There was a lot of focus on practical applications, real-world examples, and integration of different types of media and activities. I found this training to be relevant to my work and inspired me to make changes.
October 2023 Attendee
PDU Allocation Table
| Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-SP® | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| PMI-RMP® | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| PfMP® | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| PMI-PBA® | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
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Instructor(s)
Narendra NK Shrivastava
CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced Project Management Consultant, Trainer, and Agile Coach. He is a highly accomplished, strategic, and business-savvy consultant with more than 25 years of experience in project management, risk management and process improvements. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management topics and specializes in PMP exam preparation, project management fundamentals, risk management, earned value management and Agile.