Agile Training Online

Agile management is an iterative and incremental method to manage the design and build activities for engineering, information technology and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner.

•  It gives flexibility to the projects so that changes can be made even after the planning is completed.
• Adding features to stay up to date with the latest industry developments is easy.
• Client feedback can be taken at the end of each sprint when project priorities are evaluated.
• Bugs can be found and removed at the end of each sprint rather than at the project end.
• Products are thoroughly tested with Agile therefore the deadlines are not likely to be missed. 

•  If the project manager is inefficient, project will become a series of code sprints and then the project will get delayed and exceed budget.
• As it allows for flexibility in initial plans, the final product can be very different from what it was intend to be. 

•  When rapid production is more important than the product quality
• When clients need to change the project scope
• When how the final product will look like is not clear
• When your developers are skilled and creative
• When the industry standards are rapidly changing

•  Active user involvement is imperative
• The team must be empowered to make decisions
• Requirements evolve but the timescale is fixed
• Capture requirements at a high level; lightweight & visual
• Develop small, incremental releases and iterate
• Focus on frequent delivery of products
• Complete each feature before moving on to the next
• Apply the 80/20 rule
• Testing is integrated throughout the project lifecycle – test early and often
• A collaborative & cooperative approach between all stakeholders is essential

•  Scrum
• Lean and Kanban Software Development
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Crystal
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
• Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 

•  Product owner
• ScrumMaster
• Team