Agile Project Management for VersionOne Users

Overview:

Effectively learn to Plan, Track, and Deliver Agile Projects using the industry-leading agile project management solution, VersionOne’s V1: Agile Enterprise

Description:

Defining, tracking, and managing an agile project has never been easier!
Many project managers experiment with multiple tools to manage backlog requirements, resource allocation, and project reporting. Separate tools are used by quality assurance and development. Additional tool may be used to track defects and build runs. VersionOne has created a central repository to manage all of the data from various, disparate tools. Team members in any role now have a central location to manage their workload and view a variety of dashboards to manage a project from inception to completion. The VersionOne solution is the complete package!

The most costly mistake management teams make when implementing or transitioning to agile project management is failing to establish the correct foundation or failing to provide the teams with the tools they need to be successful from the very onset of implementation.

This is not to say that old habits cannot be changed, but in most situations it is easier to proceed with an agile project when the entire team has the same baseline level of understanding of basic agile principles and how they will be applied culturally within your organization.

Attend this session and leave empowered and equipped with the tools necessary to hit the ground running and create an atmosphere of hyperproductivity within your organization.
Whether you are serving as an agile consultant to the team and organization or hitting the daily grind as a developer or quality assurance tester, this is the right course for you. Be prepared to absorb the right combination of textbook agile principles and real-world practice expertise as we traverse the agile experience together using the VersionOne application.

Agile project management tool selection is a critical factor to successfully manage any agile team.
Studies have shown that careful tool selection is implicitly correlated to a teams’ successful agile implementation. Many tools dictate the process and force compliance to get meaningful data into the project management tool. VersionOne is a flexible application that does not require your organization to do away with sound established agile principles within your organization. The tool itself is structured to be flexible in allowing teams to find the most successful structure and terminology that best match your current company culture. VersionOne also embraces that developers, testers, and others may use different applications to do their day-to-day work. As a result, the VersionOne enterprise application has multiple open source free integrations to the most commonly used applications in each role.

In-Class Exercises

In-class hands-on exercises are custom designed to help agile team members (at any level) experience the entire agile process through implementation of hands-on team based initiatives. Through team coordination you will discuss benefits of each step in the agile process and learn to manage all of the information within the VersionOne application.

Specific hands-on exercises within the VersionOne application include:

Gathering Requirements and Writing Effective Backlog Items

Understanding Estimation and Increasing its Effectiveness

Adding and Prioritizing Product Backlog Items

Creating and Associating Backlog Items to Feature Groups

Creating and Effectively Using Backlog Item and Defect Templates

Creating and Breaking Down Epic Backlog Items

Effectively Entering and Managing Issues and Requests

Association of Backlog Items to Specific Releases and Functional Teams

Understanding the Four Steps of Sprint Planning

Sprint Assignment

Task Breakdown and Estimation

Member Assignment

Review of Outstanding Issues or Impediments

Creating and Managing Backlog Item Dependencies

Holding an Effective Daily Standup Meeting

Daily Management of the Virtual Taskboard

Sprint Review and Close

Conducting a Sprint Retrospective

Project Management Using the My Home Console

Reporting Explanation and Overview

Using the Community Site to Learn More About Current Integrations, API, and SDK

20 Immediate benefits of this cours

Break the bad habits that may have been instilled by a multi-tiered agile approach.

Instill foundational agile principles that help teams to all start on the same page.

Get an introduction to the industry leading agile project management tool.

Get a clear understanding of how to define, present, and estimate concise backlog items.

Understand how the product backlog is managed and ranked.

Perform hands-on exercises for each step of the agile process.

Learn the roles of each agile team member.

Know what to expect as a result of your VersionOne implementation and where to look for results.

Gain exposure to multiple real-world scenarios that you can effectively use in your organization.

Produce, manage, and understand the importance of a virtual taskboard and testboard.

Participate in and understand the importance of agile meetings.

Learn to facilitate and conduct an effective agile retrospective.

Understand the scope of a project and how projects are aligned and managed in the project tree.

Manage team workload and team based metrics within the tool.

Effectively communicate to upper management using the VersionOne reporting structure.

Learn to manage issues, requests, and goals within the VersionOne application.

Gain knowledge of each step in the agile process across multiple roles.

Shorten time to market with measurable results at the end of every sprint.

Minimize risk by having testing happen throughout each sprint.

Centralize your process by building integrations with tools the team may currently use.