Agile Project Management Quiz

Course Information

• Course Title: MGMT8085: Agile Principles
• Course overview: This course delves into the world of Agile and its principles, focusing on continuous delivery, collaboration, and change response in IT projects.
• Course materials will cover values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, how to enhance communication using user stories, and introducing popular agile frameworks.
• Other aims: Learn how to respond to change in an Agile way, and understand the roles within an Agile team.

Icebreaker Activity

• Students introduced to the class during the first sessions.
• Students will share their name, academic background, reasons for choosing Conestoga, the program, or things they hope to learn in the semester.

Course Format and Evaluation

• The course outline includes quizzes (#1 & #2, #3 & #4), a midterm, and a group project (part 1 and 2).
• Evaluation timeline is shown in a visual format, covering each week.

Resources

• eConestoga: provides course content
• Week-to-week content is available
• PowerPoint Slides: are part of the course resources
• E-text resource is available

Introduction to Agile

• Focuses on guiding principles and practical applications of agile.

Class Structure

• Consists of lecture (35 minutes), break (10 minutes), lecture and exercise (50 minutes), break (10 minutes), practice exercise/discussion (25 minutes), asynchronous hour (5 minutes), summary (10 minutes), Q&A (5 minutes).

What is Agile?

• Agile focuses on "Think" and "Interact" to foster agility.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the history and development of Agile.
• Compare traditional and agile project management approaches.
• Examine agile methodologies before the formation of Agile Alliance.
• Introduce the Agile Manifesto's 4 values and 12 principles.
• Explain Agile principles' applications to the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Explore examples relating agile principles to customer value and project risks.
• Discuss the meaning of an agile mindset.

Week 1: Agile Words

• Students encouraged to use Menti.com to discuss Agile-related words.

History of Agile

• Traditional Project Management (Waterfall) was popular in the 1950s.
• Agile methodologies were developed over several years with different methodologies.
• Agile Alliance was formed in 2001.

A Brief History of Agile

• Traditional Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Formation of the Agile Alliance, Agile Manifesto, Agile Terms and Concepts.

Traditional Project Management

• Effective for projects with easy-to-define work, such as building construction or equipment manufacturing.
• Less adaptable to projects with high uncertainty, like adapting to changing requirements .

Agile Methodologies

• A list of various agile methodologies (Rapid Application Development, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal Agile Methodology, Scrum Framework, Extreme Programming, Dynamic System Development Method, Feature Driven Development) and their developments over time is provided.

Agile Alliance

• Formed in 2001 at the Snowbird meeting.
• Group of 17 software developers established Agile Manifesto's 4 values to guide Agile project management.
• Connected to Lean and Toyota Production System.

The Agile Manifesto

• Values: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, responding to change over following a plan.

Agile Terms & Concepts

• A list of agile terms and concepts, including Backlog, Backlog Refinement, Burndown Chart, Continuous Integration, Daily Stand-up, Definition of Done, Epic, Face to Face Conversation, Information Radiators, Incremental Development, Iterative Development, Kanban Board, Lead Time, MVP, Pair Programming, Refactoring, Retrospective, Test Driven Development, Timebox, Unit Testing, User Story, Velocity

Agile Explained

• The presentation discusses the agile mindset, focusing on its nature.

Agile Values

• A list of agile values.

Value #1: Individuals and interactions

• Explains how individuals and interactions are crucial for project success.
• Communicating and working together effectively is key
• Project success relies on communication among team members

Value #2: Customer collaboration

• Customer is part of the team.
• Collaboration and problem-solving over blame.
• Flexibility approach adapted to uncertainty.
• Trust is critical

Value #3: Working software

• Documentation hinders creativity.
• Feedback confirms assumptions.
• Documentation promotes a "us versus them" mentality.

Value #4: Responding to change

• Highlights iterative development, feedback, and dynamic adjustment to evolving priorities over inflexible planning.

Ten-minute exercise: Values and their actions

• Individuals and groups discuss agile principles in connection with daily practices.

Implementing an Agile Mindset in PM

• Recommendations on how to implement the mindset in projects include learning about various agile frameworks, starting with their values and principles.

How it all connects

• The Agile mindset is defined by 4 values within the 12 principles and carried out through several practices.

Agile Principles

• 12 Agile principles are presented.
  • Satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery
  • Welcoming continuous change of requirements.
  • Frequent delivery and collaboration between team and business people.
  • Support of motivated individuals, environment, and trust
  • Most effective method of communication
  • Working software is the primary measure of progress.
  • Promotion of sustainable and consistent pace development.
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence.
  • Maximization of the amount of work not done.
  • Best projects, requirements, and design emerge from self-organizing projects.
  • Ongoing reflection to improve effectiveness

Asynchronous Activity for Week 1

• Students are asked to view a video and answer questions.
• The video introduces Agile and the recommended approach is given by James Newkirk.
• The course content is given by the instructor to understand Agile Framework used
• The video explains how to implement an Agile framework.

Test Your Knowledge

• Students are asked to test their knowledge of Agile using Menti.com.

Summary

• Key takeaways about Agile, and discussions about Agile.
• Discussion about the agile manifesto, and the role of the Agile alliance.
• The presentation covers Agile practices and principles.

Next Class

• The next class will discuss how agile values, principles, and practices relate to project management.
• Discussion on the relationship among Agile values, principles, and commonly used practices.
• Explanation on how agile principles are derived from the 4 agile values.