Have some projects in your organization adopted agile development methods? Are you struggling to find out how you should be assessing the health of these projects? If so, then this 1-day course is for you.

Aimed at the Project Management Office, Risk Managers, and Auditors, this course provides a high-level, business-focused overview of agile management methods and then goes on to answer questions such as:

• Planning & Documentation
  • What happened to the Gannt Chart, resource plan, work breakdown structure (WBS) and financial baseline?
  • Where are our other standard documents?
  • How come the plan keeps changing?
  • How were the estimates prepared?
  • Can these agile methods work on fixed-price projects?
• Metrics and Control
  • How can I get my standard Earned Value (or similar) metrics from this project?
  • How else can I measure productivity and the accuracy of the team’s estimates?
  • How do I know whether or not the team is on track for the current iteration?
  • How do I know whether or not the entire project is going to hit its completion date?
  • How are the financial and schedule forecasts prepared and can we trust them?
  • How is scope managed? How does agile avoid the negative effects of scope creep?
  • How is work authorized? Where are the sign offs?
  • How do I know if we are being agile enough?
• Enterprise Issues
  • How do we ensure that enterprise-wide standards are being followed?
  • What about interlocks with other dependent projects?
  • How are shared resources managed?