CLPM-104: The Power of Agile Project Management

Many businesses failed to deliver their projects within the budget and time despite having access to plenty of digital tools in the marketplace. The Power of Agile Project Management is a systematic methodology which helps businesses to:

• Ensure projects are delivered on time within the budgetwith the quality promised
• Save cost by maximizing productivity
• Minimize waste in efficiency due to communicationbreakdown

Upon completing the workshop, participant should be able to:

• List out the stages of project management.
• Describe the differences, advantages and disadvantages between waterfall, lean, Kanban, and agile methodology.
• Identify and manage process stakeholders using the Power Matrix.
• Communicate to stakeholders on the trade-offs between scope, cost, time and quality.
• Determine the project scope.
• Understand the roles of the Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Scrum Development Team in Sprint Planning.
• Implement project closure techniques to gather feedback to measure the effectiveness of the project management process.

• Prepare a project charter and risk register.
• Plan and assign tasks to stakeholders using the Power Matrix.
• Use project management software tools such as Clickup, Notion, Microsoft Project, TeamGantt or Excel to track tasks.
• Write user stories to the Product Backlog.
• Apply the Scrum methodology to a project.

New hires or existing employees who are assigned to lead or manage a new project in software development. This course is also suitable for software developers who wants to transition into a project management role.

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management
The training session will begin with an introduction to project management and an overview of the Project Management Lifecycle. Participants will also be introduced to the various different project management methodologies such as waterfall, lean, Kanban and agile. Finally, participants will also be taught how to apply the Project Management Trade-Off Matrix in decision-making.

Module 2: Stakeholder Management
In this module, participants will be expected to understand the roles and manage expectations of different stakeholders in different parts of the project management lifecycle using the Power Matrix. Participants will also learn about corporate governance and the differences between selected roles commonly involved in software development projects such as a project sponsor, portfolio manager, program manager, product manager, process manager, business analyst, developers and project manager.

Module 3: Project Initiation
Participants will learn to create a project charter and risk register. They will learn how to write proper project objective statements and identify the required resources under appropriate assumptions and constraints. They will then map out the major milestones with the expected due dates. They will also learn how to prepare a budget using common project financing terms such as CAPEX, OPEX and measure the ROI of the project.

Module 4: Project Planning
In this module, participants will analyze the project requirements
in depth to create a Work Breakdown Structure. Using the Work
Breakdown Structure, they will learn how to estimate the task
duration, start time and end time and use it to create a project
schedule and plot a Gantt chart. Finally, they will learn about the
different type of dependencies between tasks and learn how to
map them onto a Gantt chart.

Module 5: Project Execution using Scrum Methodology
Participants will learn how to utilize the scrum framework to ensure
features are delivered on a consistent basis. They will learn about
the purpose and usage of the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog as
well as the roles of the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum
Development Team in Sprint Planning Meeting. They will also learn
how to handle changes to a project scope.

Module 6: The Role of Project Management Software
Participants will learn how to use project management software to
assist them in creating Gantt charts, task management and tracking,
and set up project status update reports to stakeholders on a
scheduled basis.

Module 7: Project Simulator
Participants will participate in a proprietary project management
simulator game where they will be broken down into groups to
deliver a project which solves a specific problem statement. They
will be given the opportunity to apply the knowledge which they
had learnt during the previous modules to complete the simulator.

Module 8: Managing Costs and Project Closure
Participants will learn how to monitor a project’s budget and
performance. They will also learn about the importance and proper
methodologies to collect feedback and document the learnings as a
reference for future project managers.