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Agile Project Management Approaches Course Project
Part One: Consider Incorporating Agile into Your Work
Now that you have had a chance to examine some of the critical characteristics of agile and you have seen its evolution from the software development realm into other applications, you can consider how you might incorporate an agile approach into your own work.
Answer the following questions, using as much space as you need.
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1. Review the Agile Manifesto. How does it support or reflect your understanding of the role of project management in helping deliver value to the customer and the organization?
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2. Review the twelve principles of agile. Which of them are most applicable to your practice of project management?
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3. What would you need to do differently to incorporate an agile approach into your project management work? |
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4. If you were to adapt your work to be more agile, how would you change your approach to project schedules? What would you do differently? |
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5. If you were to adapt your work to be more agile, how would you change your approach to creating and managing budgets? What would you do differently? |
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CEPM505: Agile Project Management Approaches
Cornell University College of Engineering
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Part Two: Comparing Agile to Traditional
Traditional project management and agile are very different conceptual paradigms. It’s the characteristics of the project that will dictate the right structure for project planning, management, and control. For this part of the course project, you will identify a project you managed in the past that you think would have fit one or the other philosophy better.
Answer the following questions, using as much space as you need.
Part Three: Considering the Flavors of Agile
You will be best positioned to incorporate the different attributes of adaptable project management approaches into your work if you can think critically about what each offers to you and make sound decisions about when your projects’ characteristics demand them. In this part of the course project, you will demonstrate your understanding of the different flavors of agile.
Answer the following questions, using as much space as you need.
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1. Lean is, philosophically, a little different than agile. It offers some control. It asks you to try to eliminate waste everywhere you can. How do you see the principles of lean being helpful to you in your work? |
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2. Scrum is an implementation of lean. Do you have a project you could use scrum on? How do you think using scrum for that project might help you? Why would scrum make sense in that context? |
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3. If you don’t have a project for which scrum would be helpful, then describe the kind of project you think it would it make sense for. |
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4. What might a project backlog look like in your work? Try to design a backlog for your purposes. What would you want to include? Note: Rather than listing work items in a backlog, focus on the properties of the backlog items, i.e., the column headings in a table, as opposed to the row titles. For example, the reference number, title, completion status, etc. |
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5. Describe your understanding of how lean principles help to complement project management efforts. |
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6. How do you think an understanding of kanban and extreme programming will help you in your project management efforts? Offer your ideas. |
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7. What kind of soft skills do you think a project manager coming from a more traditional environment would need in a lean environment? Remember that they can’t act the same way. Lean is not based on command and control; it’s based on individuals making choices and decisions. The project manager is more of a facilitator than an enforcer. What soft skills would be necessary?
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