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PMBOK or PRINCE as a whole or parts is hard to implement and various businesses all over struggle with it. It is because they are too complicated, too intricate and takes too much time to deliver the desired results. Agile Course is the solution to the problem of adapting to ever changing business environment.

Agile Training is an adaptive and agile process designed in a way such that maximum business value are delivered to the clients within the limited time and cost constraints where the variable components are adjusted at each alteration. Maximum business value is given to any component only on the discretion of the client and after bringing about alteration, it is up to the client to decide to change the direction of the project based on what was experienced from implementing previous alteration. Therefore, Agile Course helps in accepting and managing change, not resisting it.

The following five phases define Agile Course:

1.      Version scope

-          In order to define what is needed and what will be done to meet that need, Conditions of Satisfaction (COS) are to be developed.

-          Develop the Project Overview Statement (POS) which helps summarize the problems or opportunities, what is needed to be done and how it is to be done, the business value and risks and obstacles to success.

-          Prioritize functional requirements: the list is subjected to changes but helps us to view available information.

-          Goals, major functions and sub-functions can be shown by developing mid-level Work Breakdown Structure all of this is taught during agile certification.

-          Prioritize scope triangle which consists of factors such as time, cost, resources, scope and quality. This does not include customer satisfaction.

2.      Cycle Plan

-          Those activities which define the functionality that are to be developed in this cycle are to be extracted from the WBS during Agile Training.

-          The WBS is then to be brought down to the task level.

-          Establish correlations among the tasks during Agile Training.

-          Separating tasks into meaningful groups and assign these groups to teams.

-          Every team has to develop a micro level schedule within the limited resources allocated to them so that task can be completed within the established timeline and budget constraints.

3.      Cycle Build

-          To produce the functionality assigned to this cycle, detailed planning is to be conducted.

-          Initiate cycle work.

-          Inspect and regulate cycle build.

-          The cycle ends when its time has expired. Any functionality that fails to be completed in this tenure is reconsidered as a part of functionality for the next year.

-          Create a Scope Bank which records all change requests and ideas that can bring about improvement.

-          In order to record all problems and to confirm the status of their resolution, Issue logs are to be created during Agile Training.

4.      Client Checkpoint

-          Quality checked performed by the client and project managers of the functionality produced in the just completed cycle against the overall goal of the maximum business value. Adjustments are made to high-level plan and next cycle work if require in agile training

-          The above sequence is then repeated until the time and cost budgets for the project have been expanded.

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5.      Post Version Review

-          Determine if the expected business outcome was attained.

-          Determine what improvements can be made based on what was learned. Thereby improving the effectiveness of Agile Training.

Therefore as seen above, Agile Course takes aid of a lucid framework that if implemented properly can help gain benefits early. It also takes the use of continuous questioning and introspection helps implement changes effectively and gradually and also eliminates all the non-value-added work.

So are you willing to give Agile Course a try?