Agile Projects Toolkit

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Initiate Agile Projects: work closely with the IT Business Analysts and Enterprise Administration to support Strategy, Planning and Governance of technology solutions and investments for business partners.

More Uses of the Agile Projects Toolkit:

  • Assure your project develops and maintains a test governance model in keeping with your SDLC practices for Waterfall and Agile Projects, based on industry Best Practices.

  • Maintain client/partner relationships and demonstrate expertise in leading/overseeing Agile Projects to ensure successful outcomes.

  • Ensure you meet; lead the team to collaborate with IT Finance to track actual versus expected cost and value for Project Teams and committed scope; for Agile Projects, engage in Lean funding model rather than Project based funding or Cost Accounting.

  • Ensure you conduct; good to know Continuous Build and Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline processes and DevOps processes for Agile Projects.

  • Contribute ideas that shape your unique, outcomes focused Agile transformation framework, the Path to Agility.

  • Manage work with other Agile team members to build in Test Automation from the ground up for every migration in the system.

  • Pilot Agile Projects: mature, evolve, and implement Software Engineering practices, as Agile Methodology, design standards, coding standards, peer review, testing, etc.

  • Directly influence leadership (up to executive levels) and the teams throughout DTS (infrastructure, applications teams, business partners, Strategy/Innovation/Architecture, Cybersecurity and Assurance) and business to drive adoption of Product and Agile thinking.

  • Ensure you multiply; lead the development of innovative solutions to support your organizations agile methodologies to meet Customer Requirements.

  • Arrange that your organization maintains and Continuous Improvement of processes, standards, policies, working methods, and tools using Agile and ITIL Best Practices.

  • Provide technical and architectural guidance towards the Automation Solution that supports Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile practices.

  • Application Architecture (as a subset of solutions architecture) provides a high level vision of Enterprise Solutions and development initiatives applying lean and Systems Thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

  • Ensure you build; lead work in an Agile environment to design and develop software and Automation Solutions (code and Low Code methods).

  • Drive use of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Methodology.

  • Facilitate continuous planning by ensuring the team is making good commitments and is delivering on the commitments it makes.

  • Improve teams adoption of Agile practices by increasing Team Collaboration, Innovation And Continuous Improvement.

  • Coordinate with teams across the enterprise on the migration of existing IT Services to the cloud; identify security technical requirements, potential problems and issues, and participate on Agile software Development Teams.

  • Warrant that your organization oversees moderately to highly complex and/or large scale projects from initiation to completion by exercising best Program Management practices.

  • Audit Agile Projects: champion and implement engineering Best Practices, specifically with Agile Development methodology (prefer scrum) and Project Planning, estimation and tracking.

  • Be accountable for helping you increase the pace and quality of your development and Release Management through Agile methods and DevOps workflows.

  • Apply SDLC and Agile software Quality Assurance and Software Testing concepts and practices to continuously assess the risks, condition and quality of products and releases.

  • Direct Agile Projects: work as a part of Scrum team executing the products requirements working with UX, Product Management and other teams in an Agile manner.

  • Ensure you involve; lead multiple projects that are executed and managed in an Agile environment.

  • Coordinate Agile Projects: pro actively identify and mitigate risks using Agile Best Practices and Project Data.

  • Lead Agile Projects: work closely with various Agile Development and IT Technology Teams to plan and implement integrations with other cloud, SaaS, and on premise network and service environments.

  • Facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies, remove impediments faced by team to improve Team Productivity.

  • Confirm your project ensures adherence to Agile practice through program increment planning, retrospectives, etc for Agile teams, and helps chart and implement deeper agility adoption initiatives with the help of other SMs and Agile coaches.

  • Make sure that your organization creates structure, organizational processes based on iterative development models and Continuous Delivery to drive outcomes and value of Agile delivery teams.

  • Encourage the sharing of new techniques and tools, showcase Best Of Breed practices in the market, invest in Professional Development, and provide regular and timely critique of Agile and SAFe practices.

  • Manage work with the team on projects during the requirements discovery phase through implementation and deployment of completed projects.

  • Guide Agile Projects: document and thoroughly understand the Application Architecture, system configuration across platforms and interface with various systems and use this knowledge effectively to resolve issues.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Agile Projects Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Agile Projects related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Agile Projects specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Agile Projects Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Projects improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What role does communication play in the success or failure of a Agile Projects project?

  2. What qualifications do Agile Projects leaders need?

  3. What is the cause of any Agile Projects gaps?

  4. What other organizational variables, as reward systems or Communication Systems, affect the performance of this Agile Projects process?

  5. What area needs the greatest improvement?

  6. Did you tackle the cause or the symptom?

  7. How will you motivate the stakeholders with the least vested interest?

  8. Who is the main stakeholder, with ultimate responsibility for driving Agile Projects forward?

  9. Are the units of measure consistent?

  10. Has a cost center been established?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Agile Projects book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Agile Projects self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Agile Projects Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Projects areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Agile Projects Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Agile Projects projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Agile Projects Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Agile Projects project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Agile Projects project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Agile Projects Project Team have enough people to execute the Agile Projects Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Agile Projects Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Agile Projects Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Agile Projects project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Agile Projects project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Agile Projects project with this in-depth Agile Projects Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Agile Projects projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Agile Projects and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Agile Projects investments work better.

This Agile Projects All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.