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The Challenge of Agile Product Management
The product management role is critical to delivering successful technology products that meet the needs of the market and that are delivered in a timely manner. To be successful, product management must have clear processes and methodologies for communicating product requirements to the development team and planning release schedules. To achieve this, most product managers have been trained in methodologies that were based on more traditional waterfall development techniques, but the majority of software companies have already moved to agile development methodologies and for those companies that haven’t adopted agile development techniques, most of them are evaluating it.
This creates a challenge for product managers for multiple reasons. First, the role of the product manager in many companies is typically not clearly defined and adding agile processes makes the role even more unclear. Second, most training in agile is targeted to the development team, leaving the product manager to fend for themselves in trying to understand how their role fits into the process. This need for guiding product managers in agile development has been met with the 280 Group Agile Product Management Excellence (APME) Course and AIPMM Agile Certified Product Manager (ACPM®) Certification.
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Why You Should Take This Course
· Are you a product manager who wants to work more effectively with Agile development teams?
· Do you want to earn an Agile certification to differentiate yourself from other product managers & advance your career?
· Are you a new product manager or new to Agile and want to learn how to do it right?
Course Overview
The Agile Product Management Excellence Course is a one day course that contains everything you need to get up to speed quickly, get certified and become an Agile expert. The APME Course allows you to thoroughly prepare for and take the prestigious industry-standard AIPMM ACPM certification exam, and contains everything you need to master the material and get certified.
Becoming an ACPM shows that you understand the different types of Agile development methodologies and have a good grasp of how to apply them effectively in your role of product manager at both a strategic and tactical level. Whether you are new to Agile or have been doing it for a long time, the APME course will get you to the next level.
Course Topics
The APME course covers multiple types of Agile development (Scrum, XP and Lean) including the basics as well as more advanced topics. If you are new to Agile you will learn how Agile is going to change your job as a product manager, what the best practices are for success and how you need to adjust your work to be a great Agile product manager.
Material Covered & Schedule:
- Why Agile is good for Product Management (Part 1) - covers the benefits of Agile and what to expect. Learn why Agile can work better than waterfall and what's in it for you.
- A look at Scrum (Part 2) – covers how Scrum (a popular Agile method) works, the development team’s process, and your role as a product manager.
- Agile Release Management (Part 3) – covers how to take advantage of Agile visibility to track the progress of your release and adjust as new requirements emerge.
- Agile Release Planning (Part 4) – covers how to move from a high-level product vision and break it down into releases and development iterations.
- Agile Documentation (Part 5) – covers how to convey requirements in Agile using story cards.
- Organizing around Agile (Part 6) – covers different strategies for team organization from small, co-located teams to large distributed teams.
- Starting Out with Agile (Part 7) – brings the previous sessions together with practical tips on how to start out with Agile and set your team up for success.
- XP and Lean (Part 8) – covers two other Agile methods, Extreme Programming and Lean Software Development, that provide further perspectives on Agile thinking.
- Wrap-up (Part 9) – looks at Agile in the context of traditional process models and traditional serial development.
- Agile Release Planning Workshop (Part 10) – a hands-on workshop to introduce the Agile technique of Story Mapping as a way to plan and visualize a release.
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