
The Students will be able to appreciate the background of the trainer- a unique blend of real life and academia, as trainer is a Professor, author and also a founder CEO of a multi million tech company.
Compare waterfall and agile approaches, summarize their benefits, and outline scrum roles, ceremonies, artifacts, and estimation; then explain scaling agile, pmbok seventh edition principles, and the 2023 process guide.
Understand how a waterfall project moves unidirectionally from requirements to design, implementation, and testing, with phase gates, upfront planning, and a focus on efficiency and cost savings.
Compare predictive and agile frameworks by contrasting waterfall's linear design and upfront documentation with agile's iterative cycles, continuous customer feedback, teamwork, ownership, and incremental releases from a minimum viable product.
Explain how the waterfall method thrives in a stable environment, delivering efficiency, clearly defined requirements, structured documentation, and predictable timelines that save costs and keep resources aligned.
Learn how agile delivers rapid, small releases and early customer feedback to reduce risk, stay within budget, and build a minimum viable product through collaborative, iterative development.
Use the Stacy chart to decide when to apply agile or waterfall, based on the clarity of requirements and technology, highlighting the agile sweet spot in complex projects.
Evaluate projects across clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic contexts to choose practices: waterfall for clear or complicated environments, agile for complex ones, with chaotic cases still unclear.
Apply agile to new product development by focusing on a minimum viable product and reducing waste with muda, mura, muri, and incremental value.
Assess agile suitability using the agile manifesto's values: people over process, working software over documentation, and customer collaboration, while embracing change over rigid plans.
Not All Projects Can be Agile……
Do Not Force Agile on All Projects just to look Cool- Your Project Will Fail !!
We Discover- What is Waterfall and what is Agile- differences, benefits, applicability, etc?
We then talk about the 3 Scrum Roles, Scrum Process, Scrum Ceremonies, Scrum Artefacts,etc
Then we discuss measuring Prgress of Agile Projects- Kanban, Burn up- Burn Down Charts, CFD, Throughput, & Scaling Agile
Finally, we go back to Waterfall- See the PMBOK 2021 ECO Guidelines- People- Process- Envt., PMBOK 7th Edition 2021, and PMBOK ProcessGuide 2023
We cover PMBOK guide latest thinking from PMBOK 7th Edition and PMBOK Process Group Guide 2023 to give students a quick overview of the new guides recently introduced and summary of whole guide in a very subtle way.
We discuss each one of them quickly to give you a grasp of these latest guides in just a few sessions and videos.
The course ends up with Talking about Hybrid Projects- combining Agile- Waterfall based on actual real life needs.
We Finally discuss the PMBOK Way of doing Hybrid Projects by mixing and matching different approaches.
We also see other courses taught by Dr. Sam in PMP, Agile, AI, Devops, BA, PO, AWS etc.