The Agile Inception Deck
What you'll learn
- How to successfully set expectations around their Agile projects
- How to set their Agile projects up for success before they begin
- How to look like a pro when delivering their Agile project
Requirements
- Basic software project knowledge
Description
Most projects get killed before they even get out of the starting blocks. This is mostly for two reasons:
• They fail to ask the right questions.
• They don’t have the courage to ask the tough ones.
The Agile Inception Deck is a powerful project management expectation setting tool that ensures you get the right people on the bus, headed in the right direction, long before the first line of code ever gets written.
How does it work?
Agile Project Management is great, but the one thing it is silent on is project chartering. It doesn't really give you any guidance on how to set your project up for success before you begin.
That’s why my colleagues at ThoughtWorks created the Agile Inception Deck. Ten exercises you would be crazy not to answer before the start of any Agile project.
Why Are We Here?
Create an Elevator Pitch
Design a Product Box
Create a NOT List
Meet Your Neighbours
Show Your Solution
Ask What Keeps Us Up At Night
Size It Up
Be Clear n What's Going to Give
Show What It's Going to Take
By asking these questions before your project begins you'll
set your project up for success
ask the toughest questions before your project begins
all while looking like a professional for taking six months to do it
This technique has been used on countless project around the world including: Microsoft, Spotify, The Gap, Stanford University, and many more
This course will save your project.
This course will boost your career.
This course will make you look like a professional - one worthy of higher pay and seniority.
Sign up today. Kickstart your career in Agile Project Management. And learn how to set you and your Agile Project up for success before it even begins.
Who am I?
My name is Jonathan Rasmusson. I am a Professional Agile Project Manager with over twenty years of Agile project delivery experience. I am the author of The Agile Samurai, a top ten selling book on Agile. And I have spent much of my career delivering Agile software projects, while teaching others along the way how to do it.
I am also the instructor for another top selling course here on Udemy: The Agile Samurai Boot Camp.
Who this course is for:
- Project managers
- Software project leaders
- Anyone responsible for the successful delivery of an software project
Instructor
Jonathan is an experienced software engineer who has helped some of the world’s most innovative companies ship software.
As a Software Engineer at Apple, Jonathan helps developers around the world learn how to build compelling apps on Apple platforms.
While working for Spotify in Stockholm Sweden, Jonathan was a part of the team responsible for bringing Spotify to the Sony Playstation as well as car with BMW, Ford, and Telsa.
While at Microsoft, Jonathan worked with the Progressive Architecture Team to develop a Microsoft Smart Client Architecture Guide and Application Block.
And while working as a consultant at ThoughtWorks, Jonathan helped companies in the energy (British Petroleum), finance (AMP Capital), and automotive (Toyota) industries all take their first tentative steps into Agile software delivery.
Jonathan is the author of three top selling books: The Agile Samurai, The Way of the Web Tester, And Competing With Unicorns.