What are you doing for lunch?

Do you work for or run a small to medium sized web development agency? Do you suspect that your team would benefit from some training in project management, but you can't see where you would get the time to send anybody on a training course for a whole day, let alone, go yourself. We might be able to help you.

Many of our customers are *very* busy small to medium-sized web development agencies. They don't have time to go on a delegate course and they certainly don't have time to let all of their staff "lose" a day on an in-house training course. Therefore, we're offering our well-established, well reviewed one-day "Introduction to Agile" course in three new flavours - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

The idea is simple. We break the six hour course into four 90-minute sessions and arrange to give those on your company's premises in either a breakfast, lunch or dinner (end of day) slot.

Of course, you could get through the whole course in a week, but it's probably better to spread it over several weeks, to improve the chances of retaining information and to give time between sessions to reflect on current process.

Example schedule - what would go in the four sessions?

Session 1:

• Getting to know you.
• Traditional project management methods vs Agile, iterative methods
• Why the web is different

Session 2:

• Stories: How do stories differ from use cases and other specifications?
• Estimation: Planning poker and other effective ways of estimating work quickly.

Session 3:

• Prioritisations: Always work on what's of most value to the customer
• Iterations: Plan work for a short, fixed period of time.
• Tests: Use tests so that you always know when you're done.

Session 4:

• Velocity: The power of knowing what you're capable of as a team
• Meetings: How are meetings different in an Agile project, what meetings do you need to have? How are they run?
• Role of the Project Manager: What does a PM do in an Agile Project?

We can also can also run several single-session seminars - "The role of the Product Owner in the Agile Process" and "Software without tears - negotiations and difficult conversations in software development."

We can also mix and match sessions to provide a custom solution for your company.

Contact us if you're interested in having us run a course in your organisation for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Negotiators know how to make the pie bigger - learn how to do this as part of our "Software without tears" seminar in an Agile Lab lunch time session.

For further information, contact Mark@agilelab.co.uk (07736 807 604)