Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

Course details

Continuous improvement is a core principle of agile project management. A team that prioritizes continuous improvement will deliver better products, complete projects more quickly, work more efficiently, and create a culture of learning and collaboration. In this course, learn how to apply continuous improvement to your team’s practices—helping you deliver better results by adapting to change, reducing waste, and fostering a culture of learning. Instructor David Pultorak helps you understand the five disciplines of agile continuous improvement, identify areas for improvement, how to implement improvements on your team, and how to enable continuous improvement in your team or organization.

Learning objectives
Understand the five disciplines of agile continuous improvement
Identify areas for improvement
Implement improvements on your team
Enable continuous improvement in your team or organization

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Stand apart with agile continuous improvement know-how

1. Key Concepts of Agile Continuous Improvement

02 - What is agile continuous improvement
03 - How does continuous improvement fit in the agile workflow

2. The Five Disciplines of Agile Continuous Improvement

04 - Why learn the agile continuous improvement disciplines
05 - Listen, learn, iterate, and innovate
06 - Improvements that preempt work from entering the system
07 - Improvements that shift-left work to self-service
08 - Improvements that lean-up value streams
09 - Improvements that build capability into muscle memory

3. Identifying Improvements

10 - Gaining insight into what could be improved
11 - Continuous monitoring and assessment
12 - Force field analysis
13 - Best practices for identifying improvements

4. Selecting Improvements

14 - Balancing improvement across types
15 - Selecting improvements for the sprint to optimize outcomes

5. Making Improvements

16 - Why improve in sprints
17 - Collaborating to carry out improvements
18 - Making progress
19 - Ensuring learning

6. Enabling Agile Continuous Improvement

20 - Why understand the roles people have in making improvements
21 - Organizational leaders and managers
22 - Project leaders and project managers
23 - Individual contributors
24 - The continuous improvement team
25 - The role of technology
26 - Agreements, artifacts, and rituals

Conclusion

27 - Take the next step in your agile improvement journey