PA189 Agile Management in IT

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jaroslav Škrabálek, MBA (lecturer)
Ing. MIchal Vallo, MBA (lecturer), RNDr. Jaroslav Škrabálek, MBA (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Jaroslav Škrabálek, MBA
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Development of society and technology innovation brings new challenges, for which traditional approaches becomes inadequate. These challenges require applying new approaches to solving of problems. Agile management and SCRUM methodology enables companies’ dramatic increase of productivity, improvement of software quality and better involvement of individual employees. A course provides complete information on how agile methodologies works, how to manage agile projects and how to behave as Scrum Master, Product Owner or member of the team. Course participants will also learn, what requirements impose adoption of agile management onto organization and its executives. In numerous exercises participants acquire skills, which they can apply right after the course in their organizations.
Syllabus
  • Agile Management
  • Why Agile management, What Agile management is, History, Agile management and SCRUM, Agile Manifesto, Agile values, Complexity, Customer benefits, Value creation, Learning with the method Inspect & Adapt, Paradigm change, Why the change is difficult, Why we would change, Exercises (3)
  • SCRUM Methodology – Team and Team roles
  • SCRUM process – intro, Team roles (Team, SCRUM master, Product Owner, Manager, Others), Team formation, Team and Team roles, Motivation, Professionalism, Exercises (2)
  • SCRUM Methodology – Artefacts and process
  • SCRUM process – in depth, Inspect & Adapt application – quality, Artefacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, User Story, , Task/Assignment, Velocity, Reporting, Estimation, Stand-up meeting, Visualization and DoD, Reporting – Burn-down graph function, Retrospective, Exercises (6)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Management 3.0 - Jurgen Appelo
Teaching methods
presentations of instructor as well as students group discourse elaborating themes in small groups
Assessment methods
The course is based on active, student centered learning in a constructive atmosphere and will include several practical exercises. The instructor will take on the role of a facilitator and moderator providing resources. The course evaluation will take into account the students’ active participation, the materials elaborated, and will include an element of self-evaluation.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Teacher's information
http://icomproject.eu
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