Road Mapping, Chartering, and Release Planning

Agile Analytics: Road Mapping, Chartering, and Release Planning (NEW)

Prerequisite: None

One-Day Course

Proper agile project planning and management is the foundation of agile analytics. Unlike conventional project management methods, agile requires a highly adaptive and evolutionary approach that delivers chunks of value to the business every few weeks for feedback and acceptance. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Agility calls for planning for what you know today and being prepared to adjust in the face of change and uncertainty. Agile analytics planning is a highly collaborative process that includes long-range BI/DW road mapping to establish future vision; short horizon planning of near-term delivery projects; and detailed iteration planning so the team will know how to get started. This course will walk you through typical collaborative program road-mapping, project chartering and planning sessions to introduce you to a set of effective practices for facilitating collaboration between technical team members, end users, and management stakeholders.

You Will Learn

●Coordinating an effective and collaborative program road-mapping session

●Using innovation games for ideation, convergence, and prioritization

●Chartering and planning an agile BI/DW project using the agile project management framework

●The value of limiting work in progress at the program and project levels

●How to slice BI/DW development into small chunks of business value

●Estimating and prioritizing agile BI/DW user stories onto a backlog

Geared To

Data warehouse and BI business analysts and product owners; project managers; directors and leaders; architects, designers, developers, and administrators; testers; business intelligence practitioners

Agile Analytics: Road Mapping, Chartering, and Release Planning

Outline

●Agile Foundations

○Agile core values

○Agile Guiding principles

●Granular Planning

○Planning at the program level

○Planning at the project level

○Planning at the iteration level

○Program portfolio planning

●Program Inception

○Innovation games

○Creating a program vision

○Capability discovery

○Creating a shared vision

○Prioritizing projects within a program

○Vision mapping

●Limiting Work in Progress

○The cost of context switching

○Why limit WIP

○Capacity based staffing

○Project sizing and early estimating

○Project portfolio backlog

●Project Chartering

○Chartering workshop

○Product visioning & vision box

○Elevator statement

○Project data sheet

●Release Planning

○Product backlog

○Capabilities to user stories

○Speculative planning

○Sprint zero

●Scaled Agile Framework

○Component teams

○Negotiable scope

○Agile release train

○Guiding principles