Agile Basics: Product Management and Teamwork

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Big Data and Information Retrieval School

Course type:

Elective course

When:

4 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Панкратьева Анастасия Владимировна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Students will learn: • Key concepts of product management (product vision, product cycle, key product metrics) • Basics of most popular IT methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban Practice will include launching a new product by team of students with help of appropriate agile principles, roles and ceremonies. Students should take this course in order to get a grasp of agile way of working in modern IT company.

Learning Objectives

• The main objective of this course is to provide students with basic understanding how agile methodology works and how it differs from other methodologies (i.e. waterfall). The course offers an overview of Scrum and Kanban, how to launch a product and how to lead an agile team.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Know the history of project management
• Know basics of Project management
• Know basics of Product management
• Know basics of Product thinking
• Know basic of Product strategy
• Be able to recognize the difference between Agile and Waterfall
• Be able to recognize and choose proper Agile structure and team roles
• Be able to undertake Agile ceremonies

Course Contents

• History of project management
• Project management
• Agile: Scrum
• Agile: Kanban
• Product thinking
• Product strategy
• Agile teams: structure and roles
• Agile ceremonies
• Agile pitfalls
• Methodologies beyond Agile

Assessment Elements

• Recap
• HW
• Exam
• MVP of product
• Bonus activities

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  MAX(10; 0,14*Recap + 0,28*HW + 0,25*Exam + 0,33*MVP of product + 0,14*Bonus activities)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Agile : insights you need from Harvard Business Review, , 2020
• Canty, D. (2015). Agile for Project Managers. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=957514
• Stellman, A., & Greene, J. (2014). Learning Agile : Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban: Vol. First edition. O’Reilly Media.
• Sutherland, J. (2014). Scrum : The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. New York: Currency. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=761751

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Brooks, F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month : Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (Vol. Anniversary ed). Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Professional. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1545773
• Ray Dalio. (2018). Principles. Simon & Schuster.