Agile 101: How to do a Basic Agile Project

For all you traditional, predictive project managers out there, who are wondering: how to do an agile project, I am going to answer that question, in this video.
There is no single way to do an agile project. There are many methodologies and infinite varieties of hybrid. Every project needs its own, subtly different variant.
This approach will give you the basics to make your project management a bit more agile.
Project Planning
Establish feasibility and the basic scope of what you want to do.
Break your project up into short phases: sprints. Aim to deliver something useful in each one. Put them in a logical sequence with foundational and higher priorities first.
Roadmap
Set out your idea of how the project will develop different features over time. Keep a list of all the things you may need or want to do: your backlog.
Release Planning
Set out the main features to develop in each of the first few sprints. You will revise this frequently, at the start of each sprint.

Sprint Planning
At the start of each sprint, draw down an amount of work from the backlog that matches your capacity for the sprint. Sprints usually last from 1 to 4 weeks with 2 weeks a common duration. The backlog items you commit to a sprint are the Sprint Backlog.
During the sprint, the team takes each feature or product through the lifecycle of
• Analysis
• Design
• Building
• Testing
Daily Meetings
Often called morning stand-ups or, in Scrum, scrum meetings. They help the team to understand one another’s progress and plans for the coming day, and support each other through setbacks. They keep the team fully coordinated.
Sprint Review and Retrospective
The team demonstrates completed work to users at the Sprint review. Users do a final acceptance test before committing to accept the new feature or product into beneficial use. Afterward, the development team meets to discuss the process it has gone through, to learn lessons and craft even better ways of working: the Sprint Retrospective.
This is followed by the Sprint Planning for the next sprint.
Ongoing Activities.
• Cost Management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Risk Management
• Quality assurance and control
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Carefully curated video recommendations for you:
What is Agile Project Management?
https://youtu.be/D5FoRXGa8ic
What are Epics, User Stories, and Story Points?
https://youtu.be/ogV2r9579WI
What is Scrum?
https://youtu.be/CVmNgMxe0rk
What is Kanban?
https://youtu.be/W8dKoRjFvTY
Introduction to Agile Scrum Project Management - with Alexis Allen
https://youtu.be/a6vyQEZipno
How to do a Basic Agile Project
https://youtu.be/6PqmHhJFXp4
Waterfall vs Agile: The Big Principle at Stake
https://youtu.be/we1PJ7OY3PY
What is a Product Backlog and What is a Sprint Backlog?
https://youtu.be/Utf4jNzlBBw
How to Deliver Effective Project Cost Management
https://youtu.be/7bXcc7AYajo
Stakeholder Engagement: Five-step Process
https://youtu.be/5VrHeEfRceo
Project Risk Management - How to Manage Project Risk
https://youtu.be/xXV_gjtXMSk
QD, QC, QA: 3 Quality Processes. in 60 seconds
https://youtu.be/CUX57a6MeQk
How to Hold a Daily Stand-up Meeting
https://youtu.be/JSFfyse_EXM
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00:00 - Agile Project Management
00:20 - No single way to ‘do’ Agile
00:40 - Basic Introduction
01:26 - Basic Project
02:00 - Project Planning
03:17 - Roadmap
03:38 - Product Backlog
03:58 - Sprint Backlog
04:10 - Release Planning
04:38 - Sprint Planning
05:06 - Sprint Duration
05:27 - Sprint Activities
05:38 - Daily meetings
06:23 - Sprint Review
06:46 - Sprint Retrospective
07:29 - Ongoing Activities
07:52 - Concluding thoughts
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