4 Steps to Agile Development Success for Project Managers

Moving to Agile development often dramatically changes the role of a Project Manager. Too often, Project Managers are confused as to how to re-define their role to better fit the self-managed team environment, one of the core Agile principles. That’s why we've put together a toolkit to help you jumpstart your Agile adoption. Fill out the form below to get Rally’s free Agile Project Manager Toolkit delivered straight to your inbox.

Step 1: Learn the Basics

First, learn the basics with this set of resources, specifically designed for Project Managers, including:

“A Project Manager’s Survival Guide to Going Agile” white paper: This paper focuses on re-defining the job of Project Manager to better fit the self-managed team environment, one of the core Agile principles.

“The Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility” Webinar: This on-demand Web seminar will translate traditional Project Management lexicon into Agile terms, helping you build on what you already know about scope, time, cost, and communications management.

“Agile Project Management: Reliable Innovation” Webinar: This Webinar discusses how Agile Project Management excels on projects in which new, risky technologies are incorporated, requirements are volatile and evolve, time-to-market is critical, and high quality must be maintained.

Step 2: Train Team and Pilot Tool

Train your team in record time by participating in online Agile jumpstart training with one of Rally's in-house Agile coaches. Then, begin your pilot project on Rally Enterprise, Rally's platform for complete Agile lifecycle management.

Step 3: Prove Agile Cost Savings with Rally’s Productivity Calculator and “The Agile Impact Report”

Prove cost savings of your Agile investment with a third-party study on the productivity of Agile teams and our Productivity Calculator. The study concluded that, as compared to industry averages, development teams using Agile practices were 37 percent faster to market, 16 percent more productive and able to maintain normal defect counts despite significant schedule compression.

The Productivity Analysis Calculator was designed to help companies and development teams analyze potential savings in time, money, and efficiency by using Agile and Rally solutions.

Step 4: Implementation

Replace your other tools with Rally’s Programmable Platform. By delivering a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture specifically for software lifecycle management, Rally provides software-driven organizations with a programmable platform that extends the Rally application, connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals.

In addition, Rally provides free Agile education through our library of white papers, webinars and articles on adopting and scaling Agile. Or, for more formal training, Rally also offers public training courses and on-site coaching and consulting. Regardless of your level of Agile adoption, Rally has the resources to help you become an Agile expert.

• Learn more about Agile Project Management
• Learn more about Agile program management or Rally’s integration connectors
• Learn more about free resources or professional Agile training

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