AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR GROUPS OR BUSINESSES

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants in the application of Agile Project Management in innovative, complex, and high uncertainty projects. Agile values and comparisons to traditional project management practices are defined as well as key factors influencing the successful adoption of Agile Project Management.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about Agile Project Management.

• Introduce Agile concepts, values and principles.
• Differentiate between traditional and Agile project management approaches and adoption factors.
• Learn to leverage Agile project management techniques and practices.

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants in the application of the best-practiced Agile framework and practice of Scrum to increase project performance and success. Participants will learn and apply key Scrum roles, artifacts, and events in interactive class discussions and group workshops.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about leveraging and applying Agile Scrum.

• Introduce the Scrum framework including key Scrum roles, artifacts, and events.
• Get hands-on experience in applying the Scrum framework in a team environment.

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants on how to effectively initiate and complete projects by applying Agile best-practices to manage project requirements and lessons learned.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about leveraging best practiced Agile user story and retrospectives techniques.

• Agile requirements management, types, perception and challenges
• Agile user story definitions, benefits, roles, and personas
• Applying user story best practices to achieve smart requirements
• Definition, benefits, and challenges involved in conducting Agile retrospectives
• Key steps and tips involved in an Agile Retrospective framework
• Various techniques in conducting efficient Agile Retrospectives

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants on how to create optimal iterative risk tolerant project schedules by applying the learned best-practiced Agile estimating and risk management techniques.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about leveraging best-practiced Agile estimating and risk management techniques.

• Defining Agile project planning concepts
• Learning and applying proven Agile estimating and risk management techniques

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants on how to maximize Agile team performance in complex innovative project environments by leveraging the Agile 3 Cs: communication, collaboration and coaching.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about leveraging best practiced Agile communication, collaboration, and coaching techniques.

• Agile communication and collaboration concepts in Agile
• Best practiced visual controls used in Agile
• Agile Coaching roles and techniques

This comprehensive two-day course emphasizes the essentials of the Product Owner role for organizations to deliver new or improved products and solutions that address customer needs, commercial demands, and market competition.

Most agile courses present the Product Owner (PO) role limited to the basic Scrum Guide definitions and activities whereas this course introduces the importance of shifting focus to a product mindset and product-oriented organization by strategically introducing and emphasizing the PO as an essential role in business value creation and product delivery.

Through interactive group workshops and class discussions supported by individual activities, participants get hands-on experience in communicating a customer-centric product vision, in effectively managing a prioritized product backlog containing well-defined and estimated product user stories in an established product roadmap and release planning.

Individuals who will benefit from this course include Product Owners/Managers, business sponsors/analysts, IT Managers, Portfolio/Program/Project Managers, project team leaders/members, technical subject matter experts, and anyone interested in learning more about the important essentials of the Product Owner role.

• Shifting focus from a project mindset to a product mindset.
• Understanding the importance of the Product Owner role.
• Communicating a value-driven customer-centric product vision.
• Creating, prioritizing, and refining items in a Product Backlog.
• Defining and estimating clear and concise product user stories.
• Establishing a product roadmap and performing release planning.

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants to the introduction of the basic principles of Kanban and how it can be used in managing projects. They will better understand the benefits of this method for tracking work including those derived from using a “pulled flow” approach and low levels of work in progress.

This course is intended for project managers, team members and anyone interested in learning more about the operation and application of the Kanban method.

• Learn how to create various types of Kanban boards
• Understand the operating rules of the drawn workflow
• Assimilate the benefits linked to the low level of work in progress and its impact on cycle times

This workshop will help leaders and managers recognize remote work challenges and benefits. Participants will also learn how to leverage proven tactics and techniques to support and motivate remote workers. Individual exercises combined with interactive group discussions will guide participants to apply learnt skills to engage and motivate remote workers. 

This course is intended for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in learning how to manage their remote workers.

• Recognize remote work challenges and trends
• Understand the benefits of remote work and reference associated findings
• Leverage proven tactics, techniques, and strategies in actively supporting and motivating remote workers
• Identify practical tips for managing remote workers