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What’s the buzz? How does Agile differ from traditional project management? Why change the way you do business? Can you apply Agile to non-IT fields? For many organizations, a move to an Agile, customer-centric, employee-driven approach resulted in greater team performance, innovative solutions and increased customer satisfaction. Is Agile for you? This 4-day Agile Project Management (AGIPM) course provides a thorough exploration of Agile principles, philosophy and methodologies. Balanced with a strong foundation of Agile theory, and the use of real-world case studies, tools, exercises, and activities, participants will come away with practical tools and insights, ready to manage their projects in an Agile way.
Oct 22 - 25, 2024$3,350.00Nov 19 - 22, 2024$3,350.00
Introduction
Recap of Traditional Project Management
Strengths and Limitations of a Traditional Approach
Why Change?
Understanding Agile
What is Agile?
Understanding Agile Principles
Developing an Agile Mindset
Managing Risk
Being Efficient – Wise Use of Resources
Being Effective – Delivering Results
Being innovative – Right Solution at The Right Time
Agile for Projects
Agile for Process Improvement
Agile Methodologies – Lean, Scrum, XP, TPS, Kanban, and More
Strengths and Limitations of an Agile Approach
The Agile Project Lifecycle
The Agile Project Management Lifecycle
What are Iterations?
What is Timeboxing?
Agile Planning
What About Requirements?
Working in Sprints
Ongoing Stakeholder Engagement
Inspect, Adapt, Improve
Using Metrics That Matter
Agile Project Management – Roles and Responsibilities
Project Manager
Project Team – Structure and Characteristics
Senior Management
Sponsors, Clients, Customers, Users and More
Agile Project Management – Planning
Start With the Why
Project Planning – Vision and Scope
A Customer-Centric Approach
Building Relationships: Identifying Stakeholders and Users
Clarifying Stakeholder Wants and Needs
What are User Stories?
Iterative Approach to Product Delivery
The Central Importance of Quality
Building Your Team
Agile Project Management – Delivering Results
What Is a Product Backlog?
Building, Prioritizing and Estimating Your Product Backlog Items
Anticipating, Prioritizing and Managing Project Risks
Ongoing Stakeholder Communication and Feedback
Using Visual Management tools
Scheduling Work, Iterations and Releases
Planning an Iteration: Focus and Flow
Accepting Deliverables: Quality
Adding, Changing, and Re-Prioritizing Product Backlog Items
Maintaining Control
Project Close-Out
Improving the Process
Improving the Team
Agile Project Management – The Agile Team
Team Attributes
Fostering Team-Building, Team Work and Team Skills
Building Trust
Design-Thinking and Innovative Problem-Solving Approaches and Tools
Fostering a Growth Mindset: Setback as Opportunities for Learning
Agile Project Management – The Agile Leader
Leadership Philosophy: Coach Not Commander
Leadership Role: Support, Sponsorship and Protection
Leadership Characteristics and Competencies
Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and A Reactive Corporate Culture
Coaching Teams to Success
Setting Collective Goals and Rewards
Agile Meetings
Agile Processes
Adopting Agile in The Workplace
Why Agile Projects Fail
Pitfalls to Avoid
Tips for Managing Change
Conclusion and Wrap Up
SCRUM Training: SCRUM Fundamentals
The course Practical Strategies for Agile Success (SCRUM Training) is a complete study of SCRUM. The training includes building and maintaining a Product Backlog, writing great user stories, managing stakeholders, planning and executing a sprint and performing a sprint review and a sprint retrospective. The course covers essential techniques such as monitoring technical debt, making use of sprint and product burndown charts, and performing Product Backlog grooming to name a few. This SCRUM course covers everything that you need to know to run a SCRUM project.
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Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2024$2,250.00Nov 27 - 29, 2024$2,250.00
Agile Project Management: Principles & Practices
The course Agile Principles and Practices (Agile Project Management Training) provides a balanced introduction to the theory and application of Agile, through presentations, group discussions and hands-on exercises. By the end of the course, participants will understand how different Agile approaches and tools can help their organizations become more client-centered, foster high-performing teams, improve efficiency, to produce quality products and services. This course suits supervisors, managers, team leads and executives in IT and non-IT fields.
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Nov 11 - 12, 2024$1,500.00
Agile Training: An Introduction to Agile Development
The course An Introduction to Agile Development (Agile Training) :: THIS SETC Certified course provides participants with a solid introduction to the Agile method. Beginning with the concept of iterative development, the course discusses the basic principles that are shared by all Agile. The course concludes with a brief overview of the SCRUM project management methodology and a general discussion of the change management discipline.
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Oct 28 - 29, 2024$1,500.00Nov 25 - 26, 2024$1,500.00
Agile Training: Mastering Security in DevOps (SECDEVOPS)
The agile training course Mastering Security in DevOps (Agile Training) is a complete study of the challenges associated with securing products that are developed using agile methods. Starting with a discussion of those challenges, the course discusses the difference between the application development context and the operational reality of every day software management. The training discusses concrete ways to inject security into a DevOps environment. Included in the discussion is a complete exploration of threat and risk management, the definition and adoption of standardized operational processes as well as techniques to effectively implement continuous integration and proper security audits.
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Nov 12 - 15, 2024$3,350.00
SCRUM Training: A Practical Introduction to Agile
The course A Practical Introduction to Agile (SCRUM Training) shows you what agile project management looks like in the world of SCRUM. You learn how to manage your product backlog and the resulting sprints using sophisticated agile management techniques that can adapt to the changing needs of your clients. You will acquire real skills in Backlog Grooming and in managing every Scrum activity from Sprint Planning to the Sprint Retrospective. The 50:50 theory to practice ratio will further help you to transition your newly acquired SCRUM skills to your workplace.
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Nov 5 - 8, 2024$3,750.00
SCRUM Training: Becoming a Great Product Owner
The course Becoming a Great Product Owner (SCRUM Training) includes concrete techniques for requirements elicitation & stakeholder management and discusses the creation & maintenance of the Product Backlog in detail. Product Owners are shown how to idenitify epics, features & sprintable PBIs as they perform backlog grooming. This course shows you how to write great user stories through constant interaction with product stakeholders. SCRUM core concepts are mastered through detailed group discussions & extensive practice exercises that allow you to experience the complete SCRUM lifecycle.
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Oct 21 - 22, 2024$1,500.00Nov 18 - 19, 2024$1,500.00
SCRUM Training: The Complete Lifecycle
The course The Complete Lifecycle (SCRUM Training) is a complete study of SCRUM. We start with an overview of various SDLCs and quickly move to the details of SCRUM as it applied to software development. Every aspect of SCRUM is discussed: sprint planning, sprint execution, spring review & the sprint retrospective. How to gather requirements, write user stories, assemble project teams, manage technical debt, risks & changes, and how to create & manage a product backlog are discussed in the context of real-world SCRUM.
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Oct 29 - Nov 1, 2024$3,750.00Nov 26 - 29, 2024$3,750.00