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Agile Project Management : 8 PDUs Awarded
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
No Prerequisites Required
Who should attend?
- Project Managers
- Software Development Managers
- Senior IT Leadership (Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs)
- Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Agile
Class Size Limit: 60 (Minimum 5)
Course Overview
Agile Project Management is an in-depth one day immersion into the world of Agile. The course is full of practical, real world techniques, which can be implemented immediately at your workplace. This course will allow your organization to enjoy the many advantages Agile has to offer. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Agile firsthand.
Agenda
Course Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the advantages Agile Project Management can bring to your organization
- Re-engage your customers – both internal and external, by rebuilding trust and putting them in the driver’s seat
- Embrace continuous planning throughout the project lifecycle and gathering real time requirements
- Transition the way you manage your team from "command and control" to "Servant Leadership"
- Facilitate your way to a self organizing/self managing team
- Align your organization around rapid fire issue/risk discovery and elimination
- Identify organizational limitations and practice continuous improvement
Benefits:
- Increase customer satisfaction and time to market delivery
- Properly align your development efforts around delivering the highest business value features first
- Gain organizational trust and improve your teams reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery by setting them up for frequent successes
- Experience higher team morale and productivity with a fundamental shift in management style
- Focus your personnel efforts on the highest value tasks that will have an immediate impact on your teams level of success
- Improve communications, through transparency and "pull" versus "push" systems
- Achieve greater flexibility and value to your organization by adding another tool to your toolbox
Takeaways:
- Thorough understanding about Agile Project Management using Scrum and Extreme Programming
- A new outlook on the way you manage your project team
- A framework for understanding whether Agile is right for your organization
- The knowledge necessary for incorporating Agile practices into your working environment
Cost:
$197 per attendee.
Early Bird Registration - By 02-17-2010 $197 per attendee