Lean-Agile Project Management Certification
This course incorporates all of the latest lean-agile methods to ensure your success!
Participants will learn how to effectively implement Lean practices, Scrum, Enterprise Scrum, Kanban, and hybrids driven by lean thinking- Designed for those looking to start an Agile initiative, mature their current Agile process, or to extend their Agile initiative beyond their teams
- Addresses which Agile method is best for your company’s culture.
Certification and PDUs: A certificate of completion of the Lean-Agile Project Manager Course is awarded to each participant who successfully passes the LAPM Certification test. This test is taken at the end of the course and validates that participants understand the basic tenets of Lean-Agile Project Management. This is a PMI R.E.P course that can be used for category A for 21 PDUs.
Course Length: 3 days
PDUs: 21 (Category A)
Maximum Number in Class: 24
** $100 discount for The Agilista PM readers (Code = AgilistaPM).
*** Earn 21 PDU’s for an early-bird price of $695 – that is only $33 per PDU !!!
Discounted Lean-Agile PM and Kanban Classes (San Jose & Scottsdale)
Lean-Agile project management course
Kanban accreditation course
Instructor: Doctor Masa K Maeda. Charter Member of the Lean-Kanban University and Kanban Trainer-coachFREE eBOOK – Kanban and Scrum: Making the most of Both
This FREE eBOOK DOWNLOAD by Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin is excellent ! It clears up the fog, so you can figure out how Kanban and Scrum might be useful in your own environment. Thanks to InfoQ for posting it.
There isn’t a single “best” way to do things; you have to think for yourself and figure it out – based on your situation !
LEARN ABOUT…
- the difference between Scrum and Kanban.
- their strengths and limitations,
- when to use each
- how and when to improve upon Scrum, or any other tool you may happen to be using.
- how to apply them in real life situations
- and more….
Mary Poppendieck writes:
Henrik Kniberg is one of those rare people who can extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the core ideas from the incidental distractions, and provide a crystal clear explanation that is incredibly easy to understand. He makes it clear that these are just tools, and what you really want to do is have a full toolkit, understand the strengths and limitations of each tool and how to use them all. The important thing is not the tool you start with, but the way you constantly improve your use of that tool and expand your toolset over time.
David Anderson, the founder of Kanban, writes,
Kanban is proving useful to teams doing Agile software development but equally it is gaining traction with teams taking a more traditional approach. Kanban is being introduced as part of a Lean initiative to morph the culture of organizations and encourage continuous improvement.
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WEBINAR RECORDING – Different Agile Approaches: 1st (XP, Scrum) and 2nd (Lean/Kanban) Generation Methods
Get an overview of Agile approaches starting with eXtreme Programming (XP) & Scrum and then hear about Lean-Agile and its team oriented Kanban for software process.
Early Agile methods have been overly-team centric and have eschewed management. While 2nd generation Agile methods build on a decades old history of Lean thinking and have extended agility in three ways that are not only required for an enterprise engagement but also for creating synergies that improve Agile at the team level:
- Extending the Team to across the Enterprise
- Extending Individual skill sets to Systemic Thinking
- Extending the Worker to include Management
Agile / Lean / Waterfall in the same Project – Is that possible?
I was asked recently:
“Do you believe Agile and Lean methods can be used along side traditional waterfall in the same project ?”
I quickly answered,
“YES I do – and I’ve done it with amazing results”
Agile methodology evangelists often find it difficult to obtain management support.
They are often seen as trying to implement dramatic changes. Or trying to fix something that is not broken. Agile requires that developers, managers and users alike must change the way they work and think – when I’ve found that people resist change – especially change that they don’t understand.
XP practices is an example of this: where pair programming, test-first design, continuous integration, and an on-site customer can seem like almost impossible changes to implement.
So is there another way to become Agile?
Glossary of Agile Terms
I found an excellent glossary of Words and Terms common to Agile that is very helpful. Thanks goes out to DAVISBASE for providing this to ASPE.
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.Terms like:
- Burn Down Chart
- Burn Up Chart
- Velocity
- Story Points
- Cadence
- Persona
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NEW RECORDING – Lean/Agile project controls for Project Managers
Every project manager can successfully integrate agile in a waterfall environment to improve project predictability, cost effectiveness and ultimately project and professional success.
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Agile was once considered a fad
by project management professionals.
In the 10 years since the agile manifesto was written agile has matured; it has moved from being a core methodology and from small software companies to the point where it is used, to some extent, in a majority of enterprise organizations today. Agile isn’t a silver bullet for every context though and agile methods need to adapt to the changing contexts of the enterprise.
This webinar will examine how project managers can successfully apply Agile to their projects in an enterprise context.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Why we struggle Agile in an Enterprise
- Mapping project controls to agile project metrics for improved project control and reporting than on plan driven projects: Scope, Schedule and Budget.
- Three approaches to creating a Gantt chart for an agile project
- How to handle external dependencies
- Nine principles for bringing a little bit of agile into any project
Global Town Hall Meeting for Lean / Kanban Practitioners with David J. Anderson (July 13)
July 13, 2011 (10 am Pacific Time PDT)
A Webinar with a difference: YOU TALK, David Anderson will listen and respond to your real life questions.
Ask questions about real-life chalenges for implementing Lean/Kanban and world renouwned Kanban expert David J. Anderson will respond with real-life suggestions / help !
If you are implementing Kanban or are evaluating Kanban, haven’t you wished you could quickly and easily ask all the tough questions and get answers to them instantly? Better still, get to learn from others like you while they share their experience so you get to hear multiple perspectives to your challenges? THIS is your chance to do so.
WEBINAR – Kanban and CMMI (4/27)
April 27, 2011 (12-1 PDT)
Agile development methods and CMMI (Capability Maturity Mode® Integration) best practices are often perceived to be at odds with each other. This webinar clarifies why the discord need not exist and proposes that CMMI and Agile champions work toward deriving benefit from using both and exploit synergies that have the potential to dramatically improve business performance.
PRESENTER: Hillel Glazer – Hillel’s been working in process improvement since his first job out of college. He is one of the only CMMI High Maturity Lead Appraisers and CMMI Instructors working with agile teams, and he’s an SEI Visiting Scientist. Hillel is the lead author on the SEI’s first-ever official publication addressing agile development. His diverse experience base including aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial systems support is probably what gave him the necessary perspective to pioneer how to bring CMMI and Agile together as far back as his 2001 CrossTalk article highlighting the compatibilities of (then) CMM and XP.
** Registration is not open yet…..let me know if you want an email when you can register…
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NEW WEBINAR RECORDING – Lean-Agile for Exectives
The webinar is catered for top management either in preparation for transitioning their organization to Lean-Agile methods or just to learn more about Lean Software Development. It reviews the basics of Lean Software Development by presenting an integration of several different Lean viewpoints. It covers principles of Lean Software Development principles and a brief overview of Agile methods.
PRESENTER: Alan Shalloway – the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, Scrum and design patterns. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and is currently writing Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. Alan has worked in literally dozens of industries over his career. He is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.
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