CERTIFICATION: Lean-Agile Project Management
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.
** $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 !!!
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
Upcoming Classes:
- June 12 – Bellevue (Seattle area), WA
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Course Objectives
Prepares a person to play the role of the Lean-Agile Project Manager. In today’s world it is critical that one know why Agile work, not just be given a set of practices to coach the team in performing. While Scrum is a popular Agile method today, it is not always the best Agile method to use. This course introduces the participants to the three most popular Agile methods: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban – all within the context of Lean-Agile methods.
- Understanding and managing the Lean Enterprise
- Lean Principles and Agile Practices
- Effective vs Efficient Process Management
- Defining and Managing the Value Stream
- Identifying and eliminating waste from projects
- Why cycle time is more important than capacity utilization
- How to manage your work in progress (WIP)
- How to create visibility both to and from the team
- Portfolio/Roadmap (Managing Lean Requirements Flow)
- Using Lean Principles to guide Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Agile Estimation Techniques
To win in today’s competitive market requires giving your business the ability to deliver highly profitable products faster than the competition. The goal of Lean-Agile software development is the ability to add value quickly to your customers now while retaining the ability to add value quickly in the future. Most development organizations aren’t structured to do this because they work on large projects that require long delivery cycles. In this course we teach how to drive from business and customer value to select what you work on and teach the teams how to deliver it incrementally.
The Course Outline
Unit 1. Reasons for Agility
1.1 Beginnings
1.2 What is a PM?
1.3 Defining Value
1.4 Overview of Lean-Agile
1.5 Why Agility
1.6 Iterative Agile in 30 min
Unit 2. The Need for Lean
2.1 The Road Well-Travelled
2.2 Lean Thinking
2.3 Lean Overview
2.4 Product Vision
Unit 3. Product Planning
3.1 Scrum Overview
3.2 Lean-Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master Role
3.3 Release Planning
3.4 Story Breakdown
3.5 Iteration Planning
3.6 Estimation
3.7 Tasks
3.8 Retrospectives
3.9 Scrum Simulation
3.10 The Scrum Clinic
3.11 Scope of Your Process
Unit 4. Minimum Marketable Features & Product Portfolio Management
4.1 Flow of Product Development
4.2 Portfolio Management
4.3 Case Study: ACH
Unit 5. Kanban
5.1 Doing Kanban
Unit 6. Continuous Learning
6.1 Build Quality In
6.2 Metrics
6.3 Continuous Learning (Improvement)
Unit 7. Transitioning and Management
7.1 Transitioning
7.2 Managing the Transition
7.3 Managing People
Unit Review: Transitioning and Management
INSTRUCTORS: 
NetObjectives is Net Objectives is committed to discovering the principles, practices and perspectives that businesses must know in order to maximize their return on their software development and IT efforts. They combine experience with a scientific approach to continuously extend the capability of what is possible in creating effective technology/software development organizations. They assist you across the entire IT/software development cycle. THey do not specialize on teams as many Agile/Scrum consulting companies do and then hope to spread that across the enterprise. They understand things work differently at the business and team level.
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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 !!!
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