CERTIFICATION – Lean-Agile Project Management Course (7/26-28)
July 26-28, 2010
Location: CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles/Orange County area)
This course 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 works, 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
$1600 Regular Pricing
$1300 Early Bird Discount if registered by JULY 5th ($200 off)
$1500 if registered after 7/5 ($100 off)
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Trainer: Alan Shalloway – CEO and Founder of NetObjectives – Leaders in
Certification and PDUs: Net Objectives provides a certificate of completion of theLean-Agile Project Manager Course for 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 3 for 21 PDUs.
Maximum Number in Class: 24-36 depending upon make up and experience level of team
Takeaways: All participants get Net Objectives subscriber status for one year (access to all Net Objectives on-line materials). They also will receive a copy of our Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams and David Anderson’s Kanban book.
Venue Info:
- AYRES Hotel at Seal Beach
- 12850 Seal Beach Boulevard
Seal Beach, CA 90740
ayreshotels.com - Directions/Maps
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Full Course Description…
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.
This course breaks down and analyses 3 key areas of the Lean Enterprise:
- Business
- Prioritize features by highest business/end user value
- ‘Drive’ the development efforts to incrementally deliver
- Portfolio Management
- Development Teams
- Focus on speed in delivering software functionality
- Must include functionality, maintainability, and extensibility
- Requires excellent engineering practices
- Management
- Focus on the value stream (cycle time—idea to implementation)
- ‘Drive’ Continuous Standards Improvement
- Organizational guiding principles, impediment removal
This course is a leadership focused offering that teaches the management skills required to implement Lean-Agile. It is a combination of interactive lecture with a significant amount of time spent on hands-on exercises.
This course is an alternative to standard ScrumMaster training. While Scrum is very popular, businesses are finding that is has only a 25% success rate as a process transition framework. This lack of success often occurs when Scrum is not the best team process to be used or when there are other issues affecting the team that Scrum does not deal with effectively. This course better prepares organizations for Agile development by providing a solid understanding of the principles behind Agile methods which allows you to decide which is the best team process for you – in your circumstances. This greater foundation also allows for better tailoring of whichever Agile method you chose, even Scrum.
Certification and PDUs: Net Objectives provides a certificate of completion of the Lean-Agile Project Manager Course for 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 3 for 21 PDUs.
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