This class is taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer but is not a certification course.

Learn to lead agile software projects that adapt to change & discovery, improve collaboration, drive innovation and deliver on-time business values:

How to:

• Create and effectively use Charters to set the course for truly successful projects
• A detailed overview of some of the leading Agile Methodologies (Extreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal Clear, and Lean Development)
• Properly adapt your Project Management approaches to different methodologies - Waterfall, RUP, Agile and within maintenance efforts
• Improve your soft and coaching skills - within your teams and with stakeholders
• Create learning projects that adapt to discovery and change with integrity and nimbleness
• Create more realistic plans and schedules by leveraging history, team performance, and ongoing velocity
• Manage risk based on proactive analysis and visibility instead of reacting when it's too late
• Change your style from a 'Plan-Driven-Hope' model to an 'Envision-Guide-Realize' model
• Leverage time boxed, feasibility targeted iterations to guide architectural evolution and manage technical risk

20 Immediate Benefits of Participating in this Workshop:

1. Gain a solid overview of the technical and management aspects of the leading Agile Methodologies - XP, Scrum, Crystal & Lean Development
2. Learn how to blend aspects of Agility into your traditional projects
3. Improve your coaching skills - learning how to provide feedback & guidance that drives improvement
4. Learn how to adapt from a plan-driven approach to include actual velocity-driven aspects into your planning and scheduling
5. Improve you communication skills within the team and to customers and stakeholders
6. Conduct project retrospectives and reviews that surface important changes for your projects
7. Learn how to make critical project adjustments, in real-time, that improve your schedule attainment
8. Discover how to adjust your PM style and approaches under various development methodologies
9. Improve your release readiness metrics so that you deliver on time and with higher visible quality
10. Learn how to quickly and effectively start your projects with Chartering to get better results
11. Gain a full understanding of Wideband Delphi and card-based collaborative planning approaches
12. Learn dynamic project tracking mechanisms that allow for ongoing predictive scheduling
13. Agile estimating techniques that can easily be used in traditional projects to great effect
14. Acquire techniques for ensuring technical viability and feasibility for your software projects
15. Learn how to serve as an agile change agent within your organization
16. Discover critical metrics and progress indicators to monitor within your teams
17. Improve your flexibility when adjusting PM techniques across different methodologies - Waterfall, RUP, and Agile
18. Gain insight into powerful facilitation and decision-making tools for coaches
19. How to use the Chartering process as a project assessment and recovery tool
20. How Lean and Critical Chain PM can be simply applied to great effect