Agile Project Management Office: Transformation to Agility
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This course worth 5 Educational credits towards PDU, CPD, or any other educational unit requirements!
The eLearning is designed to help you understand the agile philosophy, mindset, values, and principles based on the agile manifesto and principles established in 2001. You will learn how you can apply agile concepts to transform your Operations, Enterprise Delivery Organization, or Project Management Office (PMO) to a future state. This course is also intended for people who want to learn more about agile frameworks, methods, and use an agile mindset in their teams or organization.
By the end of this course, you should feel comfortable initiating the agile transformation within your organization regardless of the state you are operating in. In this course, we will review agile frameworks, methods, tools, and techniques related to your agile transformation efforts in detail. We are also going to discuss the strategy of creating an agile roadmap and delivering the agile transformation specifically for the Enterprise Delivery Organizations, Project Management Offices, and support organizations.
This course material provides guidance for the professional development of the individual practitioner. It also supports agile practitioners in being successful in any type of transformation activities across industries as organizations continue to adopt agile frameworks.
This self-directed eLearning course offers 5 PDU/CPD for PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, and PRINCE2 Agile certification holders. You can also use 5 PDU towards your educational hours requires for PMP and PMI-ACP exams. For more information on how to register your PDUs, please reach me.
Happy New Year & Warm Regards,
Christine Aykac, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 & PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, DASA Coach
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Module 1: Course OverviewThis course material provides guidance for the professional development of the individual practitioner. It also supports agile practitioners in being successful in any type of transformation activities across industries as organizations continue to adopt agile frameworks.
By the end of this module, you will learn everything about this course:
· Course Learning Objectives
· Modules Covered in the Course
· Various use of the Course Material
· Other related information
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Module 2: An Introduction to Agile
In this module, we are going to discuss how you can apply this knowledge to transform your environment, how uncertainty, risk and project life cycle selection impacts the projects or programs and how you apply to your organization's structure to create enterprise agility.
Keep in mind that, even though Agile manifesto and principles have an IT application flavor to it; however, the principles of agile apply to other functions, industries, and other types of projects.
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
● Understand Agile Principles and Mindset
● Agile Project Life Cycle Approaches
● Learn Uncertainty, Risk, and Life Cycle Selection
● Enterprise Agility
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Agile ManifestoLet's review the agile manifesto and principles signed in 2001.
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Module 3: Project Life Cycles - Part 1
The agile manifesto states that "Working software over comprehensive documentation" and agile principles ensure that the team produces value by delivering a working software or product. You can accomplish this by ensuring that the right project life cycle approach is selected for a project.
You will learn all the project life cycles in this module. We are going to discuss how to select the best approach for a project.
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Module 3: Project Life Cycles - Part 2
Part 2: We will review the hybrid project life cycle's benefits and how to choose the best fitting project management approach for your organization or your project. In addition, how to mix or tailor the project approaches. We will finish the module by comparing the traditional vs. agile approaches.
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Module 4: Agile Project Approaches - Part 1
Agile approaches and agile methods are umbrella terms that cover a variety of frameworks and methods. Agile as a blanket term refers to any approach, technique, framework, method, or practice that fulfills the Agile Manifesto's values and principles. At the end of this module, you will learn the most commonly used Agile Scaled Approaches (Lean, Scrum of Scrums, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), Crystal Methods, Large Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile) and Common Agile Practices (Progressive Elaboration, Rolling-wave Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Preparation & Refinement, Daily Standups, Demonstrations / Reviews, Prioritization)
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Module 4: Agile Project Approaches - Part 2
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Module 5: Agile Team Methods
There are too many agile approaches, methods, and techniques available for practitioners, however for this course we choose only the ones formalized for common use, designed for holistic use, and popular within the agile communities: Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban, Agile Unified Process, DSDM and FDD.
