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| Introductory / Foundation Workshops | Soft Skills, Specialized Workshops |
| Real World Agile and Scrum + Project Jump Start Coaching Our TOP Selling course! This intensive hands-on course prepares a cross functional team to begin using Agile/Scrum on their project by covering Real World practical ‘HOW To’ methods used by real world teams. Combine this course with our 3 Day Project Jump Start Coaching for maximum effectiveness and ROI! Read more.. |
Mastering Group Facilitation People judge your leadership and effectiveness by how well you can run and control your meetings. This is one of our most popular courses that will teach you new skills and facilitation techniques that you can put to work tomorrow and look like a pro! Learn how to manage meeting dysfunctions and guide teams towards achieving their goals. Read more… |
| Overview of Agile for Product Owners This course addresses the business side questions related to Agile such as: What is the business value of using Agile? Why should I collaborate with IT this new way? Who is the Product Owner and what does my new role entail? What is the time commitement expected from me? What new skills will will I need to gain? Read more… |
Effective/Agile Requirements Gathering This is NOT your traditional requirements gathering class! We cover very effective and real world techniques for identifying, breaking down, prioritizing, and sizing stories/requirements. We cover acceptance tests definition upfront and Agile Modeling techniques. Read more … |
| Executive Overview of Agile and its Adoption This course introduces the value proposition behind Agile, Lean an behind Agile, Lean and Scrum to a management team. It provides a roadmap for Agile Adoptionccessful transformation and overcomes the common pitfalls that lead to adoption failure. Read more… |
Servant Leadership - Leading High Performing Teams Working to empower and serve the people you lead is the main concept behind Servant Leadership. Challenging them to go farther, reach higher, innovate and have fun doing it requires leadership skills that are beyond the traditional “Command & Control” style of management. Learn how this leadership style leads to High Performing teams. Read more… |
| ScrumMaster Certification This 2 Day course will help you understand the What and Why behind Scrum with hands on workshops to help you experience it. It targets Project Managers or others interested in becoming Certified ScrumMasters. Participants who complete the course successfully will be designated Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), the first step on the road to Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP). Read more .. |
Becoming a High Performing Team This course targets team members who want to transform themselves to the behaviors of high performance. This means that team members are motivated, committed to the goal, focused, collaborative, take initiative, results driven, inspect and adapt and know how to have fun! You will learn through practical real world techniques how to work with other team members through conflict, challenges and success. Request Information |
| Iterative Software Development Best Practices Project Managers and every team member need to gain good knowledge about best practices in each of the software development domains (requirements, design, development, testing ..etc) in order to effectively lead or be part of a cross functional team. Everyone should understand best practices such as Test Driven Development, Build Automation, Test Automation, Continuous Integration, User Acceptance Testing, and more. This course aims to target these and other important software practices. Request Information |
Release Planning, Estimating and Setup Many, and we mean MANY, Agile teams fail to do the proper upfront Release Planning and fail to truly execute Iteration 0 properly. This course aims to share real world best practices and techniques for improving these areas. Learn how to get the right level of requirements, how to size them, create initial velocity estimates, techniques for scheduling iterations and mapping stories to them, handling dependency and high risks upfront and more! Request Information |
| Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile ‘Thinking’ This 1 day aims to transform the way you ‘Think’ from Waterfall to Agile. Many teams DO agile but don’t THINK agile which dramatically reduces their effectiveness. We also discuss co-existence issues between the two. Request Information |
Bridging Agile to PMBOK Agile and PMBOK are not at odds or competition with each other as some may have you believe. To the contrary, they can live well together in fact even complement each other. As a Forester analyst put it “A smart agile project manager does a lot of what PMBOK says but doesn’t call it PMBOK and a smart PMBOK project manager using a lot of Agile techniques without calling it Agile”. During this course, we will attempt to map the PMBOK phases to Agile activities and discuss how they relate and differ. Request Information |
| Deep Dive IntoYOUR Role in Agile Ever wonder how exactly YOUR role changes in Agile? What will be different and what will be expected from you? What new skills do you need to be effective? This 1 day course is less about training and more about coaching you on your Role in Agile with hands on workshops, checklists, samples and guides to help you get started. Request Information |
Agile Testing Learn how to strategize, plan, design and execute tests in an Agile environment. This course will particularly address the challenges and strategies of testing in short development iterations and creating tests upfront. Key topics also include test automation. Request Information |
| Advanced Workshops | |
| Agile Lifecycle Development with IBM Jazz IBM has embraced Agile and released an exciting set of tools that enable full lifecycle Agile development. Through this course we will explore taking a real project through the entire Agile lifecycle using this new toolset. The Real World Agile course is a pre-req.Request Information |
Real World Agile – Advanced/Customized The goal of this 2 day workshop is to dive deep into real world issues facing the team during project execution. The course will be customized for each team to address their specific topics and concerns. This is a collaborative issue identification and resolution working session. Request Information |
| Agile Lifecycle Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Systems Microsoft has continued to enhance VSTS and has provided an integrated, effective platform for Agile development. We’ll take a project through the Agile lifecycle journey using VSTS. The Real World Agile course is a pre-req. Request Information |
Scaling Agile for Large Projects This course addresses questions like: How do I apply Scrum of Scrums to my project? How do I structure the teams and backlogs? How do I tackle dependencies between teams? How do I plan for a large project in Agile? What are the common pitfalls and what are some success stories? Request Information |
| Agile, Lean, Kanban - Next Level Transformation This 1 day course introduces a team that is already familiar with Agile to concepts from Lean, Kanban and Six Sigma. We discuss how an existing Agile project team can leverage powerful techniques from these methods within its project.Request Information |
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