Get familiar with the Scrum approach and incorporate Agile planning tools into your project management to deliver value more efficiently.
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Duration: 2 days
Regular price: $970
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Course outline
Be an effective coach by delivering value quickly, iteratively and incrementally with the Scrum approach
Duration : 2 days
This course qualifies you for 14 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).
This highly hands-on, interactive training provides an understanding of the best practices in agile project management, using the Scrum approach. Applying gained knowledge from lectures and discussions, participants will cover a complete cycle of the Scrum approach, from Sprint 0 to sprint retrospective, and benefit from trainer coaching.
Audience
Agile Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and development team members: beginner, intermediate or advanced
Prerequisites
None
Objectives
Recognize the success factors of the projects
Be able to manage a project effectively in agile mode using the Scrum approach
Acquire the common vocabulary
Teaching method
The participants will carry out a series of exercises/workshops and will benefit from personalized coaching from the trainer. Also, the latter will provide necessary explanations through lectures, exchanges and case-based examples
Contents
Definitions, values and principles
Predictive vs. adaptive approaches
The roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team
Initiating (Sprint 0): product vision, product backlog, planning poker, velocity and release plan / roadmap
Planning a Sprint: Sprint backlog, Definition of Done - DoD
Executing, monitoring and control of a sprint: daily scrums, burndown charts, task board (kanban) and impediment list
Closing a sprint: sprint review and sprint retrospective
Case study with exercises, workshops, simulations, role plays
Surround yourself with the best
Carl M. Gilbert
Expert Leader
Carl M. Gilbert is a coach, mentor and project manager with more than 25 years of experience in project management, mainly in information technology. He has trained more than 25,000 people in project management (in traditional, agile or hybrid mode) all around the world. Carl M. Gilbert is an engineer and also holds a master's degree in project management from with a specialization in international project management. For 25 years, he has specialized in strategic consulting in project management, program management and portfolio management.
Catherine Edgar
Senior Project Director and Project Management Trainer
Catherine Edgar is a senior project director with more than 25 years of IT experience at large firms. Over the course of her career, Catherine has developed management expertise with a focus on the human impact brought about by change. She has excellent problem-solving, training, coaching and interpersonal relation skills. Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in management information technology, as well as a certification as a project management professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Jean Falardeau
Trainer
With a Masters degree in Science and a bachelor in information systems, Jean Falardeau has been in the business for more than 35 years. He works in business architecture and analysis, strategic consulting, change management, enterprise architecture, business process reengineering and AgilityFor nearly 7 years, Jean trained more than 400 people showing them best practices in architecture and business analysis. His work was based on guides such as BABOK and BIZBOK.
Michel Drolet
Executive VP and Strategic Management Advisor
Backed by solid experience in industry, Michel is what you would call a high-level strategic consultant.