Lean-Agile Project Management Certification
This course incorporates all of the latest lean-agile methods to ensure your success!
Participants will learn how to effectively implement Lean practices, Scrum, Enterprise Scrum, Kanban, and hybrids driven by lean thinking- Designed for those looking to start an Agile initiative, mature their current Agile process, or to extend their Agile initiative beyond their teams
- Addresses which Agile method is best for your company’s culture.
Visually Communicating Project Progress
One of the traits of a great PM is their ability to communicate visually – presenting the progress of a project in a single glance so that one can see if things are going to plan or not. When you look at your world through visual lens that help you solve problems in business in new ways !
Edward Tufte teaches the gift of visualizing information in a way that people can take action on.
Agile teams often place large charts and graphs in their workspaces to radiate important information. It doesn’t matter if you are developing software, delivering IT infrastructure solutions, building a house, hardware products or systems – you can visually see if you project is on track or not.
Burn Charts
Agile teams often track project progress through ‘’Burn charts’’ (burn-up, burn-down and cumulative flow) which are a very popular way to give visibility into a project’s progress. Burn Charts are a graphical representation of the work left to be done and of the progress that has been made. The chart is typically drawn to show progress against predictions.
They are extremely simple and astonishingly powerful. They reveal the strategy being used, show the progress made against predictions, and open the door to discussions about how best to proceed, including the difficult discussions about whether to cut scope or extend the schedule.
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5 Reasons Why Being Agile Is More Important Than Being Perfect for Innovation
I must agree that all my projects that leverage Agile practices produce Customers and Employees that are much more ENERGIZED and ENGAGED. By continuously releasing features and functionality – your project stays “top of mind” and “talked about” with your sponsors and customers.
A great example would be several of the projects in my current program where we have created a prioritized backlog of features we believe meet our customer’s needs. Which was done after a 2-3 month planning and analysis phase that outlined the resource, budget, technology, and architectural needs for our sponsors.
We are now putting a release roadmap together for iterative releases on a 4 week cycle. And the developers and testers are using daily standups during each iterative development cycle to keep a handle on progress, obsticles, and continuously adjusting the backlog for future releases.
A great article I read this weekend talked about the 5 Reasons Agile is much more important than being Perfect for being innovative, including:
1. Speed Wins
2. Perfection equals 2nd place
3. Who’s perfection is it anyways
4. It energizes your employees
5. It energizes your customers
Click here for the full article on OPENForum
Keep up to date on Agile-Lean News with Paper.li
One of the greatest tools I’ve found to stay up to date on what is going on in the Agile/Lean space is Paper.li. It is a tool that sends you daily emails from all kinds of social media resourcs on the Agile topic – in newspaper format. So you don’t have to goto twitter, facebook, RSS feeds — it does it for you. Talk about saving you time.
You type in some key words and Paper.li will give you a list of newsletters available to you to subscribe to.
When you subscribe to one – you will get a newsletter emailed to you….
If you don’t see something you want – then create one yourself ! It is super easy. Enjoy !
Agile Open Southern California Conference 2011 (Sep 15-16)
THEME: People, Principles and Performance
WHEN: Thursday and Friday, September 15 & 16
WHERE: University of California, Irvine
What is Agile Open California?
You don’t want to miss this! Imagine an event where experienced Agile practitioners and newcomers alike come together for two days to discuss, examine and otherwise brainstorm the most timely and relevant topics in Agile development today.
Agile Open California is a coalition of agile practitioners and advocates intent on providing an opportunity for learning, networking and growth to the Agile community in California and to others who are interested.
What Will I Get?
- A 2-day conference pass – up to 24 sessions to choose from each day
- Continental breakfast and lunch both days
- A networking reception on Monday evening
- Free Agile Alliance 1-year Membership - a $100 value! With your registration and attendance, you can receive a free one-year membership in the Agile Alliance, which is a $100 dollar value. Just check the option when you purchase your ticket!
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NEW RECORDING – Lean/Agile project controls for Project Managers
Every project manager can successfully integrate agile in a waterfall environment to improve project predictability, cost effectiveness and ultimately project and professional success.
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Agile was once considered a fad
by project management professionals.
In the 10 years since the agile manifesto was written agile has matured; it has moved from being a core methodology and from small software companies to the point where it is used, to some extent, in a majority of enterprise organizations today. Agile isn’t a silver bullet for every context though and agile methods need to adapt to the changing contexts of the enterprise.
This webinar will examine how project managers can successfully apply Agile to their projects in an enterprise context.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Why we struggle Agile in an Enterprise
- Mapping project controls to agile project metrics for improved project control and reporting than on plan driven projects: Scope, Schedule and Budget.
- Three approaches to creating a Gantt chart for an agile project
- How to handle external dependencies
- Nine principles for bringing a little bit of agile into any project
Lean-Agile for Executives & Management
Do you want to know how to talk to your executives and management about the value of Agility and transitioning organizations to Lean-Agile methods?
Then you will want to listen to this excellent recording with Alan Shalloway, CEO of NetObjectives, that will discuss:
- How executives think – what they care about – or not care about
- What questions do they ask?
- How does Agility address their concerns and questions
- What should I say to them?
- and more….
Receive a Complimentary Virtual Pass to Agile Connect (June 8-9)
CLICK HERE to Receive your FREE Pass to Agile Connect.
You are invited to join us online June 8-9 for Agile Connect – a virtual conference – where we’ll be streaming live from Agile Development Practices West in Las Vegas!
Choose from keynotes and technical sessions, interact with your colleagues and speakers, watch live speaker interviews from the EXPO floor, and more! For your convenience, sessions will also be available on demand after the event. Register today and forward this invitation to your team for your complimentary passes to this event.
Register now and get your free pass to Agile Connect, or view the full view the full program details.
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WEBINAR – Kanban and CMMI (4/27)
April 27, 2011 (12-1 PDT)
Agile development methods and CMMI (Capability Maturity Mode® Integration) best practices are often perceived to be at odds with each other. This webinar clarifies why the discord need not exist and proposes that CMMI and Agile champions work toward deriving benefit from using both and exploit synergies that have the potential to dramatically improve business performance.
PRESENTER: Hillel Glazer – Hillel’s been working in process improvement since his first job out of college. He is one of the only CMMI High Maturity Lead Appraisers and CMMI Instructors working with agile teams, and he’s an SEI Visiting Scientist. Hillel is the lead author on the SEI’s first-ever official publication addressing agile development. His diverse experience base including aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial systems support is probably what gave him the necessary perspective to pioneer how to bring CMMI and Agile together as far back as his 2001 CrossTalk article highlighting the compatibilities of (then) CMM and XP.
** Registration is not open yet…..let me know if you want an email when you can register…
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NEW WEBINAR RECORDING – Lean-Agile for Exectives
The webinar is catered for top management either in preparation for transitioning their organization to Lean-Agile methods or just to learn more about Lean Software Development. It reviews the basics of Lean Software Development by presenting an integration of several different Lean viewpoints. It covers principles of Lean Software Development principles and a brief overview of Agile methods.
PRESENTER: Alan Shalloway – the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, Scrum and design patterns. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and is currently writing Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. Alan has worked in literally dozens of industries over his career. He is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.
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