WEBINAR – Selecting & Managing the Best Lifecycle for your Project, Team & Solution
You’ve managed projects but they’re never easy.
They don’t fit into the nice definitions found in project management books. Your schedules are generally off. There are always unkind surprises. Although you’re not failing, you feel you could be more successful. You have many possibilities to make your project rock and roll.
Take a more pragmatic approach to choosing and using the best lifecycle for your project…
You can use an iterative lifecycle to explore prototypes — You can use an incremental lifecycle to start checking features off as done — You can use an agile lifecycle that allows for more adaptability — You can use a combination lifecycles.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- LIFECYCLES – what each looks like
- which RISKS each lifecycle addresses
- HOW TO COMBINE lifecycles for the best way to start managing risk
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WEBINAR – Selling Agile to Management, the Business & your Team
Trying to get BUY-IN from your Organization about using Agile?
Learn how to deal with the common objections about using Agile. They will make you chuckle as well.
Objections like:
- If waterfall works – why not keep doing it?
- Agile doesn’t allow for long-term planning
- Business wants “fixed priced” contracts
- My team is not co-located
- How do I work with non-Agile parts in the organization?
- and more….
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BOOK: The Software Requirements (Memory Jogger)
A handy guide by Ellen Gottesdiener. This inch-thick “pocket book” is easy to carry around and browse through when a busy requirements analyst has a few minutes to spare.
Ellen addresses all aspects of the requirements engineering process:
- elicitation,
- analysis,
- specification,
- validation, and
- management.
Each chapter contains a wealth of practical techniques that can help any software team improve how it deals with requirements. She describes a plethora of requirements “models,” ways to represent different types of requirements-related information.
WEBINAR – Becoming Agile for Project Managers
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Learn WHEN, WHERE & HOW project managers can leverage and actually use Agile techniques to deal with…
- compressed schedules,
- changing requirements,
- risk,
- and much more…
…in order to deliver what the customer actually needs !
PDU’s: 1
COST: Free………….
WEBINAR – Becoming Agile Introduction
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Learn how more traditional PMBOK and Waterfall organizations are becoming agile.
…and listen to great Q&A sessions with the audience on topics, such as …
- Is Agile only for software projects?
- How and Where to identify areas to leverage Agile
- How do you move to Agile?
- How does Agile affect the traditional Project Manager role?
- and more…
SPEAKER: Greg Smith is a Senior Project Manager, ScrumMaster, and Agile coach with ten years of experience leading project teams to a more agile process. Greg has received numerous awards for his work in helping start-ups establish good software practices, and for helping enterprises overcome bureaucracy and deliver urgent projects. Greg is also a co-author of the top rated agile adoption book, Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World.
PDU: 1.5……..*** PDU information is provided in the video **
COST: Free
BOOK: Get FREE chapters from “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn’s NEW book hit the streets Nov 7, 2009.
“Succeeding with Agile” shows both how to get started and then how to get good at Scrum. The author illuminates all teaching points with helpful tips, advice on overcoming common objections, exercises to try, and anecdotes drawn from over a decade of experience helping companies succeed with Scrum. The result is a book that will be reached for and referenced again and again by all stakeholders in an agile organization.
BOOK: Making Things Happen (update to “Art of Project Management”)
Project Management is NOT boring !!! Is it?
Did you ever want to know the secrets to Strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Berkun explains what it takes to lead critical projects from start to finish.
O’Reilly’s review mentions…this book “offers a lively, inspiring, and practical approach to managing projects that draws on Berkun’s own lessons learned in more than a decade of work in the industry.”
WEBINAR – Becoming Agile for Project Managers
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