- Understanding and managing the Lean Enterprise
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| You will earn 21 contact hours or PDUs upon completion of this course. |
- Lean Principles and Agile Practices
- Effective vs Efficient Process Management
- Defining and Managing the Value Stream
- Identifying and eliminating waste from projects
- Why cycle time is more important than capacity utilization
- How to manage your work in progress (WIP)
- How to create visibility both to and from the team
- Portfolio/Roadmap (Managing Lean Requirements Flow)
- Using Lean Principles to guide Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Agile Estimation Techniques
To win in today’s competitive market requires giving your business the ability to deliver highly profitable products faster than the competition. The goal of Lean-Agile software development is the ability to add value quickly to your customers now while retaining the ability to add value quickly in the future. Most development organizations aren’t structured to do this because they work on large projects that require long delivery cycles. In this course we teach how to drive from business and customer value to select what you work on and teach the teams how to deliver it incrementally.
Prepare a person to play the role of the Lean-Agile Project Manager. In today's world it is critical that one know why Agile work, not just be given a set of practices to coach the team in performing. While Scrum is a popular Agile method today, it is not always the best Agile method to use. This course introduces the participants to the three most popular Agile methods: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban - all within the context of Lean-Agile methods. This course is a leadership focused offering that teaches the management skills required to implement Lean-Agile. It is a combination of interactive lecture with a significant amount of time spent on hands-on exercises.
This course is an alternative to standard ScrumMaster training. While Scrum is very popular, businesses are finding that is has only a 25% success rate as a process transition framework. This lack of success often occurs when Scrum is not the best team process to be used or when there are other issues affecting the team that Scrum does not deal with effectively. This course better prepares organizations for Agile development by providing a solid understanding of the principles behind Agile methods which allows you to decide which is the best team process for you - in your circumstances. This greater foundation also allows for better tailoring of whichever Agile method you chose, even Scrum.
Net Objectives provides a certificate of completion of the Lean-Agile Project Manager Course for each participant who successfully passes the LAPM Certification test. This test is taken at the end of the course and validates that participants understand the basic tenets of Lean-Agile Project Management. This is a PMI R.E.P course that can be used for category 3 for 21 PDU.
