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Enterprise Agile Master Class

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Attendees will learn how to:
  • Build a roadmap for successfully scaling agile to reduce risk and maximize value
  • Customize agile to a specific project and program need to reduce waste
  • Streamline project portfolios with a mix of agile, waterfall and other projects to reduce complexity and waste
  • Track and monitor agile programs and portfolios to ensure delivery of enterprise value
  • Setup agile performance management systems to nurture, reward and retain team members
  • Extend agile to product management for product innovation and true business collaboration
  • Build deep engineering capability to enhance product quality and delivery speed

Eliminate Barriers to Development Success
Agile development methods remove the barriers between your customers and the development team. Using the Scrum approach, your organization will more easily meet market and customer needs while attaining its ROI objectives for your portfolio of projects, while improving the quality of life and productivity for all members of your team. Implementing agile across the enterprise boosts productivity, unleashes creativity, provides “quick wins” for your team, and improves the quality of your software.

Learn the Essential Concepts and Tools of Effective Agile Enterprises
This two-day master class is designed to prepare organizational leaders and change agents for adopting and scaling agile methods including Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP) and Kanban in pragmatic fashion. It provides everything you need to be an effective leader for a large-scale agile adoption. 

Beginning with the premise that each organization is different, we will explore how best to deploy agile practices by customizing them to the specific environment and selecting appropriate management and development tools. Then, we will cover in detail how to scale agile methods wide across the enterprise, with focus on a rollout strategy, project portfolio management, resource management and performance management. We will cover aspects of agile adoption with real-life references to several organizations. Finally, we will cover how to scale deep in each team, focusing on agile engineering practices including: automated build and test, refactoring and an overall engineering strategy.

This course is taught by active agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small business to the Fortune 250. In particular, our large-scale adoption includes adoptions of 5000+ people with large projects/programs of 300+ people. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught.

Who Should Attend
Senior management, program and portfolio managers, product and line managers, project managers, technical managers, organization change agents; and anyone interested in learning how to deploy and scale agile methods with a proven approach that minimizes risk and maximizes business value.

2-Day Course Outline
 

Session 1: Laying the Foundation
Customizing agile to the environment
Role definition and changes of role
Hiring for agile
Agile tools
- Agile management tools
- Agile engineering tools
- Tool selection and implementation patterns

Session 2: Driving Organizational Change
Incremental rollout strategy
Strategic program planning
- Initial pilot program
- Expanded pilot program
- Enterprise rollout
Agile champions
Communities of practice
Coaching patterns
Internal training and certification programs

Session 3: Scaling Wide to the Enterprise
Agile project portfolio management
- Project ideation
- Project selection
- Portfolio tracking and monitoring
- Lean-agile PMOs
- Agile metrics and reporting
- Agile balanced scorecard
Agile resource management
- Building effective agile teams
- Capacity planning
Agile performance management systems
- Agile maturity models
- Employee reviews
- Compensation models

Session 4: Scaling Deep Within Teams
Agile product management
- Project and product discovery
- Requirements Kanban
- Product road mapping
Agile engineering
- Augmenting Scrum with XP
- Core engineering practices
   - Automated build and test
   - Simple design and refactoring
   - Multi-level testing
   - Pair programming
Avoiding technical debt
Enabling software craftsmanship

Class Daily Schedule
Sign-In/Registration 7:30–8:30am
Morning Session 8:30am–12:00pm
Lunch 12:00–1:00pm
Afternoon Session 1:00–5:00pm
Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.
 
Training Course Fee Includes
• Tuition
• Course notebook
• Continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks
• Lunches
• Letter of completion

 

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An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv Augustine has assisted several leading clients adopt agile methods during the past decade. He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery, and the book Managing Agile Projects. Founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group, Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) ’s Agile Forum Steering Committee. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to more than one hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.

Arlen is an established leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma and BPM, as well as Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He also has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers' expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at clients such as Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen's recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with Agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has also led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into Agile methodologies, presenting and training frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients

David Bulkin is a strong leader, technologist and process engineer with over 20 years experience in applying lean processes to manage portfolios, projects, people, process, and technology for competitive advantage. He has helped numerous teams apply agile project management and engineering methods as a practioner and coach. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and blogs on the subject. David’s career has spanned both the public and private sector. He built an electronic commerce startup from the group up, and also managed large scale, mission critical technology projects as a VP at JP Morgan Chase. He is frequently engaged in both strategic board level, and hands-on implementation (analysis, design, coding) activities, keeping his agile coaching and training skills sharp and relevant. He is on the Board of Directors at the Center for Program Transformation (CPT) and Ocean 20 Technologies Group. With the CPT, David prepared Senate testimony on IT Oversight and contributed to federal legislation. In the 1990’s David was a key member of the Software Program Managers Network (SPMN) where he identified proven software best practices, conveyed them to managers of large-scale DoD system acquisition programs, and consulted on numerous projects.