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Agile Project Management    
Advanced Modules

 

 

 

How it works

Candidates will either have completed the Agile Project Management course within the last 12 months, or for experienced project managers who have had other training, a half day Context module will be combined with the module(s) of choice

Add your choice of modules from the following list to design your own advanced custom project management raining program.

Costs

In South Africa, R600 per student per half day, except where otherwise indicated. Minimum of 6 students for inhouse bookings in Cape Town, 8 elsewhere.
For UK, please contact us to discuss.

Module

Duration

Program Management and Project Office

1 day

Agile Methods

1 day

Architectures

1 day

Surviving Developer Anarchy!

1 day

Quality Management

1 day

Facilitation / JAD  

1.5 days

Process Improvement

1 day

Recruitment & Contractor Management

1 day

Critical Chain

1 day

Managing Program Knowledge  

1 day

Organizational Change Overview*

.5 day

Org. Change Management*

3 days

Change Leadership*

Discuss

Plain Business Writing

1 day

*Prices on application

Advanced Modules

Program Management and Project Office   1 day
Managing multi-project environments

    • Project office relationships and responsibilities
    • Project initiation and prioritisation
    • Resource management
    • Inter-project dependencies and coordination
    • Steering committees and executive reporting
    • Strategic alignment
    • Architecture office liaison

Agile Methods       1 day

    Aimed at candidates involved in the current "web-time" or "death-march" project environment

    • Introduction to agile methods
    • Incremental development in "web time"
    • Surviving the "death march" scenario
    • eXtreme Programming
    • Using patterns

Architectures       1 day

    • Need for architectures
    • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
    • Business Architecture
    • Application Architecture
    • Information Architecture
    • Technical Architecture
    • Integration with Program, Project Management and SDLC
    • Methods Architecture
    • Knowledge Management

Surviving Developer Anarchy! 1 day

    • Your developers have left – now what?
    • Do you know where the source code is?
    • What are the developers doing?
    • Who are those other people around every day?
    • Are those estimates really unrealistic?
    • Is the code maintainable?
    • Have standards been followed? Why not?
    • Will the thing be robust and perform in production?
    • Is there a layered architecture?
    • Are the interfaces documented?
    • Is there version management?
    • Were all components QA'd? How long ago? By who?
    • Does this bear any relation to what the real users want? Who are they? Are they still there?

Quality Management       1 day

    • Perceptions of Quality
    • Definition of Quality Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Control
    • Measuring Quality: Cost of Quality, Price of Non-Conformance,
    • Price of Conformance
    • Inspection vs Prevention Philosophy
    • Requirements in systems
    • Deliverables and measurement
    • Inspections, walkthroughs, peer review
    • Process aspect, Quality Model
    • Statistical Process Control
    • Integration with the lifecycle
    • Continuous Improvement
    • Results: Quality and Productivity

Facilitation / JAD     1.5 days

    • Reasons for facilitation
    • Facilitation in project and programme management
      • o Prioritisation
        o Scoping
        o User and external party involvement
        o Planning
        o Conflict resolution

    • Facilitation objectives
    • Facilitator and scribe roles and skills
    • Body Language
    • Personality Profiles, Motivation
    • Fuzzy JAD
    • Creativity and Lateral Thinking

Process Improvement       1 day

    • Seeing software delivery as a process
    • Capability Maturity Model
    • SPICE
    • Assessment
    • Improvement
      • o Continuous incremental improvement (Kaizen)
        o Managing innovation

Recruitment & Contractor Management   1 day

    • Evaluating competence
      • o Contractor
        o Supplier

    • Evaluating personality and team fit
    • Ownership and legal issues
    • Negotiation
    • Team building

Critical Chain       1 day

    • Theory of constraints
    • Critical Path Review
    • Critical Chain
      • o Identifying constraints
      • o Planning
      • o Buffer Management
      • o Project Monitoring
      • o Contractor Relationships
    • In Project Management Tools

Managing Program Knowledge     1 day

    • The scope of the problem
    • Meta Models
    • KM Tools
    • Responsibilities and Roles
    • Dissemination and coordination
    • Quality

Organizational Change Overview   .5 day

    • Understanding Change
    • Human Issues
    • Scoping
    • Strategy
    • Practical Steps

Organizational Change       3 days
Presented by Rob Reiche of Work Futures    

    • Using the "Accelerate Change" method
    • Includes tools and techniques