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Agile Project Management Advanced Modules
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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.
*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
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
Process Improvement 1 day
Recruitment & Contractor Management 1 day
- Evaluating competence
- 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

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