Agile Project Management (Virtual Classroom)
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Length: 2 days CEUs: 1.50 PDHs: 15.00
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Schedule: This course will run from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern each day.
Save up to $775 be enrolling in the combo course (VCPD836) consisting of this course (VCPD794) and (VCPD467) Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals (Virtual Classroom).
This course provides an introduction to Agile Project Management using the latest PMBOK/ Agile guidelines from PMI. The course will combine lecture, small group activities, quizzes and discussions to help students understand Agile and its place relative to traditional project management practices. The goal is to take advantage of practical real-world examples and see how agile applies to those examples.
The program is intended to be approximately half lecture and half activity. Using this methodology allows individuals to put into practice immediately what was taught in the lecture portion and retention is significantly higher. It also prepares participants to manage their projects in the work environment, as they likely experience it each day. At the end of the course, students are split into teams and will manage a project of their choice, from its inception to completion in a matter of a few hours. This course is 100% compliant with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s®) current PMBOK and Agile materials.
This course familiarizes you with Agile concepts from a broad industry perspective. Since so many of the participants come from different backgrounds, an attempt to outline a variety of scenarios is always employed. The role of Agile project manager emphasizes a person who is efficient and is able to rally the team from scrum to scrum on well-planned sprints all with emphasis on eliminating waste and getting the end-goal as quickly as possible. The skills required for Agile project management are discussed as an emerging strategy for many companies. Where traditional project management plans every detail, Agile focuses on hitting results in minimum time and the “fail fast” mantra. Companies today value this methodology because it is effective in situations where outcomes are uncertain and methods untested. The expanse of Agile will be reviewed from short-term and smaller projects to longer-term more development style projects.
You Will Learn To:
- Employ the proper use of Agile in situations that are uncertain compared to clearly definable work.
- Analyze lean, Kanban and risk to determine what life cycles may be required
- Evaluate project life cycles and its relevance to various projects including Predictive; Iterative; Incremental, and Agile
- Apply various Agile tools together by exploring identification, qualification, and selection steps
- Create all components of a specific project and eliminate unnecessary steps
- Evaluate specific project factors for future decisions
- Implement Agile through team preparation and composition
- Explain the process of monitoring, troubleshooting and measurements in Agile
- Employ Agile terminology throughout the course
- Review Agile change management principles
- Apply Agile concepts to the PMO development
Who Should Attend
This course is primarily designed for those who have or will be assigned project management responsibilities, whether in an agile environment or not. Any principle, project managers, program manager or entire project teams will experience a benefit from these methodologies.
As prerequisites, participants should have basic management skills, be involved or planning to become involved with project management. Participants should also have an understanding of basic accounting and budgeting skills, which will be employed in budgeting project costs and practical exercises during the course.
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Brian E. Porter, P.E., PMP, is the Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships for MGCG. He is also the President of Product Invention Management, based in Addison, IL, and concurrently the Director of Technical Product and Market Development for Semler Industries, Inc. Mr. Porter has over fifteen years of experience in project management, product development, engineering, safety listings, patent, business strategy and start-up management in computer sales, consumer products, hazardous waste industry, industrial manufacturing and retail product markets.
Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also holds a Master’s of Science in Management with Specialty in Project Management from Boston University. Currently, he teaches graduate courses at Boston University in E-Commerce, Accounting, Financial Management, Project Management and other disciplines. He also is Adjunct Professor for Nichols College in Creative Decision Making, New Product Development, Web Design, Effective Business Writing, International Business and International Marketing
Mr. Porter has maintained his professional engineering license in the state of Illinois for more than a decade. He also holds multiple patents in the USA, and numerous pending both domestically and internationally.
Brian is a member of the Project Management Institute and has credentials as a Project Management Professional (PMP). His international efforts include working with firms in China, Canada, Mexico, Romania, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Israel, Great Britain, Egypt, Italy, Dubai, South Africa and Germany.
He has also completed books on Global Management Strategies, International Project Management and Natural Negotiation for Engineers besides other papers being published on project management topics. In 2012, his article “Split Decisions” was the cover story for Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Day One
- Introduction, discussion of experience in agile, Uncertainty, Agile manifesto
- Lean, Kanban
- Quiz 1
- Project life cycles: Predictive, Iterative, Incremental, Agile
- Quiz 2
- Agile suitability filters, hybrid choices, Life cycle choices, mixing factors and tailoring
- Quiz 3
- Agile mindset, Group Activity – Corporate preparedness
- Servant leadership, agile team composition for success
- Quiz 4
- Group Activity – Agile team design
- Agile charter, team kickoff, Practice and terminology
Day Two
- Iterations and team value,
- Quiz 5
- Group Activity – Generate initial scrum plan
- Quiz 6
- Troubleshooting and measurements in agile, Group Activity – Monitor Agile PM performance tools
- Organizational change management and culture, Contracts and procurements
- Quiz 7
- Group Activity – Practicing negotiation
- PMO related to Agile
- Quiz 8
- Final Agile Project in teams
- Final Agile Project Presentations and Program completion

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