Adapt to innovation with Agile project management

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Description And Objectives

This comprehensive one-day course guides participants in the application of Agile Project Management in innovative, complex, and high uncertainty projects. Agile values and comparisons to traditional project management practices are defined as well as key factors influencing the successful adoption of Agile Project Management.

  • Introduce Agile concepts, values and principles.
  • Differentiate between traditional and Agile project management approaches and adoption factors.
  • Learn to leverage Agile project management techniques and practices.

 

Training Plan

Module 1: Introduction to Agile Project Management

  • PM history and evolution
  • Traditional Project Management
  • Agile Project Management
  • Agile PM vs. Traditional PM
  • Exercise: Demonstration comparing traditional and Agile PM

Module 2: Agile Values

  • Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Principles
  • Agile Declaration of Interdependence
  • Exercise: Group discussion on Agile values influencing project success

Module 3 : Adoption des méthodes Agils

  • Overview
  • Drivers
  • Concerns
  • Failure Causes
  • Exercise: Group discussion on organizational perception of Agile PM adoption

Module 4: Agile Techniques

  • Timebox
  • Iteration
  • Daily Stand-up Meeting
  • Backlogs/Task Board
  • Retrospective
  • Exercise: Class workshop on applying Agile techniques

Module 5: Agile Practices (non-Scrum)

  • Lean Project Management
  • Kanban
  • Feature Driven Development (FDD)
  • Exercise: Demonstration on applying Agile practices
 

Target Audience

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, business sponsors, portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, project managers, project team leaders, project team members, project subject matter experts, project management office staff, and anyone interested in learning more about Agile Project Management.

Trainer

Benoit De Grâce

Vice President of PMC

Senior consultant and experienced trainer, Benoit De Grâce is the Vice President of PMC – Project Management Centre, a firm whose mission is to help clients achieve their projects faster, at a better cost, and with better results since 1996.

As a management consulting firm, PMC offers a wide range of project and portfolio management consulting services to its clients. Our consultants and trainers offer practical and tailored solutions to meet your specific needs. We specialize in implementing strategic plans and Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project management methodologies.

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Formateur

Bruno Bouchard

Enterprise Lean/Agile Advisor, Trainer, and Coach

Bruno Bouchard is a project management professional, methodologist, trainer, entrepreneur, and agile coach specializing in large enterprise transformation.

He has over 25 years of experience in IT consulting, training, architecture, and project management.

The last 15 years have been primarily focused on making project teams and organizations more effective through lean-agile approaches and innovation.

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Formateur

Michael Delis

Executive President & Director of Training and Methods.

Michael Delis is the Executive President & Director of Training and Methods at PMC, as well as a trainer at the PMI-Montreal chapter and an active member of Agile Montreal.

As a bilingual senior project management consultant, Agile coach/catalyst/professional, and certified instructor, Michael has developed his expertise through more than two decades of global consulting, training, project management, and engineering in the fields of IT, banking, business, transportation, mobile, telecommunications, aerospace, and aviation on various international client sites in North/South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Michael is also an experienced speaker who has served as a keynote speaker at various corporate events related to project management.

With a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Michael has received several certifications in Agile and Classical project management.

Michael is a dynamic and strong leader with excellent communication skills and is a passionate consultant and trainer who is always looking for opportunities to help individuals, teams, and organizations improve and achieve their strategic goals and maturity, transformation, and evolution towards agility.

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