Introduction to Agile Project Management

Date: Friday, May 14

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET

OACETT Member Cost: $40.00 + HST & fees

Non-member cost: $65.00

Materials & Links: Will be included in the confirmation email under "Additional Information" (scroll down)

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Who should attend:

Team members, managers, project managers, and anyone wishing to understand what Agile means.

Workshop Overview:

Some projects have clear requirements from the beginning of the project, and planning can be initiated from the beginning to the closure of that project. Once the plan is made, everyone involved follows the necessary activities, to see the plan through to fruition to deliver a single end product. This approach is known as Waterfall Project Management approach and is the most commonly used project management approach.

On the other hand, lots of projects do not have clear requirements at the beginning, the client is not sure what they want, and a different iterative and incremental project management approach has to be applied. This approach is called agile project management. In this methodology, repeated increments of products are delivered every week or every month, and the customer and the agile team gets more clarity about the project as they work on priority items, one at a time.

Agile project management focuses on four Values, 12 principles and practices which includes lean, agile- scrum, extreme programming (XP), dynamic system development method (DSDM), crystal, and more methodologies. Agile professionals understand the foundation of all practices and apply them to fit their project needs.

Lean thinking is the foundation of agile methodologies. Lean focuses on the value of respecting your staff and letting them make decisions on product and estimation. Leaders only act as servant leaders and they trust the staff (development team) to make all the decisions related to the actual work. Requirements are always taken from the clients, the client, and the team works together to find a solution, at speed and is done incrementally.

Objectives:

In this powerful half-day overview, you will understand the difference between waterfall and agile. You will be able to lead your team into the future and use the right methodology to fit your needs, whether that is agile or waterfall. You will also come to understand the four values and 12 principles of agile.

Learning Outcomes:

• Basics of project management
• When to use waterfall project management
• History of agile
• Basics of agile
• Servant leadership vs. traditional leadership
• Four values of agile
• 12 principles of agile
• Overview of types of agile methodologies
• Differentiation between agile and waterfall
• Case study of waterfall
• Case study of agile – scrum approach
• Exercise by trainees

• Overview of PMI-ACP® certification
• Closure

About the instructor:

QCDMS Consultants is an authorized training partner of PMI Inc., USA.

CJ Bawa (trainer) is an authorized training facilitator, approved by PMI Inc., USA.

CJ is a passionate, results-driven, and enthusiastic lean six sigma trainer and public speaker with over 26 years of experience transforming professionals and organizations. CJ's experience includes working for large private automobile organizations like Honda, Daewoo, and in the public sector with the City of Mississauga.

In June 2017, he started his project management & lean six sigma training and coaching firm, QCDMS consultants. Since then, he has trained 11,000 professionals, including more than 300 project teams from 100 different organizations across GTA. He learned the Japanese way of project management, and some of his successful projects include:

• Supporting construction work Honda car manufacturing plan;
• Three new project launches with Honda: 1997 Honda City, 2000 Honda Accord, and 2001 Honda City;
• Moving an automotive stamping plant;
• Program / project management of 100 different automotive assemblies for Canadian OEM's (Honda, GM, Ford, and Chrysler).

CJ'S PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified ADKAR Change management professional from PROSCI USA;
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ USA;
• Project management professional, PMP from PMI USA;
• Certified Facilitator from ICA Associates, Canada;
• Certified Microsoft Data Analysis, India;
• Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Automotive, India;
• Certified in MOST, Maynard Operation Sequence Techniques-Time & Motion studies from Accenture USA.