DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR THE AGILE ENTEPRISERETHINKS (CAPABILITY ANALYSIS)Re-Think Business – IT Alignment: Designed for IT and business leaders who demand high impact results from their technology investment. In this course you will learn how to identify the right projects based on Business Value, Performance and Risk. Then you can adjust your investments to focus IT efforts on high business value and the right performance improvement opportunities. Since the approach is based on Business Capabilities, you get better requirements: sooner, more complete, more focused. You also reduce business demand for lower business value projects. Once the baseline is established the approach is not difficult to maintain – so if strategies change, portfolio adjustments are relatively low friction. Re-Think Project Delivery: For Project Management leaders who want to increase the number of projects delivered by 2-3 times. Learn how Theory of Constraints, LEAN, Real Options, Conversation Theory and Quality Management can dramatically improve project team performance. Typical efforts result in delivery of projects in 70% less time. Re-Think Feature Management: For Leaders in software product development business who want to deliver a higher ROI on products. Learn how to identify the next most important features based on Customer Value, Risk and your Ability to Execute. You can address high value and high risk features sooner and reduce wasted effort on low value features. AGILE TRAINING (INCREMENTAL STRATEGIES FOR SCALING AGILE)SCRUM+ (via Pillar Technology): The laws of physics dictate that objects in motion stay in motion, unless something intervenes to alter the course. Organizations are subject to the same laws: businesses tend to stick to the status quo—even when the results are less than dynamic. Many businesses follow traditional yet ineffective patterns when it comes to conveying ideas and concepts to their IT departments. We help organizations break those patterns and head in more successful directions. And we do it through Speed to Value (S2V) Workshops designed to help companies view and solve problems in new and better ways. S2V workshops bring together ALL shareholders for a particular problem, creating a collaborative environment that drives value-oriented change. During an action-packed two days, workshop participants:
The intense focus on creating value for the organization as rapidly as possible leaves everyone energized and fully committed to doing IT differently—and more effectively. Agile Training (via Pillar Technology): The transition to effective agile practice for those who are accustomed to more traditional Business Analysis is as much about changing your thinking as it is about adopting new practices and tools. This course guides participants through the initial transformation of thought and practice required of the agile BA using highly interactive games and exercises that are collaborative, immersive and fun! Project Conversations: (1.5 days) Everyone wants to improve communications on projects. What does this mean on an Agile project? That we need to establish a common understanding of what conversations are important and how to conduct critical conversations on our projects. Based on the ground-breaking works of Fernado Flores, John Searles, Gordon Pask, Elijahu Goldratt, and Yankelovich learn how effective Conversations for Understanding, Conversations for Practice, and Conversations for Action can transform your team. Kanban Training Class (via DJ Anderson and Associates): Kanban is the application of throttling Work In Process, continous flow, visible management and continuous improvement to software develoment. Learn to leverage Kanban to apply David’s five step Recipe for Success leveraging Kanban. Identifying and address types of improvements, types of bottlenecks, types of waste, and types of variability through Kanban are all addressed. |